Texts, Traditions, and Cultures of the Book. Italian Studies and Novels (TTCL)
The PhD in Texts, Traditions and Cultures of the Book. Italian Studies and Novels consists of an advanced course of study and research at the end of which the student discusses a thesis based on original and independent scholarly work.
The course offers training based on a multi and interdisciplinary approach hinging on the study of the Italian and Romance literary tradition as organized around the forms of the book, manuscript and printed. Thus, at the center of the research is the literary work, which is conceived as the end product of a series of procedures: aesthetic, cultural-historical, and material.
Starting with concrete texts, including the ways and formats in which they were conceived and then transmitted over time, the doctoral school is built on the necessary cross-cutting of studies, from the history of literature to stylistics, from philology to the history of books and publishing.
The areas and topics on which members of its college can provide training and research preparation on par with the best international centers are:
-Latin codicology and paleography;
-History of the printed book and private and public libraries;
-Italian and Romance philology;
-Italian and Romance linguistics and lexicography;
-Italian and Romance stylistics, metrics and rhetoric;
-Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance;
-History of intellectual groups and the Western imagination from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
The PhD in Texts, Traditions and Cultures of the Book. Italian and Romance Studies is intended for students who hold a master’s degree (or equivalent) in an area relevant to the disciplines it covers and who are highly motivated, have a strong personal background, diverse language skills, and are eager to engage with multi- and interdisciplinary approaches.
The Ph.D. aims to train highly qualified scholars and managers who can work in the fields of linguistic, philological, literary, archival and historical-library research, thanks to the acquisition of notions, concepts, theories and tools, including digital tools, to critically and consciously read, reconstruct and interpret the historical, formal, textual traditions and cultural dynamics that contribute to the formation and structuring of the Italian and Romance area literary system.
PhDs in Texts, Traditions and Cultures of the Book. Italian scholars and novelists will be able to contribute to the advancement of research and teach in universities, and will be able to direct complex facilities (such as libraries, archives, text research centers) both public and private because of their analytical skills, general and comparative view of problems, interdisciplinary approach and international experience.
The PhD in “Texts, Traditions and Cultures of the Book. Italian and Romance Studies” was established as an innovative doctorate with an interdisciplinary characterization and international vocation with the aim of attracting the best students and constantly involving in the teaching activity the leading international experts on the topics of the doctorate in addition to scholars working in foreign university sites that are part of the college.
It will be mandatory for each doctoral student to spend at least one year (even divided into several quarters or semesters) at foreign university and research institutions, archives and libraries.
The languages of the doctoral program are Italian and English; courses and seminars may be taught in either language.
The doctoral program aims to build a series of international partnerships through which to develop learner and faculty mobility. Current ties provide a relevant baseline.
University of Naples Federico II
University of Florence
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Université Paris 8
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Université de Namur
University of Campania L. Vanvitelli
Course Duration: 4 years
Scholarships: each year SSM puts up for competition 6 scholarships of €19,000 each.
Each fellowship is supplemented by additional funds for research activities in Italy and abroad.
Admission to the doctoral program is by competitive examination based on qualifications, research project and interview. Those who hold a master’s degree, or an equivalent degree, are eligible to participate in the competition.
Selection is through evaluation of the candidate’s academic career and research project (approximately 3,500 words, including an essential bibliography and accompanied by an abstract in Italian and English of no more than 500 words) on the proposed research topics, as well as an interview in Italian. The number of places put up for competition will be determined each year by the relevant bodies of SSM. of the accordion
Ester Camilla Peric (cycle XXXV)
Serena Picarelli (cycle XXXV)
Research project: Notes in the margin: an investigation of the production of illustrated manuscripts in fourteenth-century Italy through the analysis of indications to the illuminator
Tutors: prof. Marco Cursi, prof. Francesca Manzari, prof. Lieve Watteeuw
Matheus Silva Vieira (cycle XXXV)
Research project: The manuscript tradition of ‘Corbaccio’: study and classification of ‘antiquiores’ witnesses
Tutor: prof. Andrea Mazzucchi
Research project: Boethius’ “De consolatione philosophiae” vulgarized by Albert of Piagentina. Critical edition of the text and added notes
Tutors: prof. Luca Azzetta, prof. Andrea Mazzucchi
Chiara Melchionno (cycle XXXVI)
Jonathan Viapiana (cycle XXXVI)
Research project: Bible study in the Middle Ages: the glossed biblical manuscripts preserved at the Abbey of Monte Cassino
Research project: Book V of Giovanni Pontano’s “Urania. Critical edition, translation and commentary
Tutor: prof. Michele Rinaldi
(LM in Modern Philology, University of Naples “Federico II”)
Research project: The “Comedy” in mercantesca
Tutor: prof. Marco Cursi
Clare Helen (cycle XXXVIII)
Research project: Boccaccian presences in the comic theater of the French Renaissance. “Decameron V.5” in Jean de La Taille’s “Les Corrivaux.”
