Acquisition of reading skills and interpretation of the literary text, in the context of Italian literary civilization.
General knowledge of Italian literature; we suggest a sufficient knowledge of Italian humanism
Frontal lesson based on philological, rhetorical, stylistic, historical reading and commentary on texts, with student involvement in free discussion and literary analysis.
Final oral interview. The following are assessed: completeness of information, coherence, clarity and ability to synthesise argumentation, correct use of critical terminology, ability to apply analysis procedures.
E. Fenzi, Petrarca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
G. Ferraù, Petrarca, la politica, la Storia, Messina, Cisu, 2006;
G. Cappelli, Petrarca e l’umanesimo politico del Quattrocento, «Verbum. Analecta Neolatina», VII/1 (2005 = Atti del Convegno Internazionale Petrarca e l’Umanesimo), pp. 153-175;
E. Fenzi, Petrarca politico e diplomatico tra Genova e Venezia, 1351-1355, in Petrarca politico, cur. F. Furlan, S. Pittaluga, Genova, Darficlet, 2012;
J. Hankins, The Tirumph of Virtue: Petrarch’s Political Thought, in Virtue politics, London-Cambridge (Mass.), 2019, pp. 153-191.
Other readings are listing in the professor’s website.
Title: The origins of political humanism: The Senilis XIV, 1 by Francesco Petrarca.
Contents:
- General notions on late-medieval political thought;
- Petrarch as a humanist and as a political thinker.
- The Seniles;
- Analysis and commentary on Senilis XIV, 1
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