Modern Curriculum

3 CFU

Lecturers: Andrea Barabino and Nicoletta Marini

Duration: one academic year (1st and 2nd semesters)

Target audience: this course is compulsory for first-year students on the Modern Curriculum and serves as a preparatory course for the Latin Literature module scheduled for the second year.

For further information, please refer to the course description

classical curriculum

Lecturer: Serena Ferrando

Term: 1st semester

Start of lectures: 7 October 2026

Time and venue: Wednesdays, 5–7 pm, Lecture Theatre 9 (Via Balbi 2)

To enrol log in to Aulaweb: [being updated]

The course’s Aulaweb portal, for communications and sharing teaching materials, will be available here: [being updated]

Target audience: this course is primarily, though not exclusively, intended for students enrolled on the Classics programme who have been assigned an Additional Educational Requirement (OFA) following the Latin entrance assessment.

Classical Studies

1 CFU

Lecturer: Lisa Longoni

Term: 1st semester

Start of lectures: to be confirmed

Time and venue: to be confirmed

To enrol, log in to the Aulaweb: [being updated]

The course’s Aulaweb portal, for communications and sharing teaching materials, will be available here: [being updated]

Target audience: This course is aimed at all students who have a good prior knowledge of Latin and wish to improve their translation skills, and in particular at students on the History of the Latin Language course (code 64890) in the second year of the Classics programme.

PRESENTATION

Translating an ancient literary text is a complex task, requiring one to navigate between the source and target languages, between rules and exceptions, and between form and content, in order to identify the most suitable solution from among the range of acceptable options. The workshop-based and dialectical approach of the course will enable participants to tackle this challenge with confidence.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The activities of the Advanced Latin Translation Course are designed to equip students with the analytical skills required to translate and interpret texts from Latin literature of medium to high complexity.

Participation in the activities of the course will enable students to acquire:

• the ability to analyse the morphosyntactic structures of texts from ancient Latin literature of medium-to-high complexity
• the ability to understand the meaning of passages of Latin prose of medium-high difficulty
• the ability to recognise and interpret the linguistic and stylistic characteristics characteristic of the main authors and genres of Latin prose
• the ability to render appropriately into Italian, in terms of syntactic and lexical choices, texts from ancient Latin literature of medium-to-high complexity.
• a greater awareness of one’s own translation choices

PREREQUISITES

The Latin course requires a good prior knowledge of Latin, which students will have acquired during their previous schooling or by attending the basic-level Latin course.

TEACHING METHODS

The course will be organised in a workshop format: the Latin passages provided will be discussed and translated collaboratively, with the aim of distinguishing between unacceptable, acceptable and optimal translations. The focus will be not only on morphosyntactic structures (which, if necessary, will be reviewed), but also on lexical and stylistic-rhetorical aspects.

The Latin Reading Course will utilise an AulaWeb page, on which participating students are invited to register.

Students must actively attend at least 75 per cent of the sessions to obtain a certificate of attendance for the Latin Reading Course.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course will be devoted to the analysis, discussion and collaborative translation of prose passages of increasing difficulty, drawn from the main genres and authors of the Latin language.

TEXTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY

All texts to be translated will be provided by the lecturer via the AulaWeb platform.

Students must have a Latin dictionary and a reference Latin grammar book, such as Marco Fucecchi and Luca Graverini’s La lingua latina. Fondamenti di morfologia e sintassi, Le Monnier / Mondadori Education.

EXAMINATION FORMAT

There is no examination at the end of the course. Students who actively attend at least 75 per cent of the sessions will be issued with a certificate of attendance, which can be used for ‘Other Activities’.