Tutors: prof. Gabriele Frasca, prof. Giancarlo Alfano
Gianmarco Tuzzolino (cycle XXXVIII)
Ester Camilla Peric (cycle XXXV)
Serena Picarelli (cycle XXXV)
Research project: Notes in the margin: an investigation of the production of illustrated manuscripts in fourteenth-century Italy through the analysis of indications to the illuminator
Tutors: prof. Marco Cursi, prof. Francesca Manzari, prof. Lieve Watteeuw
Matheus Silva Vieira (cycle XXXV)
Research project: The manuscript tradition of ‘Corbaccio’: study and classification of ‘antiquiores’ witnesses
Tutor: prof. Andrea Mazzucchi
Research project: Boethius’ “De consolatione philosophiae” vulgarized by Albert of Piagentina. Critical edition of the text and added notes
Tutors: prof. Luca Azzetta, prof. Andrea Mazzucchi
Chiara Melchionno (cycle XXXVI)
Jonathan Viapiana (cycle XXXVI)
Research project: Bible study in the Middle Ages: the glossed biblical manuscripts preserved at the Abbey of Monte Cassino
Research project: Book V of Giovanni Pontano’s “Urania. Critical edition, translation and commentary
Tutor: prof. Michele Rinaldi
(LM in Modern Philology, University of Naples “Federico II”)
Research project: The “Comedy” in mercantesca
Tutor: prof. Marco Cursi
Clare Helen (cycle XXXVIII)
Research project: Boccaccian presences in the comic theater of the French Renaissance. “Decameron V.5” in Jean de La Taille’s “Les Corrivaux.”
Tutors: prof. Gabriele Frasca, prof. Giancarlo Alfano
Gianmarco Tuzzolino (cycle XXXVIII)
Educational activities are developed over four years of coursework.
Teaching activities are concentrated in the first year of the course, while in the following three years students will be engaged in conducting research and periodically reporting on its progress both in individual interviews and in periodic seminar meetings.
Teaching activities are divided into compulsory courses with a final examination, seminar activities during which students can discuss specific aspects of doctoral work, lectures given by invitation by faculty members from outside the college, and activities in language and computer training, research management and the exploitation of its results.
The research and teaching topics are as follows (others may possibly be added to coincide with the research developments of the college members):
- Editorial Archives
- Codicology
- Italian Philology
- Romance philology and linguistics
- Italian and Romance lexicography
- Italian literature
- Medieval and humanistic Latin literature
- Latin Paleography
- Stylistics, metrics and rhetoric
- History of intellectuals
- History of the Italian language
- History of translation in Italy
- History of private, public and author libraries
- History of publishing
- History of the printed book
- History of the Western Imaginary
- Tradition of Italian classics
First-year teaching activities are spread over two terms: November-January and March-June and are organized as follows:
Year I:
- 6 seminar courses (about 10 meetings of two hours each);
- 6 workshops (3 consecutive meetings);
- Active participation in conferences and seminars organized by the doctoral program or other university and research institutions;
- Preparation of an articulated research project for the transition to the 2nd year of the course.
Year II:
- Active participation in conferences and workshops organized by the doctoral program or other university and research institutions;
- 2 days of research progress presentation in the presence of mentors and the college;
- Research work to the thesis and preparation of a chapter.
Year III:
- Seminars presenting ongoing research in the presence of mentors and the college and active participation in conferences and workshops;
- Research work to the thesis and preparation of a chapter;
Year IV:
- thesis completion.
Language courses: courses are available at the university in Italian language for foreigners, as well as English, French, German, and Spanish.
Enhancement of research results and intellectual property: the School organizes activities for the in-depth study of the rules related to the enhancement and dissemination of scientific research, the protection of research results and authors, the protection of intellectual property, and the modalities of patenting in the national and international fields.
The research activity is carried out by each doctoral student under the supervision of a thesis director chosen from among the members of the College. The dissertation director designated by the college will be able to be joined by a second dissertation director chosen either from within or outside the college possibly also by activating the institution of co-tutorship by agreement.
The transition from the first year to the second year will be decided on the basis of the presentation of an articulated research project including a three-year work plan discussed in an interview attended for each doctoral student by at least three members of the college, who may ask the doctoral students, in addition to the discussion of the project itself and the papers they have prepared for the seminar courses they have taken, to read a bibliography relevant to their future research.
The transition from the second to the third year will take place on the basis of the discussion and approval of an indicative but detailed outline of the thesis that the doctoral student proposes to write and a chapter.
The transition from the third to the fourth year will be on the basis of presentation and discussion, and then approval by the thesis director, of an additional thesis chapter and a detailed table of contents.