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

LAVEZZI GIANFRANCA (titolare) - 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 b (prof.ssa GIANFRANCA LAVEZZI)*

Two examples of collection of poems in in the nineteenth century.

Bibliography:U. Foscolo, Poesie, ed. by M. Palumbo, Milano, BUR, 2010; Opere, ed. by F. Gavazzeni, vol. 1, Milano-Napoli, Ricciardi, 1974; U. Foscolo, Poesie e tragedie, ed. by da F. Gavazzeni, Torino, Einaudi-Gallimard, 1994; M. Palumbo, Foscolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.
G. Pascoli, Myricae, ed. by G.Lavezzi, Milano, BUR, 2015;G. Pascoli, Myricae, ed. by G. Nava, Firenze, Sansoni, 1974, 2 voll.; G.Pascoli, Myricae, ed. by G. Nava, Roma, Salerno, 1991; G.Pascoli, Poesie, ed. by I. Ciani, F. Latini, Torino, UTET, 2002, vol. I; G.Pascoli, Poesie e prose scelte, ed. by C. Garboli, Milano, Mondadori ("Meridiani"), 2002, 2 voll. G. Capovilla, Pascoli, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000; M. Castoldi, Pascoli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011.
Further bibliographycal references will be given during the lectures.

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): 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 3): 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 4): 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) 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.

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.