Italian Literature
A.Y. 2020/2021
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: First 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-De
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
All lessons will be held online.
The lessons of parts A, B and C (held by Prof. Baldassari) will take place in mainly asynchronous mode.
The lessons of part D (held by Prof. Ravera) will be divided between asynchronous and synchronous mode.
All lessons, including synchronous ones, will be recorded and made available on the Ariel website of the course.
All lessons can be downloaded or will take place at the same time scheduled for lessons in presence.
Students will be able to find all the information to access the lessons (links etc.) and any notices on the Ariel teaching site.
The first lesson of each teacher will be held in synchronous mode, through the Microsoft Teams platform, and will be dedicated to explain the objectives and the method adopted in teaching, to illustrate the reference material for the preparation of the exam, the way the exam is conducted and the evaluation criteria, giving students the opportunity to ask questions about it.
During the course, students will be able to use the Forum on the course's Ariel website to ask teachers for clarifications.
The asynchronous lessons of parts A, B and C will consist of video lessons accessible through Ariel (in the "Videolezioni" section), in which the topics dealt with on the basis of PowerPoint will be illustrated and will be made available independently on Ariel (in the "Teaching Materials" section). The lessons in synchronous mode will take place on Microsoft Teams and will take place approximately every three/four asynchronous lessons: on these occasions there will be particular space for the analysis of texts or passages considered exemplary; these texts will be previously indicated to the students, possibly providing useful materials for their critical examination; it will be possible to conduct a lesson that will contain both a part of frontal teaching and a part of interaction and comparison with the students.
As for part D, dedicated to the metric and rhetorical analysis of poetic texts, the lessons will be weekly and will always be divided into a synchronous and an asynchronous part, respectively of half an hour and an hour: the synchronous lesson will take place on the Microsoft Teams platform and will have the function of deepening and clarifying the topics of the asynchronous lesson uploaded in the previous week: in this way students will have already become familiar with the subject of the lesson and will be able to ask questions and participate directly, interacting with the teacher. The asynchronous lessons will consist of video lectures commenting on PowerPoint, which will be made available independently on the Ariel website of the course.
The reference material (bibliography etc.) will not be modified.
If it is not possible to take the exam in the manner provided for in the Syllabus, the exam will take place in telematic form in the manner that will be communicated on the Ariel teaching site at the end of the course.
The lessons of parts A, B and C (held by Prof. Baldassari) will take place in mainly asynchronous mode.
The lessons of part D (held by Prof. Ravera) will be divided between asynchronous and synchronous mode.
All lessons, including synchronous ones, will be recorded and made available on the Ariel website of the course.
All lessons can be downloaded or will take place at the same time scheduled for lessons in presence.
Students will be able to find all the information to access the lessons (links etc.) and any notices on the Ariel teaching site.
The first lesson of each teacher will be held in synchronous mode, through the Microsoft Teams platform, and will be dedicated to explain the objectives and the method adopted in teaching, to illustrate the reference material for the preparation of the exam, the way the exam is conducted and the evaluation criteria, giving students the opportunity to ask questions about it.
During the course, students will be able to use the Forum on the course's Ariel website to ask teachers for clarifications.
The asynchronous lessons of parts A, B and C will consist of video lessons accessible through Ariel (in the "Videolezioni" section), in which the topics dealt with on the basis of PowerPoint will be illustrated and will be made available independently on Ariel (in the "Teaching Materials" section). The lessons in synchronous mode will take place on Microsoft Teams and will take place approximately every three/four asynchronous lessons: on these occasions there will be particular space for the analysis of texts or passages considered exemplary; these texts will be previously indicated to the students, possibly providing useful materials for their critical examination; it will be possible to conduct a lesson that will contain both a part of frontal teaching and a part of interaction and comparison with the students.
As for part D, dedicated to the metric and rhetorical analysis of poetic texts, the lessons will be weekly and will always be divided into a synchronous and an asynchronous part, respectively of half an hour and an hour: the synchronous lesson will take place on the Microsoft Teams platform and will have the function of deepening and clarifying the topics of the asynchronous lesson uploaded in the previous week: in this way students will have already become familiar with the subject of the lesson and will be able to ask questions and participate directly, interacting with the teacher. The asynchronous lessons will consist of video lectures commenting on PowerPoint, which will be made available independently on the Ariel website of the course.
The reference material (bibliography etc.) will not be modified.
If it is not possible to take the exam in the manner provided for in the Syllabus, the exam will take place in telematic form in the manner that will be communicated on the Ariel teaching site at the end of the course.
Course syllabus
Part A (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Italian literature: from the beginnings to Renaissance Humanism [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part B (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Italian literature: from the Renaissance to Baroque [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part C (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Women, eros and love in Boccaccio's Decameron [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part D (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Rhetorics and metrics through analysis of texts. Bibliographical guidelines and citations [Prof.ssa Giulia Ravera]
The course addresses Humanities students whose surname begins with A-De (12 cfu) and Liberal Studies in Communication students (6/9 cfu); the latter will prepare either teaching units A and C (6 cfu - oral exam) or A, B, C (9 cfu - written and oral exam).
