ITALIAN LITERATURE 1 MOD. I

The course is inserted between the basic disciplines of the degree course in History and aims to provide an adequate critical knowledge of Italian literature from its origins to the Sixteenth century and the fundamental tools for textual interpretation in their connection with the events of history.
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.

Knowledge of the historical and cultural context of the Italian literary civilization of the first centuries; the ability to correctly use basic specialist vocabulary; to understand, analyze and interpret the literary texts covered by the course with the appropriate methods and tools, to identify and examine themes, arguments and ideas developed by the authors treated, to organize the contents in appropriate syntheses by making comparisons between the texts, to formulate a motivated value judgement.

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.

The history of Italian literature from its origins to the sixteenth century retraced in its most representative authors, both in prose and in poetry. The lessons will take place combining the historical context with the reading and analysis of the texts. The topics will be the following:
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.
The list of readings that will be carried out during the lessons will be uploaded to the University Moodle platform at the end of the course.

- M. Santagata - L- Carotti - A. Casadei - M- Tavoni, "Il filo rosso. Antologia e storia della letteratura italiana ed europea". 1° Duecento e Trecento; 2° Quattrocento e Cinquecento, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2007 (Edizione B). Alternatively, any good high school textbook. For the part of literary history, I recommend integrations with C. Segre-C. Martignoni, "Testi nella storia", Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1991-92 and subsequent reprints.
- Notes from lectures.

The exam is oral and aims to ascertain mastery of the topics covered in class, the ability to frame, understand and analyze the texts that have been presented, and knowledge of the critical bibliography indicated. The evaluation criteria respond to different levels of ability: the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and elements of historical-cultural contextualization of literary texts, and of a sufficient ability to analyze them through the appropriate use of the rhetorical terminology learned in the course of lessons (18-22); the level of discrete knowledge of the contents, the ability to critically reorganize them and a good competence in the exposition and analysis of texts, (23-26); finally, an excellent level, which requires in-depth knowledge of the contents, the ability to critically reorganize them, excellent competence both in the exposition of the arguments and in the use of specific rhetorical terminology (27-30). The award of honors will correspond to excellent ability regarding the same requirements.

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

Italian

The Italian Literature course consists of two inseparable parts (FT0475-1 e FT0475-2) therefore starting from the 2025 summer session students will take a single oral exam valid for 12 credits, which will include the course of the first and of the second module. Students who have already taken the exam for a module in previous academic years will have to contact me to agree on the program with which to complete the exam.

oral

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