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.
Monographic Course: reading, analysis and commentary of the works of the women writers of the XVI century.
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 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; or G. ALFANO P. ITALIA E. RUSSO F. TOMASI, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018 (2 volums); F. RICO, Il sogno dellUmanesimo. Da Petrarca a Erasmo, Torino, Einaudi, 1998.
Lecture, textual analysis and commentary of:
1 Canto for each of 3 Canticas of Dantes 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 Petrarchs Canzoniere (suggested edition: F. PETRARCA, Canzoniere, edited by P. VECCHI GALLI, Milano, BUR, 2012);
1 Day of Boccaccios 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 Leopardis 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 dAnnunzio and 2 of Montale (are suggested editions with rich commentary).
Advanced Course: The women writers of the XVI century, between poetry and epistolography.
Lecture, textual analysis and commentary of the poems by 3 women writers collected in Liriche del Cinquecento, edited by M. FARNETTI and L. FORTINI, Roma, Iacobelli, 2014.
Studies:
P. VECCHI GALLI, Donna e poeta. Metamorfosi cinquecentesche, in Il Petrarchismo. Un modello di poesia per lEuropa, Roma, Bulzoni, 2006, voll. 2, I, edited by L. CHINES, 2006, pp. 189-216;
M. FARNETTI, Il canto del tordo. Uno sguardo dinsieme sulla lirica femminile del Rinascimento, in Voci e figure di donne. Forme della rappresentazione del sé tra passato e presente, edited by L. FORTINI e M.S., Cosenza, Pellegrini, 2012, pp. 113-130.
Lessons and exercises.
Handbook in English:
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.