INTRODUCTION TO DANTE

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
INTRODUZIONE A DANTE
Course code
FT0472 (AF:401054 AR:217268)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/13
Period
2nd Term
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course is included in the interdisciplinary activities of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Humanities and aims to read critically Dante's Commedia, 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 Divine Comedy, linking the sacred poem 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 Divine Comedy.
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 "Purgatorio".

The course will offer a reading of some "canti" of Dante's "Purgatorio", with particular focus on linguistic, metrical and rhetorical issues.
- DANTE ALIGHIERI, Purgatorio, a cura di S. Bellomo e S. Carrai, Torino, Einaudi, 2019;
- 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;
- A.M. CHIAVACCI LEONARDI, Le beatitudini e la struttura poetica del "Purgatorio", in "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana", 161 (1984), pp. 1-29.

Not-attending students must read also: G. LEDDA, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016.
Written test to be completed in 90 minutes. It consists of a series of open questions about the course and bibliography and of a paraphrase of a passage of Dante's "Purgatorio".
Frontal lessons; further material will be available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.
Italian
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 12/12/2022