- Docente: Carlo Saccone
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-OR/15
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Learning outcomes
A knowledge of the the outlines of Persian classica literature
Course contents
Introduction to the main poetic genres, the types of literary production in medieval ages, the aristocratic and religious public of Persian poets.
Lectures on one or two classical poets: analysis an philological comment of texts
Readings/Bibliography
C.Saccone, Viaggi e visioni di re sufi e profeti. Storia tematica della letteratura persiana, vol. I, Luni, Trento-Milano 1999:
C. Saccone, Il maestro sufi e la bella cristiana. Poetica della perversione nella Persia medievale. Storia tematica della letteratura persiana, vol.II, Carocci, Roma 2005
C. Saccone, Il re dei belli, il re del mondo. Teologia del potere e della bellezza nlla Persia medievale. Storia tematica della letteratura persiana, vol.III, Aracne, Roma 2014
More readings for curious students:
A.Bausani, Il pazzo sacro, Luni Ed.,Milano-Trento 2000 (distribuito da Carocci Ed.)
J.Scott Meisami, Persian medieval court poetry, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1987
J.C.Buergel, La parola è nave, il significato un mare. Saggi sull'amore e il viaggio nella poesia persiana medievale, a cura di C. Saccone, Carocci, Roma 2005
-The feather of Simurgh. The “licit magic” of the arts in medieval islam, New York Univ. Press, New York and London 1988
J.T.P. De Bruijn, Persian sufi poetry, Curzon Press, Richmond 1997
A. Schimmel, Stern und Blume. Die Bilderwelt der persischen Poesie, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984
C. Saccone, Iblis il Satana del Terzo Testamento. Letture coraniche II, Centro Essad Bey-CreateSpace IPP, Charleston 2016
Teaching methods
front lessons, seminars, lectures
Assessment methods
Oral and witten exams. Foreign students can also use Spanish, German, French, English or Persian.
Teaching tools
books, articles, and various tools and materials also available online
Office hours
See the website of Carlo Saccone