INTRODUCTION TO DANTE

The course is included in the interdisciplinary activities of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Humanities and aims to read critically Dante's Rime, providing also linguistic, metrical and rhetorical notions for reading medieval vernacular texts.

By the end of the cours students are expected to be able to:
- read critically and carefully Dante's Rime, linking the poems to other Italian, Romance and Classical texts;
- use precisely critical, metrical, philological, rhetorical instruments to face a Medieval poetical text;
- reinforce the awareness of the plurality of the critical approaches to the text of the Dante's Rime.

Foreigners attending this course are expected to be fluent in Italian and to have a general knowledge of the Italian literature.

Reading and commentary of Dante's "Rime".

The course will offer a reading of some Dante's "rime", with particular focus on linguistic, metrical and rhetorical issues.

- DANTE ALIGHIERI, "Rime", a cura di C. Giunta, Milano, Mondadori, 2018;
- S. BELLOMO, "Filologia e critica dantesca". Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Brescia, La Scuola, 2012: capp. 1 (Vita di Dante) e 13 (Commedia), §§ 1-8;
- M. GRIMALDI, Leggere le rime di Dante oggi, in "L'Alighieri", 56 (2020), pp. 91-102.

Written test to be completed in 60 minutes. It consists of a series of open-ended questions about the course and bibliography and of a paraphrase of a passage of Dante's "Rime".
Assessment criteria:
A. To achieve a grade between 18 and 22, students must demonstrate:
- acceptable but cursory knowledge of the programme;
- limited text analysis and argumentation skills in open-ended questions;
- an expression that is not always appropriate;
B. To achieve a grade between 23 and 26, students must demonstrate:
- decent knowledge of the programme;
- decent text analysis and argumentation skills in open-ended questions;
- correct use of the language, even if with some imprecisions in the use of the technical language of the discipline;
C. To achieve a grade between 27 and 30 cum laude, students must demonstrate:
- good or excellent knowledge of the programme;
- good or excellent analysis and argumentation skills in open-ended questions;
- perfect use of the language.

Frontal lessons; further material will be available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.

Italian

For any needs students are invited to contact the lecturer.

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development