ITALIAN LITERATURE IN THE ANCIENT REGIME

The course is placed among the disciplines of the Master’s degree course in Italian Philology and Literature. Its purpose is to deepen the critical knowledge of Italian literature from the 17th to 18th century and that of the fundamental tools for textual interpretation, so as to provide students with the necessary skills to contextualize the authors examined, to analyze the texts to rhetorical and stylistic level and achieve the capacity to interpret them in a reasonably autonomous way.

By the end of the this course the student will have acquired extensive knowledge and advanced skills in the methodological field related to the Italian literature of the Ancient Regime in his relations with contemporary culture, and a developed awareness of the plurality of critical-methodological approaches to the text, with particular attention to the rhetorical-stylistic processes. In fact, 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.

To adequately follow the lessons the student must have a good knowledge of the Italian language, learn about the historical development of Italian literature of medieval and humanistic-Renaissance age.

Italian writers and the French Revolution.
When Bonaparte entered Italy in 1796, a political and intellectual debate broke out on that event. The writ-ers were forced to confront the concrete application of the principles of the French Enlightenment, which had nourished their texts.
The course examines the different reactions aroused in Italian writers by Vittorio Alfieri to Alessandro Manzoni, passing through Melchiorre Cesarotti, Vincenzo Monti, Vincenzo Cuoco and Ugo Foscolo.

The texts analyzed in class will be uploaded on the University’s “Moodle” e-learning platform is required.
Critical Bibliography:
M. Cerruti, "Dalla fine dell’antico regime alla Restaurazione", in A. Asor Rosa (edited by), "Letteratura italiana", vol. I: "Il letterato e le istituzioni", Einaudi, 1982, pp. 391-432;
C. Del Vento, X. Tabet (edited by), "Les écrivains italiens des lumières et la Révolution française", ENS, 2009 (or M. Testi, "Tra speranza e paura: i conti con il 1789. Gli scrittori italiani e la rivoluzione francese", Giorgio Pozzi, 2009).

The final verification of learning consists in an oral exam of about 30 minutes on the topics discussed and in-depth on the texts. The student must show to know the historical and cultural context, object of the course, to be able to frame, analyze and comment appropriately the texts and to be able to expose correctly and clearly the contents.
The evaluation criteria respond to different skill levels: from the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and the elements of historical-cultural contextualization of the literary texts at the highest level of knowledge deepened of the contents and the ability of critical reorganization of the same and of excellent exhibition competence.

Lessons combine lectures with active student participatin and with multimedia support (Word and Power Point with the video projector).
The didactic materials used to lesson will be available on the e-learning platform "Moodle" of University, where self-assessment tests will be inserted.

Italian

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