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ITALIAN LITERATURE

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: CARMELO TRAMONTANA

Expected Learning Outcomes

The learning objectives can be divided according to specific knowledge, skills and abilities, acquired gradually during and possessed by the student with confidence at the end of the course. The main objective is the broad and solid knowledge of the most important authors, works and cultural processes of Italian literature between the Origins (13th century) and the 19th century. To this disciplinary knowledge, expressed both in a historical-diachronic and formal-stylistic key, in the latter case with particular reference to the essential characteristics of the literary genres studied, must be added the understanding of the mechanisms that govern the transmission over time of forms, uses, stylistic features, literary themes. At the end of the course the student will have acquired the ability to combine solid historical-cultural knowledge relating to Italian literature between the 13th and 19th centuries with an increased autonomy of judgement, historically and philologically founded, regarding the literary works indicated in the program as the object of specific study. At the end of the course, the student will be able to express all the knowledge and skills acquired through communication skills appropriately encouraged and trained in lessons, characterized by logical clarity, expressive effectiveness, appropriate use of technical language.

Course Structure

Lectures; reading and critical commentary of the literary texts covered by the course, with a workshop approach

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

Mod. A (1 ECTS): Historiographical and methodological problems of the Italian Literature

Mod. B (4 ECTS): The classical age of Italian literature and the seventeenth century (outlines and texts of Italian literature from the Origins to Tasso)

Mod. C (4 ECTS): The age of Enlightenment and nineteenth-century modernity (outlines and texts of Italian literature from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century)

Textbook Information

Mod. A (1 ECTS):

Historiographical and methodological problems in the study of the Italian Literature

Textbook

  1. C. Segre, Generi, in Avviamento all’analisi del testo letterario, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 230-259
  2. B. Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2014, pp. 3-54, pp. 121-155

 

Mod. B (4 ECTS):

The classical age of Italian literature and the seventeenth century (outlines and texts of Italian literature from the Origins to Tasso)

Texbook

1        A. Casadei – M. Santagata, Manuale di Letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Bari-Roma, 2007, Laterza, pp. 27-69; pp.140-150; pp. 191-214; pp. 277-312;

2        Natascia Tonelli, Leggere il Canzoniere, Bologna, Mulino, 2017; pp. 25-75

3        Sergio Cristaldi, Dante, Ulisse e il richiamo del lontano, in Le Forme e la Storia, IX, 2016, 2, pp. 263-299;

4        C. Tramontana, Carte e amanti, in Legato con amore in un volume. Forme del desiderio in Dante, Lecce-Brescia, Multimedia, 2019, pp. 199-263;

5        C. Tramontana, Il contagio e la parola: potere della letteratura nel Decameron, in Il contagio e la parola onesta. Interpretare Boccaccio, Napoli, Loffredo, 2021, pp. 11-72;

 

Readings of classical masterpieces

The student will read in full two of the following texts or lists of texts, of his choice:

  1. Dante, Inferno (entire song)
  2. Petrarca, Canzoniere (a choice of 20 compositions; the list will be provided in class)
  3. Boccaccio, Proemio, Introduzione e Prima giornata (from Decameron);
  4. Machiavelli, Il Principe or la Mandragola;
  5. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (lettura integrale) or Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata (lettura integrale)

 

Mod. C (4 ECTS):

The age of Enlightenment and nineteenth-century modernity (outlines and texts of Italian literature from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century

 

Textbook

1.      A. Casadei – M. Santagata, Manuale di Letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Bari-Roma, 2007, Laterza, pp. 352-374; pp. 439-464; pp. 519-535;

2.      A. Manganaro, Verga, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno, 2011, pp. 57-110;

3.      C. Tramontana, Margini del reale. Fantasticherie, sogni, ossessioni: Balzac/Verga, in G. Alfieri, G. Longo, A. Manganaro (a cura di), Verga nel realismo europeo ed extraeuropeo, Catania-Leonforte, Fondazione Verga-Euno Edizioni, 2023, pp. 197-215

4.       

Readings of classical masterpieces

The student will read in full two of the following texts or lists of texts, of his choice:

  1. Foscolo, Sonetti oppure Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
  2. Leopardi, Canti
  3. Manzoni, Promessi Sposi
  1. Verga, Malavoglia oppure Vita dei campi

 

  • For the general profile of the authors covered by the course and treated in lessons, we recommend A. Casadei – M. Santagata, Manual of Medieval and Modern Italian Literature, Bari-Rome, 2007 Laterza
  • A brief selection of anthological pieces by the authors covered in modules B and C (Francesco d'Assisi, Giacomo da Lentini, Guinizzelli, Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Ariosto, Tasso, Marino, Galilei, Parini, Goldoni, Alfieri, P. Verri, Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi) will be made available to students and will be an integral part of the study program together with the chosen classics;
  • The list of reference editions for the classics indicated in modules C and D will be made available to stud
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