The course is dedicated to the fundamentals of text criticism, a discipline that deals with the edition of ancient and medieval texts in the form closest to the original. Knowledge: Students will learn the methods and procedures of textual criticism, will know the history of the tradition of Provençal lyric poetry and will acquire basic skills on the Occitanic language, on Romance metrics and on rhetoric and stylistics. Application of knowledge and development of critical thinking: At the end of the course they will be able to illustrate and use the procedures that lead to the preparation of a critical edition starting from manuscript sources, they will also have the skills to critically analyze any type of literary text. Communication of knowledge: The workshop activity aimed at publishing a multimedia critical edition on a dedicated portal and the collective oral discussion of the works produced, will allow them to directly practice written and oral communication techniques. Self-learning: They will also deal directly with bibliographic and historical, linguistic and literary research tools, from which they will have to independently draw the information and knowledge useful for the preparation of the critical edition.