Intellectual and cultural history

Argomento del corso Intellectual and cultural history (60 ore, 9 cfu)

Unità didattica A (20 ore, 3 cfu): Titolo unità didattica Intellectual and cultural history: methodology
Unità didattica B (20 ore, 3 cfu): Titolo unità didattica An intellectual and cultural history of Italy from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age
Unità didattica C (20 ore, 3 cfu): Titolo unità didattica An intellectual and cultural history of contemporary Italy

Il corso è rivolto a M-STO/01, M-STO/02, M-STO/0, 9 cfu

Presentazione del corso
This course will summarise the main developments in cultural and intellectual history by focusing on the history of Italy across the centuries. It will do so by intertwining three levels:
1) the role of intellectuals and the canon of 'high culture', such as literature and ideas, music and drama, painting, sculpture and architecture;
2) the production and consumption of popular culture: journalism and entertainment, sport and tourism;
3) the customs, beliefs and practices of communities: rituals of religion and rites of passage.
The first lectures will focus on methodological questions. These will be later applied to the intellectual and cultural history of Italy, considered as a country rather than a nation, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Prerequisiti Knowledge of the English language with B1 level as minimum achievement.

Risultati di apprendimento
Conoscenze: In-depth knowledge of the intellectual and cultural history of Italy and of the methodologies employed by intellectual and cultural historians.
Competenze: Reading and understanding of texts of intellectual and cultural history.

Indicazioni bibliografiche
Please see individual units.

Unità didattica A, B e C
For attending students
- David Cannadine (ed.), What is History Now?, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan 2002
- lecture notes
- one volume of choice from the list below.
Please note that if you choose a book in Italian, you will have to add an article in English.

Burckhardt, J., Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Section 1: 'The State as a Work of Art', London, Phaidon, 1965.
Ferrone, Vincenzo, The Intellectual Roots of the Italian Enlightenment, New York: Humanity Books, 1995.
Banti, Alberto Mario, La nazione del Risorgimento. Parentela, santità e onore alle origini dell'Italia unita, Torino, Einaudi, 1999 AND Lucy Riall, Martyr cults in nineteenth-century Italy, "Journal of Modern History", 82/2, 2010, pp. 255-87.
Moe, Nelson, The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question, Berkeley, University of California Press 2002.
Pivato, Stefano, Bella ciao. Canto e politica nella storia d'Italia, Roma e Bari, Laterza 2005 AND Roger Parker, Verdi politico: A wounded cliché regroups, "Journal of Modern Italian Studies", 17/4, 2012, pp. 427-436.
Berezin, Mabel, Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1997.
Gentile, Emilio, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press 1996.
Scarpellini, Emanuela, Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2011.

Unità didattica A, B e C
For non-attending students

- David Cannadine (ed.), What is History Now?, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan 2002
- two volumes of choice from the list below.
Please note that if you choose a book in Italian, you will have to add an article in English.

Burckhardt, J., Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Section 1: 'The State as a Work of Art', London, Phaidon, 1965.
Ferrone, Vincenzo, The Intellectual Roots of the Italian Enlightenment, New York: Humanity Books, 1995.
Banti, Alberto Mario, La nazione del Risorgimento. Parentela, santità e onore alle origini dell'Italia unita, Torino, Einaudi, 1999 AND Lucy Riall, Martyr cults in nineteenth-century Italy, "Journal of Modern History", 82/2, 2010, pp. 255-87.
Moe, Nelson, The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question, Berkeley, University of California Press 2002.
Pivato, Stefano, Bella ciao. Canto e politica nella storia d'Italia, Roma e Bari, Laterza 2005 AND Roger Parker, Verdi politico: A wounded cliché regroups, "Journal of Modern Italian Studies", 17/4, 2012, pp. 427-436.
Berezin, Mabel, Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1997.
Gentile, Emilio, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press 1996.
Scarpellini, Emanuela, Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2011.

Warning
Incoming national, international or Erasmus students are invited to meet the course teacher at the start of the semester.
The examination procedure for students with disability and/or with DSA will have to be discussed with the course teacher and the relevant Office.

Program for Erasmus students
If requested, incoming Erasmus students may take the exam in English after agreeing a reading programme with the professor.

02/08/2018