Università Roma Tre

The Edition of Medieval and Humanistic texts: typologies and problems

The first section of the course will deal with methodological aspects and problems of philological-critical work on different types of Medieval and Humanistic texts, both in Latin and vernacular. The second part will focus on the volumes in Giovanni Boccaccio's library and, in particular, on a specific and important category: the ancient manuscripts in beneventan script from the monastery of Montecassino that passed through Certaldese's desk and were read and annotated by him, but never actually became part of his library. These are primarily the mss. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29.2 (with works by Apuleius); Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 51.10 (with Varro, Cicero and the pseudo-Ciceronian 'Rhetorica ad Herennium'); Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 66.1 (with Flavius Josephus in Latin translation).

- M. BERTÉ-M. PETOLETTI, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017 (ristampa aggiornata 2019).
- *S. RIZZO, Il lessico filologico degli umanisti, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1973 (ristampa 1984), pp. 243-250, 265-276;
- *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. FIORILLA, La lettura apuleiana del Boccaccio e le note ai manoscritti laurenziani 29.2 e 54.32, in «Aevum», LXXIII/3, 1999, pp. 635-668;
- *S. FINAZZI, Le “unciales litterae” e Boccaccio, in «Italia Medioevale e Umanistica», LVI, 2015, pp. 297-307.

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.

Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer (e-mail: silvia.finazzi@uniroma3.it) to make adequate arrangements well ahead of their exam date.