B029540 - ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

Italian

Themes and genres of Romance literature of the Middle Ages will be addressed and explored through the reading of relevant texts, according to a comparative perspective and with particular attention to philological and linguistic aspects.

Essays
- L. Formisano, La lirica romanza del medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.
- M. de Riquer, Leggere i trovatori. La genesi della lirica moderna e dell'immaginario collettivo, ed. italiana a cura di M. Bonafin, Macerata, EUM, 2010.
- d’A. Silvio Avalle, «Secundum speculationem rationemve»: sequenze e conductus nel «Ludus Danielis» di Beauvais, in Id., Le forme del canto. La poesia nella scuola tardoantica e altomedievale, a cura di M. S. Lannutti, Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2017, pp. 359-421.
- F. Carapezza, Cantus divisio e partizioni sintattiche nella canzone decasillabica dei trovatori, in «Studi mediolatini e volgari», 56 (2010), pp. 55-73.
- A. Roncaglia, Sul ‘divorzio tra musica e poesia’ nel Duecento italiano, in L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento, IV, a cura di A. Ziino, Certaldo, 1978, pp. 365-397.
- M. S. Lannutti, Poesia cantata, musica scritta. Generi e registri di ascendenza francese alle origini della lirica italiana (con una nuova edizione di RS 409), in Tracce di una tradizione sommersa. I primi testi lirici italiani tra poesia e musica. Atti del Seminario di studi (Cremona, 19 e 20 febbraio 2004), a cura di M. S. L. e M. Locanto, Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo, pp. 157-197.

Editions of the texts that will be analysed during the course
- P. Gresti, Antologia delle letterature romanze del Medioevo, Bologna, Pàtron, 2011, parte C (Lirica), pp. 151-252.
- G. Chiarini, Il canzoniere di Jaufre Rudel, L’Aquila, Japadre, 1985.
- Guiot de Dijon, Canzoni, edizione critica a cura di M. S. Lannutti, Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1999.
- Dante Alighieri, De vulgari eloquentia, a cura di M. Tavoni, in Dante Alighieri, Opere, Edizione diretta da M. Santagata, Volume Primo: Rime, Vita nova, De vulgari eloquentia, ed. C. Giunta, G. Gorni, M. Tavoni, Milano, Mondadori, 2011, pp. 1065-1547.

Tools to be consulted for the Provençal and French texts reading and analysis
- C. Di Girolamo-C. Lee, Avviamento alla filologia provenzale, Roma, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1996.
- A. Varvaro, Avviamento alla filologia francese medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2006.
- Dictionnaire de l'Occitan Médiéval (DOM-en ligne: http://www.dom-en-ligne.de).
- F. Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle, Paris, Vieweg-Bouillon, 1881-1902 (http://micmap.org/dicfro/search/dictionnaire-godefroy/).

Students will acquire a deep knowledge of the most important aspects and issues concerning medieval Romance literature through the reading of relevant texts; they will develop their own ability to critically analyze literary texts of the Romance Middle Ages from a historical, cultural, philological and linguistic point of view; they will elaborate and apply original ideas, possibly starting autonomous research paths.

Specific skills are not required. Basic knowledge of Romance philology and linguistics is helpful.

Frontal lectures held with the help of powerpoint presentations.

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Oral examination. Students must answer questions about the texts presented during the course (historical and cultural context, genres history and characteristics, manuscript tradition, philological and linguistic aspects, performance).

Poetry and music in medieval Romance lyric, from troubadours to Dante.

Romance lyric poetry of the Middle Ages is strictly linked to music, as attested by the manuscripts with musical notation and the specific treatises, Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia among others. The course aims to offer an overall picture of medieval Romance lyric poetry according to a comparative perspective. Through the reading of relevant texts, both literary and non-literary, and the analysis of the relationships between poetry and music, it aims also to explore fundamental aspects of the creative and performing process: how was a lyric text designed and built? How was it performed and perceived?

The course will be articulated as follows:

1) Introduction to the medieval Romance lyric: origins, repertoires, manuscript tradition, thematic and formal genres;
2) The language of the lyric poetry;
3) Poetry and music in treatises and poetic texts;
4) Formal features and their relationship with music.