Studies in Art History

I – IV hours, 01/10/2025: 1 hour - Methodological introduction 2-3 hours - General characteristics of Greek theatre; 4 hours - Festivals and theatrical performances in Greece V-VIII hours, 07/10/2025: 1 hour - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, definition of the Greek tragic canon ( 2 hours – Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, readings and viewings 3 hours - Aristotle, Poetics 4 hours – Aristotle in context. IX-XII hour, 08/10/2025: 1 hour - Theatre in ancient Rome: performances and theatrical occasions 2 hour - Representatives of comedy and tragedy 3 hour - Mime and pantomime 4 hour - The social role of the actor in ancient Rome XIII-XVI hour, 14/10/2025: 1st hour: The Middle Ages. Ecclesiastical condemnation of entertainment. The three machines of entertainment: turpia, cruentia, furiosa. 2nd hour: Opposition to the true-false relationship in pagan entertainment 3rd hour: A new conception of entertainment: the dramatic unity of truth 4th hour: The three spectacles of God, Glory, Memory, Mercy. 17th-20th hour, 15/10/2025: 1st hour: Liturgical drama. 2nd hour: Dramatic lauda. 3rd hour: Mystery and its designated place in France. 4th hour: Dramatised sacred games (The Magi in Milan and Florence; The Annunciation in Venice and Florence). 21st-24th hour, 21/10/2025: 1st hour: Rediscovery of the classics. Plautus 1429, edition of the texts and staging issues between Florence and Ferrara, Rome. Focus on two questions: what dramaturgy? What scenography? 2nd hour: towards a new dramaturgy. Entremets of banquets, pastorals 3rd hour: The birth of perspective Ferrara, Urbino 1513, Rome 1514, Florence 1518. 4th hour: Machiavelli's Mandragola XXV-XXVIII hour, 22/10/2025: 1 hour: The codification of Sebastiano Serlio and Leone de' Sommi Dialogues on stage performances. 2 hour: Who acts? The birth of the Commedia dell'arte and professional acting. 3 hour: The mask, the generics and the myth of improvisation. 4th hour: The company and the presence of women on stage. Case study: the Fedeli and Isabella Andreini vs. the Confidenti and Vittoria Piisimi. The Medici wedding of 1589. XXIX-XXXII hour, 04/11/2025: 1st hour: Where to perform? 1539 The wedding of Cosimo de' Medici and Eleonora da Toledo. Bastiano da San Gallo's courtyard for Commodus. 2nd hour: the theatre of Palazzo Vecchio for the wedding of Francesco I and Giovanna d'Austria 3rd hour: the Medici Uffizi decorated by Buontalenti in 1586 and 1589 4th hour: the stability of the theatre venue. The Olympic Theatre in Vicenza and the theatre in Sabbioneta. XXXIII-XXXVI hour, 05/11/2025: 1 hour: Baroque theatre in Italy 2 hour: The birth of melodrama (Florence, 1600) 3rd hour: 1628 opening of the Farnese Theatre in Parma 4th hour: Nicolò Sabbatini's “Corago della Pratica di fabricar scene, e machine ne” teatri' XXXVII-XL hour, 11/11/2025 1 hour: England. Another idea of theatre 2 hour: Elizabethan theatre buildings 3 hour: Shakespeare 4 hour: Othello XLI-XLIV hour, 12/11/2025 1 hour: The France of Louis XIV and the national academies 3rd hour: Molière 4th hour: Racine – Corneille XLV-XLVIII hour, 18/11/2025 1st hour: Theatrical reformism in the 18th century 2nd hour: The rise of the Italian-style theatre 3rd hour: Metastasio and Arcadia 4th hour: Metastasio XLIX-LII hour, 19/11/2025 1 hour: Theatre in Parma in the 18th century: the age of reform 2 hour: Delisles' French troupe in Parma and the Frenchification of repertoires 3 hour: The arrival of Carlo Goldoni and the success of La Buona Figliola 4 hour: Du Tillot, organiser of the royal wedding: simplification of the stage and autonomy of the theatre. LIII-LVI HOUR, 25/11/2025 1 hour: The 19th century of great actors 2 hours: the role system 3 hours: Adelaide Ristori and the American tours 4 hours: Eleonora Duse as theatre manager LVII-LX HOUR, 26/11/2025 1 hour: Theatrical utopias of the twentieth century. Dalcroze and Appia 2 hour: Artaud 3 hour: Grotowski 4 hour: Bob Wilson LXI-LXIV HOUR, 2/12/2025 1st hour: Festivals in the Renaissance 2nd hour: Warburg and Renaissance festivals 3rd hour: The return of ancient paganism in the festive culture of the 15th century 4th hour: Internal tensions within festivals: the ruling classes and the people and their different needs for representation. LXV-LXVIII HOUR, 3/12/2025 1st hour: Lecture by Prof. Paola Ventrone (Catholic University, Milan) 2nd hour: The origins of Renaissance theatrical machinery: the ingenuity of Filippo Brunelleschi 3rd hour: Between iconography and spectacle. Methodological reflections. 4th hour: The case of the Florentine paradises in the Oltrarno festivals. LXIX-LXXII NOW, 9/12/2025 1 hour: The Florentine Sacred Representation 2 hour: Theatre and pedagogy in Medici Florence 3 hour: the celebrations of the Laurentian era, or tensions during the Republic holiday 4 hour: Remembering the holiday: the Chapel of the Magi in the Medici palace LXXIII-LXXVI HOUR, 10/12/2025 1st hour: From the republic to the dynastic festival 2nd hour: The wedding of Costanzo Sforza and Camilla d'Aragona (1475) 3rd hour: The miniatures of the Urb. Lat. 899 codex 4th hour: The wedding of Roberto Malatesta and Elisabetta da Montefeltro (1475) LXXVII-LXXX HOUR, 16/12/2025 1st hour: Milan and its civic identity 2nd hour: The celebrations of St. Ambrose 3rd hour: The offerings to the Fabbrica del Duomo 4th hour: The celebrations for Duke Francesco I LXXXI-LXXXIV HOUR, 17/12/2025 1st hour: The celebrations in the age of Ludovico il Moro 2nd hour: Leonardo da Vinci, showman 3rd hour: The wedding of Galeazzo Maria Sforza 4th hour: The feast of Paradise

