LEARNING OUTCOMES

— acquisition of the correct methodology to understand the discipline; - understanding religious identity in christian literature and its functional characteristics; - knowledge of literary developments in relation to the history of christianity and the church; - understanding a literary text between classical tradition and biblical symbology; - knowledge of the influence of the christian exegesis on sacred art; - capacity to analyse christian roots in medieval and European literature. 

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures.

Use of aulaweb.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Inquietum est cor nostrum: the language of interiority in Augustine’s Confessions.

Evolution and development of the ‘autobiographical’ genre between classical legacy and biblical code.

Many medieval Christian and western mystique paths began in Hippo. Augustine’s style was the product of that cultural bipolarity - typical of all christian authors - between classical training and the “grand biblical code”. The psalms, Augustine’s favourite book, are the framework of Confessions: their rhythm, in citations as well as in furtive allusions, produced a sort of musical metamorphosis in the style of Confessions.