Italian Literature
A.Y. 2021/2022
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with a critical knowledge of the fundamental hubs of the Italian literary system, from the origins to the early nineteenth century, following the tradition and transformation of models, themes, forms.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the course the student will have gained knowledge of the fundamental aspects and issues of Italian literature from its origins to the early nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the relationship between Italian literature and the political and cultural history of our country, also within the variety of geographical expressions found throughout the peninsula. The student will then be able to place genres, themes, poetics, authors and works against the background of the historical context, according to a correct periodization, and will have to become familiar with the tools (metric elements, rhetoric, theory of styles and narratology) and methodologies that allow them to analyze and interpret the texts, taking into account the modalities in their transmission and the main issues related to their philological definition.
Among the skills that the student will have to acquire will include the ability to understand literary texts; correctly grasp their thematic and formal aspects; place them in their respective contexts; read and understand contributions of literary nonfiction, focusing on critical and interpretive issues; communicate with clarity and fairness in oral and written exposition, making appropriate use of the lexicon of the discipline. These skills will be acquired through a direct and continuous meeting with the instructor in the classroom. Participation in meetings and seminars organized within the Department of Literature, Philology and Linguistics will also be of great importance.
Students opting not to attend the lessons will be able to make use of the educational tools provided by the instructor on Ariel, in addition to procuring the material expressly indicated within the program or eventually put on Ariel, must contact the instructor preferably during office hours.
Among the skills that the student will have to acquire will include the ability to understand literary texts; correctly grasp their thematic and formal aspects; place them in their respective contexts; read and understand contributions of literary nonfiction, focusing on critical and interpretive issues; communicate with clarity and fairness in oral and written exposition, making appropriate use of the lexicon of the discipline. These skills will be acquired through a direct and continuous meeting with the instructor in the classroom. Participation in meetings and seminars organized within the Department of Literature, Philology and Linguistics will also be of great importance.
Students opting not to attend the lessons will be able to make use of the educational tools provided by the instructor on Ariel, in addition to procuring the material expressly indicated within the program or eventually put on Ariel, must contact the instructor preferably during office hours.
Lesson period: Activity scheduled over several sessions (see Course syllabus and organization section for more detailed information).
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-L
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
All classes will be conducted in-person and simultaneously streamed online on Teams (access the class with code 1vry59r). The lessons will be recorded and available on Ariel or on Teams for at least 48 hours after their upload.
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 site of the course at the end 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 site of the course at the end of the course.
Course syllabus
Course title: The Italian literary civilization: textual and historical-critical paths
Part A: From the Origins to the fifteenth/sixteenth Century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- the poetry of the thirteenth century from the Sicilian School to the dolce stil novo;
- Dante (Rime, Vita nova and Commedia);
- Boccaccio (Decameron)
- the literature of the fifteenth century: humanism, the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici and Poliziano, Boiardo (Orlando innamorato);
- Bembo (Prose della vulgar lingua) and petrarchism;
- Castiglione (Il cortegiano) and the treatises of behavior.
Part B: From the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- Machiavelli (Principe and Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio);
- Guicciardini (Ricordi and Storia d'Italia);
- Ariosto (Orlando furioso);
- Tasso (Gerusalemme liberata);
- the poetry of Baroque (Adone of Marino);
- Galileo and the scientific revolution (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi);
- the Lombard Enlightenment and Parini (Dei delitti e delle pene; Il Giorno);
- Foscolo (Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and Dei sepolcri);
- Leopardi (Canti and Operette morali);
- Manzoni (Adelchi and Promessi sposi).
Part C: Petrarch as intellectual and political author of the 14th century.
Part A: From the Origins to the fifteenth/sixteenth Century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- the poetry of the thirteenth century from the Sicilian School to the dolce stil novo;
- Dante (Rime, Vita nova and Commedia);
- Boccaccio (Decameron)
- the literature of the fifteenth century: humanism, the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici and Poliziano, Boiardo (Orlando innamorato);
- Bembo (Prose della vulgar lingua) and petrarchism;
- Castiglione (Il cortegiano) and the treatises of behavior.
