Medieval and Modern Philology and Literature-Dep.Cultures and Civilizations-University of Verona

The area of Medieval and Modern Philology and Literature deals with research and teaching activities related to Italian Philology, History of Italian Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Language and Philology and Romance Philology. The analysis of Literary texts is framed within an European and Italian perspective, and covers a period going from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era. The research focuses on historical, cultural, linguistic, rhetorical, stylistic, metrical, narratological aspects of literary texts, and on their philological study (textual philology and history of the manuscript tradition). Great importance is given to multidisciplinary and comparative approach, as well as to the use of innovative methods.

Chiara Maria Concina: Associate Professor
Fabio Danelon: Full Professor
Antonio De Prisco: Teaching Assistant
Edoardo Ferrarini: Associate Professor
Fabio Forner: Associate Professor
Massimo Natale: Associate Professor

Stefano Pagliaroli: Associate Professor
Paolo Pellegrini: Full Professor
Giuseppe Sandrini: Associate Professor
Arnaldo Soldani: Full Professor
Corrado Viola: Full Professor
Alessandra Zangrandi: Associate Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Philology and palaeography; historical linguistics (see ERC classification)
Epistolography	Alessandra Zangrandi	Edition and interpretation of modern and contemporary epistolary texts
Italian philology and inguistics	Paolo Pellegrini	Really italian language and literature. Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio. Classical tradition and Humanism. Medieval and humanistic philology. History of Philology and Linguistics.
Formal features of the works of Petrarch and Petrarchism	Arnaldo Soldani	Formal analysis of Petrarch’s vernacular works and their development in Petrarchism between 15th and 16th century (language, style, metrics, forms of the argumentation, organization of the songbooks)
Formal features and narrative languages in the chivalric romance	Arnaldo Soldani	Narrative structures and discursive forms of italian chivalric romance, with particular attention to the works of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso.
Functions of voice in lyrical texts	Arnaldo Soldani	Functions and position of the authorial voice in the Italian lyrical tradition, from the origins to the modern age, in reference to composition of songbooks and definition of internal temporality.
Lessicografia medievale	Antonio De Prisco	Strumenti lessicografici cartacei e digitali per lo studio del latino medievale.
Anglo-Norman Language and Literature	Chiara Maria Concina	Study of the Language, Literature and manuscripts of the Anglo-Norman Period (XII-XIV centuries).
Medieval Catalan Language and Literature	Chiara Maria Concina	Study Medieval Catalan Literature and Language (giving special attention to the literary works and to their manuscript tradition).
Lingua latina medievale	Antonio De Prisco	Latino in uso nella produzione letteraria e documentaria dell'età medievale.
Metrics	Alessandra Zangrandi	History of different metrical schemas in Italian literature's authors
Medieval Travel Accounts (Sinica Mediaevalia Europaea)	Chiara Maria Concina	Study of Medieval Travel Accounts written in romance languages and of their manuscript traditions (XIII-XV cent.).
'Outremer': Texts and Manuscripts of the Latin East	Chiara Maria Concina	Study of the Old French Texts and of the Manuscripts produced in the Crusader States.
Prosody of the Italian verse	Arnaldo Soldani	Definition of scansion criteria for the prosody of Italian verses, with particular attention to the hendecasyllable. Digital storage and analysis of rhythmical patterns of the Italian poetic tradition, from the origins to the modern age.
Reception of Boethius's «De consolatione Philosophiae»	Chiara Maria Concina	Study of the reception of Boethius's «De consolatione Philosophiae» in the later Middle Ages, with special attention to its Romance translations.
History of italian metrical forms	Arnaldo Soldani	Origins and development of metrical forms in the Italian tradition, especially regarding sonnet, canzone, octave, and unrhymed hendecasyllable. Relation between metrical forms and syntactic and argumentative structures.
History of Italian literary Language	Alessandra Zangrandi	History of Italian literary Language, reported to modern and contemporary authors
Theory and history of italian metricology	Arnaldo Soldani	Study of the Italian metricological reflection, from Dante to our days, in reference to the theoric premises and the descriptive practice about verses and metrical forms.
Translations of the classics from greek into latin in the humanistic age	Stefano Pagliaroli	Study of latin translations from the greek in the humanistic age with particular regard to the latin version of Erodoto by Lorenzo Valla
History of Italian poetic language	Arnaldo Soldani	Develompment of Italian poetic language as a separate code from the one of prose, and its subsequent dismantling in the modern age.
Theory and history of literature, comparative literature standard compliant ERC
Contemporary writers' archives	Giuseppe Sandrini	Researches on the autobiography (diaries, letters) and on the archives of 20th century writers like Giani Stuparich, Giovanni Comisso, Goffredo Parise
Dante and Dante’s study in the 20th Century	Corrado Viola	Reception and fortunes of Dante in the literature and critical studies of the 20th Century (in particular Mario Apollonio)
Forms and themes in Italian tragic tradition	Massimo Natale	Forms and themes in Italian tragic tradition, from Tasso to Manzoni
Ancient Culture and Literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature	Massimo Natale	The reception of Greek and Latin Literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, from Tasso to Zanzotto
Giacomo Leopardi	Massimo Natale	Study of works, thought and heritage of Giacomo Leopardi
Leopardi, Manzoni and their literary legacy	Giuseppe Sandrini	Studies on the heritage of Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni in European and Italian 20th century literature
Italian Literature Lexicography	Corrado Viola	Lexical examinations and inventories of Italian literature
Literature and Landscape	Corrado Viola	Literature and Mountain. Poetry of the sublime Alpine between 18th and 20th Century
Literature and landscape	Giuseppe Sandrini	Studies on the relations between writers and Italian nature and landscape; travel literature and journeys in Italy
Letteratura italiana	Fabio Forner	Storia della letteratura italiana, con particolare attenzione alla letteratura dei secoli XIV, XV, XVI e XVIII. Il genere epistolare costituisce un oggetto precipuo di ricerca.
Italian literature. Thematic criticism	Fabio Danelon	Representation and image of the family and domestic interior in Italian literary tradition
Italian literature of the nineteenth century	Fabio Danelon	Narrative, critique and literary historiography. He dedicates particular attention, as regards criticism and literary historiography, to the works of Giovita Scalvini, Paolo Emiliani Giudici, Cesare Cantù, Luigi Settembrini. For the narrative, and for the overall cultural role, he focuses especially on the work and the figure of Alessandro Manzoni and Niccolò Tommaseo.
19th and 20th Century Italian Literature	Corrado Viola	Neoclassical and protoromantic literature (especially Foscolo and Pindemonte); Poetry of the Risorgimento (above all C. Betteloni); Narrative (Manzoni, Giacosa, Salgari, Mancinelli etc.)
Italian literature of the twentieth century	Fabio Danelon	Narrative and literary criticism of the Italian twentieth century. He dedicates particular attention, among others, to the narrative works of Pirandello and Svevo; he is interested in the figures of some Italian literary critics of the late twentieth century (Emilio Bigi, Luigi Baldacci); he studies the literary production of Pier Paolo Pasolini above all in relation with the Italian literary tradition.
17th-18th Century Italian Literature	Corrado Viola	Epistolography, criticism, erudition, journalism and literary historiography, with particular attention to the edition and philological care of texts, especially unpublished, and documents, especially letters, of the principal authors (Muratori, Maffei, Parini, Bettinelli, Metastasio, Tiraboschi, Cesarotti, Alfieri, etc.); The Academy of Arcadia; The Republic of letters in the 17th-18th Century between national space and European dimension
Italian literature of the eighteenth century	Fabio Danelon	Literature and literary historiography of the Italian eighteenth century, with particular attention to the edition of the writings, especially unpublished, and of the correspondence of Gianmaria Mazzuchelli.
Medieval Latin Literature	Antonio De Prisco Edoardo Ferrarini	Genres, authors and texts of Medieval Latin Literature (from the VI to the XIV century)
Italian 20th century poetry	Massimo Natale	Forms and themes in Italian 20th century poetry, with particular attention to Andrea Zanzotto, and to Mario Luzi, Vittorio Sereni, Fernando Bandini
Italian poets of the 20th century	Giuseppe Sandrini	Forms and themes in Italian 20th century poetry, with particular attention to Dino Campana, Umberto Saba, Vittorio Sereni e Andrea Zanzotto
Ancient literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian literature	Giuseppe Sandrini	Studies on the reception of Greek and Latin literature in Modern and Contemporary Italian literature, with particular attention to Leopardi and 20th century writers
History of Italian literature	Corrado Viola	History of Italian literature from the Origins to 21th Century, with particular attention to the 16th-20th Centuries, to the forms of the literary genres, to the processes of defining literary canon, to the relations with the other literary traditions

