OVERVIEW

The course is articulated in two modules. Module I focuses on reading and commenting Leopardi’s Canti with the aim of giving students interpretative and methodological tools. Module II analyses 17th century authors and works. Students must have prior basic knowledge of essential literary authors and works. 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

TEACHING METHODS

Reading and commenting Italian literary texts (module I: analysis of Leopardi’s Canti; module II: analysis of 17th century authors and works).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Programme for students taking the course for 12 cfu

Module I (prof. Alberto Beniscelli)

Leopardi: Canti.

Module II (prof. Luca Beltrami)

Italian literary classics from the origins to the 16th-17th centuries.

Students taking Classical Arts and Music and Performance must be familiar with Italian literary history and works from the origins to the 20th century.

Students taking Classical Arts must be familiar with the following authors:

Guinizzelli, Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Lorenzo De Medici, Pulci, Poliziano, Sannazzaro, Boiardo, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Castiglione, Bembo, Della Casa, Buonarroti, Ariosto, Tasso, Marino, Tassoni, Chiabrera, Galilei, Vico, Metastasio, Goldoni, Alfieri, Parini, Monti, Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi, Nievo, Scapigliatura, Carducci, Verga, Pascoli, D’Annunzio, Svevo, Pirandello, Gozzano, Palazzeschi, Campana, Sbarbaro, Rebora, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Gadda, Sereni, Caproni, Pavese, Fenoglio, Calvino, Moravia, Morante, Pasolini, Sciascia, Sanguineti.

Students taking Music and Performance must be familiar with the following authors:

Stilnovo poets, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Lorenzo De Medici, Pulci, Poliziano, Machiavelli, Bembo, Ariosto, Ruzante, Tasso, Marino, Metastasio, Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, Alfieri, Parini, Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi, Nievo, Verga, Pascoli, D’Annunzio, Svevo, Pirandello, Gozzano, Palazzeschi, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Caproni, Pavese, Fenoglio, Calvino, Pasolini, Sciascia, Sanguineti.

Students taking Classical Arts and Music and Performance must also be familiar with:

Dante, The Divine Comedy, fifteen canti of choice from the Inferno, fifteen canti of choice from Purgatory, fifteen canti of choice from Paradise.

Students taking Modern Arts must be familiar with Italian literary history and works from the origins to the 17th century as well as all of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

In particular, students taking Modern Arts must be familiar with the following authors:

13th century religious poets, Sicilian school poets, Sicilian-Tuscan poets, realistic-playful poets, 13th-14th century story-tellers, Guinizzelli, Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, 15th century Humanists, Lorenzo De Medici, Pulci, Poliziano, Boiardo, Sannazzaro, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Ariosto, Ruzante, Folengo, Bembo, Della Casa, Castiglione, Aretino, Buonarroti, 16th century Petrarcan poets, 16th century treaty writers, Tasso, Guarini, Marino, Chiabrera, 17th century lyricists, Tassoni, Galilei, Sarpi, Campanella, l’Arcadia.

Students taking the course for 12 cfu overall (6 cfu for module I and 6 cfu for module II) must do the programme for both modules (Italian literature module I and Italian literature module II) with relative bibliography.

For all students: anthological texts will be supplemented by a list of readings done during lectures that will be progressively updated on aulaweb during the course.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

Class schedule

ITALIAN LITERATURE

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

There is one exam for both modules.

Written exam: analysis and commenting of a literary text. The written exam is obligatory and contributes to the final evaluation, mathematical averages do not apply. The dates of the exams will be indicated at the beginning of lectures.

Oral exam: assessment of familiarity with texts and historiographical outlines. 

Exam schedule