ITALIAN LITERATURE

The course is inserted between the basic disciplines common to the Program of Study and aims to provide an adequate critical knowledge of Italian literature and the fundamental tools for the textual interpretation. The teaching activity aims to start an analysis historically and philologically aware of the literary texts, founded on the mastery of the technical language.
The achievement of these instructional goals allows the student to acquire the bases for an in-depth learning of the culture and society of the triennial languages developing the skills of comparison and evaluation.

By the end of the course the student will know the historical and cultural context of the Italian literary civilization and will know how to correctly use a specialistic lexicon of base. It is expected to be able to understand, to analyze and to interpret the literary texts object of the course with the appropriate methods and tools, to identify and to examine themes, topics and ideas developed by the treated authors, to organize the contents in appropriate synthesis operating comparisons between texts also belonging to the European literature, to formulate a reasoned judgment of value.

To adequately follow the lessons the student must possess the essential lines of the history of Italian literature and move easily between the texts and authors of greater importance, recognize the formal aspects and linguistic text, have a good knowledge of the Italian language written and oral.

The lectures aim at offering students theorical and historical tools needed to read "Canti" by Giacomo Leopardi.
In the first part we will introduce the period with a review of the main issues; in the second will be addressed Leopardi's poetry.

- Italian literature during the first half of XIX Century into a good literature handbook. The following manuals are recommended: G.M. Anselmi, C. Varotti, "Leggere, come io l'intendo", vol. 3. "Dal Barocco al Neoclassicismo"; vol. 4 "Il Romanticismo"; G. Alfano, P. Italia, E. Russo, F. Tomasi, "Letteratura Italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento", Milano, Mondadori Università; G. Baldi, S. Giusso, M. Razzetti, G. Zaccaria, "Il piacere dei testi", vol. IV, "L'età napoleonica e il Romanticismo"; M. Santagata, L. Carotti, A. Casadei, M. Tavoni, "Il filo rosso", vol. 2, "Primo Ottocento".
- G. LEOPARDI, "Canti" ( care of A. Campana, Roma, Carocci; or care of G. Ficara, Milano, Oscar Mondadori; or care of F. Gavazzeni e M. M. Lombardi, Milano, BUR);
- M. A. BAZZOCCHI, "Leopardi", Bologna, Il Mulino, cap. 2, pp. 27-80.

The didactic materials commented during the lessons will be inserted in the e-learning platform "Moodle" of the University of Venice.


Students who do not attend lessons must read also the following books:
- M. A. Bazzocchi, "Leopardi", Bologna, il Mulino.
- P. V. Mengaldo, "Sonavan le quiete stanze. Sullo stile dei 'Canti' di Leopardi", Bologna, il Mulino.

The final verification of learning consists in an oral exam about 30 minutes on the topics dealt with and examined on texts. The student must demonstrate understanding of the historical and cultural context, subject of course to be able to regulate, analyze and comment in an appropriate manner the texts and to be able to expose correctly and clearly the contents.
The assessment criteria respond to different skill levels: from the minimum level of the correct understanding of the meanings and elements of contextualization historical-cultural and literary texts at the highest level of knowledge of the contents and the capacity for critical reorganization of the same and of excellent exhibition competence.

- Face to face lessons;
- thematic insights proposed in the classroom by the teacher or suggested by the students.

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