Italian Literature
A.Y. 2019/2020
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with a critical knowledge of the main elements of the Italian literary system, from the Origins to the Seventeenth century, following the tradition and development of models, themes, forms.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student must know the fundamental aspects and issues of Italian literature from the Origins to the Seventeenth century, with a proper historic contextualization and specific reference to genres, themes and poetics, authors and works, methods of transmission of texts and their philological problems. Furthermore, the student will have to know the tools (metric elements, rhetoric, style theory and narratology) and the critical methodologies necessary to analyse and interpret the texts.
The student will then have to demonstrate the ability to understand and analyse literary texts (in their thematic and formal aspects), framing them in their respective contexts. Likewise, the student must demonstrate competence in the comprehension and use of literary essays, ability to identify the bibliography and to make use of the main tools of bibliographic resources, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and correctly, both in oral and written presentation, with appropriate use of scientific terminology.
The student will then have to demonstrate the ability to understand and analyse literary texts (in their thematic and formal aspects), framing them in their respective contexts. Likewise, the student must demonstrate competence in the comprehension and use of literary essays, ability to identify the bibliography and to make use of the main tools of bibliographic resources, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and correctly, both in oral and written presentation, with appropriate use of scientific terminology.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
(A-D)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Tools and texts of Italian literature (60 hours, 9 cfu)
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with A-D.
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Boccaccio's Decameron in its formal and cultural context
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with A-D.
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Boccaccio's Decameron in its formal and cultural context
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission. Nevertheless, a good high-school background is the ideal prerequisite for the course, which, however, is also thought to amend shortcomings.
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching Resources
Texts to be studied in teaching units A and B will be available on Ariel (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici) prior to the beninning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel and bring it to each lesson. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori).
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Bibliograpy and program for non-attending students:
Teaching unit A
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit B
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit C
Text:
- G. Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di V. Branca, voll. 2, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
or
- G. Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, Milano, Bur, 2013
Teaching unit C:
Non-attending students will study:
- F. Bausi, Leggere il Decameron, Bologna il Mulino, 2017
- L. Surdich, Boccaccio, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori).
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Bibliograpy and program for non-attending students:
Teaching unit A
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit B
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit C
Text:
- G. Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di V. Branca, voll. 2, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
or
- G. Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, Milano, Bur, 2013
Teaching unit C:
Non-attending students will study:
- F. Bausi, Leggere il Decameron, Bologna il Mulino, 2017
- L. Surdich, Boccaccio, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of a preliminary written test on the teaching units A and B and an oral test on the teaching unit C; both are aimed at ascertaining students' knowledge of the bibliography.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2020; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2020; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
(E-N)
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Tools and texts of Italian literature (60 hours, 9 cfu)
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century to early XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): I promessi sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with E-N.
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Manzoni's "I promessi sposi".
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century to early XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): I promessi sposi by Alessandro Manzoni
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with E-N.
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Manzoni's "I promessi sposi".
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission. Nevertheless, a good high-school background is the ideal prerequisite for the course, which, however, is also thought to amend shortcomings.
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects.
In teaching unit C, through the analysis of the commented edition of "Promessi sposi", of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature will be studied within its rhetorical structure and in its cultural, social and political context.
All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects.
In teaching unit C, through the analysis of the commented edition of "Promessi sposi", of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature will be studied within its rhetorical structure and in its cultural, social and political context.
All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching Resources
Texts to be studied in teaching units A and B will be available on Ariel (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici) prior to the beninning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel and bring it to each lesson. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori; Luperini-Cataldi-Marchiani-Marchese, Il nuovo manuale di letteratura, Palumbo, Palermo). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
For a general introduction to the issues of Italian literary history, students (especially non-attending) can also use:
- Loredana Chines, Carlo Varotti, Che cos'è un testo letterario, Carocci, Rome;
- Giulio Ferroni, Prima lezione di letteratura italiana, Laterza, Roma-Bari.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Bibliograpy and program for non-attending students:
Teaching unit A
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit B
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit C
Text: Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, a cura di Francesco de Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014.
An overall knowledge of the work through paratext (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required.
