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 Vita nova, linking it 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 "Vita nova".

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

Obligatory texts:
- Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, a cura di S. Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli, 2021;
- S. Bellomo, Filologia e critica dantesca. Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Brescia, La Scuola, 2012: capp. 1 (Vita di Dante) e 3 (Vita nova), pp. 11-26 e 55-89;
- S. Carrai, Dante elegiaco. Una chiave di lettura per la "Vita nova", Firenze, Olschki, 2020.

Optional texts:
- R. Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

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 "Vita nova".

written

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.

For any needs students are invited to contact the lecturer.

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