Italian Literature
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with a critical expertise 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
Knowledge: 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.
Competence: 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.
Competence: 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 can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
A-De
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Part A (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Italian literature: from the beginnings to Renaissance Humanism [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part B (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Italian literature: from the Renaissance to Baroque [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part C (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Dante's Vita nova [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part D (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Rhetorics and metrics through analysis of texts. Bibliographical guidelines and citations [Prof. Matteo Bosisio]
The course addresses Humanities students whose surname begins with A-De (12 ECTS) and Liberal Studies in Communication students (6/9 ECTS) enrolled in the academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021; the latter will prepare either teaching units A and C (6 ECTS - oral exam) or A, B, C (9 ECTS - written and oral exam).
Parts A and B will deal with the following subjects:
- Sicilian School;
- 13th century Tuscan poetry;
- Dolce Stil Novo;
- Dante Alighieri;
- Francesco Petrarca (Canzoniere);
- Giovanni Boccaccio (Decameron);
- Renaissance Humanism;
- literature in the Florence of the Medici: Luigi Pulci (Morgante); Lorenzo de' Medici; Poliziano (Stanze per la giostra);
- Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando innamorato)
- Petrarchism;
- the genre of treatise in 16th century: Pietro Bembo (Prose della volgar lingua) and Castiglione (Libro del Cortegiano);
- Niccolò Machiavelli (Principe, Mandragola);
- Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando furioso);
- Torquato Tasso (Gerusalemme liberata);
- Giovan Battista Marino (Adone) and Baroque poetry;
- Galileo Galilei.
Part C will focus on Dante Alighieri's Vita nova, of which particularly significant moments and critical issues will be analyzed.
Part D will provide students with basic knowledge in rhetorical figures and poetic forms also through analysis of texts, along with bibliographical guidelines.
Part B (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Italian literature: from the Renaissance to Baroque [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part C (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Dante's Vita nova [Prof. Gabriele Baldassari]
Part D (20 hours, 3 ECTS-credits): Rhetorics and metrics through analysis of texts. Bibliographical guidelines and citations [Prof. Matteo Bosisio]
The course addresses Humanities students whose surname begins with A-De (12 ECTS) and Liberal Studies in Communication students (6/9 ECTS) enrolled in the academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021; the latter will prepare either teaching units A and C (6 ECTS - oral exam) or A, B, C (9 ECTS - written and oral exam).
Parts A and B will deal with the following subjects:
- Sicilian School;
- 13th century Tuscan poetry;
- Dolce Stil Novo;
- Dante Alighieri;
- Francesco Petrarca (Canzoniere);
- Giovanni Boccaccio (Decameron);
- Renaissance Humanism;
- literature in the Florence of the Medici: Luigi Pulci (Morgante); Lorenzo de' Medici; Poliziano (Stanze per la giostra);
- Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando innamorato)
- Petrarchism;
- the genre of treatise in 16th century: Pietro Bembo (Prose della volgar lingua) and Castiglione (Libro del Cortegiano);
- Niccolò Machiavelli (Principe, Mandragola);
- Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando furioso);
- Torquato Tasso (Gerusalemme liberata);
- Giovan Battista Marino (Adone) and Baroque poetry;
- Galileo Galilei.
Part C will focus on Dante Alighieri's Vita nova, of which particularly significant moments and critical issues will be analyzed.
Part D will provide students with basic knowledge in rhetorical figures and poetic forms also 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 25 in the section "Text comprehension" 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 2023 must consult the Course website page about OFA.
Teaching methods
Also thanks to slides' projections, 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 slides will be available on Ariel.
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.
Lessons devoted to Dante's Vita nova will consider aspects and issues of the work at different levels, with the intention of familiarizing students with the complexity of an ancient text and the methods employed in its interpretation.
Also through Module D, students will be introduced to tools and methods of analysis and learn the vocabulary of the discipline. Through multiple examples and lessons specifically devoted to selected texts, the main metrical and rhetorical notions will be brought into focus and students will be introduced to stylistic analysis.
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.
Lessons devoted to Dante's Vita nova will consider aspects and issues of the work at different levels, with the intention of familiarizing students with the complexity of an ancient text and the methods employed in its interpretation.
Also through Module D, students will be introduced to tools and methods of analysis and learn the vocabulary of the discipline. Through multiple examples and lessons specifically devoted to selected texts, the main metrical and rhetorical notions will be brought into focus and students will be introduced to stylistic analysis.
Teaching Resources
Attending students
For parts A and B, students must prepare pp. 1-240 of Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, edited by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milan, Cortina, 2022 (for part A pp. 1-127) and related topics in literary history on a textbook of their choice (information will be given in the course presentation, which will then be available on Ariel).
The following texts from the same book should be prepared especially for the paraphrase part:
- part A: Giacomo da Lentini, Amore è uno disio (pp. 7-8); Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (pp. 17-20); Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira (pp. 20-21); Guido Cavalcanti, Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente (pp. 21-22); Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io (pp. 32-33); Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar vogli'esser aspro (pp. 33-37); Francesco Petrarca, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono (pp. 64-65); Francesco Petrarca, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi (pp. 68-69); Francesco Petrarca, La vita fugge, et non s'arresta una hora (pp. 74-75); Francesco Petrarca, Zephiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena (pp. 75-76); Angelo Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra I 8-24 (pp. 119- 124); Lorenzo de' Medici, Canzona di Bacco (pp. 125-127); Matteo Maria Boiardo, Inamoramento de Orlando I i 1-3 (pp. 131-132);
- part B: Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo e d'ambra tersa e pura (p. 152); Francesco Berni, Chiome d'argento fino, irte e attorte (pp. 153-154); Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal, che 'n una o 'n due (pp. 156-157); Baldassarre Castiglione, Libro del Cortegiano I xxvi (pp. 161-163); Niccolò Machiavelli, Lettera a Francesco Vettori del 10 dicembre 1513 (pp. 168-174); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso I 1-4 (pp. 190-191); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso XII 1-22 (pp. 191-198); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5 (pp. 216-218); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata III 16-31 (pp. 218-223); Giambattista Marino, Adone III 156-161 (pp. 227-229); Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore 21 (pp. 237-240).
For Part C, students must prepare:
- Dante, Vita nova, edited by Stefano Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), with the Introduction;
- Roberto Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci;
- lecture notes.
Other optional readings will be suggested in the course of the lectures.
