The course aims to introduce the basic contents and instruments of Italian literature, and to provide a more specific competence on issues, moments and authors copies of Italian literary tradition, investigated in the texts and in the secondary bibliography.
Course Prerequisites
Basic Italian Literature
Teaching Methods
Lectures
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 (syllable’s number, rhythm, enjambment etc.), metrics 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, Didactics 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 authors mentioned above, including reading and commenting all the anthologized text (except for those in online resources, for which reading and/or listening is advisable); knowledge of fundamental lines of Italian literature’s history through general introductions to sections and chapters, including those not related to the authors mentioned above. 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 Inferno selected between 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).
Contents
1) The Idilli pisano recanatesi in the structure of Leopardi's Canti 2) Alessandro Manzoni, Promessi sposi, IX-X. For the reference bibliography of the course, please refer to the Italian version of the syllabus
