2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

L-FIL-LET/10 (ITALIAN LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

BIGNAMINI MAURO - 6 ECTS

Basic Italian Literature

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.

Module a (prof. MAURO BIGNAMINI)

- Fundamentals of metrical structures (in particular: rules of syllabic count, examples of lyricals forms; canzone, sestina)

- An introduction to Dante's Rime. Analysis and interpretation of selected texts with a focus on linguistic metrical and stylistic aspects in the cohesive series of "Rime petrose".
Primary Bibliography
Dante Alighieri, Rime, a cura di Claudio Giunta, Milano, Mondadori, 2014.
Id., Rime, a cura di Claudio Giunta, in Dante Alighieri, Opere, edizione diretta da Marco Santagata, a cura di Claudio Giunta, Guglielmo Gorni, Mirko Tavoni, Milano, Mondadori, 2011.
Id., Rime, a cura di Domenico De Robertis, Firenze, ed. Galluzzo, 2005.
Id. Rime della "Vita nuova" e della giovinezza, a cura di Michele Barbi e Francesco Maggini, Firenze, Le Monnier, 1956 e Rime della maturita e dell'esilio, a cura di Michele Barbi e Vincenzo Pernicone, Firenze, F. Le Monnier, 1969.
Id., Rime, a cura di Gianfranco Contini, Torino, Einaudi, 1946 [e ristampe successive].
Dante's lyric poetry, a cura di Kenelm Forster- Patrick Boyde, Oxford University Press, 1967.

Secondary Bibliography
Ignazio Baldelli, Lingua e stile nelle opere volgari di Dante, in Enciclopedia dantesca, VI, Roma, 1978, pp. 55-112.
Michele Barbi, Studi sul Canzoniere di Dante, Firenze, Sansoni, 1915;
Le Rime di Dante, Gargnano del Garda (25-27 settembre 2008), a cura di Claudia Berra e Paolo Borsa, Milano, Cisalpino, 2010 (Quaderni di Acme / Università degli studi di Milano, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia).
Patrick Boyde, Retorica e stile nella lirica di Dante, a cura di Corrado Calenda, Napoli, Liguori, 1979.
Gianfranco Contini, introduzione a Dante Alighieri, Rime, a cura di Gianfranco Contini, Torino, Einaudi, 1946 [e ristampe successive].
Robert M. Durling - Ronald L. Martinez, Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime petrose, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990.
Enrico Fenzi, Le rime per la donna Pietra, in "Miscellanea di studi danteschi", Genova 1966, pp. 3-83.
Enrico Malato, Dante, Roma, Salerno, 1999, pp. 69-137.
Id., Dante e Guido Cavalcanti. Il dissidio per la «Vita nuova» e il «disdegno» di Guido, Roma, Salerno, 2004.
Vincenzo Pernicone, Rime, in Enciclopedia dantesca, IV, Roma, 1973, pp. 952-960.

Lectures

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): G. LAVEZZI, C. BUSSOLINO, Linee di bibliografia della letteratura italiana, Pavia, University Press, 2011.
For section 3): STUSSI, Breve avviamento alla filologia italiana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.
For section 4): 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 section 5): 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).
For section 6): see Syllabus.

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) Basic bibliography.
3) Basic elements of textual criticism.
4) 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.
5) Knowledge of Dante’s Inferno.
6) Knowledge of lectures content of both module A and B.

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) Basic bibliography.
3) Basic elements of textual criticism.
4) 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.
5) Knowledge of Dante’s Inferno.
6) Knowledge of lectures content of both module A and B.