Part B: From the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- Machiavelli (Principe and Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio);
- Guicciardini (Ricordi and Storia d'Italia);
- Ariosto (Orlando furioso);
- Tasso (Gerusalemme liberata);
- the poetry of Baroque (Adone of Marino);
- Galileo and the scientific revolution (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi);
- the Lombard Enlightenment and Parini (Dei delitti e delle pene; Il Giorno);
- Foscolo (Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and Dei sepolcri);
- Leopardi (Canti and Operette morali);
- Manzoni (Adelchi and Promessi sposi).
Part C: Petrarch as intellectual and political author of the 14th century.
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements different from those requested for the degree admission.
Teaching methods
Attendance to classes is strongly recommended although not compulsory. The teaching is delivered through frontal lectures aimed primarily at the acquisition of knowledge, competence and specific language of the subject. Discussion with the teacher in the classroom is integrant part of the didactic method and aims at promoting a critical attitude and the capacity to apply the acquired competence and knowledge.
Also thanks to slide projections, lessons 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.
Analysis of the texts will start from the undestanding of their meaning, paying attention to the most important differences in interpretation, and will consider the prominent cultural and formal elements.
The lessons devoted to Petrarch will aim to illustrate the breadth and originality of his thought, his relationship with the historical context and his development of a political poetry.
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.
Also thanks to slide projections, lessons 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.
Analysis of the texts will start from the undestanding of their meaning, paying attention to the most important differences in interpretation, and will consider the prominent cultural and formal elements.
The lessons devoted to Petrarch will aim to illustrate the breadth and originality of his thought, his relationship with the historical context and his development of a political poetry.
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
Attending students:
Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A and C), with the related texts.
As for part A students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
At the end of part A students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
For part C students will have to study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the texts from Canzoniere that will be listed at the end of the course, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/).
Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A, B and C) with the related texts.
As for parts A and B students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
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 study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the texts from Canzoniere that will be listed at the end of the course, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/).
Non-attending students:
Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A and C or B and C), with the related texts. At the end of parts A and B students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
As for part A or B students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
For part C students will have to study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the following texts from Canzoniere, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition: 1-10, 27-28, 53, 103, 128, 136-138, 264, 366;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/);
- Gabriele Baldassari, Unum in locum. Strategie macrotestuali nel Petrarca politico, Milano, Led, 2006, pp. 123-62 e 191-230.
Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A, B and C). At the end of parts A and B students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
As for parts A and B students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop.
Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
For part C students will have to study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the following texts from Canzoniere, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition: 1-10, 27-28, 53, 103, 128, 136-138, 264, 366;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/);
- Gabriele Baldassari, Unum in locum. Strategie macrotestuali nel Petrarca politico, Milano, Led, 2006, pp. 123-62 e 191-230.
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan (available in English) for exam preparation.
Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A and C), with the related texts.
As for part A students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
At the end of part A students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
For part C students will have to study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the texts from Canzoniere that will be listed at the end of the course, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/).
Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A, B and C) with the related texts.
As for parts A and B students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
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 study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the texts from Canzoniere that will be listed at the end of the course, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/).
Non-attending students:
Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A and C or B and C), with the related texts. At the end of parts A and B students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
As for part A or B students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
For part C students will have to study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the following texts from Canzoniere, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition: 1-10, 27-28, 53, 103, 128, 136-138, 264, 366;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/);
- Gabriele Baldassari, Unum in locum. Strategie macrotestuali nel Petrarca politico, Milano, Led, 2006, pp. 123-62 e 191-230.
Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (parts A, B and C). At the end of parts A and B students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared.
As for parts A and B students must prepare subjects and texts thanks to a manual of their choice and to a booklet on sale at Cortina bookshop.
Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi;
- Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università;
- Letteratura italiana, ed. by Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher;
- Claudio Giunta, Cuori intelligenti, DeAgostini-Garzanti (Blue edition);
- Corrado Bologna, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
For part C students will have to study:
- Petrarch's texts included in the booklet;
- the following texts from Canzoniere, to be prepared on Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Paola Vecchi Galli, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), available also as digital edition: 1-10, 27-28, 53, 103, 128, 136-138, 264, 366;
- the notes of the lessons;
- Enrico Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, il Mulino (collection "Profili di storia letteraria", directed by Andrea Battistini);
- Francisco Rico-Luca Marcozzi, Francesco Petrarca. Profilo biografico, in Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi (the esame biography can be read, without footnotes, online: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-petrarca_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/);
- Gabriele Baldassari, Unum in locum. Strategie macrotestuali nel Petrarca politico, Milano, Led, 2006, pp. 123-62 e 191-230.
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan (available in English) for exam preparation.
Assessment methods and Criteria
- Method: The exam for 9 cfu consists of a preliminary written test on parts A and B and an oral test on part C. The exam for 6 cfu consists of an oral test on parts A and C or B and C. The written test is held in January, May or June, September 2022; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam.
- Type of examination: written test with two open questions (a question on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the program, and a question which consists in the recognition, paraphrase and commentary of one of the texts in the program) and oral interrogation;
- Length of written examination: 90 minutes;
- As for the written test, the criteria used to assess student's 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, and, for the second question, 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 work dealt with in part C: the student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess student's performance are: ability to critically organize informations from lessons and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical language.
- Type of evaluation method: Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade, that will be expressed in the 30 grade point system; even if they do not pass the written test, students can be admitted to the oral test (provided that their assessment is not seriously inadequate).
- Number and types of assessment that contribute to the final evaluation: both written test and oral interrogation.
- Method of communication of the assessment results in case of written examinations: Ariel site.
- Informations on the program and on the exam will be provided in the first lesson of the course; a presentation will be available on Ariel where students will find specimen papers of previous written tests.
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
- Type of examination: written test with two open questions (a question on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the program, and a question which consists in the recognition, paraphrase and commentary of one of the texts in the program) and oral interrogation;
- Length of written examination: 90 minutes;
- As for the written test, the criteria used to assess student's 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, and, for the second question, 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 work dealt with in part C: the student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess student's performance are: ability to critically organize informations from lessons and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical language.
- Type of evaluation method: Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade, that will be expressed in the 30 grade point system; even if they do not pass the written test, students can be admitted to the oral test (provided that their assessment is not seriously inadequate).
- Number and types of assessment that contribute to the final evaluation: both written test and oral interrogation.
- Method of communication of the assessment results in case of written examinations: Ariel site.
- Informations on the program and on the exam will be provided in the first lesson of the course; a presentation will be available on Ariel where students will find specimen papers of previous written tests.
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
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
M-Z
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
More specific information on the delivery modes of training activities for academic year 2021/22 will be provided over the coming months, based on the evolution of the public health situation.
Course syllabus
Title of the course: The Italian literary civilization: textual and historical-critical paths
Module A: From the Origins to the fifteenth/sixteenth Century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- the poetry of the thirteenth century from the Sicilian School to the dolce stil novo;
- Dante (Vita nuova);
- Boccaccio (Decameron)
- Petrarca (Canzoniere)
- the literature of the fifteenth century: humanism, the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici and Poliziano, Boiardo (Orlando innamorato);
- Petrarchism;
- Castiglione (Il cortegiano) and the treatises of behaviour. The "querelle des femmes"
Module B: From the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- Machiavelli ("A Francesco Vettori" 12/10/1513, Principe);
- Ariosto (Orlando furioso);
- Tasso (Gerusalemme liberata);
-- Galileo and the scientific revolution (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi);
- the Lombard Enlightenment and Parini (Dei delitti e delle pene; Il Giorno);
- Foscolo (Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and Dei sepolcri);
- Leopardi (Canti and Operette morali);
- Manzoni (Promessi sposi)
Module C: Medieval Dante: readings of the "Commedia" with a political theme (Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII)
Module A: From the Origins to the fifteenth/sixteenth Century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- the poetry of the thirteenth century from the Sicilian School to the dolce stil novo;
- Dante (Vita nuova);
- Boccaccio (Decameron)
- Petrarca (Canzoniere)
- the literature of the fifteenth century: humanism, the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici and Poliziano, Boiardo (Orlando innamorato);
- Petrarchism;
- Castiglione (Il cortegiano) and the treatises of behaviour. The "querelle des femmes"
Module B: From the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century: textual paths (the main works on which the study should focus are indicated in brackets):
- Machiavelli ("A Francesco Vettori" 12/10/1513, Principe);
- Ariosto (Orlando furioso);
- Tasso (Gerusalemme liberata);
-- Galileo and the scientific revolution (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi);
- the Lombard Enlightenment and Parini (Dei delitti e delle pene; Il Giorno);
- Foscolo (Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and Dei sepolcri);
- Leopardi (Canti and Operette morali);
- Manzoni (Promessi sposi)
Module C: Medieval Dante: readings of the "Commedia" with a political theme (Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII)
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements different from those requested for the degree admission.
