HUMANISTIC LITERATURE PHILOLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- VALENTINA GRITTI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/13
Training objectives
- During the course students will acquire a competence useful for a more complete and solid knowledge of Humanistic authors and of some of their masterpieces (for example Petrarch's De viris illustribus, Leonardo Bruni's De Interpretatione recta, Frulovisi's Corallaria, Alberti's Intercenales or Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Adagia), and of the classical greek and latin writers reception during the Italian Fifteenth century, by the study of their vernacular translations.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of Italian and latin languages.
Course programme
- The course is devoted to the history of tradition of Humanistic literature with more important Humanistic authors (in particular Petrarch’s Vita Alexandri, Leonardo Bruni’s De interpretatione recta, Tito Livio Frulovisi's Corallaria, L. B. Alberti's Intercenales and Erasmus’s masterpiece Adagia).
Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons. Analysis of the textual tradition of literary works and reading of texts ((parts of Petrarca's Vita Alexandri from De viris illustribus. parts of Bruni's De interpretatione recta,the Frulovisi's Corallaria, two of Alberti's Intercenales and some of Adagia di Erasmo).
Lessons recording for all students, also for those not attending the course. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral questions on the topics covered (on medieval and humanistic textual criticism, Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, L. B. Alberti, Sandeo’s translation and Erasmus of Rotterdam), as many as necessary to verify the level of student learning (from simple memorization of data to more valuable use of concepts learned).
Reference texts
- Guido Cappelli, L'umanesimo italiano da Petrarca a Valla, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
Tito Livio Frulovisi, Corallaria, a cura di Armando Bisanti, Sismel, Il galluzzo, 2021.
Course material in digital format of Petrarch, Bruni, L. B. Alberti Erasmus, etc.
