The course, divided into three sections (two for students who must obtain 6 credits), focuses on main movements and authors of particular relevance of the Italian literary panorama of 18th-19th century.
Analyse authors, texts, genres of Italian literature in relation to the historical context in which they originate and in relation to the tools of philological and interpretative text analysis.
The course aims to enhance knowledge along some fundamental directrixes in the context of Italian literature: text tradition, philology, the precise use of bibliographical sources, interpretative exegesis and critical-historiographical reconstruction. At the end of the course students should be able to use independently the analytical knowledge acquired.
Students who take the course must have a good knowledge of 18th-19th century authors and literary works.
Lectures (with computer and projector). It is strongly recommended to attend classes with the books the teacher will indicate for every lesson. Students participation will be encouraged through questions and interventions. The course also provides students with learning tools (such as slides used during classes, supplementary or support materials) available in AulaWeb..
Programme for students taking the course for 6 cfu
- Due tragedie di Vincenzo Monti: Aristodemo e Caio Gracco
- Stratigrafie manzoniane (la "rivolta di San Martino")
Programme for students taking the course for 9 cfu
- Affondi scapigliati. Lettura di U.I. TARCHETTI, Una nobile follia; e di C. DOSSI, Vita di Alberto Pisani
Students taking the course for 6 cfu:
- all the teaching material made available to students on AulaWeb or possibly indicated in class;
- V. Monti, Aristodemo, a cura di A. Bruni, Milano-Parma, Guanda, 1998; and V. Monti, Caio Gracco (we recommend V. Monti, Versi. Caio Gracco. La Feroniade, a cura di Carlo Muscetta, Torino, Einaudi, 1977.
- A. Manzoni, I promessi sposi, cap. XI-XV (we recommend A. Manzoni, I promessi sposi. Storia della colonna infame, edizione a cura di A. Stella e C. Repossi, Torino, Einaudi-Gallimard, 1995).
Students taking the course for 9 cfu
- V. Monti, Aristodemo, a cura di A. Bruni, Milano-Parma, Guanda, 1998; and V. Monti, Caio Gracco, (we recommend V. Monti, Versi. Caio Gracco. La Feroniade, a cura di Carlo Muscetta, Torino, Einaudi, 1977).
- I.U. Tarchetti, Una nobile follia (we recommend I.U. Tarchetti, Una nobile follia, a cura di L. Spalanca, Ravenna, Pozzi, 2009)
- C. Dossi, Vita di Alberto Pisani, (we recommend C. Dossi, Vita di Alberto Pisani, introduzione, prefazione e note a cura di Luigi Sasso, Milano, Garzanti).
- D. Tongiorgi, «Le fortunate e catastrofi di Custoza e Lissa ». Tarchetti, Farina e l’anti -mito della sconfitta militare in area scapigliata, in La vittoria macchiata. Memoria e racconto della sconfitta militare nel Risorgimento, a cura di D. Tongiorgi, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2012, pp. 127-147.
- D. Tongiorgi, «Quì scriverò»: le impossibili maisons d’artiste di Alberto Pisani, in Lo spazio tra prosa e lirica nella letteratura italiana. Studi in onore di Matilde Dillon Wanke, a cura di L. Bani e M. Sirtori, Bergamo, Lubrina, 2015, pp. 294-304.
Syllabus for non-attending students
Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher (duccio.tongiorgi@unige.it) and to agree on a specific program.
DUCCIO TONGIORGI (President)
LUCA BELTRAMI
QUINTO MARINI
SIMONA MORANDO
MATTEO NAVONE
ITALIAN LITERATURE
Oral exam.
The oral exam consists of an interview on the topics discussed during the lessons (or indicated in the bibliography), in order to evaluate the skills to contextualize a literary text in the frame of the Italian cultural history; to illustrate its metric-stylistic features; to make connections, to expose the contents with an appropriate language and to discuss the topics learned during the lessons.
