Study-unit ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

Course name Foreign languages and cultures
Study-unit Code 35078809
Curriculum Comune a tutti i curricula
Lecturer Carlo Pulsoni
Lecturers
  • Carlo Pulsoni
Hours
  • 72 ore - Carlo Pulsoni
CFU 9
Course Regulation Coorte 2021
Supplied 2023/24
Supplied other course regulation
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline filologiche
Sector L-FIL-LET/09
Type of study-unit
Type of learning activities Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction Italian
Contents From latin to romance languages. Textual criticism. The wuest of Graal
Reference texts P. G. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
M. Barbato, Le lingue romanze. Profilo storico-comparativo, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2017.
Alfonso X, As cantigas de loor
Educational objectives The course is thought to offer the basis of the Romance philology
Prerequisites Specific knowledge is not expected.
Teaching methods lessons, conferences
Other information We remember that the BA course is dedicated to those who have not passed an exam of romance philology.
Learning verification modality For the Assessment are planned:
• term papers written on the topic developed during monographic (their preparation is voluntary, takes place during the lessons, and has the objective to monitor the acquisition of knowledge);
• final paper will be part of the final oral examination;
• final oral exam that allows the overall Assessment of the ideas presented during the course and the degree of judgment gained.
The final test has a duration based on the abilities manifested by the student during the exam.
Extended program The course is thought to offer , from one side a view on the transition from the vulgar Latin to the romance languages, from the other side to examine the first documents of the romance languages, also through a palaeographic analysis of the manuscripts that transmit them. There will be also given elements of comparative studies among the romance languages and notions of textual criticism.
The second part of the course is dedicated to the reading of provençal lyrics