ITALIAN LITERATURE 1 MOD I

The course is inserted between the basic disciplines of the degree course “ Conservazione e gestione delle arti e dei beni culturali” 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 educational objectives allows the student to acquire the foundations for an in-depth learning of ancient Italian culture and literature, developing the ability to compare and evaluate.

At the end of the course, the student will know the historical and cultural context of the Italian literary civilization of the early centuries 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, 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 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.

1. At the origins of Italian literature: the thirteenth century.
2. The Trecento: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio.
3. The age of Humanism between latin and vernacular.
4. The Renaissance: from classicism to mannerism.

S. GUGLIELMINO - H. GROSSER, “Il sistema letterario”, Milano, Principato, 2000
C. SEGRE - C. MARTIGNONI, “Leggere il mondo”, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2000;
G. BALDI - S. GIUSSO - M. RAZETTI - G. ZACCARIA, “Dal testo alla storia. Dalla storia al testo”, Torino, Paravia, 2003;
R. LUPERINI - P. CATALDI - L. MARCHIANI - F. MARCHESE, "Perché la letteratura", Palermo, Palumbo, 2015;
G. ALFANO - P. ITALIA - E. RUSSO - F. TOMASI, "Letteratura italiana. Manuale per studi universitari. 1. Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento", Milano, Mondadori, 2018.

The final verification of learning consists in an oral exam 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.

The student can prepare the examination by means of their notes, and, if that is the case, by help of a good handbook of Italian literature, such as the above-mentioned ones. It's also demanded the reading of a classic of the Italian literature in full version, and for this end a list of the major available on the Moodle platform.

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