The materials covered in Part D will be published in advance in Ariel. For the same part, students should prepare the following volumes (limited to the indicated chapters):
- Pietro G. Beltrami, "Gli strumenti della poesia," Bologna, il Mulino, 1996 and later editions (Chapter II. Contare le sillabe; chapter III. L'accento; chapter IV. I versi italiani; chapter V. La rima; chapter VI. Verso e rime nella storia della metrica regolare italiana; chapter VII. Forme regolate e forme fisse: A. Canzone, §§ 152-164; B. Sonetto; C. Ballata, §§ 190-191 and 193-199; E. Terza rima; F. Ottava rima; Chapter X. Le forme metriche nella storia della poesia italiana).
- Bice Mortara Garavelli, "Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche," Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2010 and later editions.
Non-attending students
For parts A and B, students must prepare pp. 1-240 of Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, edited by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milan, Cortina, 2022 (for part A pp. 1-127) and related topics in literary history on a textbook of their choice (information will be given in the course presentation, which will then be available on Ariel).
The following texts from the same book should be prepared especially for the paraphrase part:
- part A: Giacomo da Lentini, Amore è uno disio (pp. 7-8); Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (pp. 17-20); Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira (pp. 20-21); Guido Cavalcanti, Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente (pp. 21-22); Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io (pp. 32-33); Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar vogli'esser aspro (pp. 33-37); Francesco Petrarca, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono (pp. 64-65); Francesco Petrarca, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi (pp. 68-69); Francesco Petrarca, La vita fugge, et non s'arresta una hora (pp. 74-75); Francesco Petrarca, Zephiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena (pp. 75-76); Angelo Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra I 8-24 (pp. 119- 124); Lorenzo de' Medici, Canzona di Bacco (pp. 125-127); Matteo Maria Boiardo, Inamoramento de Orlando I i 1-3 (pp. 131-132);
- part B: Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo e d'ambra tersa e pura (p. 152); Francesco Berni, Chiome d'argento fino, irte e attorte (pp. 153-154); Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal, che 'n una o 'n due (pp. 156-157); Baldassarre Castiglione, Libro del Cortegiano I xxvi (pp. 161-163); Niccolò Machiavelli, Lettera a Francesco Vettori del 10 dicembre 1513 (pp. 168-174); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso I 1-4 (pp. 190-191); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso XII 1-22 (pp. 191-198); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5 (pp. 216-218); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata III 16-31 (pp. 218-223); Giambattista Marino, Adone III 156-161 (pp. 227-229); Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore 21 (pp. 237-240).
For Part C, students must prepare:
- Dante, Vita nova, edited by Luca Carlo Rossi, Milano, Mondadori (Oscar), with the Introduction and the Afterword;
- Roberto Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci.
Other optional readings will be suggested in the course of the lectures.
For Part D, in addition to the two books indicated for attending students, nonattending students should prepare one volume of their choice from the following ones:
- Guglielmo Gorni, «Metrica e analisi letteraria», Bologna, il Mulino, 1993 (part I. Le forme primarie del testo poetico).
- Andrea Afribo, «Petrarca e petrarchismo», Roma, Carocci, 2009 (part I. Petrarca).
- Fabio Magro e Arnaldo Soldani, «Il sonetto italiano. Dalle origini a oggi», Roma, Carocci, 2017 (chapter 1. La forma, il genere; chapter 2. Le origini; capitolo 3. Petrarca e il Trecento).
For parts A and B, students must prepare pp. 1-240 of Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, edited by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milan, Cortina, 2022 (for part A pp. 1-127) and related topics in literary history on a textbook of their choice (information will be given in the course presentation, which will then be available on Ariel).
The following texts from the same book should be prepared especially for the paraphrase part:
- part A: Giacomo da Lentini, Amore è uno disio (pp. 7-8); Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (pp. 17-20); Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira (pp. 20-21); Guido Cavalcanti, Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente (pp. 21-22); Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io (pp. 32-33); Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar vogli'esser aspro (pp. 33-37); Francesco Petrarca, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono (pp. 64-65); Francesco Petrarca, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi (pp. 68-69); Francesco Petrarca, La vita fugge, et non s'arresta una hora (pp. 74-75); Francesco Petrarca, Zephiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena (pp. 75-76); Angelo Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra I 8-24 (pp. 119- 124); Lorenzo de' Medici, Canzona di Bacco (pp. 125-127); Matteo Maria Boiardo, Inamoramento de Orlando I i 1-3 (pp. 131-132);
- part B: Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo e d'ambra tersa e pura (p. 152); Francesco Berni, Chiome d'argento fino, irte e attorte (pp. 153-154); Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal, che 'n una o 'n due (pp. 156-157); Baldassarre Castiglione, Libro del Cortegiano I xxvi (pp. 161-163); Niccolò Machiavelli, Lettera a Francesco Vettori del 10 dicembre 1513 (pp. 168-174); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso I 1-4 (pp. 190-191); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso XII 1-22 (pp. 191-198); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5 (pp. 216-218); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata III 16-31 (pp. 218-223); Giambattista Marino, Adone III 156-161 (pp. 227-229); Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore 21 (pp. 237-240).
For Part C, students must prepare:
- Dante, Vita nova, edited by Stefano Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli (Bur), with the Introduction;
- Roberto Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci;
- lecture notes.
Other optional readings will be suggested in the course of the lectures.
The materials covered in Part D will be published in advance in Ariel. For the same part, students should prepare the following volumes (limited to the indicated chapters):
- Pietro G. Beltrami, "Gli strumenti della poesia," Bologna, il Mulino, 1996 and later editions (Chapter II. Contare le sillabe; chapter III. L'accento; chapter IV. I versi italiani; chapter V. La rima; chapter VI. Verso e rime nella storia della metrica regolare italiana; chapter VII. Forme regolate e forme fisse: A. Canzone, §§ 152-164; B. Sonetto; C. Ballata, §§ 190-191 and 193-199; E. Terza rima; F. Ottava rima; Chapter X. Le forme metriche nella storia della poesia italiana).
- Bice Mortara Garavelli, "Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche," Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2010 and later editions.
Non-attending students
For parts A and B, students must prepare pp. 1-240 of Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni, edited by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milan, Cortina, 2022 (for part A pp. 1-127) and related topics in literary history on a textbook of their choice (information will be given in the course presentation, which will then be available on Ariel).
