Critically evaluate the style of a text.
Knowledge acquired during the previous study cycle.
Lectures based on the reading of texts, with student involvement in discussion and analysis. Students
will be invited to provide interpretations and reflections based on knowledge acquired in the study of
other literatures. Through the reading of some literary texts, students will have the tools to learn the
entire Italian literary history
The exam consists of an oral test.
It is necessary to bring the anthology texts in printed form to the oral test.
-A. Casadei- M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, Laterza
cap. 1 Il Duecento e il Trecento (Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio) –
pp. 1-93; cap. 2 Il Quattrocento – pp. 99-124, pp. 130-132; pp. 138-140; cap. 3 Il Cinquecento
(Niccolò Machiavelli, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso) – pp. 147-189, pp. 198-218; cap. 4 Il
Seicento (Galileo Galilei, Giambattista Basile) – pp. 225-276; cap. 5 Il Settecento (Giuseppe
Parini, Ugo Foscolo) – pp. 281-329, pp. 338-348; cap. 6 Il primo Ottocento (Alessandro Manzoni,
Giacomo Leopardi) – pp. 355-425; cap. 7 Il secondo Ottocento (Giovanni Verga, Federico De
Roberto) – pp. 433-459, pp. 474-488.
-A. Casadei, M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea, Laterza
Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio
Montale, Italo Svevo, Pierpaolo Pasolini (pp. 28-34; pp. 36-44; pp. 89-100; pp. 106-111; pp. 164-
174; pp. 203-218; pp.317-325)
- Selection of Italian Literature Texts Commented on in Class
To provide essential skills in Italian cultural and literary history.
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