- Essays and contributions provided in handouts.
- Riccardo Gualdo - Stefano Telve, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Roma, Carocci, 2011.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge-related:
- the course aims to address the topic of sectoral languages in an historical perspective, focusing in particular on the late medieval and renaissance Tuscan production.
Skill-related:
- ability to use lexicographical sources and tools that allow the recovery and the study of sectoral languages;
- ability to read and interpret the texts of authors at the beginning of modern technical-scientific treatises in the vernacular language (from Piero della Francesca to Pacioli, to Leonardo da Vinci).
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of Italian historical grammar.
Teaching Methods
Lessons.
Further information
Please note that compulsory attendance is required for 2/3 of the lessons. Examination methods for non-attending students are not provided, except for part-time students (who must inform the Professor at the beginning of the course in order to agree on a specific program).
Type of Assessment
The exam will be oral, also for non-attending students or exchange programs (Erasmus and others). The exam will consist of questions concerning the individual parts of the course and the reference texts. During the test the student will also be asked to analyze the texts examined in class and made available through the material provided by the Professor.
Course program
- General features of sectoral languages in their relationship with the common language.
- The different components: lexicon, syntax and textuality.
- The historical dimension and research tools.
- Tuscany in the XIII-XV centuries and the beginning of the vernacular writings tradition in the technical-scientific field.
- The language of mathematics (from Fibonacci to the Abachists).
- The language of arts and techniques (from Piero della Francesca to Leonardo).
- The language of economics and commerce (from the Florentine fragments of 1211 to Pacioli) and its European fortune.