ROMANCE CULTURE AND VISUAL STUDIES

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: GAETANO LALOMIA

Expected Learning Outcomes

In application of the Dublin descriptors:

1) Knowledge and understanding: knowing cultural phenomena from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary; understanding the processes of cultural transmission.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: be able to apply a method analyzing the relationship between word and image to any text and understand artistic phenomena through the methods of visual culture even on new and unfamiliar objects.

3) Making judgments: being able to integrate knowledge and manage complex phenomena by formulating coherent judgements.

4) Communication skills: develop the ability to communicate with appropriate and specific language.

5) Learning skills: studying in a largely self-directed and autonomous way

Course Structure

Lectures

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

[A] Concepts of romance and visual culture

[B] Reading the Dante’s Inferno by words and visual arts

Textbook Information

[A] Concepts of romance and visual culture

-       P.G. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, il Mulino, Bologna, 2017, pp. 85-89 e 121-122 (il materiale sarà caricato su Studium).

-       Pinotti e A. Somaini, Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi media dispositivi, Einaudi, Torino, 2016, pp. 3-45 (il materiale sarà caricato su Studium).

-       O. Pächt, La miniatura medievale. Una introduzione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2013 (pp. 15-122; 156-163).

-       M. Cometa, Descrizioni, in Id., La scrittura delle immagini. Letteratura e cultura visuale, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2012, pp. 11-166.

 

[B] Reading the Dante’s Inferno by words and visual arts:

-       (pp. 17-29 ; 37-50 ; 80-85 ; 87-94 ; 155-175 ; 186-192).

-       «Noi leggiavamo…». Fortuna iconografica e rimediazioni visuali dell’episodio di Paolo e Francesca fra XIX e XXI secolo, a cura di Gaetano Lalomia e Giovanna Rizzarelli, «Arabeschi», 22 galleria fotografica, (http://www.arabeschi.it/collection/noi-leggiavamo-fortuna-iconografica-e-rimediazioni-visuali-dellepisodio-di-paolo-francesca-fra-xix-xxi-secolo/).

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

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