Parts A and B will deal with the following subjects: Sicilian School and 13th century Tuscan poetry; Dolce Stil Novo; Dante Alighieri (with particular regard to Rime and Vita nova); Francesco Petrarca (with particular regard to Canzoniere); Renaissance Humanism; literature in the Florence of the Medici (Lorenzo de' Medici, Poliziano, Luigi Pulci); Matteo Maria Boiardo; Petrarchism (from 15th century to Della Casa); the genre of treatise in 16th century (with particular regard to Bembo and Castiglione); Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini; Ludovico Ariosto (with particular regard to Orlando furioso); Torquato Tasso (with particular regard to Gerusalemme liberata); Giovan Battista Marino and Baroque poetry; Galileo Galilei.
Part C will focus on Boccaccio's Decameron, read through a path that will privilege parts and novels dedicated to female characters and love, in order to highlight the innovative significance and complexity of this work.
Part D will provide students with basic knowledge in rhetorical figures and poetic forms through analysis of texts, along with bibliographical guidelines.
Part B (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Italian literature: from the Renaissance to Baroque [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part C (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Women, eros and love in Boccaccio's Decameron [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part D (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Rhetorics and metrics through analysis of texts. Bibliographical guidelines and citations [Prof.ssa Giulia Ravera]
The course addresses Humanities students whose surname begins with A-De (12 cfu) and Liberal Studies in Communication students (6/9 cfu); the latter will prepare either teaching units A and C (6 cfu - oral exam) or A, B, C (9 cfu - written and oral exam).
Parts A and B will deal with the following subjects: Sicilian School and 13th century Tuscan poetry; Dolce Stil Novo; Dante Alighieri (with particular regard to Rime and Vita nova); Francesco Petrarca (with particular regard to Canzoniere); Renaissance Humanism; literature in the Florence of the Medici (Lorenzo de' Medici, Poliziano, Luigi Pulci); Matteo Maria Boiardo; Petrarchism (from 15th century to Della Casa); the genre of treatise in 16th century (with particular regard to Bembo and Castiglione); Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini; Ludovico Ariosto (with particular regard to Orlando furioso); Torquato Tasso (with particular regard to Gerusalemme liberata); Giovan Battista Marino and Baroque poetry; Galileo Galilei.
Part C will focus on Boccaccio's Decameron, read through a path that will privilege parts and novels dedicated to female characters and love, in order to highlight the innovative significance and complexity of this work.
Part D will provide students with basic knowledge in rhetorical figures and poetic forms through analysis of texts, along with bibliographical guidelines.
Prerequisites for admission
There are no required prerequisites. Yet, Humanities students who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 5 in the section 2 ("Knowledge and skills acquired at school") must fulfill additional learning obligations (OFA, Obblighi formativi aggiuntivi) according to the provisions of the Humanities Study Program, as indicated in Course website. All Humanities students enrolled in 2020 must consult the Course website page about OFA.
Humanities students enrolled in 2019 who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 65 and who have not attended the support course for the examination of Italian Literature in 2019-2020 must contact the teachers via email.
Humanities students enrolled in 2019 who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 65 and who have not attended the support course for the examination of Italian Literature in 2019-2020 must contact the teachers via email.
Teaching methods
The lessons of the course will be carried out online and will be available on Ariel (see Emergency Phase Teaching section). All students on the course will therefore be considered as attending.
Parts A and B will be taught on texts included in the booklet. Slide projections will also be used. Lectures will focus on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of each topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons among different critical views; 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).
Analysis of the texts will start from paraphrase, paying attention to the most important differences in interpretation, and will consider the prominent cultural and formal elements.
The lessons dedicated to Boccaccio will focus on the parts of the so-called "frame" and the novels that highlight one of the most innovative and at the same time more complex aspects of the "Decameron", namely the role assigned to women and the concept of love, desire, body. Different visions and readings will be often compared, in order to introduce students to methods and questions in literary interpretation.
The use of the commentary on the "Decameron" will familiarize students with the commentaries on literary texts. Also thanks to part D students will be able to learn tools and methods of analysis and learn the vocabulary of the discipline. The texts of Petrarch's "Canzoniere" will be read by focusing on the metric and rhetorical aspects, allowing students to learn basic elements of the discipline through direct contact with the text.
Parts A and B will be taught on texts included in the booklet. Slide projections will also be used. Lectures will focus on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of each topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons among different critical views; 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).
Analysis of the texts will start from paraphrase, paying attention to the most important differences in interpretation, and will consider the prominent cultural and formal elements.
The lessons dedicated to Boccaccio will focus on the parts of the so-called "frame" and the novels that highlight one of the most innovative and at the same time more complex aspects of the "Decameron", namely the role assigned to women and the concept of love, desire, body. Different visions and readings will be often compared, in order to introduce students to methods and questions in literary interpretation.
The use of the commentary on the "Decameron" will familiarize students with the commentaries on literary texts. Also thanks to part D students will be able to learn tools and methods of analysis and learn the vocabulary of the discipline. The texts of Petrarch's "Canzoniere" will be read by focusing on the metric and rhetorical aspects, allowing students to learn basic elements of the discipline through direct contact with the text.
