IJ2B021 Research Tasks in Italian Studies - Textual Criticism and Ancient Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca (lecturer)
doc. Egle Mocciaro, Dottore di Ricerca (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
IJ2A021 Textual Criticism I
Having passed the subject IJ2A021 Textual Criticism I
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main goal of this course is to develop, among the students, the capacity of a team research and important team writing skills. To do so, a concrete example – going from the medieval period to early modernity – will be analysed. Each student will be assigned an individual research task, partly to be agreed upon (e.g. trascriptions from medieval and renaissance manuscripts or early prints; text collation from different witnesses). All relevant methodologies – textual criticism, codicological approach, archival and database research, etc. – will be employed by the students to assess the case study. Students will be guided by the teachers in creating a bibliography, which will accompany the final work, consisting of the presentation of a small research project accompanied by a reasoned data collection.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to: - work independently on a research topic; - work in a research group; - gain proficiency in writing at academic level; - present research findings to a specialist audience; - work in libraries and archives; - develop the capacity of receiving and implementing information stemming from other research fields (e.g. codicology, palaeography, early print studies etc.); - show practical skills in copy-editing and editorial process of academic work.
Syllabus
  • - First hand research into manuscripts and early prints; - transcription of manuscripts and early prints (ca. 25 ff. = 50 pages, if the manuscript is easily readable, e.g. well preserved/digitised littera textualis or humanistic hand, text in Tuscan vernacular language; shorter task in other cases; longer if the model to be transcribed is a contemporary printed book) - other tasks to be agreed with the teacher (e.g. translations of technical texts from Czech to Italian or English) - bibliographical research.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Handbook of stemmatology : history, methodology, digital approaches. Edited by Philipp Roelli. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, vi, 688. ISBN 9783110674170. info
  • CHIESA, Paolo. Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione. Bologna: Pàtron editore, 2012, 231 stran. ISBN 9788855531733. info
Teaching methods
Interactive seminar with field research, archival research, and collective work.
Assessment methods
Students will receive partial tasks into the process of gathering materials and will be evaluated on the basis of reports emerging from this field research.
Language of instruction
Italian
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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