Italian Literature M - Z

1) Knowledge and understanding

Acquisition of the historical development of Italian literature from its origins to the 16th century

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

through direct reading of texts, commenting and interpreting the authors and texts of our literary tradition.

3) Autonomy of judgement

Consolidation of expository skills and aptitude for critical judgement.

4) Communicative skills

Expansion of vocabulary and sectorial terminology. Acquisition of in-depth notions of metrics and rhetoric.

5) Learning skills

Promotion of the autonomy of literary and, more generally, critical research.

Lectures.

Favouring the centrality of texts and a historicist perspective, authors and works will be analysed in the context of their cultural systems and geographical realities.

Attenda.nce is not compulsory

Within Italian literary history and its works, a number of thematic paths will be identified such as: Sacred love and profane love in the evolution of the medieval lyric form; norm and subversion in poems and treatises.

A.        Institutional and epistemological aspects of the discipline. The birth of vernacular literature (2 ECTS).

B.        Dante: literary theory and poetic practice (3 ECTS).

C.        Sacred and profane in Petrarch and Boccaccio (4 ECTS).

D.        The humanistic bet and the great season of Renaissance anthropocentrism (3 ECTS).

Module A (2 ECTS): Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana. Dalle origini al Quattrocento, Mondadori Università, pp. IX-LX e 3-110.

Anthology readings related to the following authors: Francesco d’Assisi, Iacopone da Todi, Giacomo da Lentini, Guido Guinizzelli, Guido Cavalcanti, Cecco Angiolieri.

Module B (3 ECTS): G. Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana. Dalle origini al Quattrocento, Mondadori Università, pp. 111-200.

Dante, Vita nuova: (cap. I, Proemio; cap. II; cap. XIX: Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore; cap. XXVI: Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare);

Divina Commedia. Reading and commentary on the following cantos: Inferno (canti I, III, V, XVI, XXIV); Purgatorio (canti I, III, VI, XXX, XXXIII); Paradiso (canti I, III, XI, XV, XXXIII). We recommend one of the following annotated editions of Divina Commedia (by U. Bosco e G. Reggio, Le Monnier; by di A.M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Mondadori; by E. Pasquini e A.E. Quaglio, Garzanti; a cura di G. Inglese, Carocci).

Module C (4 ECTS): G. Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana. Dalle origini al Quattrocento, Mondadori Università, pp. 201-496.

F. Petrarca, Canzoniere: 1, 2, 3, 61, 62, 90, 124, 126, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 292, 293, 366.

We recommend the edition edited by P. Vecchi Galli, Bur, 2012.

G. Boccaccio, Decameron (Proemio); day II, full reading; introduction to day IV; IV,1 (Tancredi e Ghismunda); IV,5 (Lisabetta da Messina); day X, full reading. We recommend the edition edited by A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, Bur, 2013.

 

Module D (3 ECTS): G. Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana. Dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Mondadori Università, pp. 3-250.

Anthology readings related to the following authors: Poliziano, Pulci, Boiardo, Sannazaro, Bembo, Guicciardini, Marino.

- N. Machiavelli, Il principe, Dedica, capitoli I, VI, VII, IX, XVI, XVIII, XXV, XXVI. Edizione consigliata: a cura di R. Ruggiero, Rizzoli, 2008.

- L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, canti I, IV, XII, XVIII, XXIII, XXXIV. We recommend the edition edited by L. Caretti, Einaudi, 1992; by C. Segre, Mondadori, 2006; by E. Bigi, Bur, 2012.

- T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, canti I, II, IV, VI, VII, XII, XVIII. We recommend the edition edited by L. Caretti, Einaudi, 2014; by M. Guglielminetti, Garzanti 2007; by F. Tomasi, Bur 2009.

 

For the anthology readings related to the various modules, we recommend:

- R. Luperini, P. Cataldi e L. Marchiani, Il nuovo La scrittura e l’interpretazione, Palumbo.

- G. Baldi, S. Giusso e M. Razetti, Testi e storia della letteratura, Paravia.

- C. Segre, C. Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Bruno Mondadori.

 

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