Furthermore, the students will have to study:
1. The introduction and the apparatus of notes to the edition;
2. Pierantonio Frare, Leggere i promessi sposi, il Mulino, Bologna 2016;
3. Four of the following essays:
- Matteo Palumbo, I Promessi Sposi o il romanzo etico in Id., Il romanzo italiano da Foscolo a Svevo, Carocci, Roma 2007, pp. 23-36;
- Daniela Brogi, "I Promessi Sposi" come romanzo storico, "Moderna", 2006, 1-2, pp. 93-112;
- Valter Boggione, Natura e cultura nei "Promessi sposi", "Rivista di studi manzoniani", 2018, 2, pp. 11-51;
- Guglielmo Barucci, L'ingresso nella città stravolta: pane, idee e violenza in «Promessi sposi» XI-XII, Rivista di studi manzoniani", 2019, 3, pp. 71-92;
- Monica Bisi, Il torto, la ragione, la forza: "I promessi sposi", capitolo II, "Per leggere", 2018, 34, pp. 69-99.
- Erminia Ardissino, L'orazione funebre per il cardinale Federico e la manzoniana "Vita", "Testo", 2000, 40, pp. 93-105;
- Luciano Parisi, L'umorismo di Manzoni, "Italian studies", 2002, 57, pp. 75-96;
- Gianmarco Gaspari, Il romanzo tra narrazione e storia: aggiornamenti sul caso Manzoni, "Critica letteraria", 2018, 4, pp. 703-715.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori; Luperini-Cataldi-Marchiani-Marchese, Il nuovo manuale di letteratura, Palumbo, Palermo). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
For a general introduction to the issues of Italian literary history, students (especially non-attending) can also use:
- Loredana Chines, Carlo Varotti, Che cos'è un testo letterario, Carocci, Rome;
- Giulio Ferroni, Prima lezione di letteratura italiana, Laterza, Roma-Bari.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Bibliograpy and program for non-attending students:
Teaching unit A
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit B
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit C
Text: Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, a cura di Francesco de Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014.
An overall knowledge of the work through paratext (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required.
Furthermore, the students will have to study:
1. The introduction and the apparatus of notes to the edition;
2. Pierantonio Frare, Leggere i promessi sposi, il Mulino, Bologna 2016;
3. Four of the following essays:
- Matteo Palumbo, I Promessi Sposi o il romanzo etico in Id., Il romanzo italiano da Foscolo a Svevo, Carocci, Roma 2007, pp. 23-36;
- Daniela Brogi, "I Promessi Sposi" come romanzo storico, "Moderna", 2006, 1-2, pp. 93-112;
- Valter Boggione, Natura e cultura nei "Promessi sposi", "Rivista di studi manzoniani", 2018, 2, pp. 11-51;
- Guglielmo Barucci, L'ingresso nella città stravolta: pane, idee e violenza in «Promessi sposi» XI-XII, Rivista di studi manzoniani", 2019, 3, pp. 71-92;
- Monica Bisi, Il torto, la ragione, la forza: "I promessi sposi", capitolo II, "Per leggere", 2018, 34, pp. 69-99.
- Erminia Ardissino, L'orazione funebre per il cardinale Federico e la manzoniana "Vita", "Testo", 2000, 40, pp. 93-105;
- Luciano Parisi, L'umorismo di Manzoni, "Italian studies", 2002, 57, pp. 75-96;
- Gianmarco Gaspari, Il romanzo tra narrazione e storia: aggiornamenti sul caso Manzoni, "Critica letteraria", 2018, 4, pp. 703-715.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The course will be taught through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects.
In teaching unit C, through the analysis of the commented edition of "Promessi sposi", of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature will be studied within its rhetorical structure and in its cultural, social and political context.
All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects.
In teaching unit C, through the analysis of the commented edition of "Promessi sposi", of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature will be studied within its rhetorical structure and in its cultural, social and political context.
All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
(O-Z)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Tools and texts of Italian literature (60 hours, 9 cfu)
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Aminta by Torquato Tasso
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with O-Z-
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Torquato Tasso's Aminta in its formal and cultural context.
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Aminta by Torquato Tasso
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with O-Z-
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Torquato Tasso's Aminta in its formal and cultural context.
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission. Nevertheless, a good high-school background is the ideal prerequisite for the course, which, however, is also thought to amend shortcomings.
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching Resources
Texts to be studied in teaching units A and B will be available on Ariel (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici) prior to the beninning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel and bring it to each lesson. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Teaching unit C
Text:
Torquato Tasso, Aminta, introduction and comment by Marco Corradini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
A useful help to contextualize the text can be:
C. Gigante, La favola pastorale: Aminta, in Id., Tasso, Roma, Salerno ed., 2007, pp. 95-123
Furthermore, the students will have to study:
