LITERATURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SP

The teaching is part of the master's degree course in Italian Philology and Literature. His objective consists in the analysis of a literary work of Renaissance age and in the reading of it in relation with the contemporary historical and cultural institutions. The examination of process which led to the definitive version of the text will offer a methodological example of the procedures useful for critical reading; the commentary on the models, sources and literary implications of the text itself will highlight the dense dialogue maintained by the work with earlier literary traditions and current cultural environments.

1. Knowledge and understanding
The student, through the commented reading of an emblematic work of the humanistic-renaissance age, will get confident with authors and texts representative of the Italian cultural and literary climate between fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Further information provided to the student will concern the process of formation of Italian vernacular Literature between XVth and XVIth Centuries.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The knowledge about contents and stylistic issues in texts and the understanding of the correspondence of main critical lines to the peculiarities of the contents of them, will provide many models to the use of interpretative tools that the student has already acquired during his three-year curriculum .

3. Ability to judge
The comparison with critical proposals that confront texts under observation from very different angles will give the student the opportunity to judge the relativity of certain outcomes of hermeneutics. Moreover, proceeding from a reading as objective as possible of the works, the student can evaluate by himself the greater or lesser correspondence of one or the other line to the specific text.

4. Communication skills
Knowing how to discriminate between expressive registers, identifying the most appropriate exposure to the data acquired during the course.
Knowing how to clarify the questions concerning the course, intervening publicly in the classroom.

5. Learning skills
Knowing how to take notes, putting yourself in the best collaborative conditions to integrate the missing and resolve any doubts about the content of the lessons.

General knowledge of the historical development of Italian literature of medieval and humanistic age. General knowledge of classical Greek and Latin literature. Competence in the Latin language.

The course aims to study some aspects of Ariosto's masterpiece, focusing on the way observed by the Author in corresponding to the literarary vein of chivalrous Poetry. part of the lessons will be devoted to the examination of the sources, both classical and medieval.

The text must be read in full on a good modern and commented edition: best recommended is L. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, edited by E. Bigi, Milano, Rusconi, 1982 (reprinted by C. Zampese, Milan, Rizzoli, 2012).

As is known, Orlando Furioso was rewritten several times by the Author: this will lead to observe some delay on the three editions printed when Ariosto was still living. Texts of these editions will be made available by loading, between Moodle materials, some excerpts from the following commented edition, L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso secondo l'editio princeps del 1516, a cura di T. Matarrese e M. Praloran, Torino, Einaudi, 2016. This is in addition to Orlando Furioso di Ludovico Ariosto secondo le stampe del 1516, 1521, 1532 rivedute dall'autore. Riproduzione letterale a cura di Filippo Ermini, Roma, Società Filologica Romana, 1909-1913, which constitutes the overall edition of the three XVIth Century versions, and which will be loaded too on Moodle Platform.

Orlando Furioso di Ludovico Ariosto secondo le stampe del 1516, 1521, 1532 rivedute dall'autore. Riproduzione letterale a cura di Filippo Ermini, Roma, Società Filologia Romana, 1909-1913, voll. 3.

L. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, a cura di E. Bigi, Milano, Rusconi, 1982 (rist. a cura di C. Zampese, Milano, Rizzoli, 2012)

L. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso secondo l'editio princeps del 1516, a cura di T. Matarrese e M. Praloran, Torino, Einaudi, 2016, voll. 2

L. Ariosto, Cinque canti, a cura di L. Firpo, Torino, Utet, 1964

G. Fatini, Bibliografia della critica ariostea (1510 – 1956), Firenze, Le Monnier, 1958

P. Rajna, Le fonti dell'"Orlando Furioso" (Ristampa della seconda edizione, 1900, accresciuta d'inediti, a cura e con presentazione di F. Mazzoni), Firenze, Sansoni, 1975

A. Casadei, Il Percorso del Furioso. Ricerche intorno alle redazioni del 1516 e el 1521, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993

D. Javitch, Ariosto classico. La canonizzazione dell'«Orlando Furioso», Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1999

Boiardo, Ariosto e i libri di battaglia, Atti del Convegno (Scandiano - Reggio Emilia - Bologna, 3-6 ottobre 2005, a cura di A. Canova e P. Vecchi Galli, Novara, Interlinea, 2007

A. Casadei, Ludovico Ariosto, in Storia letteraria d'Italia. Il Cinquecento, a cura di G. Da Pozzo, Padova, Nuova Piccin Libraria, 2007, voll. 3: I, pp. 779-822

J.A. Cavallo, The world beyond Europe in the romance epics of Boiardo and Ariosto, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2013

Lettura dell'«Orlando Furioso», a cura di G. Bucchi e F. Tomasi, Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2016-2018, voll. 2

The Examinatin Proof will consist of an interview in which the examining, on specific request of the examiner, will skil knowledge, skills and abilities useful for the formulation of a fair impartial judgment about the achievement of the same knowledge, skills and abilities.

The course will be taught according to the traditional methods that require the teacher to propose verbally the topics and contents of the course itself. The texts on which we will apply in class will be provided on the Moodle platform.

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