The following texts from the same book should be prepared especially for the paraphrase part:
- part A: Giacomo da Lentini, Amore è uno disio (pp. 7-8); Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (pp. 17-20); Guido Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira (pp. 20-21); Guido Cavalcanti, Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente (pp. 21-22); Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io (pp. 32-33); Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar vogli'esser aspro (pp. 33-37); Francesco Petrarca, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono (pp. 64-65); Francesco Petrarca, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi (pp. 68-69); Francesco Petrarca, La vita fugge, et non s'arresta una hora (pp. 74-75); Francesco Petrarca, Zephiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena (pp. 75-76); Angelo Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra I 8-24 (pp. 119- 124); Lorenzo de' Medici, Canzona di Bacco (pp. 125-127); Matteo Maria Boiardo, Inamoramento de Orlando I i 1-3 (pp. 131-132);
- part B: Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo e d'ambra tersa e pura (p. 152); Francesco Berni, Chiome d'argento fino, irte e attorte (pp. 153-154); Giovanni della Casa, Questa vita mortal, che 'n una o 'n due (pp. 156-157); Baldassarre Castiglione, Libro del Cortegiano I xxvi (pp. 161-163); Niccolò Machiavelli, Lettera a Francesco Vettori del 10 dicembre 1513 (pp. 168-174); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso I 1-4 (pp. 190-191); Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso XII 1-22 (pp. 191-198); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5 (pp. 216-218); Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata III 16-31 (pp. 218-223); Giambattista Marino, Adone III 156-161 (pp. 227-229); Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore 21 (pp. 237-240).
For Part C, students must prepare:
- Dante, Vita nova, edited by Luca Carlo Rossi, Milano, Mondadori (Oscar), with the Introduction and the Afterword;
- Roberto Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci.
Other optional readings will be suggested in the course of the lectures.
For Part D, in addition to the two books indicated for attending students, nonattending students should prepare one volume of their choice from the following ones:
- Guglielmo Gorni, «Metrica e analisi letteraria», Bologna, il Mulino, 1993 (part I. Le forme primarie del testo poetico).
- Andrea Afribo, «Petrarca e petrarchismo», Roma, Carocci, 2009 (part I. Petrarca).
- Fabio Magro e Arnaldo Soldani, «Il sonetto italiano. Dalle origini a oggi», Roma, Carocci, 2017 (chapter 1. La forma, il genere; chapter 2. Le origini; capitolo 3. Petrarca e il Trecento).
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 on part D (only C for a 9 ECTS exam). The 6 ECTS exam consists of an oral test on teaching parts A and C.
The written test will be held in December 2023 (allowing to attend the oral exam only from the January appeal), February (allowing to attend the oral exam only from the June appeal), May and September 2024; 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. The passing of the written test is valid for one year. Grades of the written test will be published on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test has to be completed within 100 minutes and consists of three open-ended questions: a question focusing on one of the works or authors or schools on the syllabus, a question requiring one to comment on a text from the anthology by bringing it back to aspects and issues of literary history, and a question consisting of paraphrasing one text and answering some comprehension questions. Students who had to take the OFA course of Text comprehension 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 test on parts C and D consists of an interview on fundamental topics of the work dealt with in part C and on poetic forms, meters and rhetorical figures 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 (minimum passing grade 18), 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 professors in office hours for information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teachers in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services
The written test will be held in December 2023 (allowing to attend the oral exam only from the January appeal), February (allowing to attend the oral exam only from the June appeal), May and September 2024; 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. The passing of the written test is valid for one year. Grades of the written test will be published on Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test has to be completed within 100 minutes and consists of three open-ended questions: a question focusing on one of the works or authors or schools on the syllabus, a question requiring one to comment on a text from the anthology by bringing it back to aspects and issues of literary history, and a question consisting of paraphrasing one text and answering some comprehension questions. Students who had to take the OFA course of Text comprehension 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 test on parts C and D consists of an interview on fundamental topics of the work dealt with in part C and on poetic forms, meters and rhetorical figures 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 (minimum passing grade 18), 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 professors in office hours for information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teachers 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:
Bosisio Matteo
Di-N
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Course of 80 hours, 12 ECTS:
Part A (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Italian literature of the beginnings [Stefania Baragetti]
Part B (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Italian literature from Renaissance Humanism to Baroque [Stefania Baragetti]
Part C (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Between literature and history: "The Prince" of Niccolò Machiavelli [Stefania Baragetti]
Part D (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Elements of prosody, metre and rhetoric through analysis of texts [Giada Guassardo]
The course addresses Humanities students whose surname begins with Di-N (12 ECTS - written and oral exam - units A, B, C, D) and Liberal Studies in Communication students (6/9 ECTS); the latter will prepare either teaching units A and C (6 ECTS - oral exam) or A, B, C (9 ECTS - written and oral exam).
The course is divided into four parts. Parts A (from Sicilian School to Petrarca) and B (from Renaissance Humanism to Baroque) will deal with the following subjects: Sicilian School and 13th century Tuscan poetry; Dolce Stil Novo; Dante Alighieri (with particular regard to "Rime", "Vita nova"); Francesco Petrarca (with particular regard to "Canzoniere"); Boccaccio ("Decameron"); Renaissance Humanism; the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici, Poliziano ("Stanze per la giostra"), Luigi Pulci ("Morgante"); Matteo Maria Boiardo ("Orlando innamorato"); Petrarchism; the genre of treatise in 16th century (Pietro Bembo, Baldassarre Castiglione, Francesco Guicciardini); Ludovico Ariosto (with particular regard to "Orlando furioso"); Torquato Tasso (with particular regard to "Gerusalemme liberata"); the Baroque poetry (Giovan Battista Marino), Galileo Galilei and the Scientific Revolution ("Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo", "Il Saggiatore").
Part C will focus on the reading and commentary of Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince".
Part D will provide students with basic knowledge in rhetorical figures and poetic forms through analysis of texts, along with bibliographical guidelines.
Part A (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Italian literature of the beginnings [Stefania Baragetti]
Part B (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Italian literature from Renaissance Humanism to Baroque [Stefania Baragetti]
Part C (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Between literature and history: "The Prince" of Niccolò Machiavelli [Stefania Baragetti]
Part D (20 hours, 3 ECTS): Elements of prosody, metre and rhetoric through analysis of texts [Giada Guassardo]
The course addresses Humanities students whose surname begins with Di-N (12 ECTS - written and oral exam - units A, B, C, D) and Liberal Studies in Communication students (6/9 ECTS); the latter will prepare either teaching units A and C (6 ECTS - oral exam) or A, B, C (9 ECTS - written and oral exam).
