Unit LATIN PHILOLOGY II
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A004781
- Curriculum
- Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
- Teacher
- Paola Paolucci
- Teachers
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- Paola Paolucci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paola Paolucci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2026
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche
- Sector
- LATI-01/A
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course focuses on the manuscript tradition and on the problems of textual criticism of some poems of the Anthologia Latina (Carmina Einsidlensia, Anthologia Vossiana, Anthologia Salmasiana) and of the prose comedy Querolus.
- Reference texts
- The editions of the texts from Anthologia Latina will be provided in PDF format in unistudium; for the Querolus, the edition by A. Arrighini, Venice 2025 (Supplementi di Lexis), will be used; it is in OA with the review by P. Paolucci in "BStL" 56,2026.
- Educational objectives
- The course involves the acquisition of the following knowledge: 1. In-depth Knowledge of the mode of transmission of an ancient text with reference to direct and indirect tradition; 2. In-depth Knowledge of the main notions of codicology and Latin paleography; 3. In-depth Knowledge of the main criteria of textual criticism; 4. In-depth Knowledge of the main phases of the recensio; 5. In-depth Knowledge of particular aspects of the tradition and the constitutio textus of poems and proses. The course aims to provide the following skills: 1. Knowing independently how to read a critical apparatus; 2. Knowing independently how to understand the reasons underlying a given constitutio textus.
- Prerequisites
- Advanced knowledge of Latin language, Latin literature, and metrics.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lectures and seminar workshops.
- Other information
- The seminars on the texts of Anthologia Latina will include presentations by Professor Loriano Zurli.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam.
- Extended program
- The course focuses on the manuscript tradition and on the problems of textual criticism of some poems of the Anthologia Latina (Carmina Einsidlensia, Anthologia Vossiana, Anthologia Salmasiana) and of the prose comedy Querolus.
Among the main aims of the course are remarks on the diverse and peculiar strategies of constitutio textus useful for the edition of late Latin texts in poetry and prose. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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