The theatre and performing arts history class doesn't have any specific prerequisites, except for an interest in the subject and a tidy cultural background from secondary school.

Cesare Molinari, Storia del teatro, Bari, Laterza, 1996 e successive edd. b) Roberto Alonge, Franco Perrelli, Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo, Torino, UTET, 2019 e succ. edd. - Aristotele, Poetica, a cura di Diego Lanza, Rizzoli BUR, 1993 (o successive ristampe) - Lettura critica dei seguenti testi teatrali 1) Sofocle, Edipo re. 2) Machiavelli, Mandragola (nell’edizione a cura di P. Stoppelli, Mondadori, Milano 2006). 3) Shakespeare, Otello (a cura di Pietro Dattola, Andrea Peghinelli, Roma, Dino Audino, 2025). 4) Cechov, Il gabbiano (a cura di Franca De Angelis, Serena Lazzaro, Maria Pia Pagani, Roma, Dino Audino, 2025) 5) Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore. Parte monografica: - Claudio Passera, «In questo picolo libretto». Descrizioni di feste e di spettacoli per le nozze dei signori italiani del Rinascimento, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2020. Capitoli 2 e 3. - Paola Ventrone, Paradisi e voli angelici nello spettacolo e nell'iconografia in Italia nel Lungo Quattrocento, 'Drammaturgia', 9, 2022, pp. 11-41.

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Cesare Molinari, Storia del teatro, Bari, Laterza, 1996 e successive edd. b) Roberto Alonge, Franco Perrelli, Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo, Torino, UTET, 2019 e succ. edd. - Aristotele, Poetica, a cura di Diego Lanza, Rizzoli BUR, 1993 (o successive ristampe) - Lettura critica dei seguenti testi teatrali 1) Sofocle, Edipo re. 2) Machiavelli, Mandragola (nell’edizione a cura di P. Stoppelli, Mondadori, Milano 2006). 3) Shakespeare, Otello (a cura di Pietro Dattola, Andrea Peghinelli, Roma, Dino Audino, 2025). 4) Cechov, Il gabbiano (a cura di Franca De Angelis, Serena Lazzaro, Maria Pia Pagani, Roma, Dino Audino, 2025) 5) Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore. Parte monografica: - Claudio Passera, «In questo picolo libretto». Descrizioni di feste e di spettacoli per le nozze dei signori italiani del Rinascimento, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2020. Capitoli 2 e 3. - Paola Ventrone, Paradisi e voli angelici nello spettacolo e nell'iconografia in Italia nel Lungo Quattrocento, 'Drammaturgia', 9, 2022, pp. 11-41.

Lecture in the classroom with PowerPoint presentations and videos related to the topics discussed.