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 easily move between the texts and the authors of greater importance, recognize the formal and linguistic aspects of a text, have a good knowledge of the Italian language written and oral.

Traveling east: telling the other in medieval Italian prose.
The fear of the fearful boundary is measured by the push to go beyond. The prosastic tradition –from Marco Polo to Masuccio Salernitano, passing through "Novellino", Boccaccio and Franco Sacchetti– expressed, in antagonism with the exemplary tradition, the multifaceted sense of a dialectic of civilization. The image of the Other, in fact, refers to cognitive and moral doubts of the Christian conscience.

The textes commented in class, taken from Marco Polo’s "Milione", Giovanni Boccaccio’s "Decameron", Franco Sacchetti’s "Trecentonovelle", Masuccio Salernitano’s "Novellino", and available on the “Moodle” e-learning platform is required.
Critical Bibliography:
F. Cardini, "Il “Decameron”: “alle radici” (o “nella preistoria”) dell’orientalismo?", in «Studi sul Boccaccio», 2011, pp. 1-21;
R. Girardi, "Raccontare l’Altro. L’Oriente islamico nella novella italiana da Boccaccio a Bandello", Napoli, Liguori, 2012.
Students who do not attend class must add S. Zoli, "L’immagine dell’Oriente da Marco Polo al Settecento", in “Storia d’Italia. Annali 5”, Torino, Einaudi, 1982, pp. 47-123.

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.

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