The course is divided into four parts. Parts A (from Sicilian School to Petrarca) and B (from Renaissance Humanism to Baroque) will deal with the following subjects: Sicilian School and 13th century Tuscan poetry; Dolce Stil Novo; Dante Alighieri (with particular regard to "Rime", "Vita nova"); Francesco Petrarca (with particular regard to "Canzoniere"); Boccaccio ("Decameron"); Renaissance Humanism; the Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici, Poliziano ("Stanze per la giostra"), Luigi Pulci ("Morgante"); Matteo Maria Boiardo ("Orlando innamorato"); Petrarchism; the genre of treatise in 16th century (Pietro Bembo, Baldassarre Castiglione, Francesco Guicciardini); Ludovico Ariosto (with particular regard to "Orlando furioso"); Torquato Tasso (with particular regard to "Gerusalemme liberata"); the Baroque poetry (Giovan Battista Marino), Galileo Galilei and the Scientific Revolution ("Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo", "Il Saggiatore").
Part C will focus on the reading and commentary of Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince".
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 25 in the section "Text comprehension" 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 2023 must consult the Course website page about OFA.
Teaching methods
Attendance to classes is strongly recommended although not compulsory. Frontal lectures aim primarily at the acquisition of knowledge and the appropriate specialized vocabulary.
Parts A and B will be taught on texts included in the booklet. Slide projections will also be used. The lectures of parts A and B will focus on movements, authors, literary works and their cultural context (from the beginnings to Baroque); on the main critical problems of each topic and text (through the reading of critical essays); on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects.
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 part C, the integral reading of Machiavelli's "The Prince" will provide to investigate the author's historical, literary and cultural context; and the composition phases, structure, linguistic and stylistic choices, models and purpose of the text.
Through the reading and analysis of Italian poems, part D will focus on metrical and rhetorical aspects, allowing students to learn the basic elements of the discipline through direct contact with the text.
All the slides projected during the lessons will be available on Ariel.
Non-attending students have to obtain the materials indicated in this program and to contact the teacher via email or during reception hours.
Parts A and B will be taught on texts included in the booklet. Slide projections will also be used. The lectures of parts A and B will focus on movements, authors, literary works and their cultural context (from the beginnings to Baroque); on the main critical problems of each topic and text (through the reading of critical essays); on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects.
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 part C, the integral reading of Machiavelli's "The Prince" will provide to investigate the author's historical, literary and cultural context; and the composition phases, structure, linguistic and stylistic choices, models and purpose of the text.
Through the reading and analysis of Italian poems, part D will focus on metrical and rhetorical aspects, allowing students to learn the basic elements of the discipline through direct contact with the text.
All the slides projected during the lessons will be available on Ariel.
Non-attending students have to obtain the materials indicated in this program and to contact the teacher via email or during reception hours.
Teaching Resources
Attending students
Parts A and B
Students must prepare topics and texts using a handbooks of their own choice and this collection of texts: "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022). To consolidate the historical and literary framework and the knowledge of the authors and works analyzed, the students are free to choose the handbook of Italian literature. Some handbooks 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 beginning of the course, students will find on Ariel a detailed list of texts (parts A and B) to be prepared for the exam.
Part C
Students have to read:
1. "The Prince". Suggested edition: Niccolò Machiavelli, "Il Principe", ed. by Raffaele Ruggiero, Milano, Rizzoli-BUR, 2008 (or subsequent reprints).
2. The letter of Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori (10 December 1513) in "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022, pp. 168-174.
Students have to study the following essays in the volume "Machiavelli", ed. by Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina and Raffaele Ruggiero, Roma, Carocci, 2018:
1. Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina, "Tra Firenze e l'Europa: i tempi e la vita di Niccolò Machiavelli", pp. 17-43.
2. Gian Mario Anselmi, "Il Principe e i Discorsi", pp. 71-95.
3. Raffaele Ruggiero, "Lingua e stile", pp. 185-201.
During the lessons, optional critical readings will be indicated on Ariel.
Part D
Students shall prepare using the dedicated digital resources, e.g. PowerPoint presentations (which will be made available on Ariel) and in addition the following books:
Pietro G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, capp. I-VII (pp. 11-144).
Bice Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2011.
It is expected that the subjects illustrated during class lessons will be learned not only as theoretical notions but also — and especially — as tools to be applied in the close reading of texts. Students shall be able to scan verses, to measure their length, to distinguish between poetic forms (e.g. sonnet or canzone) and to recognise the rhetorical figures employed in the texts they will be presented with during the exam. These will be drawn from Antologia della letteratura italiana, edited by Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Milan, Cortina, 2022. Special attention must be dedicated to the following:
Guittone d'Arezzo, Ahi lasso!, or è stagion de doler tanto, vv. 1-15 (p. 11)
Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (pp. 17-20)
Guido Cavalcanti, Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente (pp. 21-22)
Cino da Pistoia, Poscia che saziar non posso li occhi miei (p. 22)
Dante Alighieri, Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (pp. 28-31)
Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io (pp. 32-33)
Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar vogli' esser aspro (pp. 33-37)
Francesco Petrarca, Rvf, 22 (pp. 65-67)
Francesco Petrarca, Rvf, 90 (pp. 68-69)
Francesco Petrarca, Rvf, 128 (pp. 69-75)
Angelo Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra, I, 8-24 (pp. 119-124)
Luigi Pulci, Morgante, XVIII, 112-120 (pp. 116-119)
Lorenzo de' Medici, Canzona di Bacco (pp. 125-127)
Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo e d'ambra tersa e pura (p. 152)
Giovanni Della Casa, Questa vita mortal, che 'n una o 'n due (pp. 156-167)
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, I, 1-4 (pp. 190-191)
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, XII, 1-22 (pp. 191-198)
Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, I, 1-5 (pp. 216-218)
Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, III, 16-31 (pp. 218-223)
Giambattista Marino, Adone X, ottave 39-47 (pp. 229-232)
Further resources will be uploaded to Ariel over the weeks.
Non-attending students
Parts A and B
Students must prepare topics and texts using a handbooks of their own choice and this collection of texts: "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022). To consolidate the historical and literary framework and the knowledge of the authors and works analyzed, the students are free to choose the handbook of Italian literature. Some handbooks 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 beginning of the course, students will find on Ariel a detailed list of texts (parts A and B) to be prepared for the exam.
