The course aims to introduce to the basic contents and instruments of the study of Italian literature, and to provide a more specific competence on issues, moments and authors, investigated in texts and in secondary bibliography.
Course Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the history of Italian literature.
Teaching Methods
Lectures. During classes consistent portions of
Assessment Methods
Oral examination is accessed after passing a written exam, the modalities of which will be specified at the beginning of the course. Syllabus: 1) Basic metric: verse (syllables number, rhythm, enjambment etc.), metric forms (song, sestina, triplet, sonnet, octave, ballad, madrigal, the “free” song, free verse etc.). 2) History of Italian literature through the following catalogue of authors and movements: Sicilian school, Sicilian-Tuscan school, Dolce Stil Novo, Didactic and Religious Poetry, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; Poliziano, Boiardo, Pulci, Sannazaro; Bembo and the question of language, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Ariosto, Tasso, Galileo, Marino; Goldoni, Parini, Alfieri, Monti, Foscolo, Leopardi, Manzoni, Porta, Belli, Scapigliatura, Verga, Carducci, Pascoli. 3) Knowledge of Dante’s Inferno. 4) Knowledge of lectures content of both module A and B.
Texts
For section 1 of the program it is recommended the textbook: G. LAVEZZI, I numeri della poesia. Guida alla metrica italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2002 . For section 2): designated textbook is C. BOLOGNA - P. ROCCHI, Rosa fresca aulentissima, Turin, Loescher, 2010 (edition in 7 volumes). For each volume it is required: knowledge of life and works of the authors mentioned below, including reading and commenting all the anthologized text (except for those in online resources, for which reading and/or listening is advisable); knowledge of the fundamental lines of the history of Italian literature through general introductions to the different sections and chapters, including those not related to the authors mentioned below. It is not required the knowledge of foreign authors included in the anthology. Texts requested during the examination will be selected exclusively from the designated textbook (which is therefore mandatory and not replaceable). For section3): an edition of Dante's Inferno selected among the following: ed. by E. PASQUINI e A.E. QUAGLIO (Milano, Garzanti, 1982-86); ed. by U. BOSCO e G. REGGIO (Firenze, Le Monnier, 1988); ed. by A.M. CHIAVACCI LEONARDI (Milano, Mondadori, collana “Meridiani”, 1991, o “Oscar”, 2005); ed. by V. SERMONTI (Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1996); ed. by G. INGLESE (Roma, Carocci, 2007); ed. by S. BELLOMO (Torino, Einaudi, 2013). For section 4): see Syllabus.
Contents
See "Modalità di verifica" and "Testi di riferimento" for the common part (A and B section of the course). Section B of the course aims to illustrate
Course Language
Italian
More information
The students are warmly recommended to attend classes. Those of them who won't be able to do that are requested to talk as soon as possible to the teachers, in order to define an alternative program.