ITALIAN LITERATURE 1 MOD I

The teaching form part of the basic subjects in the Bachelor's degree. Its principal aim
is to provide the student with the indispensable rudiments of the topic, and to start him
to a critical interpretation of the development of Italian literature from the origins
up to the end of the Renaissance, by means of a detailed historical picture
and a set of selected illustrations.

Knowledge of the main lines of ancient Italian literature
and of the most important and typical discussions and controversies about the matter.
Knowledge of the major authors and of their works. -----
The student will be able to use such improvements to a better
and deeper interpretation of the literary texts of Medieval age
and of the period of Humanism and Renaissance.

A good knowledge of Italian language.

1. The origins of the Italian literature: the religious poetry; the lyric poets of the thirteenth
century. 2. The Trecento: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio.
3. The age of Humanism, between latin and vernacular. 4. The Renaissance:
from classicism to mannerism.

S. GUGLIELMINO - H. GROSSER, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato, 2000; C. SEGRE - C. MARTIGNONI, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2000; G. BALDI - S. GIUSSO - M. RAZETTI - G. ZACCARIA, Dal testo alla storia dalla storia al testo,
Torino, Paravia, 2003; R. LUPERINI - P. CATALDI - L. MARCHIANI - F. MARCHESE, Perché la letteratura, Palermo, Palumbo, 2015; G. ALFANO - P. ITALIA - E. RUSSO - F. TOMASI, Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari. 1. Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento, Milano, Mondadori, 2018. ---- The students that will regularly attend the lessons can prepare the examination by means of their notes (and, if that is the case,
by help of a good handbook of Italian literature, such as the above-mentioned ones). The students that cannot attend the lessons will prepare the examination by means of the same handbooks. It's also demanded the reading of a classic of the Italian literature
in full version, and for this end a list of the major texts will be distributed during the course (or sent by request).

Written examination, based on three questions about the major subjects of the syllabus
(first call). Oral examination the subsequent calls, with the same structure.

The course is founded on the traditional form of the so called frontal lessons.

written and oral