ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

The course aims to provide, with a comparative approach, an overall view of the formation of Romance languages and literatures, paying particular attention to the Italian and French ones.

The study of medieval French literature will serve to outline its influence on Italian literature of the early centuries, and to highlight the need for a ‘European’ approach to the study of medieval texts

The course is traditionally divided into two sections: the first covers the linguistic approach; the second concentrates on medieval literature and philology.

Linguistic section.

A (4 CFU):

introduction to the discipline; history of Romance philology; classification of the Romance languages; the most important syntactic, morphological, phonetic and lexical phenomena in the evolution from Latin to Romance languages; Early Romance texts; basic elements of Old French grammar, functional for reading the texts.

Philological and literary section.

B (2 CFU):

basic notions on editing Romance medieval texts.

C (3 CFU):

history of medieval French literature, with special regard to texts which have influenced the Italian literature of XIII and XIV centuries.

N.B. The students of the Degree Course in Cultural Heritage (6 ECTS) will study the forms A and B.

A The growth of Romance languages: basics (4 CFU).

• Pietro G. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017 (pp. 1-388).

B Introduction to Textual criticism (2 CFU).


• A. Varvaro, Prima lezione di filologia, Laterza, Roma 2012, pp. 135.

• Teaching material (about 50).

C Introduction to Medieval French literature (3 CFU).

• F. Brugnolo - R. Capelli, Profilo delle letterature romanze medievali, Carocci, Roma, 2011, pp. 11-205; 375-444.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.