ID:
511701
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUISTICA ITALIANA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide students with some bibliographical, critical and philological-linguistic tools for a more attentive, conscious and in-depth reading of Dante's Commedia and its language.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basic notions of history of Italian literature and historical grammar.
Teaching Methods
The course consists of lectures, in which the theoretical framework on Dante and the Comedy will be accompanied by the reading of critical essays and above all of some songs from Inferno. Furthermore, students will be asked to participate and discuss the interpretation of the commented passages.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam, aimed at ascertaining the knowledge of the critical bibliography and the acquisition of the main competences, among which the ability to orient oneself in reading and interpreting the canti dealt with in class. For students with special and certified conditions (see link https://portale.unipv.it/it/didattica/servizi-lo-studente/modalita-didattiche-inclusive), a specific and customised examination programme may be prepared, to be agreed in advance with the teacher.
Texts
Exam Bibliography: SAVERIO BELLOMO, Filologia e critica dantesca, Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Brescia, La Scuola: ch. XIII. PAOLA MANNI, La lingua di Dante, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013: ch. IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV. GIANFRANCO CONTINI, Esercizio d’interpretazione sopra un sonetto di Dante [1947], in ID, Un’idea di Dante. Saggi danteschi, Torino, Einaudi, 1976 (or subsequent editions), pp. 21-31. CHARLES SINGLETON, Le visuali retrospettive, in ID., La poesia della Divina Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino, 1978, pp. 463-494. NON-ATTENDING students must prepare reading and commenting on five canti of their choice from the Inferno. And in addition to the essays listed above, add the following: G. Frosini, Il volgare di Dante, in R. Rea-J. Steinberg (cur.), Dante, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 245-265. G. Ledda, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016. M. Tavoni, Dante, in Enciclopedia dell’italiano: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/dante_(Enciclopedia-dell%27Italiano)/ ERASMUS students are invited to contact the teacher to arrange the exam program.
Contents
The course aims above all to provide students with some basic notions on Dante's biography, on the history of tradition and the fortune of his works and especially of the Comedy, with hints to the linguistic context of early fourteenth-century Italy, to the philological question and to the ancient exegesis of the poem. In addition, indications will be provided to guide you through the main bibliographic tools relating to Dante and the Comedy, with particular regard to the critical editions of the 20th and 21st century and to the studies currently underway. Then the problem of the language and style of the Comedy will be addressed, starting from a fundamental fact: Dante's autographs have not been preserved. After a general framing of the poema, some canti from Inferno (in particular from the Malebolge) will be read, interpreted and analysed. And above all an in-depth linguistic reading will be made, with particular attention to the phonomorphological aspect, to the syntactic and lexical one and to the rhetorical apparatus.
Course Language
Italian
More information
The student reception takes place in the lecturer's office by appointment via e-mail: mirko.volpi@unipv.it.
Degrees
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Bachelor’s Degree
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