Teaching Resources
As for parts A and B students must prepare topics and texts using a handbooks of their own choice and to a booklet of lecture notes (including a collection of texts) which will be on sale at Cortina bookshop at the beginning of the course (and can be ordered by mail). Some handbooks and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, 2 voll., Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, 2 voll., Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, 2 voll., il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato (3 voll., including Il secondo Cinquecento. Seicento. Settecento);
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher (3 voll.: Dalle origini ai siculo-toscani; 1. Dallo stilnovo a Tasso; 2. Dal Barocco a Manzoni);
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition: 2 voll., including Dal Barocco al Romanticismo);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher (3 voll., including Dal Barocco all'età dei Lumi).
At the end of parts A and B students will find on Ariel a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
For part C students will have to prepare:
- The following parts and novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, edited by Amedeo Quondam, Maurizio Fiorilla and Giancarlo Alfano, Milan, Rizzoli, 2013 (also available in e-book): Proemio (pp. 127-132); Introduction to Day I, paragraphs 49-114 (pp. 178-197); Day I, novellas 4 (pp. 233-239), 5 (pp. 240-245), 9 (pp. 265-267), 10 (pp. 268-273); Day II, novellas 7 (pp. 397-430), 10 (pp. 478-490); Day III, novellas 5 (pp. 568-576), 7 (pp. 589-613), 10 (pp. 642-649), Conclusion (pp. 650-655); Day IV, Introduction (pp. 685-698) and novellas 1 (pp. 699-714), 5 (pp. 747-752), 7 (pp. 763-769), 9 (pp. 778-783); Day V, novellas 1 (pp. 835-851), 8 (pp. 910-918) and 9 (pp. 910-918). 919-929); Day VI, Introduction (pp. 975-979), novellas 1 (pp. 981-983) and 7 (pp. 1009-1014) and Conclusion (pp. 1038-1046); Day VII, novellas 1 (pp. 778-783). 1075-1082) and 9 (pp. 1146-1163); Day VIII, novellas 7 (pp. 1260-1297); Day IX, novellas 1 (pp. 1385-1393) and 9 (pp. 1446-1454); Day X, novellas 4 (pp. 1524-1534) and 10 (pp. 1628-1649), Conclusion (pp. 1650-1654); Conclusion of the author (pp. 1655-1667). Not all these parts and novellas should be prepared in the same way. At the end of the course a list will be given of the parts that have been analysed in depth during the lessons and that should therefore be known in detail and those for which a knowledge of the fundamental contents will be required.
- From the same edition the following sections should be prepared: "Scheda dell'opera" (pp. 67-86), "Notizia biografica" (pp. 87-91), "Nota al testo" (pp. 109-123), the introductory sheets to the days and the individual novellas read; from "Le cose (e le parole) del mondo" pp. 1669-1671 and the parts dedicated to "Uomo e donna, maschio e femmina" (pp. 1690-1696), "I tre stati delle donne" (pp. 1697-1701), "Natura" (pp. 1737-1747), "L'amore, la sessualità" (pp. 1750-1755).
- Here we suggest other optional readings, which will be recalled during the lessons and may be a useful aid: the commented editions by Vittore Branca (Einaudi) and Marco Veglia (Feltrinelli); the biography by Marco Santagata: Boccaccio. Fragilità di un genio; the profiles about Boccaccio by Luigi Surdich, Boccaccio (il Mulino), Francesco Tateo (Laterza), Lucia Battaglia Ricci, Boccaccio (Salerno Ed.) and those about the Decameron by Giancarlo Alfano, Introduzione alla lettura del "Decameron" di Boccaccio and Francesco Bausi, Leggere il Decameron (il Mulino); the recent essay by Mario Lavagetto, Oltre le usate leggi. Una lettura del Decameron (Einaudi). Other optional critical readings will be suggested during the lessons.
For the historical and theoretical aspects of metrics and rhetoric the preparation of:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche Laterza (for rhetoric);
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Il Mulino (for metrics).
The exemplification of the metric and rhetorical elements will be based on texts taken from Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca. The complete and definitive list of the analysed texts will be provided at the end of the lessons. For the study of the work students will use the edition of Canzoniere edited by Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), 2012 (also available in e-book).
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, 2 voll., Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, 2 voll., Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, 2 voll., il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato (3 voll., including Il secondo Cinquecento. Seicento. Settecento);
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher (3 voll.: Dalle origini ai siculo-toscani; 1. Dallo stilnovo a Tasso; 2. Dal Barocco a Manzoni);
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition: 2 voll., including Dal Barocco al Romanticismo);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher (3 voll., including Dal Barocco all'età dei Lumi).
