Armando Petrucci professore in Normale

Abstract

The following article analyses the figure of Armando Petrucci as a professor on the basis of the author’s individual experience, as well as the programme of courses held at the Scuola Normale. It emphasises the deep connection between Petrucci’s methodology and approach as a researcher and those of Petrucci as a ‘teacher’. In particular, the author dwells on the interpretation of palaeography as a ‘total’ discipline, a discipline understood, as Petrucci himself wrote, «as a historically philological and historically philological discipline à part entière».