1. The introduction and the apparatus of notes to the edition.
2. Two of the following essays.
a) A. Andrisano, Il Satiro dell'Aminta e la sua tradizione classica in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 357-371
b) N. Borsellino, S'ei piace, ei lice. Sull'utopia erotica dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, a cura di G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 957-970
c) A. Corsaro, Inquietudini filosofiche del Tasso. In margine ad una rilettura dell'Aminta in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 249-277
d) F. Croce, La teatralità dell'Aminta, in M. Chiabò e F. Doglio (ed. by), Sviluppi della drammaturgia pastorale nell'Europa del Cinque-Seicento, Viterbo, Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1992, 131-157
e) F. Cruciani, Percorsi critici verso la prima rappresentazione dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso tra letteratura musica teatro e arti figurative, Bologna, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1985, 179-192
f) A. Di Benedetto, L'Aminta e la pastorale cinquecentesca in Italia, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, a cura di G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 1121-1149
g) E. Graziosi, Travestirsi per riconoscersi: Aminta e la corte estense in R. Girardi (a cura di), Travestimenti. Mondi immaginari e scrittura nell'Europa delle corti, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2009, pp. 157-182
h) H. Grosser, Aminta: lo stile della pastorale in Il merito e la cortesia. Torquato Tasso e la Corte dei Della Rovere, a cura di G. Arbizzoni, G. Cerboni Baiardi et alii, Pesaro, il Lavoro editoriale, 1999, pp. 237-271
i) S. Morando, Un'ipotesi di lavoro per Aminta, favola dell'amor humano nella Ferrara dei figli illegittimi in La tradizione della favola pastorale in Italia, a cura di A. Beniscelli, M. Chiarla, S. Morando, Clueb 2016, 179-204
l) S. Zatti, Natura e potere nell'Aminta, in Studi di filologia e letteratura offerti a Franco Croce, Roma, Bulzoni, 1997, 131-147
Students are required to take the exam with a written list of chosen texts.
Bibliograpy and program for non-attending students:
Teaching unit A
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit B
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit C
Text:
Torquato Tasso, Aminta, introduction and comment by Marco Corradini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015
An overall knowledge of the work through paratext (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required;
Non-attending students will study:
1. The introduction and the apparatus of notes to the edition.
2. C. Gigante, La favola pastorale: Aminta, in Id., Tasso, Roma, Salerno ed., 2007, pp. 95-123
3. Five of the following essays:
a) A. Andrisano, Il Satiro dell'Aminta e la sua tradizione classica in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 357-371
b) N. Borsellino, S'ei piace, ei lice. Sull'utopia erotica dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, edited by G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 957-970
c) A. Corsaro, Inquietudini filosofiche del Tasso. In margine ad una rilettura dell'Aminta in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 249-277
d) F. Croce, La teatralità dell'Aminta, in M. Chiabò e F. Doglio (edited bbìy), Sviluppi della drammaturgia pastorale nell'Europa del Cinque-Seicento, Viterbo, Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1992, 131-157
e) F. Cruciani, Percorsi critici verso la prima rappresentazione dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso tra letteratura musica teatro e arti figurative, Bologna, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1985, 179-192
f) A. Di Benedetto, L'Aminta e la pastorale cinquecentesca in Italia, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, edited by G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 1121-1149
g) E. Graziosi, Travestirsi per riconoscersi: Aminta e la corte estense in R. Girardi (edited by), Travestimenti. Mondi immaginari e scrittura nell'Europa delle corti, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2009, pp. 157-182
h) H. Grosser, Aminta: lo stile della pastorale in Il merito e la cortesia. Torquato Tasso e la Corte dei Della Rovere, edited by G. Arbizzoni, G. Cerboni Baiardi et alii, Pesaro, il Lavoro editoriale, 1999, pp. 237-271
i) S. Morando, Un'ipotesi di lavoro per Aminta, favola dell'amor humano nella Ferrara dei figli illegittimi in La tradizione della favola pastorale in Italia, edited by A. Beniscelli, M. Chiarla, S. Morando, Clueb 2016, 179-204
l) S. Zatti, Natura e potere nell'Aminta, in Studi di filologia e letteratura offerti a Franco Croce, Roma, Bulzoni, 1997, 131-147
Students are required to take the exam with a written list of chosen texts.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Teaching unit C
Text:
Torquato Tasso, Aminta, introduction and comment by Marco Corradini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
A useful help to contextualize the text can be:
C. Gigante, La favola pastorale: Aminta, in Id., Tasso, Roma, Salerno ed., 2007, pp. 95-123
Furthermore, the students will have to study:
