ITALIAN LITERATURE
Oral examination to check the achievement of learning outcomes of the course unit.
Deep critical knowledge of the history of Italian literature and of rhetorical, stylistic and linguistic instruments; ability of critical analysis of literary texts; intertextuality.
Critical history of Italian literature; rhetorical, stylistic and linguistic instruments; critical analysis of literary texts; intertextuality.
R. MORABITO, Dimensioni della letteratura italiana. Le forme, gli strumenti, le istituzioni, Roma, Carocci, 2004 (in particular, Chapters 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9);
G. FERRONI, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi Scuola, 1992, up to page 1020; or A. CASADEI - M. SANTAGATA, Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007 + A. CASADEI - M. SANTAGATA, Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007, pp. 3-101;
F. RICO, Il sogno dell’Umanesimo. Da Petrarca a Erasmo, Torino, Einaudi, 1998.
Lecture, textual analysis and commentary of:
1 Canto for each of 3 Canticas of Dante’s Commedia (suggested editions: with the commentary of E. PASQUINI and E. A. QUAGLIO, Milano, Garzanti, 3 volumes; or with the commentary of A. M. CHIAVACCI LEONARDI, Milano, Mondadori, 3 volumes; or with the revised text and the commentary by G. INGLESE, Roma, Carocci, 2016, 3 volumes);
10 Poems of Petrarch’s Canzoniere (suggested edition: F. PETRARCA, Canzoniere, edited by P. VECCHI GALLI, Milano, BUR, 2012);
1 Day of Boccaccio’s Decameron (suggested editions: edited by V. BRANCA, Torino, Einaudi; or edited by A. QUONDAM, M. FIORILLA e G. ALFANO, Milano, BUR, 2013);
6 Poems of Leopardi’s Cantos (suggested edition: G. LEOPARDI, Canti, Introduction by F. GAVAZZENI, Notes by F. GAVAZZENI and M. M. LOMBARDI, Milano, BUR, 2007);
2 Poems of Pascoli, 2 of d’Annunzio and 2 of Montale (are suggested editions with rich commentary).
Advanced Course: The marvelous and the supernatural in Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata.
Lecture, textual analysis and commentary of 5 Cantos of Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata.
Suggested editions:
T. TASSO, Gerusalemme liberata, edited by B. Maier, Introduction by E. RAIMONDI, Milano, BUR, 2001, 2 volumes; or edited by F. TOMASI, Milano, BUR, 2014.
Studies:
C. GIGANTE, Tasso, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2007;
E. RUSSO, Guida alla lettura della Gerusalemme liberata di Tasso, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014;
F. ORLANDO, Il soprannaturale letterario. Storia, logica e forme, edited by S. Brugnolo, L. Pellegrini and V. Sturli, Preface by Th. Pavel, Torino, Einaudi, 2017.
For detailed lectures of each Canto: Lettura della Gerusalemme liberata, edited by F. Tomasi, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2005.
Face to face (I and II terms).
Handbook in English:
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.