OVERVIEW

The course introduces students to the study of the main authors and the most important written works, poetics and cultural movements in the history of Italian literature.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching's aim is to deepen the discipline's historiographical lines by paying more attention to philological-textual, interpretative, and critical elements. The teaching's main focus is on the Italian literary text, which is analyzed with historical-interpretative comments and placed in literary traditions based on gender coordinates, authorial affirmation, and form. In all educational contexts, the teaching is preparatory to the discipline's teaching.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, students will be able to :

- identify, memorise and define genres, styles, textual traditions within the framework of Italian literary history from the 13th to the 17th century (or from the 13th to the 19th century for the Music and Performing Arts curriculum);

-identify prose styles, the main metrical genres and rhetorical strategies of texts

- demonstrate the ability to carry out accurate paraphrasing and mature commentary of texts in verse and prose, in oral and written form (including Dante's Commedia)

- be more aware of the textual tradition of works in Italian literary history

- present authors and works in oral and written form in the context of Italian literary history with particular attention to the short specialised paths that will be proposed

Students will therefore be able to acquire the following transversal skills by the end of the course

- functional literacy skills, communicating effectively in oral and written form, aware of the context, using books, texts and digital supports;

- learning to learn skills, organising and evaluating their own learning.

PREREQUISITES

The course required previous school courses including the history of Italian literature, a strong motivation towards the subject, genuine inclination towards reading and writing.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, annotated readings of scheduled texts.

It is also compulsory to register for the teaching on Aulaweb, where materials will be posted. The use of a PC in class is particularly recommended at certain stages of the teaching.  Group work on paraphrase

Students will be invited to present in class in oral form some previously studied textbook parri (functional literacy).

Students will also be invited to a self-assessment through tests prepared on the aulaweb on the teaching topics.

Lecture recordings must be authorised by the lecturer and shared if necessary.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course is conducted for the first time in an annual mode. 

PART 1. First semester: 40 hours dedicated to the study of the history of Italian literature from the 13th to the 17th century through lessons on specific texts (Commedia, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Decameron, Fabula di Orfeo, Pietro Bembo, Baldassar Castiglione, Nicolò Machiavelli, Pietro Aretino, Gerusalemme liberata) and their contexts. Flipped classroom (students report on parts of the textbook in class). Possibility of support with the activation of tutoring paths. The programme of the textbook part and on Dante is formulated as follows:

1. Classical and modern curricula: Study of the history of Italian literature from the 13th to the 17th century (relevant chapters on aulaweb). Knowledge of metrics and rhetoric. Study of Dante Alighieri, Inferno, 20 cantos.  The list of cantos will be posted on aulaweb. 

1. Music and performing arts curriculum: Study of the history of Italian literature from the 14th to the 19th century (complete list of chapters on aulaweb).  Knowledge of metrics and rhetoric. Study of Dante Alighieri, Inferno, 8 cantos and Purgatorio, 8 cantos, Paradiso, 4 cantos. The list of cantos will be posted on aulaweb. 

PART 2. Second semester: 20 hours devoted to a more specialised study of the evolution of the poetry book between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century (in accordance with the national research project ‘Cultural communities and Seventeenth-Century Books of Verse: The Italian Context"). Texts from: Torquato Tasso, Rime; Battista Guarini, Rime 1598, Giovan Battista Marino, Lira (1614), Gabriello Chiabrera, Delle poesie (1627-28), and others.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography for PART 1 (attending and nonattending). 

- Reference manual: Giancarlo Alfano, Paola Italia, Emilio Russo, Franco Tomasi, Profilo di letteratura italiana. Dalle origini a fine Ottocento, single volume, Milan, Mondadori, 2021. Refer to aulaweb for the chapters to be studied. 

- Selected texts from Dante to Marino. The texts commented in class will be made available on aulaweb.

For metrics and rhetoric, the following are strongly recommended as tools for those following a humanistic-literary path: P.G. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012; B. M. Garavelli, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto delle figure retoriche, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2014.

- Reference edition for Dante Alighieri, Commedia: edited by A. M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Milan, Mondadori (paperback edition). 

Bibliography for PART 2 (attending and nonattending). 

- Selection of books of poetry between the 16th and 17th centuries that will be made available on aulaweb. 

Il libro di rime tra secondo Cinquecento e primo Seicento, edited by F. Tomasi and V. Di Iasio, in ‘Italique’, XXIV, 2022, monographic issue available at https://journals.openedition.org/italique/831?lang=en.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

SIMONA MORANDO (President)

FRANCESCA COLOMBI

MARCO BERISSO (Substitute)

KELLY NEMBRINI (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

October 3rd

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

An evaluation grid will be agreed between the lecturer and the students at the end of the course.

For Part 1 (textbook and Dante and texts covered in the first 40 hours of the course): exams from the end of December to February in oral mode. In all cases it is FUNDAMENTAL TO START STUDYING THE PROGRAMME OF PART 1 FROM THE FIRST DAY OF LESSON.

For part 2. oral examination from May onwards.

In order to make it easier to pass the exam, it is therefore established that the first part will be examined by February; the second part, completing the exam, from May onwards. It will be possible, from June onwards, to take the entire exam orally, without division (but it is clear that the first solution is highly recommended).

ASSESSMENT METHODS

For part 1 Written test with open and closed questions that will assess the student's ability to readily relate with method and organisation to the new methodologies of the study of Italian literature at university level and the ability to comment on texts correctly. 

Oral test on part 1: it will assess the student's ability to recognise texts, paraphrase them, reconstruct their context correctly with detailed notions. 

For part 2: the oral examination with commentary on specific passages will assess the student's ability to relate to the author's linguistic and stylistic strategies and within the history of the book of poetry. 

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

Erasmus students must be sufficiently familiar with the Italian language. They can, however, agree on a substitute bibliography, but the examination is taken in Italian.

Students with disabilities or DSA are reminded that in order to be able to request adaptations in the exam, they must first enter their certification on the University website at servizionline.unige.it in the ‘Students’ section. The documentation will be checked by the University's Services for the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities and DSA Sector (https://rubrica.unige.it/strutture/struttura/100111).
Subsequently, at least 10 days before the date of the exam, an e-mail must be sent to the teacher with whom you will be sitting the exam, including in copy knowledge of both the School's Referring Teacher for the inclusion of students with disabilities and with DSA (Prof. Elisabetta Colagrossi: elisabetta.colagrossi@unige.it) and the Sector indicated above.

The e-mail must specify: the name of the teaching course; the date of the call; the student's surname, first name and roll number; the compensatory and dispensatory measures considered to be functional; and requested.  The contact person will confirm to the teacher that the applicant has the right to request adaptations during the examination and that these adaptations must be agreed upon with the teacher. The lecturer will respond by stating whether the requested adaptations can be used.
Requests must be sent at least 10 days before the date of the exam in order to allow the lecturer to assess their content. In particular, if you intend to use concept maps
conceptual maps for the exam (which must be much more concise than the maps used for studying) if the submission does not meet the deadline, there will be no technical time to make any changes.

For further information on the request for services and adaptations, please refer to the document: https://unige.it/sites/unige.it/files/2024-05/Linee%20guida%20per%20la%20richiesta%20di%20servizi%2C%20di%20strumenti%20compensativi%20e_o%20di%20misure%20dispensative%20e%20di%20ausili%20specifici%20Maggio%202024.pdf