HUMANISTIC LITERATURE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM5008

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

PHILOLOGY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BERTE' MONICA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

A knowledge of Classical Latin is advised.

Objectives

- Educational targets:
the course is meant to contribute to reach the goals of the CdS "Filologia, Linguistica e Tradizioni letterarie". More specifically, it aims to supply skills of a literary-critical and philological type and to read the main authors between 14th and 15th centuries, offering the tools and methodologies necessary for ecdotic reconstruction and interpretation of their works.

- Expected learning results:
1) knowledge of the programme subjects;
2) to be able to critically discuss specific case-studies;
3) communications skills.

Contents

Title: Talking to the books: Petrarch’s library.

Contents. After a short introduction to the history of marginal notes as a reading practice from antiquity to the modern age, the course will focus on two central aspects of Petrarch’s intellectual biography, which is one of the most important heritage of the dialogue between Humanism and Antiquity:
1) his search for books and the care about his library;
2) reading and marginalia in his manuscripts.

Extended Syllabus

The course is divided in two parts.

- Part I: will be read and commented some Petrarch’s writings, in which the author talks about received, donated, copied and searched books.
- Part II: a number of Petrarch's 'marginalia' will be analyzed, with direct involvement of the students who will be encouraged to take an active part in lessons.

The programme and the bibliography will be made available to students at the beginning of the course.

Recommended Bibliography

- F. Petrarca, Fam. 18, 3 a Giovanni Boccaccio; Fam. 18, 12 a Lapo da Castiglionchio; Fam. 3, 18 a Giovanni dell’Incisa; Fam. 21, 10 a Neri Morando; Fam. 22, 2 a Giovanni Boccaccio; Rem. 1, 43 (De copia librorum).

- M. Campanelli, Scrivere in margine, leggere in margine: frammenti di una storia controversa, in Talking to the text: Marginalia from papyri to print, Proceedings of a Conference held to Erice, 26 september - 3 october 1998, as the 12th Course of International School for the Study of Written Records, edited by V. Fera, G. Ferraù, S. Rizzo, Messina 2002, pp. 851-939.
- - M. Feo, La biblioteca, in Petrarca nel tempo. Tradizioni lettori e immagini delle opere, Catalogo della mostra Arezzo, Sottochiesa di San Francesco, 22 novembre 2003-27 gennaio 2004, a cura di M. Feo, Pontedera 2003, pp. 456-495.
- M. Petoletti, «Signa manus mee». Percorso tra postille e opere di Francesco Petrarca, in L’antiche e le moderne carte. Studi in memoria di Giuseppe Billanovich, a cura di A. Manfredi e C. M. Monti, Padova, Antenore, 2007, pp. 451-497.
- F. Rico, La biblioteca del Petrarca, in Atlante della letteratura italiana, a cura di S. Luzzatto e G. Pedullà, Torino 2010, pp. 229-234.
- M. Berté, «Lector, intende: letaberis». La prassi della lettura in Petrarca, in Petrarca lettore. Pratiche e rappresentazioni della lettura nelle opere dell’umanista, a cura di L. Marcozzi, Firenze 2016, pp. 15-39.
- A. Piacentini, «Se miscere cum magnis mira arte». L’Historia Augusta, il De remediis e le lettere Senili, «Studi petrarcheschi», n.s. XXI (2008), pp. 1-80.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures will be given as classroom-taught lessons (42 hours). Students will be tested for assessment of learning.
Attendance in this course is highly recommended.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students’ skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Contacts/More Information

Students who cannot attend the course are kindly asked to take an appointment with the lecturer.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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