At the end of parts A and B students will find on Ariel a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
For part C students will have to prepare:
- The following parts and novellas by Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, edited by Amedeo Quondam, Maurizio Fiorilla and Giancarlo Alfano, Milan, Rizzoli, 2013 (also available in e-book): Proemio (pp. 127-132); Introduction to Day I, paragraphs 49-114 (pp. 178-197); Day I, novellas 4 (pp. 233-239), 5 (pp. 240-245), 9 (pp. 265-267), 10 (pp. 268-273); Day II, novellas 7 (pp. 397-430), 10 (pp. 478-490); Day III, novellas 5 (pp. 568-576), 7 (pp. 589-613), 10 (pp. 642-649), Conclusion (pp. 650-655); Day IV, Introduction (pp. 685-698) and novellas 1 (pp. 699-714), 5 (pp. 747-752), 7 (pp. 763-769), 9 (pp. 778-783); Day V, novellas 1 (pp. 835-851), 8 (pp. 910-918) and 9 (pp. 910-918). 919-929); Day VI, Introduction (pp. 975-979), novellas 1 (pp. 981-983) and 7 (pp. 1009-1014) and Conclusion (pp. 1038-1046); Day VII, novellas 1 (pp. 778-783). 1075-1082) and 9 (pp. 1146-1163); Day VIII, novellas 7 (pp. 1260-1297); Day IX, novellas 1 (pp. 1385-1393) and 9 (pp. 1446-1454); Day X, novellas 4 (pp. 1524-1534) and 10 (pp. 1628-1649), Conclusion (pp. 1650-1654); Conclusion of the author (pp. 1655-1667). Not all these parts and novellas should be prepared in the same way. At the end of the course a list will be given of the parts that have been analysed in depth during the lessons and that should therefore be known in detail and those for which a knowledge of the fundamental contents will be required.
- From the same edition the following sections should be prepared: "Scheda dell'opera" (pp. 67-86), "Notizia biografica" (pp. 87-91), "Nota al testo" (pp. 109-123), the introductory sheets to the days and the individual novellas read; from "Le cose (e le parole) del mondo" pp. 1669-1671 and the parts dedicated to "Uomo e donna, maschio e femmina" (pp. 1690-1696), "I tre stati delle donne" (pp. 1697-1701), "Natura" (pp. 1737-1747), "L'amore, la sessualità" (pp. 1750-1755).
- Here we suggest other optional readings, which will be recalled during the lessons and may be a useful aid: the commented editions by Vittore Branca (Einaudi) and Marco Veglia (Feltrinelli); the biography by Marco Santagata: Boccaccio. Fragilità di un genio; the profiles about Boccaccio by Luigi Surdich, Boccaccio (il Mulino), Francesco Tateo (Laterza), Lucia Battaglia Ricci, Boccaccio (Salerno Ed.) and those about the Decameron by Giancarlo Alfano, Introduzione alla lettura del "Decameron" di Boccaccio and Francesco Bausi, Leggere il Decameron (il Mulino); the recent essay by Mario Lavagetto, Oltre le usate leggi. Una lettura del Decameron (Einaudi). Other optional critical readings will be suggested during the lessons.
For the historical and theoretical aspects of metrics and rhetoric the preparation of:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche Laterza (for rhetoric);
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Il Mulino (for metrics).
The exemplification of the metric and rhetorical elements will be based on texts taken from Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca. The complete and definitive list of the analysed texts will be provided at the end of the lessons. For the study of the work students will use the edition of Canzoniere edited by Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), 2012 (also available in e-book).
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam for 12 or 9 cfu consists of a preliminary written test on parts A and B and an oral test on parts C and D (only C for a 9 ECTS exam). The 6 cfu exam consists of an oral test on teaching parts A and C.
The written test will be held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for access to the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be part of the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test has to be completed within 90 minutes and consists of three open-ended questions: a question for each part A and part B focuses on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the programme, and a third part which consists in the paraphrase of one of the texts in the programme and asks some short questions about it. Students who had to take the support course and have passed its final exam will not have to take the third question.
The criteria used to assess students' performance are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the proper formal register and to employ the appropriate specialised lexicon, and, for the third question, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language will be considered.
The oral test consists of an interview on fundamental topics of the work dealt with in part C and on poetic forms, meters and rhetorical figures through the texts to be prepared for part D. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess students' performance are: ability to critically organize information from lectures and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using the appropriate technical language.
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Information on the programme and on the exam will be provided during the first lecture of the course; a presentation will be available on Ariel where students will find specimen papers of previous written tests.
Non-attending students, international students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor in office hours for information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services
The written test will be held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for access to the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be part of the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test has to be completed within 90 minutes and consists of three open-ended questions: a question for each part A and part B focuses on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the programme, and a third part which consists in the paraphrase of one of the texts in the programme and asks some short questions about it. Students who had to take the support course and have passed its final exam will not have to take the third question.
The criteria used to assess students' performance are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the proper formal register and to employ the appropriate specialised lexicon, and, for the third question, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language will be considered.
The oral test consists of an interview on fundamental topics of the work dealt with in part C and on poetic forms, meters and rhetorical figures through the texts to be prepared for part D. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess students' performance are: ability to critically organize information from lectures and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using the appropriate technical language.
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Information on the programme and on the exam will be provided during the first lecture of the course; a presentation will be available on Ariel where students will find specimen papers of previous written tests.
Non-attending students, international students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor in office hours for information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Baldassari Gabriele
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Baldassari Gabriele
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Baldassari Gabriele
Unita' didattica D
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Ravera Giulia
Di-N
Lesson period
First semester
The lessons will be held remotely, partly synchronously (on the Microsoft Teams platform), partly through pptx with audio. All lessons will be recorded by the teacher and uploaded to Ariel.
Students will find full details to attend classes (links, etc.) and Course news on Ariel website.
If it is not possible to held examinations in accordance with the procedure referred to in Syllabus, exams will be held remotely according to the information provided in Ariel.
