NARRAZIONI DI VIAGGIO E GEOGRAFIE LETTERARIE

The course aims to provide the acquisition of the knowledge, both in a historical-diachronic and stylistic-formal key, of topic moments and works concerning the thematic representation of the journey in the historical development of Italian literature. Moreover, at the end of the course, the student will be able to recognize the essential characteristics that connote the theme and its presence in the historical development of Italian literature, evaluating its formal characteristics, stylistic and symbolic.

Lectures. Reading and writing Lab. Students will work either individually and in group led by the teacher.

A) Methodological and foundational questions about the concepts of space, travel and geography in fictional literature (1 CFU).

B) Travelers and descriptions of real and ideal travels in Italian literature of thirteenth and fourteenth century: the exile, the pilgrim, the merchant, the stateless person (2 CFU).

C) The rediscovery of the antique and the discovery of new continents and ideal spaces in Italian literature between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries: chronicles from the past, chronicles from new worlds, utopias (2 CFU).

D) New models of travel and travelers in Italian letters at the origins of modernity (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries): Grand Tour, Bildungsroman, wandering and flânerie (2 CFU).

E) Vittorini and the initiation novel (2 CFU).

A) Methodological and foundational questions about the concepts of space, travel and geography in fictional literature (1 CFU).

Critical texts:

M. Bachtin, Le forme del tempo e del cronotopo nel romanzo, in Id., Estetica e romanzo, Torino, Einaudi, 1979, pp. 233-258, 293-313, 372-405;

M. Augé, Dai luoghi ai nonluoghi, in Id., Nonluoghi, Milano, Eleuthera, 1993, pp. 71-105;

B) Travelers and descriptions of real and ideal travels in Italian literature of thirteenth and fourteenth century: the exile, the pilgrim, the merchant, the stateless person (2 CFU).

Authors:

a. Marco Polo, Milione, reading the chapters XXVII-XXXI: pp. 89-95; cap LXXI, pp. 126-129; capp. CXXXVII-CXXXVIII pp. 241-246 (recommended edition by M. Ciccuto, Milano, Rizzoli, 2010);

b. Brunetto Latini, Tesoretto, vv. 113-282 (recommended edition by S. Carrai, Poesie, Torino, Einaudi, 2016)

c. Dante, Commedia, Inferno XXVI (recommended edition by A. Chiavacci Leonardi, Mondadori, Milano, 2016)

d. Petrarca, Familiares IV 1 (Lettera del Ventoso, in Petrarca, ed. by di L. Chines e M. Guerra, Milano, B. Mondadori, 2005, pp. 157-70);

e. Boccaccio, Decameron, Proemio e Introduzione generale; one short story chosen from: II 5 (Andreuccio da Perugia), II 7 (Alatiel), X 9 (Torello) (recommended edition by M. Veglia, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2020)

Critical texts:

f. G. Bertone, Lo sguardo escluso. L’idea di paesaggio nella letteratura occidentale, Interlinea, Novara, 2004, pp. 19-35, 42-86;

g. R. Morosini, Il mare salato. Il mediterraneo di Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio, Roma, Viella, 2020, pp. 174-241 or, chosen by the student, C. Tramontana, Guardare il passato dall’alto: Petrarca e l’ascesa del monte Ventoso, in Id., Vite immaginate, Lentini, 2019, pp. 23-48;

C) The rediscovery of the antique and the discovery of new continents and ideal spaces in Italian literature between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries: chronicles from the past, chronicles from new worlds, utopias (2 CFU).

Authors:

a. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto XXXIV (i viaggi di Astolfo); recommended edition by E. Bigi e C. Zampese, Milano, Rizzoli, 2012

b. Galilei, Lettere, Ricciardi, Milano-Napoli, 1953, pp. 69-84 (Lettera a Madama Cristina di Lorena Granduchessa di Toscana, 1615)

Critical texts:

c. N. Gardini, Il Rinascimento, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 81-107, 224-249, 254-270

d. Stephen Greenblatt, Il manoscritto. Come la riscoperta di un libro perduto cambiò la storia della cultura europea, Milano, Rizzoli, 2012 pp. 117-141; 161-185 or, chosen by the student, Attilio Brilli, Colonie immaginarie e colonie reali, in Id., Il grande racconto dei viaggi d’esplorazione, di conquista e di avventura, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015, pp. 513-536.

D) New models of travel and travelers in Italian letters at the origins of modernity (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries): Grand Tour, Bildungsroman, wandering and flânerie (2 CFU).

Authors:

Alfieri, Vita, Epoca III, capp. I-IX, XII: pp. 57-99, 104-113 (travels in Italy and in Europe); recommended edition by C. Forno, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2020.

Foscolo, an anthology from Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (Letters: Firenze, 25 settembre; Milano, 4 dicembre);

D’Annunzio, Il Piacere, libro I, capp. 1-2, pp. 8-58 (Andrea Sperelli e Roma).

Critical Texts:

Tellini, Storia del romanzo italiano, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2017, pp. 43-49, 79-91, 135-139, 251-255;

C. Tramontana, Benjamin a Parigi. L’angelo e il flâneur, in «Le forme e la storia», V, 2012, 2, pp. 147-163.

Brilli, Firenze congeda i venerandi fantasmi del passato, in Id., Il grande racconto delle città italiane, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016, 105-141.

E) Vittorini and the initiation novel (2 CFU).

E. Vittorini, Il garofano rosso, edition of your choice.

E. Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia, edition of your choice.

M. Paino, Ritorni vittoriniani, in Ead., Il moto immobile. Nostoi, sonni e sogni nella letteratura siciliana del ‘900, Pisa, ETS, pp. 11-37.

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