Università Roma Tre

The course is articulated in two main sections: the first will deal with problems and methodological aspects of philological-critical work on Medieval and Humanistic texts in Latin and vernacular; the second will focus on a specific textual typology, the critical edition of marginal notes on Latin classics, with particular reference to the role of Giovanni Boccaccio in the textual tradition of these works. The presence of the classics in the Certaldese library will be considered focusing on both autographed and annotated manuscripts and especially on auctores such as Terentius, Ovid, Statius and Martial.
Various typologies of annotations will be examined: traditional glosses, some interesting remarks of Boccaccio's own, such as a fairly substantial system of marginalia and some purely philological notes (reflections on the correctness of the text, identification of errors, reporting of textual variations or proposals for conjectures).

- M. BERTÉ-M. PETOLETTI, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017 (ristampa aggiornata 2019).
- *M. PETOLETTI, Le postille di Giovanni Boccaccio a Marziale (Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C 67 sup.), in «Studi sul Boccaccio», XXXIV, 2006, pp. 103-184.
- *M. CURSI-M. FIORILLA, Giovanni Boccaccio, in Autografi dei letterati italiani. Le Origini e il Trecento. I, a cura di G. BRUNETTI, M. FIORILLA e M. PETOLETTI, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013, pp. 43-103 (in particolare le pp. 43-56, 68-70 e le tavv. alle pp. 73-103);
- *M. PETOLETTI, Boccaccio medievale e Boccaccio umanista, in Boccaccio, a cura di M. FIORILLA e I. IOCCA, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 335-357.

The bibliographic entries distinguished here by asterisks will be provided to the students in photocopy inside the course lecture notes, together with the following materials: passages of Boccaccio's works, reproductions of manuscripts, pages of critical editions and other essays, catalogue items, additional notes elaborated by the lecturer.