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.
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;
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);
8 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: Boccaccio, the ottava, Boiardo.
Lecture, textual analysis and commentary of 10 Cantos of M. M. Boiardo's Inamoramento de Orlando.
Suggested editions:
M. M. BOIARDO, Orlando innamorato (L’inamoramento de Orlando), edited by A. CANOVA, Milano, BUR, 2014, 2 volumes; or with Introduction, notes and commentary by G. ANCESCHI, Milano, Garzanti, 2009, 2 volumes.
Biographical-critical Study:
T. ZANATO, Boiardo, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2015.
Lessons and exercises face to face (I and II terms).
Manual for foreign Students: The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999.