Teaching methods
Attendance to classes is strongly recommended although not compulsory. The teaching is delivered through frontal lectures aimed primarily at the acquisition of knowledge, competence and specific language of the subject. Discussion with the teacher in the classroom is integrant part of the didactic method and aims at promoting a critical attitude and the capacity to apply the acquired competence and knowledge.
The teaching is also based on didactic and multimedia material provided on Ariel.
The teaching is also based on didactic and multimedia material provided on Ariel.
Teaching Resources
Attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules A and C) with the related texts. For part C students will have to study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci)
Textbook (part A): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022 (from the beginning to Parte quarta, cap. XII: Il Libro del Cortegiano)
Knowledge of the following volumes (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino ("Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
- Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures with the related texts (modules A, B and C). For part C students will have to study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci)
Textbook (part A and B): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022
Knowledge of the following volumes (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino ("Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
Non-attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu (part A and C): At the end of parts A and B students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared (part A). For part C students will have to study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci).
Textbook (part A): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022 (from the beginning to Parte quarta, cap. XII: Il Libro del Cortegiano). Students must prepare subjects and texts also thanks to a manual of their choice. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
-Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Corrado Bologna, Paola Rocchi, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi (or Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, Mondadori Università);
- Letteratura italiana, a cura di Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher.
Knowledge of the following volumes and articles (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino (nella collana "Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
Sandra Carapezza, Lo sguardo di Sapia, in "Kepos. Rivista", 2021, online: http://www.keposrivista.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/03_CARAPEZZA_def.pdf
Sandra Carapezza, Il canto dei violenti. Lettura di "Inferno "12, in "Palimpsest", 10/5, 2020, online: https://doi.org/10.46763/PALIM20100043c
- Programme for 9 cfu: Part A and B: 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 study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci)
Textbook (part A and B): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022. Students must prepare subjects and texts also thanks to a manual of their choice. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
-Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Corrado Bologna, Paola Rocchi, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi (or Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, Mondadori Università);
- Letteratura italiana, a cura di Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher.
Knowledge of the following volumes and articles (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino ("Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
Sandra Carapezza, Lo sguardo di Sapia, in "Kepos. Rivista", 2021, online: http://www.keposrivista.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/03_CARAPEZZA_def.pdf
Sandra Carapezza, Il canto dei violenti. Lettura di "Inferno "12, in "Palimpsest", 10/5, 2020, online: https://doi.org/10.46763/PALIM20100043c
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan for exam preparation.
- Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules A and C) with the related texts. For part C students will have to study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci)
Textbook (part A): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022 (from the beginning to Parte quarta, cap. XII: Il Libro del Cortegiano)
Knowledge of the following volumes (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino ("Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
- Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures with the related texts (modules A, B and C). For part C students will have to study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci)
Textbook (part A and B): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022
Knowledge of the following volumes (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino ("Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
Non-attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu (part A and C): At the end of parts A and B students will find on ARIEL a detailed list of subjects and texts to be prepared (part A). For part C students will have to study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci).