Part C
Students have to read:
· "The Prince". Suggested edition: Niccolò Machiavelli, "Il Principe", ed. by Raffaele Ruggiero, Milano, Rizzoli-BUR, 2008 (or subsequent reprints).
· The letter of Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori (10 December 1513) in "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022, pp. 168-174.
Students have to study:
1. Riccardo Bruscagli, "Machiavelli", Bologna, il Mulino, 2008, pp. 35-125.
2. The following essays in the volume "Machiavelli", ed. by Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina and Raffaele Ruggiero, Roma, Carocci, 2018:
· Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina, "Tra Firenze e l'Europa: i tempi e la vita di Niccolò Machiavelli", pp. 17-43.
· Gian Mario Anselmi, "Il Principe e i Discorsi", pp. 71-95.
· Raffaele Ruggiero, "Lingua e stile", pp. 185-201.
During the lessons, optional critical readings will be indicated on Ariel.
Part D
Non-attending students are required to refer to the same examination programme and in addition to choose two readings from the following list:
1) Andrea Afribo, Petrarca e petrarchismo. Capitoli di lingua, stile e metrica, Bologna, Carocci, 2009, 2. La rima nei Fragmenta, pp. 35-61;
2) Luigi Blasucci, Lettura metrica (ma non solo) di un segmento della pazzia di Orlando («Furioso», XXIII, 100-15), in Sulla struttura metrica del «Furioso» e altri studi ariosteschi, Florence, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014, pp. 133-166;
3) Guglielmo Gorni, Le forme primarie del testo poetico, I. La canzone, in Metrica e analisi letteraria, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993, pp. 15-62;
4) Fabio Magro, Arnaldo Soldani, Il sonetto italiano. Dalle origini a oggi, Rome, Carocci, 2017, 2. Le origini, pp. 23-39.
Parts A and B
Students must prepare topics and texts using a handbooks of their own choice and this collection of texts: "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022). To consolidate the historical and literary framework and the knowledge of the authors and works analyzed, the students are free to choose the handbook of Italian literature. Some handbooks 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 beginning of the course, students will find on Ariel a detailed list of texts (parts A and B) to be prepared for the exam.
Part C
Students have to read:
1. "The Prince". Suggested edition: Niccolò Machiavelli, "Il Principe", ed. by Raffaele Ruggiero, Milano, Rizzoli-BUR, 2008 (or subsequent reprints).
2. The letter of Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori (10 December 1513) in "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022, pp. 168-174.
Students have to study the following essays in the volume "Machiavelli", ed. by Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina and Raffaele Ruggiero, Roma, Carocci, 2018:
1. Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina, "Tra Firenze e l'Europa: i tempi e la vita di Niccolò Machiavelli", pp. 17-43.
2. Gian Mario Anselmi, "Il Principe e i Discorsi", pp. 71-95.
3. Raffaele Ruggiero, "Lingua e stile", pp. 185-201.
During the lessons, optional critical readings will be indicated on Ariel.
Part D
Students shall prepare using the dedicated digital resources, e.g. PowerPoint presentations (which will be made available on Ariel) and in addition the following books:
Pietro G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, capp. I-VII (pp. 11-144).
Bice Mortara Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2011.
It is expected that the subjects illustrated during class lessons will be learned not only as theoretical notions but also — and especially — as tools to be applied in the close reading of texts. Students shall be able to scan verses, to measure their length, to distinguish between poetic forms (e.g. sonnet or canzone) and to recognise the rhetorical figures employed in the texts they will be presented with during the exam. These will be drawn from Antologia della letteratura italiana, edited by Gabriele Baldassari, Guglielmo Barucci, Milan, Cortina, 2022. Special attention must be dedicated to the following:
Guittone d'Arezzo, Ahi lasso!, or è stagion de doler tanto, vv. 1-15 (p. 11)
Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (pp. 17-20)
Guido Cavalcanti, Tu m'hai sì piena di dolor la mente (pp. 21-22)
Cino da Pistoia, Poscia che saziar non posso li occhi miei (p. 22)
Dante Alighieri, Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (pp. 28-31)
Dante Alighieri, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io (pp. 32-33)
Dante Alighieri, Così nel mio parlar vogli' esser aspro (pp. 33-37)
Francesco Petrarca, Rvf, 22 (pp. 65-67)
Francesco Petrarca, Rvf, 90 (pp. 68-69)
Francesco Petrarca, Rvf, 128 (pp. 69-75)
Angelo Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra, I, 8-24 (pp. 119-124)
Luigi Pulci, Morgante, XVIII, 112-120 (pp. 116-119)
Lorenzo de' Medici, Canzona di Bacco (pp. 125-127)
Pietro Bembo, Crin d'oro crespo e d'ambra tersa e pura (p. 152)
Giovanni Della Casa, Questa vita mortal, che 'n una o 'n due (pp. 156-167)
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, I, 1-4 (pp. 190-191)
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, XII, 1-22 (pp. 191-198)
Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, I, 1-5 (pp. 216-218)
Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, III, 16-31 (pp. 218-223)
Giambattista Marino, Adone X, ottave 39-47 (pp. 229-232)
Further resources will be uploaded to Ariel over the weeks.
Non-attending students
Parts A and B
Students must prepare topics and texts using a handbooks of their own choice and this collection of texts: "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022). To consolidate the historical and literary framework and the knowledge of the authors and works analyzed, the students are free to choose the handbook of Italian literature. Some handbooks 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 beginning of the course, students will find on Ariel a detailed list of texts (parts A and B) to be prepared for the exam.
Part C
Students have to read:
· "The Prince". Suggested edition: Niccolò Machiavelli, "Il Principe", ed. by Raffaele Ruggiero, Milano, Rizzoli-BUR, 2008 (or subsequent reprints).
· The letter of Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori (10 December 1513) in "Antologia della letteratura italiana. Dalla Scuola poetica siciliana a Alessandro Manzoni", ed. by Gabriele Baldassari and Guglielmo Barucci, Milano, Cortina, 2022, pp. 168-174.
Students have to study:
1. Riccardo Bruscagli, "Machiavelli", Bologna, il Mulino, 2008, pp. 35-125.
2. The following essays in the volume "Machiavelli", ed. by Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina and Raffaele Ruggiero, Roma, Carocci, 2018:
· Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina, "Tra Firenze e l'Europa: i tempi e la vita di Niccolò Machiavelli", pp. 17-43.
