Progetto: Digital Lemmatized Edition of Prose 2 (Franco-Italian prosification of Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie)

Acronimo: ARODIGI

Tipologia: Standard European Fellowships

Codice progetto: 886478

Durata: 01/02/2021-31/01/2023

Supervisore scientifico: prof.ssa Francesca Gambino

Abstract:
EN - The project aims to produce a lemmatized diplomatic digital edition of a hitherto unpublished text of the Franco-Italian Middle Ages, the second mise en prose of Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie or Prose 2 (ante 1289). The interest of Prose 2 lies, among other things, in being an original French text written in Italy (Veneto). It is therefore a particularly significant witness of the Franco-Italian textual and linguistic galaxy, which has seen a renewed interest over the past decade, especially with regard to the contribution made by Italian scribes in the spread of medieval French literature. Finally, from the point of view of cultural history, Prose 2 is a key component of the Italian reception of the Trojan narrative, a complex panorama that is still being defined in detail. From this perspective, the Paduan-Venetian region between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries shows a singular receptivity: several cities, primarily Venice and Padua, endorse a mythology of origins entirely based on the world of Trojan heroes. As Trojan history becomes integrated into urban historiography, this “familiarity with the ancient” contributes to the later emergence of a cultural attitude known as “Veneto pre-humanism”. The typology of the proposed edition is a digital diplomatic edition allowing the manipulation of the text for the purposes of linguistic analysis, in particular lemmatization, and the creation of a dictionary of Prose 2, to be also included in the DiFrI-Dictionary of the Franco-Italian, a project based at Padua University. With respect to her background as a researcher, this fellowship will have a crucial impact on the career of the applicant, offering concrete possibilities to attain an academic position. The activities planned during this two-year fellowship (organization of two workshop and one international conference) will allow to significantly bolster her CV, whose key strength is currently represented by individual research activity.

Ricercatrice: dott.ssa Marta Materni

Progetto: The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction

Acronimo: EcoSF

Tipologia: Global Fellowships

Codice progetto: 890656

Durata: 01/10/2020-30/09/2023

Supervisore scientifico: prof. Alessandro Metlica

Abstract:
EN - EcoSF investigates the prominence and distinctive representation of ecological issues in Italian science fiction (1952-2019). The project, which provides one of the very first extensive academic studies dedicated to this genre in Italy, examines the debate surrounding its cultural status and traces its evolution in relation to Italian history and culture.
An ecocritical perspective is adopted, interrogating the relationship between literary imagination and the environment. Through such approach, EcoSF shows how literature is important to generate awareness of ecological issues and explore literary responses to the current ecological crisis.
The cognitive estrangement raised by the imaginative effort of science fiction is central to the necessary re-thinking of current cultural and epistemological paradigms based on anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism, and ecophobia. Furthermore, by interrogating our current relationship with the environment, and imagining known environments after ecological catastrophes, science fiction can provide a tool to investigate our cultural heritage.
Combining the innovative critical tools of ecocriticism and the speculative imagination of science fiction, EcoSF offers an alternative genealogy of our understanding of the environment outside an ecophobic perspective. The dissemination of the research will adapt dystopian imagination to the case of Venice, thus employing the theoretical categories of the project to reflect on local communities and landscapes.

Ricercatore: dott. Marco Malvestio