IJ2A021 Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 8:00–9:40 G22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( IJ1A055 Bachelor's State Exam || IJIA028 Bachelor's State Exam )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims at providing a knowledge of the main topics of the subject (textual criticism and history of the transmission, the medieval book, how to prepare a critical edition, how to read a manuscript, sources and indirect transmission).
Learning outcomes
After attending the course, the student will have a general knowledge of textual criticism, and in particular of textual criticism of vernacular texts; he will be able to read a few types of ancient scripts (blackletter "rotunda", minuscola cancelleresca book hand, littera gothica cursiva "mercantesca", humanist minuscule) and to start preparing a critical edition of a text
Syllabus
  • The course includes: an introduction to the methods and instruments of Italian philology (textual criticism); practical exercise in reading Medieval manuscripts. Since the course is quite technical, you are strongly recommanded to attend lectures.
Literature
    required literature
  • Pasquale Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2008
  • Cesare Segre, Appunti sul problema delle contaminazioni nei testi in prosa, in Studi e problemi di critica testuale. Convegno di Studi di filologia italiana, Bologna, 1961.
  • CHIESA, Paolo. Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione. Bologna: Pàtron editore, 2012, 231 stran. ISBN 9788855531733. info
  • Alfonso D'Agostino, Trasmissione anomala e contaminazione, Università degli studi di Milano, dispense di filologia italiana per l'a.a. 2005-06, disponibili su http://armida.unimi.it/handle/2170/528
  • Paolo Divizia, Appunti di stemmatica comparata, «Studi e Problemi di Critica Testuale», LXXVIII (2009), pp. 29-48
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo. Il Tresor di Brunetto Latini tra fonti e volgarizzamenti: il caso della Formula vitae honestae (Brunetto Latini's Tresor between sources and translations: the case of the Formula vitae honestae). In Benozzo, Francesco; Brunetti, Giuseppina; Caraffi, Patrizia; Fassò, Andrea; Formisano, Luciano; Giannini, Gabriele; Mancini, Mario. Culture, livelli di cultura e ambienti nel Medioevo occidentale : atti del IX Convegno della Società Italiana di Filologia Romanza (Bologna, 5-8 ottobre 2009). Roma: Aracne, 2012, p. 357-371. ISBN 978-88-548-4931-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.4399/978885484931018. URL info
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo. Fenomenologia degli 'errori guida' (A phenomenology of 'significant errors' in textual criticism). Filologia e critica. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2011, roč. XXXVI, č. 1, p. 49-74. ISSN 0391-2493. URL info
  • Cesare Segre, Lachmann et Bédier. La guerre est finie, in Actes du XXVIIe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (Nancy, 15-20 juillet 2013), Nancy, ATILF, 2016
  • Monica Berté - Marco Petoletti, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il mulino, 2017
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo and Lisa PERICOLI. Il viaggio del testo, Atti del Convegno internazionale di Filologia Italiana e Romanza (Brno, 19-21 giugno 2014) (The journey of the text. Proceedings of the international conference of Italian and Romance textual critcism (Brno, 19-21 June 2014)). In Il viaggio del testo, Atti del Convegno internazionale di Filologia Italiana e Romanza (Brno, 19-21 giugno 2014). Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2017, 568 pp. ISBN 978-88-6274-771-4. URL info
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo. Testo, microtesto, macrotesto e supertesto : per una filologia dei manoscritti miscellanei (Text, microtext, macrotext and supertext : for a textual philology of manuscript miscellanies). Online. In Frédéric Duval; Leonardi, Lino; Trachsler, Richard. Actes du XXVIIe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (Nancy, 15-20 juillet 2013). Section 13. Philologie textuelle et éditoriale. Nancy: ATILF, 2017, p. 105-114. ISBN 979-1-09-146029-3. Plný text info
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo. Texts and Transmission in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Multi-text Codices. In Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, Karen Pratt, Ad Putter. The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript : Text Collections from a European Perspective. 1. Auflage. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, p. 101-110. ISBN 978-3-8471-0754-5. programme of the congress Plný text project website info
  • REYNOLDS, L. D. and N. G. WILSON. Scribes and scholars : a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, ix, 325. ISBN 9780199686339. info
  • REEVE, Michael D. Manuscripts and methods : essays on editing and transmission. 1a ed. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011, xvii, 430. ISBN 9788863723021. info
  • DIVIZIA, Paolo. Novità per il volgarizzamento della "Disciplina clericalis". 1. ed. Milano: Edizioni Unicopli, 2007, 147 s. ISBN 9788840012018. info
Teaching methods
Lecture: description of the scientific discipline and its method, explanation and definition of basic notions and their demonstration on concrete texts by concrete authors. Seminar: Application of the acquired theoretical knowledge on authentic texts. In the form of a presentation the students show their capability to connect their theoretical knowledge while working with a concrete text.
Assessment methods
Analysis of a text in a seminar essay and a test.
Language of instruction
Italian
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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