Students will find full details to attend classes (links, etc.) and Course news on Ariel website.
If it is not possible to held examinations in accordance with the procedure referred to in Syllabus, exams will be held remotely according to the information provided in Ariel.
Course syllabus
Unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from Humanism to the Baroque period
Unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Imagines of light, metaphors and similes in Dante's Purgatorio
Unit D (20 hours, 3 cfu): Style and interpretation
The first year course is addressed to Humanities undergraduate students range Di-N (12 cfu, all units, written and oral exam) and to Liberal Studies in Communication undergraduate students range Di-N (9 cfu: units A, B, C, written and oral exam; or 6 cfu: units A and C, oral exam).
The course programme is divided into four teaching units. The first two units concern topics and authors of Italian literature from the Sicilian poets to Petrarch (unit A) and from Humanism to Galileo (unit B), focusing on trends and exemplary patterns in approaching fundamental themes both of the literary tradition and of historical and stylistic features. The third unit, C, is monographic and focuses on Dante's Purgatorio. The fourth unit, D, deals with texts of the genre of the novella.
Unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from Humanism to the Baroque period
Unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Imagines of light, metaphors and similes in Dante's Purgatorio
Unit D (20 hours, 3 cfu): Style and interpretation
The first year course is addressed to Humanities undergraduate students range Di-N (12 cfu, all units, written and oral exam) and to Liberal Studies in Communication undergraduate students range Di-N (9 cfu: units A, B, C, written and oral exam; or 6 cfu: units A and C, oral exam).
The course programme is divided into four teaching units. The first two units concern topics and authors of Italian literature from the Sicilian poets to Petrarch (unit A) and from Humanism to Galileo (unit B), focusing on trends and exemplary patterns in approaching fundamental themes both of the literary tradition and of historical and stylistic features. The third unit, C, is monographic and focuses on Dante's Purgatorio. The fourth unit, D, deals with texts of the genre of the novella.
Prerequisites for admission
There are no required prerequisites. Yet, Humanities students who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 5 in the section 2. "Knowledge and skills acquired at school" must fulfill additional learning obligations (OFA, Obblighi formativi aggiuntivi) according to the provisions of the Humanities Study Program, as indicated in Course website. All Humanities students enrolled in 2020 must consult the Course website page about OFA.
Humanities students enrolled in 2019 who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 65 and who have not attended the support course for the examination of Italian Literature in 2019-2020 must contact the teachers via email.
Humanities students enrolled in 2019 who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 65 and who have not attended the support course for the examination of Italian Literature in 2019-2020 must contact the teachers via email.
Teaching methods
The lessons will be held remotely, partly synchronously (on the Microsoft Teams platform), partly through pptx with audio or pdf. All lessons will be recorded by the teacher and uploaded to Ariel. All students will therefore be considered attending.
Units A and B will concern representative aspects and critical problems on cultural context, tradition and history of Italian literature from the thirteenth to the sevententeenth century. Lectures will be focused on critical exposition, analysis and interpretation of the texts which are part of the programme. Students are required to download authors' texts as indicated on the Ariel website.
Unit C will offer an in-depth analysis of selected passages among Dante's Purgatorio focusing on images of light, metaphoric fields, evocative similes. Unit D will look into themes, structure, styles and topics of the literary genre of the novella, mainly focusing on Boccaccio's Decameron.
Units A and B will concern representative aspects and critical problems on cultural context, tradition and history of Italian literature from the thirteenth to the sevententeenth century. Lectures will be focused on critical exposition, analysis and interpretation of the texts which are part of the programme. Students are required to download authors' texts as indicated on the Ariel website.
Unit C will offer an in-depth analysis of selected passages among Dante's Purgatorio focusing on images of light, metaphoric fields, evocative similes. Unit D will look into themes, structure, styles and topics of the literary genre of the novella, mainly focusing on Boccaccio's Decameron.
Teaching Resources
Unit A and Unit B
Detailed Program and Texts are available on Ariel website (https://acabrinilidn.ariel.ctu.unimi.it)
Students are expected to achieve a solid knowledge of authors' and works' historical and cultural background, using an adequate literature handbooks such as G. Ferroni, Storia e testi della letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori Università, or another one approved for high schools. On metrics and rhetorics
P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino,Universale Paperbacks (metrics)
B. Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Roma-Bari, Laterza (rhetorics)
are recommended.
Unit C
Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, edit by Sapegno (La Nuova Italia), or Bosco-Reggio (Le Monnier), or Chiavacci Leonardi (Mondadori o Zanichelli), or Bellomo-Carrai (Einaudi).
The examination will be on selected passages analyzed or indicated during the lectures.
Critical Bibliography:
E. Pasquini, Il dominio metaforico in Dante le figure del vero, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2001, pp. 179-217.
Anna Pegoretti, Dal "lito diserto" al giardino. La costruzione del paesaggio nel "Purgatorio" di Dante, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2007,
L. Serianni, Sulle similitudini della Commedia, in «L'Alighieri», 35 (2010), pp. 25-43.
Further bibliography will be indicated on the Ariel website.
Unit D
G. Boccaccio, Decameron, edited by V. Branca, Torino, Einaudi (Einaudi tascabili).
The list of the selected passages and bibliography will be indicated during classes and upload on Ariel.
