ITALIAN LITERATURE

To prove knowledge and ability to understand the texts of Italian literature proposed during the course; to prove knowledge of the history of Italian literature from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. To show knowledge of the main critical and interpretative methodologies of the literary text and the ability to apply them, with philological and historical awareness.

To demonstrate having reached a reasonable level of autonomy of judgement in order to be able to approach a literary text in a methodologically aware manner.

To demonstrate having acquired the necessary communication skills both written (during in itinere tests) and oral and a good discipline-specific vocabulary.

Lectures and seminars.

Attendance is not compulsory.

The course offers in the first module an introductory-methodological approach to Italian Literature. The following modules offer a diachronic itinerary in Italian Literature from the 13th to the 16th century: the main authors and the most significant works of our literary history will be analysed, placing them appropriately in the historical period and in the literary and geographical context to which they belong. The proposed paths are chronological and divided as follows: from the origins to Dante; Petrarca and Boccaccio; Humanism and Renaissance.

Module A (1 ECTS)

An Introduction to the Study of Italian Literature and the History of Italian Literature

For the topics covering literary theory, Italian grammar and the history of the Italian language, metre and rhetoric, a PDF will be made available on Studium, taken from Manuale di italianistica, edited by V. Roda, Bononia University Press (80 pp.)

Module B (4 ECTS)

Medieval literature and Dante

 

Francesco d’Assisi, Laudes Creaturarum (2 pp.)                                                                      

Iacopone da Todi, O iubelo de core; O Segnor per cortesia; Quando t’alegri, omo d’altura; Donna de Paradiso (10 pp.)

Giacomo da Lentini, Amore è uno desio che ven da’ core; Meravigliosamente; Io m’aggio posto in core; A l’aire claro ò vista ploggia dare (6 pp.)

Iacopo Mostacci, Sollicitando un poco meo savere

Pier della Vigna, Però c’Amore non si po' vedere; (1 p.)

Guido Guinizzelli Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore; Io vogl(io) del ver la mia donna laudare (3 pp.)

Guido Cavalcanti, Donna me prega; Chi è questa che vèn, ch’ogn’om la mira; Voi che per li occhi mi passaste ‘l core; L’anima mia vilment’è sbigottita; Perch’i’ no spero di tornar giammai (7 pp.)

Cecco Angiolieri, Becchin’amor; Tre cose solamente m’ènno in grado; S’i’ fosse fuoco, ardereï ’l mondo (5 pp.)

 

Dante

Vita Nuova: capp. 1-4 (14 pp.), 10-11 (5 pp.) XVI (Spesse fiate vegnonmi alla mente) (2 pp.); capp. XVIII-XIX Donne ch’avete intelletto d’amore (11 pp.); XXI Ne li occhi porta la mia donna amore, (2 pp.); XXVI Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare (1 p.)

Commedia: Inf. I, V, X, XXIII; XXVI; Purg. XXIV; Parad. XXXIII

 

Module C (2 ECTS)

Modelling Literary Genres: Petrarca and Boccaccio

 

Petrarca, Canzoniere: 1, 3, 16, 61, 62, 65, 90, 92, 95, 125, 126, 128, 132, 134, 200, 220, 248, 250, 264, 272, 293, 300, 321, 365, 366 (30 pp.)

Secretum, End of the book: III 212 and sgg. (1 p.)

Boccaccio, Decameron: Proemio; Ser Cepparello (I 1); Andreuccio da Perugia (II 5); Introduzione alla IV giornata; Tancredi e Ghismunda (IV 1); Elisabetta da Messina (IV 5); Nastagio degli Onesti (V 8); Federigo degli Alberighi (V 9); Cisti fornaio (VI 2); Chichibio (VI 4); Giotto (VI 5); Frate Cipolla (VI 10); Il marchese di Saluzzo e Griselda (X 10), (90 pp. circa, a seconda delle edizioni).

Francesco Bausi, Leggere il «Decameron». Guide alle grandi opere, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 77-109 (32 pp.) (Studium)

 

Module D (2 CFU)

Humanities and Renaissance civilisation

 

Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando innamorato, II, 13 (17 pp.)

Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe: chapters I; V; VII; XII; XVII; XVIII; XXVI (13 pp.).

Francesco Guicciardini, Ricordi 1, 5, 6, 16, 24, 30, 33, 107, 109, 118, 160, 173, 189 (10 pp.)

Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso: I, XII, XXIII (91 pp.).

 

Nicola Gardini, Il Rinascimento, Torino, Einaudi, pp. 3-34 (31 pp.) (Studium)

For a historical-critical overview of Italian literature, we recommend:

A. Battistini (edited by), Letteratura italiana, vol. I, Dalle origini al Seicento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014: pp. 21-40; 57-65; 79-153; 165-190; 205-221; 223-226; 236-244; 251-266; 273-343; 387-410

For Dante’s Divina Commedia we recommend one of the following two editions: 1) edited by A.M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Mondadori; 2) edited by U. Bosco and G. Reggio, Le Monnier.

For Petrarca’s Canzoniere, we recommend the edition edited by Marco Santagata, Mondadori.

For Boccaccio’s Decameron, we recommend one of the following two editions: 1) edited by Vittore Branca, Mondadori; 2) edited by Quondam, Fiorilla, Alfano, BUR.

For Machiavelli’s Il Principe, we recommend one of the following two editions: 1) edited by Raffaele Ruggiero, BUR; 2) edited by Ugo Dotti, Feltrinelli.

For Guicciardini’s Ricordi, the edition edited by Mario Fubini, BUR, is recommended.

For Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, one of the following two editions is recommended: 1) edited by Cesare Segre, Mondadori; edited by Lanfranco Caretti, Einaudi.

For the other anthological texts, we recommend one of the following textbooks:

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

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

R. Luperini, P. Cataldi, L. Marchiani, F. Marchese, Il nuovo manuale di Letteratura.

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).

The teachers undertake, within the limits of the financial resources, to ensure as far as possible that a copy of the adopted texts is available in the departmental library or (in the case of hard-to-find texts, articles and essays) to make them available on Studium, in accordance with the applicable copyright laws.