· Gian Mario Anselmi, "Il Principe e i Discorsi", pp. 71-95.
· Raffaele Ruggiero, "Lingua e stile", pp. 185-201.
During the lessons, optional critical readings will be indicated on Ariel.
Part D
Non-attending students are required to refer to the same examination programme and in addition to choose two readings from the following list:
1) Andrea Afribo, Petrarca e petrarchismo. Capitoli di lingua, stile e metrica, Bologna, Carocci, 2009, 2. La rima nei Fragmenta, pp. 35-61;
2) Luigi Blasucci, Lettura metrica (ma non solo) di un segmento della pazzia di Orlando («Furioso», XXIII, 100-15), in Sulla struttura metrica del «Furioso» e altri studi ariosteschi, Florence, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014, pp. 133-166;
3) Guglielmo Gorni, Le forme primarie del testo poetico, I. La canzone, in Metrica e analisi letteraria, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993, pp. 15-62;
4) Fabio Magro, Arnaldo Soldani, Il sonetto italiano. Dalle origini a oggi, Rome, Carocci, 2017, 2. Le origini, pp. 23-39.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assessment methods: the 6 ECTS exam consists of an oral test on teaching parts A and C. The exam for 12 or 9 ECTS 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 written test will be held in December 2023 (oral test from January 2024), February 2024 (oral test from June 2024), May and September 2024; 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.
Type of test: the written test has to be completed within 90 minutes and consists of three open-ended questions: the first concerns one of the literary works or authors or schools on the syllabus, the second the comment of a text from the anthology; the third consists in the paraphrase of one of the texts from the anthology and in few short questions about it. Students who had to take the support course (OFA, "Text comprehension") and have passed its final exam will not have to take the third question.
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 analyzed during the lessons of the part D. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text.
Criteria: the criteria used to evaluate the written test are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the right formal register and to use the appropriate specialized vocabulary, and, for the third question, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text.
The criteria used to assess the oral test are: ability to critically organize information from lectures and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using the appropriate technical language.
Grade: the final grade will be determined in 30s, 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: the slides will be available for attending and non-attending students.
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.
The format of the exam for students with disabilities must be be defined in advance with the teacher, as well as the relevant office.
Type of test: the written test has to be completed within 90 minutes and consists of three open-ended questions: the first concerns one of the literary works or authors or schools on the syllabus, the second the comment of a text from the anthology; the third consists in the paraphrase of one of the texts from the anthology and in few short questions about it. Students who had to take the support course (OFA, "Text comprehension") and have passed its final exam will not have to take the third question.
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 analyzed during the lessons of the part D. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text.
Criteria: the criteria used to evaluate the written test are relevance, completeness and correctness; the ability to elaborate an organic and coherent response, to adopt the right formal register and to use the appropriate specialized vocabulary, and, for the third question, the ability to adequately render a text showing a satisfactory knowledge of the literary language. The student will have to demonstrate a full ability to paraphrase the text.
The criteria used to assess the oral test are: ability to critically organize information from lectures and bibliography; competence to comprehensively and effectively expose problems and questions using the appropriate technical language.
Grade: the final grade will be determined in 30s, 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: the slides will be available for attending and non-attending students.
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.
The format of the exam for students with disabilities must be be defined in advance with the teacher, as well as the relevant office.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Baragetti Stefania
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Baragetti Stefania
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Baragetti Stefania
Unita' didattica D
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Guassardo Giada
O-Z
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: "History and interpretation of the literary text" (80 hours, 12 cfu)
Teaching part A (20 hours, 3 cfu): The first centuries [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching part B (20 hours, 3 cfu): From Humanism to Baroque [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching part C (20 hours, 3 cfu): "Cortegiano" by Baldassarre Castiglione and the "querelle des femmes" [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching part D (20 hours, 3 cfu): Elements of prosody, metre and rhetoric through texts of Italian literature [Sandra Carapezza]
The first year course is aimed at undergraduate Humanities students whose surname begins with O-Z. Humanities students will take a 12 cfu exam; Liberal Studies in Communication students enrolled from 2019/20 until 2020/21 and Single Course students can choose between 6 (parts A and C) and 9 cfu (parts A, B, C) and 12 (parts A, B, C, D). Students who take a 6 CFU exam will take only an oral exam.
Students who have already taken an exam of Italian literature must contact the teacher.
The teaching programme of parts A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Baroque; teaching part C is dedicated to the analysis of Baldassarre Castiglione's "Cortegiano" in its formal and cultural context; teaching part D will consist of an in-depth analysis and reading of poems and texts, providing the students with elements of metrics and rhetoric.
Teaching part A (20 hours, 3 cfu): The first centuries [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching part B (20 hours, 3 cfu): From Humanism to Baroque [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching part C (20 hours, 3 cfu): "Cortegiano" by Baldassarre Castiglione and the "querelle des femmes" [Sandra Carapezza]
Teaching part D (20 hours, 3 cfu): Elements of prosody, metre and rhetoric through texts of Italian literature [Sandra Carapezza]
The first year course is aimed at undergraduate Humanities students whose surname begins with O-Z. Humanities students will take a 12 cfu exam; Liberal Studies in Communication students enrolled from 2019/20 until 2020/21 and Single Course students can choose between 6 (parts A and C) and 9 cfu (parts A, B, C) and 12 (parts A, B, C, D). Students who take a 6 CFU exam will take only an oral exam.
Students who have already taken an exam of Italian literature must contact the teacher.
The teaching programme of parts A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Baroque; teaching part C is dedicated to the analysis of Baldassarre Castiglione's "Cortegiano" in its formal and cultural context; teaching part 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 25 in the section "Text comprehension" 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 must consult the Course website page about OFA.
Teaching methods
The course will be offered in a lecture format; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Teaching parts 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 part C, through the analysis of the Baldassarre Castiglione's "Cortegiano" (Terzo libro), of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature and the "querelle des femmes" will be studied in its cultural, social and political context.
Teaching part C will provide an opportunity to refine critical and formal tools and to better learn the technical lexicon.
In teaching part 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 and literary genre.
Teaching parts 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 part C, through the analysis of the Baldassarre Castiglione's "Cortegiano" (Terzo libro), of the materials provided on Ariel, and of the critical bibliography, one of the most important works of Italian literature and the "querelle des femmes" will be studied in its cultural, social and political context.
