THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING

Course objectives

1. The student has to demonstrate that he has acquired knowledge and ability to understand that reinforce those acquired during the first cycle of the training course and that allow to elaborate original ideas in the field of text criticism. 2. The student has to show to be able to solve new problems in the field of textual criticism with reference to interdisciplinary contexts. 3. The student must be able to integrate the acquired knowledge and manage the complexity of the scientific problems related to the method of restitution of the text, to know how to formulate independent judgments with attention to the social issues related to the critical edition of a text. 4. The student has to know how to communicate the acquired information and explain the procedures that have enabled their acquisition so that they can be understood in the specialist and non-specialist fields. 5. The student must prove that he knows how to study independently in the field of philology and textual criticism of Italian lite

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MONICA BERTÉ Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The course held in the second semester (6 credits) will be divided into two parts organised as follows: 1) the relationship between Petrarch's library and the way he worked on his own works, his writing techniques, compositional strategies and literary aims will be illustrated through the extensive documentation he left behind: working notes, drafts, revisions, different versions of his own works, a large number of annotations in his own books and those of other authors, and a dense network of correspondence (22 hours); 2) a concrete case study of author philology will be examined: the letter Fam. 16, 6, of which an autograph draft has been preserved in the codex of 'drafts' (Vat. lat. 3196), a series of manuscripts containing copies of the letter sent to the recipient, and the final version of the text included in the collection of letters. Students will be required to participate actively in the lessons, practising reading the autograph papers and collating the three versions of the text covered in the course (20 hours).
Books
Some of the texts and bibliography covered in the lectures will be uploaded in the form of handouts on the lecturer's web page on the Sapienza website at the beginning and during the course (those marked with an asterisk): - M. Berté, Petrarca, i libri, le carte, Rome, Carocci, 2025. - *Francesco Petrarca, Le Familiari, edited by V. Rossi, III, Florence, Sansoni, 1937, pp. 188-93 and 215-19. - *M. Berté, Epistolografia, in Petrarca, edited by G. Baldassari and C. Berra, Rome, Carocci, 2025, pp. 103-20. - *S. Rizzo, “Il latino del Petrarca nelle Familiari”, in The Uses of Greek and Latin. Historical Essays, ed. by A. C. Dionisotti, A. Grafton and J. Kraye, London, The Warburg Institute, 1988, pp. 41-56 (optional for attending students; compulsory for non-attending students).
Frequency
Attendance at the course is highly recommended. Non-attending students must contact the lecturer before taking the examination.
Bibliography
- M. Berté, Petrarca, i libri, le carte, Roma, Carocci, 2025. - *Francesco Petrarca, Le Familiari, a cura di V. Rossi, III, Firenze, Sansoni, 1937, pp. 188-93 e 215-19. - *M. Berté, Epistolografia, in Petrarca, a cura di G. Baldassari e C. Berra, Roma, Carocci, 2025, pp. 103-20. - *S. Rizzo, «Il latino del Petrarca nelle Familiari», in The Uses of Greek and Latin. Historical Essays, ed. by A. C. Dionisotti, A. Grafton and J. Kraye, London, The Warburg Institute, 1988, pp. 41-56
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseModern Philology
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester2nd semester
  • SSDL-FIL-LET/13
  • CFU6