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Teacher
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CARDARELLI Francesco maria
(syllabus)
The paleographic terminology. Media and writing tools (brush and scratch writing on plaster, wax tablets, papyrus, scroll and codex, parchment, paper). The paleographic transcription.
The first phase of writing: from its origins to Late Antiquity. The archaic Latin alphabet. The Epigraphic Capital. The uppercase cursive with scratch and quill. The Roman Book Capital. The origins of the Minuscule. The New Roman Cursive. The Uncial. The Semi-Uncial. The Chanceries scripts. Punctuation and abbreviations in the Roman Age. The “Nomina Sacra”.
The second phase of writing: origins and development of graphic particularism in the Early Middle Ages. The Insular scripts. The Merovingian minuscule. The Visigothic. Early medieval writings in Italy. The Papal Curial (Chancery) script. The Beneventan script. The abbreviation system in the Middle Age.
The third phase of writing: the return to the unity of writing in the High Middle Age. The Caroline minuscule. The “Romanesca” minuscule. The Diplomatic minuscule.
The fourth phase of writing: the Gothic era. The Transition minuscule. The “Littera textualis” and the “Litterae scholasticae”. The “Cancelleresca” minuscule. The Merchant script. The French Bastard.
The fifth phase of writing: the reaction to Gothic writing and the scripts of Humanism and Renaissance. Francesco Petrarca and the Semi-gothic. Coluccio Salutati and the “Pre-antiqua”. Poggio Bracciolini and the “Antiqua” or Humanistic minuscule. Niccolò Niccoli and the Humanistic cursive. The Semi-gothic cursive scripts (“Semigotiche delle carte”). The Humanistic Epigraphical Capital. Handwriting in Italy after the invention and diffusion of printing: “Antiqua tonda” and “Italica”.
(reference books)
- Armando Petrucci, “Breve storia della scrittura latina”, Roma, Bagatto Libri, 1992.
- Paolo Cherubini, “La scrittura latina: storia, forme, usi”, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2019.
- Lecture notes and palaeography tables distributed during lessons and exercises. Many tables are taken from: “Paleografia latina. Tavole”, edited by Paolo Cherubini, Alessandro Pratesi, Città del Vaticano, Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica, 2004.
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