Teaching part C will provide an opportunity to refine critical and formal tools and to better learn the technical lexicon.
In teaching part 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 and literary genre.
Teaching Resources
Teaching part A
Texts to be studied in teaching parts A and B will be available on the Ariel platform (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici
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. Baldassari-Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Milano, Cortina, 2022; 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 part B
See Teaching part A.
Teaching part C
Text:
Baldassar Castiglione, "Il libro del Cortegiano", by Walter Barberis, Torino, Einaudi OR Baldassar Castiglione, "Il Libro del Cortegiano", by Amedeo Quondam, Milano, Garzanti
An overall knowledge of the work (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required; chapters specifically required for the exam wil be defined at the end of the course. Furthermore, students will study the introduction in Baldassar Castiglione "Il libro del Cortegiano" (by Barberis or by Quondam).
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Attending students will study the following texts (3 texts):
1. Francesco Sberlati, "Dalla donna di palazzo alla donna di famiglia: Pedagogia e cultura femminile tra Rinascimento e Controriforma", in "I Tatti Studies in the Italiana Renaissance", 7, 1997, pp. 119-174.
2. Angela Carella, "Il Libro del Cortegiano di Baldassarre Castiglione", in "Letteratura italiana. Le Opere", Torino, Einaudi
3, One of the following texts:
- Marina Zancan, "La donna nel Cortegiano di B. Castiglione. Le funzioni del femminile nell'immagine di corte", in "Nel cerchio della luna. Figure di donna in alcuni testi del XVI secolo", by Marina Zancan, Venezia, Marsilio, 1983, pp. 13-56.
-Valeria Finucci, "La donna di corte", in "Annali di italianistica", 7, 1989, pp. 83-103
-Claudio Scarpati, "Osservazioni sul Terzo libro del Cortegiano", in "Aevum", 66, 1992, pp. 519-537.
- Maria Luisa Doglio, "Introduzione", in Galeazzo Flavio Capra, "Della eccellenza e dignità delle donne", by Maria Luisa Doglio, Roma, Bulzoni, 2001, pp. 13-62.
- Roberta Morosini, "Lucrezia: eroina e no. Considerazioni in margine a due recenti studi sulla «onestade»", in "Intersezioni", 37/2, 2017, pp. 249-265.
- Paola Cosentino, "Tragiche eroine. Virtú femminili fra poesia drammatica e trattati sul comportamento", in "Italique", 9, 2006, pp. 68-99.
-Margarete Zimmermann, "L'eccezione veneziana. La querelle italiana nel contesto europeo", in "Conflitti culturali a Venezia dalla prima età moderna a oggi", Firenze, Cesati, 2014, pp. 181-189.
- Virginia Cox, "Moderata Fonte and The Worth of Women", in Moderata Fonte, "The Worth of Women", by Virginia Cox, University of Chicago Press, London-Chicago, 1997, pp. 1-23.
- Letizia Panizza, "Introduction to the Translation", in Lucrezia Marinella, "The nobility and excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men", niversity of Chicago Press, London-Chicago, 1999, pp. 1-34.
Teaching part D
Texts for part D will be provided on Ariel prior to the beginning of the course.
Furthermore, students will study one of the following texts:
- Pietro G. Beltrami, La metrica italiana, il Mulino, 1991, capitolo 1. Elementi di teoria metrica, capitolo 2. Profilo storico della metrica italiana (§ 2.1. Metrica italiana e metrica romanza dalle origini alla fine del Quattrocento)
- Guglielmo Gorni, Metrica e analisi letteraria, il Mulino, 1993, Parte prima. Le forme primarie del testo poetico
- Fabio Magno e Arnaldo Soldani, Il sonetto italiano dalle origini a oggi, Carocci, 2017, §§ 1. La forma, il genere, 2. Le origini, 3. Petrarca e il Trecento
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Teaching parts A and B
For teaching parts A and B, the programme is the same as for attending students.
Teaching part C
Text:
Baldassar Castiglione, "Il libro del Cortegiano", by Walter Barberis, Torino, Einaudi OR Baldassar Castiglione, "Il Libro del Cortegiano", by Amedeo Quondam, Milano, Garzanti
An overall knowledge of the work (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required; chapters specifically required for the exam wil be defined at the end of the course. Furthermore, students will study the introduction in Baldassar Castiglione "Il libro del Cortegiano" (by Barberis or by Quondam).
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Attending students will study the following texts (5 texts):
1. Francesco Sberlati, "Dalla donna di palazzo alla donna di famiglia: Pedagogia e cultura femminile tra Rinascimento e Controriforma", in "I Tatti Studies in the Italiana Renaissance", 7, 1997, pp. 119-174.
2. Angela Carella, "Il Libro del Cortegiano di Baldassarre Castiglione", in "Letteratura italiana. Le Opere", Torino, Einaudi
3. Marina Zancan, "La donna nel Cortegiano di B. Castiglione. Le funzioni del femminile nell'immagine di corte", in "Nel cerchio della luna. Figure di donna in alcuni testi del XVI secolo", by Marina Zancan, Venezia, Marsilio, 1983, pp. 13-56.
4. Valeria Finucci, "La donna di corte", in "Annali di italianistica", 7, 1989, pp. 83-103
5. Claudio Scarpati, "Osservazioni sul Terzo libro del Cortegiano", in "Aevum", 66, 1992, pp. 519-537.
Teaching part D
Non-attending students will study two of the following texts:
- Pietro G. Beltrami, La metrica italiana, il Mulino, 1991, capitolo 1. Elementi di teoria metrica, capitolo 2. Profilo storico della metrica italiana (§ 2.1. Metrica italiana e metrica romanza dalle origini alla fine del Quattrocento)
- Guglielmo Gorni, Metrica e analisi letteraria, il Mulino, 1993, Parte prima. Le forme primarie del testo poetico
- Fabio Magno e Arnaldo Soldani, Il sonetto italiano dalle origini a oggi, Carocci, 2017, §§. 1. La forma, il genere, 2. Le origini, 3. Petrarca e il Trecento
Non-attending students are strongly recommended to contact the teacher via email for further information (for the timetable, check in advance the Who and Where on Unimi homepage).
Texts to be studied in teaching parts A and B will be available on the Ariel platform (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici
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. Baldassari-Barucci, Antologia della letteratura italiana, Milano, Cortina, 2022; 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 part B
See Teaching part A.
