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B029542 - ROMANCE PHILOLOGY
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Academic Year 2020-21
Coorte 2020 - Second Cycle Degree in FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-FIL-LET/09 - ROMANCE PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
22/02/2021 ⇒ 28/05/2021
Attendance required
Yes
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Lectureship
Mutuality
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B029540 - FILOLOGIA ROMANZA
Second Cycle Degree in FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Curriculum LINGUISTICA STORICA, TEORICA, E APPLICATA
B029540 - FILOLOGIA ROMANZA
Second Cycle Degree in FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Curriculum LINGUISTICA STORICA, TEORICA, E APPLICATA
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course deals with and deepens themes and genres of Romance literature of the Middle Ages through the reading of significant texts, from a comparative point of view and with particular attention to philological and linguistic aspects.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Essays to be studied for the exam
First part
- L. Formisano, La lirica romanza del medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, capp. 1-4, pp. 1-70;
- G. Folena, Culture e lingue nel Veneto medievale, Padova, Libreria Universitaria, 2015, pp. 1-137.
- F. Brugnolo, I Siciliani e l’arte dell’imitazione: Giacomo da Lentini, Rinaldo d’Aquino e Iacopo Mostacci ‘traduttori’ dal provenzale, in «La parola del testo», 3 (1999), pp. 46-75.
Second part
- P. G. Beltrami, Arnaut Daniel e la “bella scola” dei trovatori di Dante; S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante. Studi in onore di Robert Hollander, ed. M. Picone, T. J. Cachey Jr., M. Mesirea, Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 29-92.
Please note: Students who take the 6 CFU exam will only have to study the first part of the program.
Editions of the texts that will be analysed during the course
- 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.
- Le rime provenzali e francesi, a cura di L. Formisano, in Nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante. Volume III. De vulgari eloquentia, a cura di E. Fenzi, con la collaborazione di L. Formisano e F. Montuori, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012, pp. 265-338.
- Dante Alighieri, Commedia, con il commento di A. M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Milano, Mondadori, 1991-1997 (o ristampe): lettura di Inf. XXVIII (Bertran de Born); Purg. VI (Sordello); Purg. XXVI (Giraut de Bornelh e Arnaut Daniel); Par. IX (Folquet de Marselha).
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/).
First part
- L. Formisano, La lirica romanza del medioevo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, capp. 1-4, pp. 1-70;
- G. Folena, Culture e lingue nel Veneto medievale, Padova, Libreria Universitaria, 2015, pp. 1-137.
- F. Brugnolo, I Siciliani e l’arte dell’imitazione: Giacomo da Lentini, Rinaldo d’Aquino e Iacopo Mostacci ‘traduttori’ dal provenzale, in «La parola del testo», 3 (1999), pp. 46-75.
Second part
- P. G. Beltrami, Arnaut Daniel e la “bella scola” dei trovatori di Dante; S. Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante. Studi in onore di Robert Hollander, ed. M. Picone, T. J. Cachey Jr., M. Mesirea, Firenze, Franco Cesati, 2004, pp. 29-92.
Please note: Students who take the 6 CFU exam will only have to study the first part of the program.
Editions of the texts that will be analysed during the course
- 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.
- Le rime provenzali e francesi, a cura di L. Formisano, in Nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante. Volume III. De vulgari eloquentia, a cura di E. Fenzi, con la collaborazione di L. Formisano e F. Montuori, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012, pp. 265-338.
- Dante Alighieri, Commedia, con il commento di A. M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Milano, Mondadori, 1991-1997 (o ristampe): lettura di Inf. XXVIII (Bertran de Born); Purg. VI (Sordello); Purg. XXVI (Giraut de Bornelh e Arnaut Daniel); Par. IX (Folquet de Marselha).
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/).
Learning Objectives
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.
Prerequisites
Specific skills are not required. Basic knowledge of Romance philology and linguistics is helpful.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures with the support of powerpoint presentations, seminar activities.
Further information
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Type of Assessment
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, formal structure, performance). They must also translate and analyse one Provençal or French text chosen among those presented during the course.
Course program
The reception of Provençal and French lyric poetry in medieval Italy.
The course aims to explore how Provençal and French lyric poetry was assimilated and reinvented by Italian poets of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In particular, we will try to understand how this poetry was known and interpreted by Dante.
The course will be organised as follows:
First part:
1) Introduction: the poetry of the troubadours and trouvères
2) The troubadours in Italy, the Italian troubadours;
3) Sicilian translations of troubadours' texts.
Second part:
4) Dante and the Romance lyric tradition: lyric poetry, De vulgari eloquentia, Commedia;
5) Seminar activities: philological, linguistic and literary analysis of a choice of lyric texts.
The course aims to explore how Provençal and French lyric poetry was assimilated and reinvented by Italian poets of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In particular, we will try to understand how this poetry was known and interpreted by Dante.
The course will be organised as follows:
First part:
1) Introduction: the poetry of the troubadours and trouvères
2) The troubadours in Italy, the Italian troubadours;
3) Sicilian translations of troubadours' texts.
Second part:
4) Dante and the Romance lyric tradition: lyric poetry, De vulgari eloquentia, Commedia;
5) Seminar activities: philological, linguistic and literary analysis of a choice of lyric texts.