Acquisition of reading skills and interpretation of the literary text, in the context of Italian literary civilization.
General knowledge of Italian literature
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 discussion. The following will be assessed: completeness of information, coherence, clarity and ability to summarise arguments, correct use of critical terminology, ability to apply analysis procedures.
It is necessary to bring the anthology texts in printed form to the oral discussion.
From: 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 (L’umanesimo latino; Leon Battista Alberti, Angelo Poliziano) – pp. 99-121, pp. 122-124, pp. 130-132; cap. 3 Il Cinquecento (Niccolò Machiavelli, Ludovico Ariosto, Il petrarchismo; Torquato Tasso) – pp. 147-189, pp. 198-218; cap. 4 Il Seicento (Galileo Galilei, Giambattista Marino) – pp. 225-268, pp. 269-273; cap. 5 Il Settecento (L’Illuminismo; Giuseppe Parini, Goldoni; Ugo Foscolo) – pp. 281-317, pp. 318-323; pp. 324-329, pp. 338-348; cap. 6 Il primo Ottocento (Alessandro Manzoni, Giacomo Leopardi) – pp. 355-425; cap. 7 Il secondo Ottocento (Giovanni Verga) – pp. 433-458; pp. 474-484.
From:: A. Casadei- M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea
Il Novecento: Pascoli, D’Annunzio Pirandello Svevo Poesia ermetica Pasolini
Dante Alighieri, Commedia
Inferno I, III, V, VI, X, XIX, XXVI
Purgatorio I, VI, XXIV, XXVIII
Paradiso III, VI, XVII, XXXIII
- Dante’s Editon: A. M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Mondadori (da accompagnare alla consultazione del sito http://www.mediasoft.it/dante/)
- Selection of Italian Literature Texts Commented on in Class.
Italian literature from its origins to the end of the twentieth century
Italian