Detailed Program and Texts are available on Ariel website (https://acabrinilidn.ariel.ctu.unimi.it)
Students are expected to achieve a solid knowledge of authors' and works' historical and cultural background, using an adequate literature handbooks such as G. Ferroni, Storia e testi della letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori Università, or another one approved for high schools. On metrics and rhetorics
P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino,Universale Paperbacks (metrics)
B. Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Roma-Bari, Laterza (rhetorics)
are recommended.
Unit C
Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, edit by Sapegno (La Nuova Italia), or Bosco-Reggio (Le Monnier), or Chiavacci Leonardi (Mondadori o Zanichelli), or Bellomo-Carrai (Einaudi).
The examination will be on selected passages analyzed or indicated during the lectures.
Critical Bibliography:
E. Pasquini, Il dominio metaforico in Dante le figure del vero, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2001, pp. 179-217.
Anna Pegoretti, Dal "lito diserto" al giardino. La costruzione del paesaggio nel "Purgatorio" di Dante, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2007,
L. Serianni, Sulle similitudini della Commedia, in «L'Alighieri», 35 (2010), pp. 25-43.
Further bibliography will be indicated on the Ariel website.
Unit D
G. Boccaccio, Decameron, edited by V. Branca, Torino, Einaudi (Einaudi tascabili).
The list of the selected passages and bibliography will be indicated during classes and upload on Ariel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam for 12 or 9 cfu consists of a preliminary written test on units A and B and an oral test on units C and D (only C for a 9 cfu exam). The 6 cfu exam consists of an oral test on units A and C.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; 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 on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test has to be completed within 90 minutes and consists of three sections: the first is an open-ended question about one of the authors, works or literary movements listed in the programme of units A and B; the second consists in the paraphrase and commentary on one of the texts in the programme, while the third consists in four open-ended short questions, again with reference to the programme. Students who have taken the support course and have passed its final exam are exonerated from the second section.
The criteria used to assess students' performance are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the proper formal register and to employ the appropriate specialized language; for the second section, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language will be considered.
Oral test consists of an interview on fundamental topics of the works dealt with in units C and D. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess students' performance are: ability to critically organize information from lectures and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical language.
Assessments are marked out of thirty; the grade of the written test will be taken into account.
Information on the programme and on the exam will be provided during the first lecture of the course.
Non-attending students, international students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor in office hours for information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the professor in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; 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 on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test has to be completed within 90 minutes and consists of three sections: the first is an open-ended question about one of the authors, works or literary movements listed in the programme of units A and B; the second consists in the paraphrase and commentary on one of the texts in the programme, while the third consists in four open-ended short questions, again with reference to the programme. Students who have taken the support course and have passed its final exam are exonerated from the second section.
The criteria used to assess students' performance are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the proper formal register and to employ the appropriate specialized language; for the second section, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language will be considered.
Oral test consists of an interview on fundamental topics of the works dealt with in units C and D. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess students' performance are: ability to critically organize information from lectures and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical language.
Assessments are marked out of thirty; the grade of the written test will be taken into account.
Information on the programme and on the exam will be provided during the first lecture of the course.
Non-attending students, international students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor in office hours for information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the professor in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
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
Unita' didattica D
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
O-Z
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Lessons will be delivered remotely, partly through synchronous classes on Microsoft Teams platform, partly through power points with audio. Recordings of the lessons, and all the files shared during the lesson, as well as the power points with audio, will be uploaded on the Ariel website.
Students will be given notice of schedule and links to synchronous classes through Ariel website.
Any change in the teaching resources will also be shared on the Ariel website.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Should it be impossible to take a face-to-face exam, it will be taken online. Details will be given on Ariel.
Students will be given notice of schedule and links to synchronous classes through Ariel website.
Any change in the teaching resources will also be shared on the Ariel website.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Should it be impossible to take a face-to-face exam, it will be taken online. Details will be given on Ariel.
Course syllabus
Title of the course: History and interpretation of the literary text (80 hours, 12 cfu)
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): The first centuries [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): From Humanism to Baroque [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Aminta by Torquato Tasso [Guglielmo Barucci]
Teaching unit D (20 hours, 3 cfu): Elements of prosody, metre and rhetoric through texts of Italian literature [Guglielmo Barucci]
The first year course is aimed at undergraduate Humanities and Liberal Studies in Communication students whose surname begins with O-Z. Humanities students will take a 12 cfu exam; Liberal Studies in Communication students can choose between 6 (units A and C) and 9 cfu (units A, B, C). Students who take a 6 CFU exam will take only an oral exam.
The teaching programme of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Baroque; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Torquato Tasso's Aminta in its formal and cultural context and in connection with other Tasso's works; teaching unit D will consist of an in-depth analysis and reading of poems and texts, providing the students with elements of metrics and rhetoric.
Teaching unit A (20 hours, 3 cfu): The first centuries [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching unit B (20 hours, 3 cfu): From Humanism to Baroque [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching unit C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Aminta by Torquato Tasso [Guglielmo Barucci]
Teaching unit D (20 hours, 3 cfu): Elements of prosody, metre and rhetoric through texts of Italian literature [Guglielmo Barucci]
The first year course is aimed at undergraduate Humanities and Liberal Studies in Communication students whose surname begins with O-Z. Humanities students will take a 12 cfu exam; Liberal Studies in Communication students can choose between 6 (units A and C) and 9 cfu (units A, B, C). Students who take a 6 CFU exam will take only an oral exam.
