Medioevo e contemporaneità. Metodo/metodi, consapevolezza e coscienza del filologo

Philology should be considered as an art, more than a science. However, this does not in any way diminish its value which, along with meaning, is actually increased. An art that requires a vast and diversified scientific contribution. A philology that is true to itself cannot be reduced to the mere praxis of the critical edition (still the prerogative and duty of the philologist however), but must open itself to interpretation, in a dialectical and collaborative relationship with, for example, literary theory or anthropology. So that it becomes mankind’s modern-day and critically accountable mental habitus.

Keywords: Interpretation, Textual Criticism, Link Philology-Theory-Textuality