Modern Philology

The course will focus on studying the traditions of several short orthographic texts from the Carolingian period, examining the relationships between different manuscript witnesses, the issues related to texts with multiple versions, and preparing critical editions of these texts. Further informations will be available on the course's classroom https://classroom.google.com/c/ODA1MTM3NzEzNTkx?cjc=7i7zy7vr

This course is intended as an advanced one: students are recommended to have attended a basic module of Classical Philology or to have gained (independently or by other courses) a good knowledge of the discipline.

Being a seminar-type course, students will receive from the teacher the reproductions of the manuscripts that will be examined. Non-attending students are invited to contact the teacher for a personalized program. Those studente who haven't a solid background in philology can also follow the lessons of the basic module (Filologia classica [Lettere Moderne]), asking the teacher for some further readings.

Attendance is recommended

The examination aims to evaluate the acquisition of the necessary skills to independently approach the study of a text's transmission, by commenting the loci examined in class.

The lessons will be carried on in a traditional way.The teacher will guide the students in the examination of the apparatus, and in the direct reading of the manuscripts; a special attention will be given to the strategy of composition of a layered text.