LITERATURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SP

Anton Francesco Doni, one of the most interesting characters in the sixteenth-century literary ground, was a very prolific Writer. His works, which touch on the most varied topics and practices, are characterized by the taste of the paradox and by the stylistic excess, in a balanced melt of hilarious forms and serious contents. Doni's biography, centered on two cultural capitals such as Florence and Venice but also marked by frequent travels and changes of profession (Doni also attempted editorial activity), is also particularly representative of the intellectual ferments marking Italy in the sixteenth century. Focusing on some of Doni's works, especially if available in modern chritical and commented editions, the course aims to retrace the author's literary experience between the academies and printers of Florence and Venice, and to highlight the reflections that his texts refer to a permanently growing up cultural landscape.

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.

Anton Francesco Doni. The course aims to examine this prolific author in the light of the cultural climate of XVIth Century Italy.

A.F. Doni, La libraria, a cura di V. Bramanti, Milano, Longanesi, 1978
A.F. DONI, Umori e sentenze, a cura di V. Giri e G. Masi, Roma, Salerno, 1988
A. F. DONI, I Marmi. Edizione critica e commento a cura di Carlo Alberto Girotto e Giovanna Rizzarelli, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki editore, MMXVII, voll. 2.
A.F. DONI, I Mondi e gli Inferni, a cura di Patrizia Pellizzari, Torino, Einaudi, 1992;
A.F. DONI La vita dello infame Aretino, in P. PROCACCIOLI, Contra Arretinum, Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 1998;
A.F. Doni, Le pitture, a cura di Sonia Maffei, Firenze, La stanza delle scritture, 2004

C. Ricottini Marsili Libelli, Anton Francesco Doni scrittore e stampatore, Firenze, Sansoni Antiquariato, 1960
P.F. Grendler, Critics of the Italian World, 1530-1560: Anton Francesco Doni, Nicolò Franco & Ortensio Lando, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1969
V. Bramanti, Una nuova redazione degli "Humori" di Anton Francesco Doni, «Rinascimento», s. 2, X (1970), pp. 151-176
M. Plaisance, Une première affirmation de la politique culturelle de Côme I, in Les écrivains et le pouvoir en Italie à l'époque de la Renaissance, a cura di A. Rochon, I, Paris, CRRI, 1974
P.F. Grendler, L'inquisizione romana e l'editoria veneziana (1540-1605), Roma, Il Veltro, 1983
P. Cherchi, Nell'officina di Anton Francesco Doni, «Forum italicum», XXI, 2 (1987), pp. 206-216

«Una soma di libri». L'edizione delle opere di Anton Francesco Doni. Atti del seminario (Pisa, Palazzo Alla Giornata, 14 ottobre 2002), a cura di G. Masi, Firenze, Olschki, 2008 (Quaderni di Rinascimento, 45)

G. Genovese, La lettera oltre il genere. Il libro di lettere, dall'Aretino al Doni, e le origini dell'autobiografia moderna, Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2009

I Marmi di Anton Francesco Doni: la storia, i generi e le arti. Biblioteca dell ‘‘Archivum Romanicum’’ Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 389. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2012.

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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