2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

L-FIL-LET/10 (ITALIAN LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

(25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

PESTARINO ROSSANO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic knowledge of Italian literature.

The course aims to introduce to the basic contents and instruments of Italian
literature, and to provide a more specific competence on issues, moments
and authors of Italian literary tradition, investigated in the texts
and in the secondary bibliography.

See "Modalità di verifica" e "Testi di riferimento" for the common part (A and B section of the course).
Section B of the course aims to illustrate the development of the "Canzoniere"-form of a poetry book, investigated through two of the major examples of the genre: Petrarch's Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta and Leopardi's Canti, consistent portions of which both will be read and discussed during classes, with a particular attention to the "making of" the two books through different manuscript versions and/or printed editions.

Bibliography: see Italian.

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 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).
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.