ITALIAN LITERATURE
Oral examination to check the achievement of learning outcomes of the course unit.
Critical knowledge of the history of Italian literature and of rhetorical, stylistic and linguistic instruments; ability of critical analysis of literary texts; intertextuality.
General Course: critical history of Italian literature; rhetorical, stylistic and linguistic instruments; critical analysis of literary texts; intertextuality.
General Course:
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 394; or A. CASADEI - M. SANTAGATA, Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007, up to page 222; or G. ALFANO – P. ITALIA – E. RUSSO – F. TOMASI, Letteratura italiana. Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018; 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; or edited by E. MALATO, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2018, 2 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).
Lessons and exercises.
Handbook in English:
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.