The teaching programme of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Baroque; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Torquato Tasso's Aminta in its formal and cultural context and in connection with other Tasso's works; teaching unit D will consist of an in-depth analysis and reading of poems and texts, providing the students with elements of metrics and rhetoric.
Prerequisites for admission
There are no required prerequisites. Yet, Humanities students who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 5 in the section 2. "Knowledge and skills acquired at school" must fulfill additional learning obligations (OFA, Obblighi formativi aggiuntivi) according to the provisions of the Humanities Study Program, as indicated in Course website. All Humanities students enrolled in 2020 must consult the Course website page about OFA.
Humanities students enrolled in 2019 who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 65 and who have not attended the support course for the examination of Italian Literature in 2019-2020 must contact the teachers via email.
Humanities students enrolled in 2019 who have passed the entrance examination with a score lower than 65 and who have not attended the support course for the examination of Italian Literature in 2019-2020 must contact the teachers via email.
Teaching methods
The lessons will be delivered remotely, partly synchronously (on the Microsoft Teams platform), partly through pptx with audio or pdf: all will be recorded by the teachers and uploaded to Ariel. All students will therefore be considered attending.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lectures, slide projections will be used. 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).
Analysis of the texts will start from paraphrase, paying attention to the most important differences in interpretation, and will consider the prominent cultural and formal elements.
In teaching unit C, through the analysis of the commented edition of Aminta, of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature will be studied within a literary genre not easily defined, with specific regard to its stylistical and formal features aimed at its definition.
Teaching unit C will provide an opportunity to refine critical and formal tools and to better learn the technical lexicon.
In teaching unit D, the study of the materials available on Ariel will allow students to become acquainted with both the formal elements and continuity, transformation and intersection of the metric forms.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lectures, slide projections will be used. 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).
Analysis of the texts will start from paraphrase, paying attention to the most important differences in interpretation, and will consider the prominent cultural and formal elements.
In teaching unit C, through the analysis of the commented edition of Aminta, of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature will be studied within a literary genre not easily defined, with specific regard to its stylistical and formal features aimed at its definition.
Teaching unit C will provide an opportunity to refine critical and formal tools and to better learn the technical lexicon.
In teaching unit D, the study of the materials available on Ariel will allow students to become acquainted with both the formal elements and continuity, transformation and intersection of the metric forms.
Teaching Resources
Teaching unit A
Texts to be studied in teaching units A and B will be available on the Ariel platform (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici) prior to the beginning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary.
A good handbook 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).
Teaching unit B
See Teaching unit A.
Teaching unit C
Text:
Torquato Tasso, Aminta, introduzione e note di Marco Corradini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015 e successive.
An overall reading and knowledge of the work (composition, structure, topics, style) is required.
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Furthermore, students will study:
1. Preface and notes to the adopted edition.
2. C. Gigante, La favola pastorale: Aminta, in Id., Tasso, Roma, Salerno ed., 2007, pp. 95-123. The book is available on the University digital library.
3. One of the following texts:
- A. Andrisano, Il Satiro dell'Aminta e la sua tradizione classica in Torquato Tasso e l'università, a cura di W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 357-371
- A. Beniscelli, I pericoli della pastorale: natura, istituzioni, utopia, in La tradizione della favola pastorale in Italia, a cura di A. Beniscelli, M. Chiarla, S. Morando, Clueb 2016, pp. 385-450
- 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
- A. Corsaro, Inquietudini filosofiche del Tasso. In margine ad una rilettura dell'Aminta in Torquato Tasso e l'università, a cura di W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 249-277
- F. Croce, La teatralità dell'Aminta, in M. Chiabò e F. Doglio (a cura di), Sviluppi della drammaturgia pastorale nell'Europa del Cinque-Seicento, Viterbo, Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1992, 131-157
- A. Di Benedetto, L'Aminta e la pastorale cinquecentesca in Italia, Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, a cura di G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 1121-1149
- 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
- S. Zatti, Natura e potere nell'Aminta, in Studi di filologia e letteratura offerti a Franco Croce, Roma, Bulzoni, 1997, 131-147
Teaching unit D
Texts for unit D will be provided on Ariel prior to the beginning of the course.
Furthermore, students will study two of the following texts:
G. Gorni, La canzone, in Metrica e analisi letteraria, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993, 15-62 (o in Letteratura italiana, edited by A. Asor Rosa, III, Le forme del testo. I. Testo e poesia, Torino, Einaudi, 1984)
G. Gorni, Le ballate di Dante e del Petrarca, in Metrica e analisi letteraria, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993, 219-242
A. Martini, Ritratto del madrigale poetico fra Cinque e Seicento, in «Lettere italiane», XXXIII, 1981, 529-548
M. Picchio Simonelli, La sestina dantesca fra Arnaut Daniel e il Petrarca, in Figure foniche dal Petrarca ai petrarchisti, Firenze, Licosa, 1978, 1-15
Useful reference tools will be the following:
a) for metre and poetic forms:
F. Bausi e M. Martelli, La metrica italiana. Teoria e storia, Firenze, Le Lettere.
P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino.
