Project data

Funding entiy: Italian Ministry of University and Research

Call: PRIN 2017

Coordinator: SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE DI PISA

UNISI Principal Investigator: Monica Marchi 

Department: Philology and Literary Criticism

Start date: 20 January 2020 – End date: 19 Septembre 2024

 

Description

The project Re.Novella aims to reconstruct the defining features of the novella genre over the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth. Both collections of novellas and individual novellas circulating independently (the so-called “spicciolate”) in the vernacular and Latin will be the object of the research. Over and above a comprehensive survey of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century tradition of the Italian novella, the project’s main objective is to reflect the genre’s statute and diverse modulations compared with the ever-present model of Boccaccio’s «Decameron.» The census of the texts will lead to the construction of a database (Re.novella) containing basic information (author’s name, title, language, etc.) as well as more specific details (MS and/or print tradition, plot, characters, etc). These are meant to support the research of literary historians and the work of future scholars and editors of critical and annotated editions.

 

This project has received funding from Ministry of University and Research (MUR) – PRIN 2017