Teaching part C
Text:
Baldassar Castiglione, "Il libro del Cortegiano", by Walter Barberis, Torino, Einaudi OR Baldassar Castiglione, "Il Libro del Cortegiano", by Amedeo Quondam, Milano, Garzanti
An overall knowledge of the work (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required; chapters specifically required for the exam wil be defined at the end of the course. Furthermore, students will study the introduction in Baldassar Castiglione "Il libro del Cortegiano" (by Barberis or by Quondam).
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Attending students will study the following texts (3 texts):
1. Francesco Sberlati, "Dalla donna di palazzo alla donna di famiglia: Pedagogia e cultura femminile tra Rinascimento e Controriforma", in "I Tatti Studies in the Italiana Renaissance", 7, 1997, pp. 119-174.
2. Angela Carella, "Il Libro del Cortegiano di Baldassarre Castiglione", in "Letteratura italiana. Le Opere", Torino, Einaudi
3, One of the following texts:
- Marina Zancan, "La donna nel Cortegiano di B. Castiglione. Le funzioni del femminile nell'immagine di corte", in "Nel cerchio della luna. Figure di donna in alcuni testi del XVI secolo", by Marina Zancan, Venezia, Marsilio, 1983, pp. 13-56.
-Valeria Finucci, "La donna di corte", in "Annali di italianistica", 7, 1989, pp. 83-103
-Claudio Scarpati, "Osservazioni sul Terzo libro del Cortegiano", in "Aevum", 66, 1992, pp. 519-537.
- Maria Luisa Doglio, "Introduzione", in Galeazzo Flavio Capra, "Della eccellenza e dignità delle donne", by Maria Luisa Doglio, Roma, Bulzoni, 2001, pp. 13-62.
- Roberta Morosini, "Lucrezia: eroina e no. Considerazioni in margine a due recenti studi sulla «onestade»", in "Intersezioni", 37/2, 2017, pp. 249-265.
- Paola Cosentino, "Tragiche eroine. Virtú femminili fra poesia drammatica e trattati sul comportamento", in "Italique", 9, 2006, pp. 68-99.
-Margarete Zimmermann, "L'eccezione veneziana. La querelle italiana nel contesto europeo", in "Conflitti culturali a Venezia dalla prima età moderna a oggi", Firenze, Cesati, 2014, pp. 181-189.
- Virginia Cox, "Moderata Fonte and The Worth of Women", in Moderata Fonte, "The Worth of Women", by Virginia Cox, University of Chicago Press, London-Chicago, 1997, pp. 1-23.
- Letizia Panizza, "Introduction to the Translation", in Lucrezia Marinella, "The nobility and excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men", niversity of Chicago Press, London-Chicago, 1999, pp. 1-34.
Teaching part D
Texts for part D will be provided on Ariel prior to the beginning of the course.
Furthermore, students will study one of the following texts:
- Pietro G. Beltrami, La metrica italiana, il Mulino, 1991, capitolo 1. Elementi di teoria metrica, capitolo 2. Profilo storico della metrica italiana (§ 2.1. Metrica italiana e metrica romanza dalle origini alla fine del Quattrocento)
- Guglielmo Gorni, Metrica e analisi letteraria, il Mulino, 1993, Parte prima. Le forme primarie del testo poetico
- Fabio Magno e Arnaldo Soldani, Il sonetto italiano dalle origini a oggi, Carocci, 2017, §§ 1. La forma, il genere, 2. Le origini, 3. Petrarca e il Trecento
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Teaching parts A and B
For teaching parts A and B, the programme is the same as for attending students.
Teaching part C
Text:
Baldassar Castiglione, "Il libro del Cortegiano", by Walter Barberis, Torino, Einaudi OR Baldassar Castiglione, "Il Libro del Cortegiano", by Amedeo Quondam, Milano, Garzanti
An overall knowledge of the work (composition, structure, plot, topics, style) is required; chapters specifically required for the exam wil be defined at the end of the course. Furthermore, students will study the introduction in Baldassar Castiglione "Il libro del Cortegiano" (by Barberis or by Quondam).
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Attending students will study the following texts (5 texts):
1. Francesco Sberlati, "Dalla donna di palazzo alla donna di famiglia: Pedagogia e cultura femminile tra Rinascimento e Controriforma", in "I Tatti Studies in the Italiana Renaissance", 7, 1997, pp. 119-174.
2. Angela Carella, "Il Libro del Cortegiano di Baldassarre Castiglione", in "Letteratura italiana. Le Opere", Torino, Einaudi
3. Marina Zancan, "La donna nel Cortegiano di B. Castiglione. Le funzioni del femminile nell'immagine di corte", in "Nel cerchio della luna. Figure di donna in alcuni testi del XVI secolo", by Marina Zancan, Venezia, Marsilio, 1983, pp. 13-56.
4. Valeria Finucci, "La donna di corte", in "Annali di italianistica", 7, 1989, pp. 83-103
5. Claudio Scarpati, "Osservazioni sul Terzo libro del Cortegiano", in "Aevum", 66, 1992, pp. 519-537.
Teaching part D
Non-attending students will study two of the following texts:
- Pietro G. Beltrami, La metrica italiana, il Mulino, 1991, capitolo 1. Elementi di teoria metrica, capitolo 2. Profilo storico della metrica italiana (§ 2.1. Metrica italiana e metrica romanza dalle origini alla fine del Quattrocento)
- Guglielmo Gorni, Metrica e analisi letteraria, il Mulino, 1993, Parte prima. Le forme primarie del testo poetico
- Fabio Magno e Arnaldo Soldani, Il sonetto italiano dalle origini a oggi, Carocci, 2017, §§. 1. La forma, il genere, 2. Le origini, 3. Petrarca e il Trecento
Non-attending students are strongly recommended to contact the teacher via email for further information (for the timetable, check in advance the Who and Where on Unimi homepage).
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam for 12 or 9 cfu consists of a preliminary written test on teaching parts A and B and an oral test on teaching parts 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 parts A and C.
The written test is held in December 2023, May and September 2024; 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 part A and part 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 OFA "Text comprehnsion" 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 part C and on poetic forms and meters. 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 December 2023, May and September 2024; 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 part A and part 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 OFA "Text comprehnsion" 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 part C and on poetic forms and meters. 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
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
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Wednesday 9.30 a.m.-1.00 p.m.
Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics, Unit of Modern Studies, first floor