G. Lavezzi, Manuale di metrica italiana, Roma, NIS.
b) for rethoric:
B. Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Roma-Bari, Laterza
Texts to be studied in teaching units A and B will be available on the Ariel platform (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici) prior to the beginning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary.
A good handbook 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).
Teaching unit B
See Teaching unit A.
Teaching unit C
Text:
Torquato Tasso, Aminta, introduzione e note di Marco Corradini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015 e successive.
An overall reading and knowledge of the work (composition, structure, topics, style) is required.
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Furthermore, students will study:
1. Preface and notes to the adopted edition.
2. C. Gigante, La favola pastorale: Aminta, in Id., Tasso, Roma, Salerno ed., 2007, pp. 95-123. The book is available on the University digital library.
3. One of the following texts:
- A. Andrisano, Il Satiro dell'Aminta e la sua tradizione classica in Torquato Tasso e l'università, a cura di W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 357-371
- A. Beniscelli, I pericoli della pastorale: natura, istituzioni, utopia, in La tradizione della favola pastorale in Italia, a cura di A. Beniscelli, M. Chiarla, S. Morando, Clueb 2016, pp. 385-450
- 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
- A. Corsaro, Inquietudini filosofiche del Tasso. In margine ad una rilettura dell'Aminta in Torquato Tasso e l'università, a cura di W. Moretti e L. Pepe, Firenze, Olschki, 1997, pp. 249-277
- F. Croce, La teatralità dell'Aminta, in M. Chiabò e F. Doglio (a cura di), Sviluppi della drammaturgia pastorale nell'Europa del Cinque-Seicento, Viterbo, Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale, 1992, 131-157
- A. Di Benedetto, L'Aminta e la pastorale cinquecentesca in Italia, Torquato Tasso e la cultura estense, a cura di G. Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 1999, III, pp. 1121-1149
- 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
- S. Zatti, Natura e potere nell'Aminta, in Studi di filologia e letteratura offerti a Franco Croce, Roma, Bulzoni, 1997, 131-147
Teaching unit D
Texts for unit D will be provided on Ariel prior to the beginning of the course.
Furthermore, students will study two of the following texts:
G. Gorni, La canzone, in Metrica e analisi letteraria, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993, 15-62 (o in Letteratura italiana, edited by A. Asor Rosa, III, Le forme del testo. I. Testo e poesia, Torino, Einaudi, 1984)
G. Gorni, Le ballate di Dante e del Petrarca, in Metrica e analisi letteraria, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993, 219-242
A. Martini, Ritratto del madrigale poetico fra Cinque e Seicento, in «Lettere italiane», XXXIII, 1981, 529-548
M. Picchio Simonelli, La sestina dantesca fra Arnaut Daniel e il Petrarca, in Figure foniche dal Petrarca ai petrarchisti, Firenze, Licosa, 1978, 1-15
Useful reference tools will be the following:
a) for metre and poetic forms:
F. Bausi e M. Martelli, La metrica italiana. Teoria e storia, Firenze, Le Lettere.
P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino.
G. Lavezzi, Manuale di metrica italiana, Roma, NIS.
b) for rethoric:
B. Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Roma-Bari, Laterza
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam for 12 or 9 cfu consists of a preliminary written test on teaching units A and B and an oral test on teaching units C and D (only C for a 9 cfu exam); both are aimed at ascertaining students' knowledge of the bibliography. The 6 CFU exam consists of an oral test on teaching units A and C.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for access to the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be part of the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test, lasting 90 minutes, consists of three open-ended questions: a question for each unit A and unit B focuses on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the programme, and a third question which consists in the recognition and paraphrase of one of the texts in the programme. Students who, on the basis of the entrance examination, had to take the support course and have passed its final exam will not have to take the third question.
The criteria used to assess students' performance are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the proper formal register and to employ the appropriate specialized lexicon; for the third question, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language will be considered.
The oral test consists of an interview and discussion on fundamental topics of the work dealt with in unit C and on poetic forms and meters. The student, when required, will still have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess students' performance are: ability to critically organise information from lessons and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical lenguage.
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Non-attending students, International students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for access to the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be part of the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test, lasting 90 minutes, consists of three open-ended questions: a question for each unit A and unit B focuses on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the programme, and a third question which consists in the recognition and paraphrase of one of the texts in the programme. Students who, on the basis of the entrance examination, had to take the support course and have passed its final exam will not have to take the third question.
The criteria used to assess students' performance are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the proper formal register and to employ the appropriate specialized lexicon; for the third question, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language will be considered.
The oral test consists of an interview and discussion on fundamental topics of the work dealt with in unit C and on poetic forms and meters. The student, when required, will still have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess students' performance are: ability to critically organise information from lessons and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical lenguage.
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
Non-attending students, International students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Carapezza Sandra
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Carapezza Sandra
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Barucci Guglielmo
Unita' didattica D
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Barucci Guglielmo
Professor(s)
Reception:
Tuesday 9.30-12.30
Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics, Unit of Modern Studies, second floor
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