"The Tools of the Trade". Italian philology workshop

 

The more you learn by doing.
(M. Barbi, La nuova filologia e l'edizione dei nostri scrittori da Dante al Manzoni, Florence, Sansoni, 1938, p. XI)

 

Dear students, dear students,

I would like to inform you that On Thursday 17 October the Laboratory of Italian Philology will begin, open to all students on three-year and master's degree courses interested in philology and textual criticism.

Through a workshop-type teaching methodology, students will learn how to carry out philological work in practice, with particular emphasis on the application of the reconstructive method to Italian texts.

The course, comprising 20 hours (1 cfu), will alternate the explanation of the fundamental principles of textual criticism with "experimental" activity: for each phase of philological work on the text, a section guided by the lecturer will correspond to one of individual or collective laboratory work, which will enable participants to try their hand at all the operations characteristic of textual criticism, from the transcription of witnesses to their classification, up to the constitution of the text and the critical apparatus.

We will address these issues through the examination of a specific philological situation, that of Dante's rhymes: in particular, we will work on some of the poems transmitted by a limited number of witnesses, setting up the critical edition and then verifying the result obtained on the reference edition (the one edited by D. De Robertis: Firenze, Le Lettere, 2002).

 

Lecture Calendar

October-November 2024

Thursday 17 October 1pm-3pm Lecture Hall 3 (Balbi 2)
Friday 18 October 9-11 a.m. Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)

Thursday 24 October from 1-15pm Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)
Friday 25 October 9-11 a.m. Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)

Thursday 31 October 1pm-3pm Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)

Thursday 7 November from 1pm-3pm Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)
Friday 8 November 9-11 a.m. Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)

Thursday 14 November from 1-15pm Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)
Friday 15 November 9-11 a.m. Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)

Thursday 21 November from 1-15 pm Classroom 3 (Balbi 2)