The course focuses on reading and commenting Leopardi’s Canti and Montale’s Silvae with the intention of giving students some interpretative and methodological tools useful for the analysis of “classical” works of Italian literature and their historical-literary context. Students taking the course must have a basic knowledge of essential 18th-20th century literary authors and works.
The general objective is to reinforce students’ basic preparation and ability to write correctly; learning historiographical outlines of Italian literature; knowledge of introductory philological-textual elements to the study of texts; understanding and analysis-commenting of literary texts with particular reference to genres.
The course aims to reinforce the following abilities, knowledge and competencies: learning historiographical outlines of Italian literature; learning of basic critical and philological tools that enable students to interpret literary texts in the context of the poetics of their authors and in a historical-cultural context; correct use of bibliographical sources.
Reading and commenting of Italian literary texts with analysis of Leopardi’s Canti and Montale’s Silvae.
Programme for students taking the course for 6 cfu
Leopardi: Canti
Students must also be familiar with the following authors:
Vico, Metastasio, «Caffè» intellectuals, Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, Alfieri, Parini, Foscolo, Monti, early 19th century novelists and the classical-romantic debate, Manzoni, Leopardi, Nievo, Scapigliatura, Carducci, Verism writers, Verga, Pascoli, D’Annunzio, Svevo, Pirandello, Gozzano and Crepuscolari, Futuristi, Palazzeschi, Campana, Sbarbaro, Rebora, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Sereni, Caproni, Luzi, Gadda, Pavese, Fenoglio, Calvino, Moravia, Morante, Pasolini, Sciascia, Sanguineti.
Programme for students taking the course for 9 cfu
Montale: Silvae
LUCA BELTRAMI (President)
STEFANO FERNANDO VERDINO (President)
MARCO BERISSO
SIMONA MORANDO
GIORDANO RODDA
ITALIAN LITERATURE II
Oral exam to assess familiarity with texts and historiographical outlines.
