Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/10 (ITALIAN LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Basic Italian Literature
Learning outcomes
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 contents
Analysis of exemplary poetic texts: Scuola Siciliana, Dante (Rime), Petrarca (Canzoniere), Ariosto (Orlando Furioso), Tasso (Gerusalemme liberata), Leopardi (Canti).
Primary sources:
Poeti della scuola siciliana, voll. I e II, a cura di R. Antonelli e C. Di Girolamo, Milano, Mondadori, 2008.
Dante Alighieri, 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 (per le sole Rime è disponibile anche l'ed. economica del 2014). Oppure, Rime, a cura di Domenico De Robertis, Firenze, ed. Galluzzo, 2005.
F. Petrarca, Il canzoniere, a cura di Marco Santagata, Milano, Mondadori, 1996 (disponibile anche nella ristampa “Oscar Mondadori”); Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a cura di Rosanna Bettarini, Torino, Einaudi, 2005.
L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, a cura di Lanfranco Caretti, Torino, Einaudi, 1966 (e ristampe successive), oppure l’ed. a cura di Emilio Bigi, Milano, Rizzoli (BUR), 2012.
T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, a cura di Lanfranco Caretti, Torino, Einaudi, 1971 (e ristampe successive).
G. Leopardi, Canti, a cura di Franco Gavazzeni; note di Franco Gavazzeni e Maria Maddalena Lombardi, Milano, Rizzoli, 1998 (e ristampe successive).
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
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.
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.
Further information
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.
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