Textbook (part A): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022 (from the beginning to Parte quarta, cap. XII: Il Libro del Cortegiano). Students must prepare subjects and texts also thanks to a manual of their choice. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
-Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Corrado Bologna, Paola Rocchi, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi (or Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, Mondadori Università);
- Letteratura italiana, a cura di Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher.
Knowledge of the following volumes and articles (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino (nella collana "Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
Sandra Carapezza, Lo sguardo di Sapia, in "Kepos. Rivista", 2021, online: http://www.keposrivista.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/03_CARAPEZZA_def.pdf
Sandra Carapezza, Il canto dei violenti. Lettura di "Inferno "12, in "Palimpsest", 10/5, 2020, online: https://doi.org/10.46763/PALIM20100043c
- Programme for 9 cfu: Part A and B: 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 study Dante Alighieri, Inferno VI, X, XII, XIII, XIX, XXVII; Purgatorio V, XIII, XVI; Paradiso III, XXVII (suggested ed. by Giorgio Inglese, Carocci)
Textbook (part A and B): Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Cortina, 2022. Students must prepare subjects and texts also thanks to a manual of their choice. Some manuals and anthologies are suggested here below:
-Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari, Mondadori Università
- Hermann Grosser, Il canone letterario, Principato;
- Corrado Bologna, Paola Rocchi, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Loescher.
- Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi (or Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, Mondadori Università);
- Letteratura italiana, a cura di Andrea Battistini, il Mulino;
- Claudio Marazzini, Simone Fornara, Dove 'l sì suona, Loescher.
Knowledge of the following volumes and articles (part C):
Giuseppe Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino ("Guida alle grandi opere")
Paolo Pellegrini, Dante. Una vita, Torino, Einaudi ("Piccola biblioteca")
Sandra Carapezza, Lo sguardo di Sapia, in "Kepos. Rivista", 2021, online: http://www.keposrivista.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/03_CARAPEZZA_def.pdf
Sandra Carapezza, Il canto dei violenti. Lettura di "Inferno "12, in "Palimpsest", 10/5, 2020, online: https://doi.org/10.46763/PALIM20100043c
International and Erasmus students are invited to promptly get in touch with the professor in order to arrange a reading plan for exam preparation.
Assessment methods and Criteria
- Method: The exam for 9 cfu consists of a preliminary written test on parts A and B and an oral test on part C. The exam for 6 cfu consists of an oral test on parts A and C. The written test is held in May or June, September 2022, January 2023; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam.
- Type of examination: written test (exam for 9cfu) with two open questions (a question on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the program, and a question which consists in the recognition, paraphrase and commentary of one of the texts in the program) and oral interrogation
- Length of written examination: 90 minutes
- Evaluation criteria: As for the written test, the criteria used to assess student's 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, and, for the second question, 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 work dealt with in part C: the student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess student's performance are: ability to critically organize informations from lessons and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical language;
- Type of evaluation method: Written test will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade, that will be expressed in the 30 grade point system; even if they do not pass the written test, students can be admitted to the oral test (provided that their assessment is not seriously inadequate);
- Number and types of assessment that contribute to the final evaluation: both written test and oral interrogation;
- Method of communication of the assessment results in case of written examinations: Ariel site.
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
- Type of examination: written test (exam for 9cfu) with two open questions (a question on the authors, works or literary movements listed in the program, and a question which consists in the recognition, paraphrase and commentary of one of the texts in the program) and oral interrogation
- Length of written examination: 90 minutes
- Evaluation criteria: As for the written test, the criteria used to assess student's 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, and, for the second question, 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 work dealt with in part C: the student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text. The criteria used to assess student's performance are: ability to critically organize informations from lessons and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using proper technical language;
- Type of evaluation method: Written test will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade, that will be expressed in the 30 grade point system; even if they do not pass the written test, students can be admitted to the oral test (provided that their assessment is not seriously inadequate);
- Number and types of assessment that contribute to the final evaluation: both written test and oral interrogation;
- Method of communication of the assessment results in case of written examinations: Ariel site.
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
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:
Tuesday 9.30-12.30
Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics, Unit of Modern Studies, second floor