Gruppi di ricerca
Name	Description	URL
DEaMoNs research group – Digital early modern networks	Il gruppo di ricerca DEaMoNs costituisce una piattaforma internazionale volta a mettere in rete studiosi appartenenti a contesti accademici e tradizioni storiografiche diverse, che si occupino di “connected histories” e che, possibilmente, abbiano inserito un elemento metodologico digitale nella propria analisi storica. Infatti, i progetti di ricerca interdisciplinari che trattano una grande quantità di dati, possono beneficiare dell’uso di sofisticate tecnologie per l’esplorazione di dati storici e per la rappresentazione sinottica di un dato fenomeno relazionale.
Giani Stuparich e la letteratura triestina	Il gruppo svolge ricerche sullo scrittore triestino Giani Stuparich, uno dei più significativi esponenti della generazione de «La Voce», la cui opera viene indagata e riproposta alla luce delle carte inedite conservate in archivi pubblici e privati
Prospettive di ricerca su Andrea Zanzotto	Il gruppo si occupa di Andrea Zanzotto, uno dei più importanti poeti del secondo Novecento. Si propone di studiare l'opera di Zanzotto anche a partire dal suo archivio personale, conservato nella casa di Pieve di Soligo (Treviso)

Projects
Title	Managers	Starting date	Duration (months)
PRIN 2022 Carte Tommaseo on-line	Fabio Danelon	10/17/23	24
L'archivio di Andrea Zanzotto	Giuseppe Sandrini	1/1/20	48
Letteratura e forme del paesaggio	Giuseppe Sandrini	1/1/20	48

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