HISTORY OF LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

1) Development of the necessary skills to read, interpret and translate Latin prose texts and poems into Italian.

2) Improvement of the critical method on which the linguistic, philological, and literary analysis of Latin texts is based on, offering a definition of the main literary genres and movements.

3) Development of the skills for critical thinking to proceed autonomously to collect, select, and evaluate the information that will be used during the analysis, reading, and interpretation of Latin texts.

4) Improvement of the skills to use appropriately subject-specific words and the technical vocabulary.

5) Acquisition of excellent skills for reading and critical analysis of any Latin texts.

A) Basics (5 ECTS)

Basic knowledge of the History of Latin Literature is required, with special regard to the literary movements, literary genres, and main authors. Students can be use one of the following texts, already adopted in the course of Latin language and literature for Bachelor's Degree in Letters:

-        G. B. Conte, E. Pianezzola, Letteratura e cultura latina, Milano 2016, in 3 volumi: I. L’età arcaica e repubblicana (pp. 2-42; 92-108; 115-123; 165-166; 170-208; 267-270; 276-283; 338-346; 402-414; 474-487); II. L’età augustea (pp. 2-14; 15-32; 131-152; 226-239; 281-300; 360-368; 417-418); III. L’età imperiale (pp. 2-15; 17-19; 26-43; 113-123; 146-159; 189-201; 222-225; 228-231; 238-243; 273-279; 300-310; 319-335; 399-402; 415-426). Total number of pages: 362.

-        F. Ursini, A. Schiesaro, O. Portuese (et alii), Tua vivit imago. Letteratura latina per il triennio, Firenze 2022, in 3 volumi: 1. Età arcaica e repubblicana (pp. 52-63; 78-89; 94-95, 98-100; 105-107; 120-139; 220-235; 302-317; 338-349; 352-353; 362-378; 456-471; 536-572; 692-707; 770-785); 2. Età augustea (pp. 34-42; 46-76; 214-245; 366-375; 404-414; 436-463; 580-594); 3. Età imperiale (pp. 38-44; 47-48; 54-84; 180-189; 216-230; 292-299; 303-305; 308-310; 315-317; 332-343; 370-382; 414-424; 450-459; 488-506; 598-606; 614-626). Total number of pages: 467.

 

Reading of classical texts:

-        Cicero Orator 20. Suggested ed.: A.S. Wilkins, Oxonii 1903, pp. 19-20.

-        Virgil Aeneid 5, 387-460. Suggested ed.: M. Geymonat, Roma 2008², pp. 345-349.

-        Horace Satires 1, 5. Suggested ed.: F. Klingner, Lipsiae 1959³, pp. 181-185.

-        Propertius Elegies 4, 10. Suggested ed.: P. Fedeli, Stutgardiae 1984, pp. 271-275.

-        Quintilian Institutio oratoria 4, 2, 123-124; 8, 3, 61-70. Suggested ed.: L. Radermacher, Leipzig I 1965, p. 221; II 1971, pp. 92-94.

 

B) Detailed Studies (4 CFU)

The evidentia of the invisible: forms and functions of the ‘visual writing’ from the comedy to the epos.

-        Plautus Mostellaria 450-505. Suggested ed.: W.M. Lindsay, II, Oxonii 1905.

-        Ovid Metamorphoses 2, 760-811; 8, 780-851; 11, 592-748; 12, 39-63. Suggested ed.: W.S. Anderson, Leipzig 1982², pp. 50-51, 200-202, 271-276, 279-280.

 

Prosodic reading of the poetic texts listed in the programme is required. The following reference is recommended (elective/optional):

-        S. Boldrini, La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani, Torino 1992 (or Roma 2017), pp. 21-81; 109-116; 120-124.

-        L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina classica con cenni di metrica greca, Roma 2008, pp. 1-38; 40-41; 45; 68-69.

 

For an overall study of the history of the Latin language, the following book is highly recommended:

- F. Berardi, Le vie del latino. Storia della lingua latina con elementi di grammatica storica, seconda edizione riveduta e aggiornata, Galatina 2022, pp. 11-189.

 

Critical Essays

Knowledge of one of the following studies (elective/optional) is required:

-        G. Camassa – S. Fasce (a c. di), Idea e realtà del viaggio. Il viaggio nel mondo antico, Genova 1991, pp. 10-105.

-        A. Manieri, L’immagine poetica nella teoria degli antichi: phantasia ed enargeia, Pisa 1998, pp. 1-154.

-        G. Petrone, Plauto, in Ead. (a c. di), Storia del teatro latino, Roma 2020, pp. 111-148; 179-180.

-        Ch. Segal, Ovidio e la poesia del mito. Saggi sulle Metamorfosi, Venezia 1991, pp. 5-100.

-        R. Raffaelli, A. Tontini (a c. di), Lecturae plautinae sarsinates XIII. Mostellaria, Urbino 2010, pp. 1-128

-        A. Solbach, Evidentia und Erzähltheorie: die Rhetorik anschaulichen Erzählens in der Frühmoderne und ihre antiken Quellen, München 1994, pp. 1-167.

 

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.