Teaching code

4S01213

Teacher

Cecilia Cantalupi

Coordinator

Cecilia Cantalupi

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/09 - ROMANCE PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS

Period

CuCi IIB dal Apr 14, 2021 al May 29, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with a deeper knowledge of some specific features of Medieval Romance literary text. At the end of the course the student will be able to analyse the texts studied during the class both under a critical and philological point of view.

Program

The advanced course is conceived as an introduction to Provençal philology and is organized in three parts:
1. Linguistic framework: the langue d'oc within the Romance linguistic panorama;
2. Historical-literary profile (medieval literature in Provençal language from its origins to the first half of the fourteenth century, with a focus on troubadour lyric through the reading, translation and commentary of representative poems of the various eras and schools; the lyric side it will also be studied from the point of view of the manuscript tradition, of the reception of troubadours in Italy and of the methods of critical edition);
3. The troubadours in Dante (Dante's knowledge of troubadours, the manuscript sources available at his time, the troubadour citations in the 'De vulgari eloquentia'; reading and commentary on the passages of the 'Commedia' in which Bertan de Born, Giraut de Bornelh, Arnaut Daniel and Folquet de Marselha appear or are evoked).

Bibliography:
- Aurelio Roncaglia, La lingua dei trovatori. Profilo di grammatica storica del provenzale antico, Pisa / Roma, Serra, 1998.
- Martín de Riquer, Leggere i trovatori. Edizione italiana a cura di Massimo Bonafin, Macerata, eum, 2010.
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- Teodolinda Barolini, Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della Commedia, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993.
- Mirko Tavoni, Il nome di poeta in Dante, in Studi offerti a Luigi Blasucci dai colleghi e dagli allievi pisani, a cura di Lucio Lugnani, Marco Santagata, Alfredo Stussi, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 1996, pp. 545-577.
- Gianfranco Folena, Dante e i trovatori, in G. Folena, Textus testis. Lingua e cultura poetica delle origini, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2002, pp. 229-240 (prima stesura: G. Folena, Vulgares Eloquentes. Vita e poesie dei trovatori di Dante, Padova, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, 1961).
- Stefano Asperti, Dante, i trovatori, la poesia, in Le culture di Dante. Studi in onore di Robert Hollander, Atti del quarto Seminario dantesco internazionale (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 25-27 settembre 2003), a cura di Michelangelo Picone, Theodore J. Cachey Jr, Margherita Mesirca, Firenze, Cesati, 2004, pp. 61-92.
- Paolo Gresti, Dante e i trovatori: qualche riflessione, «Testo», n.s. XXXII, 61-62, 2011, pp. 175-190.
- Christopher Kleinhenz, Dante as a reader and critic of courtly literature, in Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Proceedings of the 5th triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 9–16 Aug. 1986, Edited by Keith Busby and Erik Kooper, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 1986, pp. 379-393 (ora in C. Kleinhenz, Dante intertestuale e interdisciplinare. Saggi sulla Commedia, Roma, Aracne, 2015, pp. 51-66).

Examination Methods

Oral exam on the whole programme, aimed at evaluating students' knowledge on the different parts and the corresponding bibliography.
The exam will assess: ability to read, translate and comment some of the texts studied in class; ability to link aspects concerning all parts of the programme; accuracy of vocabulary.
The evaluation is expressed in 30/30.