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 this 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.

East and West in the "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto.

This course aims to propose a reading of “Orlando Furioso” by Ludovico Ariosto: the theme of this course are the main categories that summarize the civilization of Humanism-Renaissance, as the question of models, the debate on language, the concepts of "norm" and "transgression". Within this historical-literary framework, the study of Ariosto will be addressed through the reading and analysis of some passages from “Orlando Furioso”. Particular attention will be given to the ways of representing characters and places of the fabulous East.

L. ARIOSTO, “Orlando Furioso”, edited by L. Caretti, Torino, Einaudi, ET Classici, 2005;

Critical studies:
-Italian literature from the second half of the fifteenth Century to the early decades of the Sixteenth: C. Segre-C. Martignoni, “Testi nella storia”, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; R. Luperini-P. Cataldi-L. Marchiani, “La scrittura e l’interpretazione”, Palermo, Palumbo; Anselmi, Chines, Fenocchio, “La letteratura italiana. Umanesimo e Rinascimento” vol. 2, Milano, Bruno Mondadori;
-C. Bologna, ”’Orlando Furioso’ di Ludovico Ariosto”, on “Letteratura italiana. Le Opere. Volume secondo. Dal Cinquecento al Settecento”, care of A.A.Rosa, Torino, Einaudi, 1993, pp. 219-352. As an alternative to this essay: S. Zatti, "Leggere l''Orlando Furioso'", Bologna, Il mulino, 2016.

Students not attending lessons will read also:
- S. Zatti, "L’ombra del Tasso. Epica e romanzo nel Cinquecento", Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1996, pp. 1-58, 146-156, 160-167;
- S. Zatti (a cura di), "La rappresentazione dell’altro nei testi del Rinascimento", Pisa, Pacini Fazzi editore, pp. 53-76 e 219-244.

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.

Lectures: discussion of historical-literary and theoretical issues and analysis of texts subject to study.

Editions provided with comments are necessary for non-attending students; others will be able to use the texts that I will insert in the moodle space.

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