1. The introduction and the apparatus of notes to the edition.
2. Two of the following essays.
a) A. Andrisano, Il Satiro dell'Aminta e la sua tradizione classica in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 357-371
b) N. Borsellino, S'ei piace, ei lice. Sull'utopia erotica dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, a cura di G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 957-970
c) A. Corsaro, Inquietudini filosofiche del Tasso. In margine ad una rilettura dell'Aminta in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 249-277
d) F. Croce, La teatralità dell'Aminta, in M. Chiabò e F. Doglio (ed. by), Sviluppi della drammaturgia pastorale nell'Europa del Cinque-Seicento, Viterbo, Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1992, 131-157
e) F. Cruciani, Percorsi critici verso la prima rappresentazione dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso tra letteratura musica teatro e arti figurative, Bologna, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1985, 179-192
f) A. Di Benedetto, L'Aminta e la pastorale cinquecentesca in Italia, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, a cura di G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 1121-1149
g) E. Graziosi, Travestirsi per riconoscersi: Aminta e la corte estense in R. Girardi (a cura di), Travestimenti. Mondi immaginari e scrittura nell'Europa delle corti, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2009, pp. 157-182
h) H. Grosser, Aminta: lo stile della pastorale in Il merito e la cortesia. Torquato Tasso e la Corte dei Della Rovere, a cura di G. Arbizzoni, G. Cerboni Baiardi et alii, Pesaro, il Lavoro editoriale, 1999, pp. 237-271
i) S. Morando, Un'ipotesi di lavoro per Aminta, favola dell'amor humano nella Ferrara dei figli illegittimi in La tradizione della favola pastorale in Italia, a cura di A. Beniscelli, M. Chiarla, S. Morando, Clueb 2016, 179-204
l) S. Zatti, Natura e potere nell'Aminta, in Studi di filologia e letteratura offerti a Franco Croce, Roma, Bulzoni, 1997, 131-147
Students are required to take the exam with a written list of chosen texts.
Bibliograpy and program for non-attending students:
Teaching unit A
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit B
For teaching units A and B, the program is the same as for attending students.
Teaching unit C
Text:
Torquato Tasso, Aminta, introduction and comment by Marco Corradini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015
An overall knowledge of the work through paratext (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required;
Non-attending students will study:
1. The introduction and the apparatus of notes to the edition.
2. C. Gigante, La favola pastorale: Aminta, in Id., Tasso, Roma, Salerno ed., 2007, pp. 95-123
3. Five of the following essays:
a) A. Andrisano, Il Satiro dell'Aminta e la sua tradizione classica in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 357-371
b) N. Borsellino, S'ei piace, ei lice. Sull'utopia erotica dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, edited by G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 957-970
c) A. Corsaro, Inquietudini filosofiche del Tasso. In margine ad una rilettura dell'Aminta in Torquato Tasso e l'università, edited by W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 249-277
d) F. Croce, La teatralità dell'Aminta, in M. Chiabò e F. Doglio (edited bbìy), Sviluppi della drammaturgia pastorale nell'Europa del Cinque-Seicento, Viterbo, Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1992, 131-157
e) F. Cruciani, Percorsi critici verso la prima rappresentazione dell'Aminta, in Torquato Tasso tra letteratura musica teatro e arti figurative, Bologna, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1985, 179-192
f) A. Di Benedetto, L'Aminta e la pastorale cinquecentesca in Italia, in Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, edited by G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 1121-1149
g) E. Graziosi, Travestirsi per riconoscersi: Aminta e la corte estense in R. Girardi (edited by), Travestimenti. Mondi immaginari e scrittura nell'Europa delle corti, Bari, Edizioni di Pagina, 2009, pp. 157-182
h) H. Grosser, Aminta: lo stile della pastorale in Il merito e la cortesia. Torquato Tasso e la Corte dei Della Rovere, edited by G. Arbizzoni, G. Cerboni Baiardi et alii, Pesaro, il Lavoro editoriale, 1999, pp. 237-271
i) S. Morando, Un'ipotesi di lavoro per Aminta, favola dell'amor humano nella Ferrara dei figli illegittimi in La tradizione della favola pastorale in Italia, edited by A. Beniscelli, M. Chiarla, S. Morando, Clueb 2016, 179-204
l) S. Zatti, Natura e potere nell'Aminta, in Studi di filologia e letteratura offerti a Franco Croce, Roma, Bulzoni, 1997, 131-147
Students are required to take the exam with a written list of chosen texts.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of a preliminary written test on the teaching units A and B and an oral test on the teaching unit C; both are aimed at ascertaining students' knowledge of the bibliography.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2020; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2020; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
Office hours: wednesday 15.00-18.00, by appointment only. Nevertheless, due to multiple administrative tasks, appointments could be given in other days.
Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics; sector Modern Philology, 1st floor, via Francesco Sforza