Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35339106
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Loriano Zurli
- Teachers
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- Loriano Zurli
- Hours
- 36 ore - Loriano Zurli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Filologia, linguistica e letteratura
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- After an introduction to the principles of textual criticism, the theme of the long poems of Anthologia Vossiana will be discussed. In the background, the handwritten tradition of Latin Anthology will be examined with attention to the elements that must be kept in mind in order to reconstruct a stemma codicum of the same Latin Anthology. In particular, the study of the so-called Vossiana Anthology will be deepened.
- Reference texts
- Y. Gomez Gane, Dizionario della terminologia filologica, Torino 2013; L. Zurli, La tradizione ms. delle anthologiae Salmasiana e Vossiana (e il loro stemma), “ALRiv” 1, 2010, pp. 205-292; L. Zurli, Anthologia Vossiana, Roma 2001
- Educational objectives
- The course provides for the acquisition of the following knowledge: 1. Knowledge of the method of transmission of an ancient text with particular reference to direct tradition; 2. Knowledge of the main notions of codicology and paleography; 3. Knowledge of the main criteria of textual criticism; 4. Knowledge of the main phases of the recensio; 5. Knowledge of particular aspects of tradition and the constitutio textus of the long poems of Anthologia Vossiana. The course aims to provide, develop and refine the following skills: 1. Knowing how to read a critical apparatus; 2. Knowing how to understand the reasons behind a given constitutio textus.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand and know how to reuse / elaborate autonomously the philological knowledge and concepts foreseen by the teaching, it is necessary to have a good linguistic-grammatical knowledge of Latin. The analysis of the texts, which will be examined during the course, also requires proven translation skills from Latin to Italian. The possession of the knowledge and skills mentioned above is an indispensable prerequisite for the student who wants to follow the course profitably and who aspires to a concrete educational success.
- Teaching methods
- The prevailing didactic method foresees lectures in the classroom; practical exercises of metric reading, translation and textual analysis are also foreseen. We will take advantage of the collaboration of experts of the matter. In-depth seminars are also planned.
As required by the note of the Minister of University and Research relating to phase 3 (September 2020-January 2021), without prejudice to any other change communicated by the competent authorities, blended teaching will be used (in presence and in telepresence at the same time) with synchronous and / or asynchronous mode. - Other information
- nothing
- Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam which includes three phases: 1. an open question relating to the general framework of the subject matter of the course; 2. Metric reading, translation and commentary of at least one of the poetic texts examined during the course; 3. Philological analysis of the critical apparatus at the bottom of the poetic text itself. The final evaluation will result from the average of the marks obtained in the three phases of the oral exam, which therefore will have a reasonably considerable duration.
- Extended program
- After an introduction to the principles of textual criticism, the theme of the long poems of Anthologia Vossiana will be discussed. In the background, the handwritten tradition of Latin Anthology will be examined with attention to the elements that must be kept in mind in order to reconstruct a stemma codicum of the same Latin Anthology. In particular, the study of the so-called Vossiana Anthology will be deepened.