Ricerc@Sapienza

Obiettivo principale del progetto è l’allestimento di edizioni critiche, dotate di commenti scientific,i di alcuni dei più importanti e  culturalmente connotati libri di poesia, in volgare e in latino, del Quattrocento settentrionale

The research group of Rome “La Sapienza” is rethinking a fundamental set of lexical lists, grammars – which are essential to stare at otherwise unattainable linguistic developments through the indirect lens they make available to us. The first line of investigation concerns the Appendix Probi studied as a source for an indirect reconstruction of mainly phonetic developments making inroads in Vulgar Latin.

The research group of Roma Sapienza, PI of a funded national project PRIN 2017, investigates phonological developments suspected or evidenced by heterographs, bi- and tri-lingual texts, lexical borrowings, with regard to Greek for the eastern Mediterranean area and Latin for the southern Mediterranean. Accordingly, the following issues are investigated:

The project originates from the awareness of a general change of the theoretic framework of literature, especially of narration, which has taken place in the last years. The trans-disciplinary dimension, in addition to the transnational dimension, is another determining factor that has caused a re-positioning of the specificity of literature within a wider cultural space, with which it interacts.