28880 - Italian Literature of Renaissance (LM)

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Daniela Branca
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/10
  • Language: Italian

Course contents

The course provides a detailed introduction to the masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance epic, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (its relations with the previous patterns; with the court of Ferrara and conteporary political history; the idea of human madness...) as well as an analysis of the three different editions of the text (1516, 1521, 1532).

Office hours

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