Archaeology

FRANCESCO LUCIOLI
FRANCESCO LUCIOLI
MAIKO FAVARO
MAIKO FAVARO

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of
ITALIAN LITERATURE, that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first grade of studies. Moreover, it will make the students able to approach orginal themes in a research context, making more complex judgments, communicating knowledge and its process, and studying the subject in an independent and self-educational way.

Students will be able to:
- recognize and analyze the main Italian metrical forms and the most common rhetorical figures;
- recognize the different literary genres and their main formal and content features;
- place the author and the texts examined within the broader context of Italian literature from its origins to the early modern age.

Excellent knowledge of the Italian language.
Excellent knowledge of Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and of the main metrical and rhetorical structures.

Reading Matteo Maria Boiardo's Inamoramento de Orlando

The course aims to introduce students to the reading and understanding of Matteo Maria Boiardo's chivalric poem Inamoramento de Orlando, paying particular attention to the genesis and structure of the work, the historical and cultural context and literary tradition in which it is set, its relationship with other works by the same author (in particular Amorum libri tres) and its reception.

The course consists of 42 hours of lessons (for a total of 6 CFU) and includes an analysis of the following topics:

- introduction to chivalric poetry;
- life and works of Matteo Maria Boiardo;
- reading and analysis of Inamoramento de Orlando.

- M.M. Boiardo, Orlando innamorato/L'inamoramento de Orlando, a cura di A. Canova, Milano, BUR: canti da leggere, parafrasare e analizzare: libro I, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29; libro II, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 25, 26, 27, 31; libro III, 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9.
- A. Tissoni Benvenuti, Introduzione, in M.M. Boiardo, Opere, I. L'inamoramento de Orlando, I, a cura di A. Tissoni Benvenuti e C. Montagnani, Milano-Napoli, Ricciardi, 1999, pp. X-XXXIII.
- T. Zanato, Boiardo, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2015, pp. 145-277.
- Boiardo, a cura di J.A. Cavallo e C. Confalonieri, Milano, Unicopli, pp. 43-52.
- R. Galbiati, Il romanzo e la corte. L'inamoramento de Orlando di Boiardo, Roma, Carocci, 2018, pp. 33-77.
Tutti i testi, a parte l'edizione dell'Inamoramento de Orlando, verranno forniti dal docente nell'antologia disponibile su Moodle (Letteratura italiana. Forme e percorsi - Matteo Maria Boiardo - Francesco Lucioli).

- C. Dionisotti, Boiardo e altri studi cavallereschi, a cura di G. Anceschi e A. Tissoni Benvenuti, Novara, Interlinea, 2003;
- Gli Amorum libri e la lirica del Quattrocento, con altri studi boiardeschi, a cura di A. Tissoni Benvenuti, Novara, Interlinea, 2003;
- R. Alhaique Pettinelli, Forme e percorsi dei romanzi di cavalleria da Boiardo a Brusantino, Roma, Bulzoni, 2004;
- M. Santagata, I due cominciamenti della lirica italiana, Pisa, ETS, 2006;
- M. Praloran, Le lingue del racconto. Studi su Boiardo e Ariosto, Roma, Bulzoni, 2009;
- M. Santagata, Pastorale modenese. Boiardo, i poeti e la lotta politica, Bologna, Il mulino, 2016;
- J.A. Cavallo, Il mondo oltre l'Europa nei poemi di Boiardo e Ariosto, traduzione di C. Confalonieri, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2017 (ed. orig. The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2013);
- R. Galbiati, Il romanzo e la corte. L'Inamoramento de Orlando di Boiardo, Roma, Carocci, 2018;
- Boiardo, a cura di Jo Ann Cavallo e Corrado Confalonieri, Milano, Unicopli, 2018;
- G. Rizzarelli, Per figuras. Strategie narrative e rappresentative nei poemi di Boiardo e Ariosto, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 2022;
- R. Galbiati, Inventarsi Ruggiero. Genealogie estensi, Roma, Carocci, 2024.
- Lettura dell'Inamoramento de Orlando, libro I, a cura di E. Brilli, E. Menetti, G. Rizzarelli, Novara, Interlinea, 2026.

The course consists of 42 hours of face-to-face lectures (for a total of 6 CFU).

Attendance is strongly recommended.

At the end of the course, students will take an oral examination, which will consist of discussing the topics and analyzing the texts in the syllabus according to the stated objectives. A grade of not less than 18/30 is required to pass the exam.

Reading, paraphrasing, and stylistic and content analysis of a given passage.
Historical and cultural contextualization of the author under consideration.
Questions on the history of Italian literature of the period under consideration.

• Introduction to the history of chivalric literature (6 hours)
  • Books: - Marco Villoresi, La letteratura cavalleresca. Dai cicli medievali all'Ariosto, Roma, Carocci, 2000;- Antologia di testi allestita dal docente e disponibile su Moodle (Letteratura italiana. Forme e percorsi - Matteo Maria Boiardo - Francesco Lucioli).


• Introduction to Boiardo, life and works (4 hours)
  • Books: - T. Zanato, Boiardo, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2015;- Antologia di testi allestita dal docente e disponibile su Moodle (Letteratura italiana. Forme e percorsi - Matteo Maria Boiardo - Francesco Lucioli).


• Reading of and commentary on Inamoramento de Orlando
  • Books: - M.M. Boiardo, Orlando innamorato/L'inamoramento de Orlando, a cura di A. Canova, Milano, BUR: canti da leggere, parafrasare e analizzare: libro I, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29; libro II, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 25, 26, 27, 31; libro III, 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9