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.

Encounters of civilization between Italy and China: Marco Polo, Matteo Ricci, Tiziano Terzani.
The written testimony of travellers were for centuries the vehicle of knowledge of China for the West. The course aims to address three key moments of this meeting through the texts of Marco Polo ("Milione"), Matteo Ricci ("Descrizione della Cina") and Tiziano Terzani ("La porta proibita").

It requires the reading of M. Polo, "Milione", edited by V. Bertolucci Pizzorusso, Adelphi, 1994; M. Ricci, "Descrizione della Cina", Quodlibet, 2015; T. Terzani, "La porta proibita", Tea, 2018.
Critical Bibliography:
A. Barbieri, "Dal viaggio al libro. Studi sul «Milione»", Fiorini, 2004, pp. 9-43 e 129-175;
M. Fontana, "Matteo Ricci. Un gesuita alla corte dei Ming", Mondadori 2008.
The didactic materials commented during the lessons will be uploaded to the University’s “Moodle” e-learning platform.
Students who do not attend class must add A. Loreti, "Tiziano Terzani: la vita come avventura", Mondadori, 2014.

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 evaluation 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.

The course will use lecture-style presentation 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.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development