Marian Papahagi e la romanistica: la tesi di laurea con Aurelio Roncaglia.

Marian Papahagi (1948-1999) was a prominent figure in Romanian academia, a most refined translator, a pugnacious critic, the author of trailblazing theoretical essays, and a formidable cultural organiser. Most know him for his work as an italianist. Few know that the crucial stages of the journey that shaped him as a scholar are characterised by an important phase of specialised training in the area of Neo-Latin literatures. Papahagi arrived in Rome as a twenty-year-old, and he spent there four very productive years (1968-1972), graduating in Romance Philology at "La Sapienza" University under the guidance of a great master such as Aurelio Roncaglia. His dissertation, Aspetti blasfemi nella poesia romanza delle origini ("Blasphemous aspects of early romance poetry"), is a vast monograph (456 machine-typed pages) that has never been published in its whole or partially re-utilised in subsequent works by the scholar. This paper aims to reconstruct the environment and the spirit of Papahagi's period in Rome, as well as to provide a critical and analytical account of his unpublished dissertation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]