History, Anthropology, Religions

Activity type

Discipline letterarie e storico-artistiche

SSD

L-FIL-LET/10

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

6

Hours distribution

42 classroom hours

Lecturers

MAIKO FAVARO
MAIKO FAVARO

Activity type

Discipline letterarie e storico-artistiche

SSD

L-FIL-LET/10

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

6

Hours distribution

42 classroom hours

Lecturers

MAIKO FAVARO
MAIKO FAVARO

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the methodological, critical and applicable aspects of the Discipline; it proposes geographical areas and sectorial perspectives in which related projects are activated; it shows the variability of fields of interest; it enables the student to master the specific topics in order to use them and apply them in other fields of study while using the correct specific language. With the acquired knowledge the student will be able to develop autonomous ability of connections with other disciplines in the various historical epochs and cultural contexts.

- Knowledge of the main protagonists of Italian literary history from the 13th to the 19th century.
- Ability to critically reflect on the main issues concerning literature in relation to the historical-political, religious, and anthropological-cultural context of the Middle Ages and the Modern Age.
- Communication skills in reporting on the content learned.
- Ability to understand, paraphrase, and comment on texts written in ancient Italian.

Knowledge of the Italian language.

Module: Italian Literature I A
Reading and commenting on Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/c/MjMyNzUwMTU0NTla?cjc=7wnhy6nk


Module: Italian Literature I B
Institutional part dedicated to the fundamentals of metrics and rhetoric and an overview of the most important trends and authors in Italian literature from its origins to the 19th century.

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/c/MjMyNzUwMTU0NTla?cjc=7wnhy6nk

Module: Italian Literature I A
ATTENDING STUDENTS

- LUDOVICO ARIOSTO, Orlando Furioso (any annotated edition is acceptable; recommended edition: LUDOVICO ARIOSTO, Orlando Furioso, commentary by Emilio Bigi, edited by Cristina Zampese, Milan, BUR, 2012).
The work must be read in its entirety: during the exam, you may be asked to discuss any episode or character from the poem.
In addition, you are required to be able to paraphrase and comment on the octaves that will be indicated on Google Classroom during the course.

- GIANFRANCO CONTINI, Come lavorava l'Ariosto (the essay and study aid slides will be made available on Google Classroom).

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
The texts to be studied are the same as those indicated for attending students.
For the monographic part, we recommend consulting the Google Classroom channel for information on which octaves need to be paraphrased: as explained above, these will be indicated as the course progresses.
In addition, to make up for the lack of notes on the monographic part, we recommend studying one of the following volumes:
- STEFANO JOSSA, Ariosto, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009.
- SERGIO ZATTI, Leggere l’«Orlando furioso», Bologna, il Mulino, 2016.



Module: Italian Literature I B
ATTENDING STUDENTS
a) Handbooks:
- 'Prosodia e metrica' and 'Figure retoriche' (Google Classroom, code 7wnhy6nk )
- GIANFRANCO ALFANO, PAOLA ITALIA, EMILIO RUSSO, FRANCO TOMASI, 'Profilo di letteratura italiana. Dalle origini a fine Ottocento', Milano, Mondadori Università, 2021. The following chapters must be studied: Il dolce stil novo; Dante Alighieri; Francesco Petrarca; Giovanni Boccaccio; La stagione dell'Umanesimo (Introduzione + Alla scoperta degli Antichi); Pietro Bembo; Baldassarre Castiglione; Niccolò Machiavelli; Francesco Guicciardini; Torquato Tasso; Giovan Battista Marino; Arcadia; Pietro Metastasio; Critici e storiografi del Settecento; Carlo Goldoni; Milano-Europa. L'Illuminismo lombardo; Giuseppe Parini; Vittorio Alfieri; Ugo Foscolo; Alessandro Manzoni; Giacomo Leopardi; Ippolito Nievo; Giovanni Verga.
As an aid to studying the textbook (which remains the reference text for preparing this part of the exam), the teacher will upload slides on each of the above chapters to Google Classroom, also with the aim of focusing attention on the most important concepts and works.


NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
The texts to be studied are the same as those indicated for attending students.
For the institutional part, non-attending students are also strongly advised to use the slides that will be uploaded to Google Classroom, as they can facilitate the study of the textbook and help identify the most important concepts and works.

Module: Italian Literature I A
N/D
Module: Italian Literature I B
N/D

Lecture-based teaching for both modules.

Attending or not attending.

The oral exam will aim to assess the study of the texts in the program, both for the institutional part and for the monographic part. Students may be asked to paraphrase and comment on one or more passages from Orlando Furioso.

- Questions on the fundamentals of metrics and rhetoric.
- Questions on the lives and works of authors to be studied in the literary history textbook.
- Plot of an episode from Orlando Furioso.
- Salient characteristics and most important episodes relating to a character from Orlando Furioso.
- Paraphrase and commentary on one or more passages from Orlando Furioso (among those indicated on Google Classroom during the course).
- Questions on Gianfranco Contini's essay.

Module: Italian Literature I A

• Introduction to Ariosto and Orlando Furioso: Boiardo; Ariosto's life and historical-cultural context; the three editions of Furioso; Five cantos; Autograph fragments; Contini, “How Ariosto worked” and the critique of variants (12 hours)
  • Books: 1) Profilo di letteratura italiana, chapters: Matteo Maria Boiardo; Ludovico Ariosto. 2) STEFANO JOSSA, Ariosto, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009, or SERGIO ZATTI, Leggere l’«Orlando furioso», Bologna, il Mulino, 2016. 3) GIANFRANCO CONTINI, Come lavorava l’Ariosto.


• Reading and commenting on the Orlando furioso (36 hours)
  • Books: 1) Reading: LUDOVICO ARIOSTO, Orlando furioso, commento di Emilio Bigi, a cura di Cristina Zampese, Milano, BUR, 2012.2) Commenting: STEFANO JOSSA, Ariosto, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009, o SERGIO ZATTI, Leggere l’«Orlando furioso», Bologna, il Mulino, 2016.

• Fundamentals of metrics and rhetoric. XIII-XIV centuries: Dolce stil novo; Dante; Petrarch; Boccaccio (8 hours)
  • Books: Handbooks 'Prosodia e metrica' and 'Figure retoriche'. Profilo di letteratura italiana, chapters: Il dolce stil novo; Dante Alighieri; Francesco Petrarca; Giovanni Boccaccio


• XV-XVI centuries: Humanism; Bembo; Castiglione; Machiavelli; Guicciardini; Tasso (10 hours)
  • Books: Profilo di letteratura italiana, chapters: La stagione dell'Umanesimo (Introduzione + Alla scoperta degli Antichi); Pietro Bembo; Baldassarre Castiglione; Niccolò Machiavelli; Francesco Guicciardini; Torquato Tasso


• XVII-XVIII centuries: Marino; Arcadia; Metastasio; critics and historians XVIII century; Goldoni; Illuminism; Parini; Alfieri (10 hours)
  • Books: Profilo di letteratura italiana, chapters: Giovan Battista Marino; Arcadia; Pietro Metastasio; Critici e storiografi del Settecento; Carlo Goldoni; Milano-Europa. L'Illuminismo lombardo; Giuseppe Parini; Vittorio Alfieri


• XIX century: Foscolo; Manzoni; Leopardi; Nievo; Verga (8 hours)
  • Books: Profilo di letteratura italiana, chapters: Ugo Foscolo; Alessandro Manzoni; Giacomo Leopardi; Ippolito Nievo; Giovanni Verga