32595 - Romance Philology 1 (LM)

Learning outcomes

The student acquires the tools of philological and stylistic analysis applied to text analysis. He/She is introduced to the knowledge of the system of literary genres (lyric, epic, novel, allegorical poem, theatrical "jeu" ...) and to some of the main works of the Medieval Romanic tradition

Course contents

The Courtly Garden in the Literatures of the Romance Middle Ages

The course aims to study, from a comparative and gender perspective, the various representations of the medieval garden - complex and dense system of symbols and knowledge, kingdom of harmony and example of biodiversity - in the main literary genres in the Middle Ages novel: novel , lai, story, short story. Selected pages of medieval French, Spanish and Italian literature will be read, translated and commented.

 

Main topics of the course:

The Courtly Garden; the magic garden; the Flower Maidens; Eve and the serpent woman; women-trees and women's trees; memory of Paradise, Morgana and Melusina; the healers; enchantements and metamorphoses; archetypes; filters and potions; the garden of poisons; Boccaccio's garden.

COURSE TIMETABLE, from February, 9th, 2021:

Thursday 15.30-17.00, FICLIT, Classroom 1,

Friday, 15.30-17.00, FICLIT, Classroom 1,

Readings/Bibliography

A)

Two texts of your choice between:

Béroul, Il romanzo di Tristano, edizioni dell'Orso or in Tristan et Iseut, Livres de Poche

Chrétien de Troyes, Erec e Enide, Carocci

Robert d'Orbigny, Le Conte de Floire et Blanchefleur, Champion Classiques

Guillaume de Lorris - Jean de Meun, Il Romanzo della Rosa, Edizioni dell'Orso (only Guillaume de Lorris)

Juan Ruiz Arcipreste de Hita, Libro di Buon amore/Libro de Buen Amor, a cura di M. Ciceri, Edizioni dell'Orso,http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/el-libro-de-buen-amor--0/

Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, Schiavo d'amore, Carocci

B)

Razón de amor (online)

Roman d'Alexandre, l'episodio delle fanciulle-fiore (online)

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron: “Proemio”, Introduzione alla I giornata, Introduzione alla III giornata; Le novelle: IV, 1 (Tancredi), IV,5 (Elisabetta), IV, 6 (Andreuola), IV,7 (Simona e Pasquino), IV, 9 (Guglielmo Rossiglione), V, 8 (Nastagio), X, 5 (Madonna Dianora). Online: ‘Decameron Web’ https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ or ‘Biblioteca Italiana’ http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/

C)
Bibliography of Secondary Texts (essays, articles, volumes)
In Progress

D)

CONFERENCES: three meetings on the following dates:

february on 18th

february on 25th

march on 4th

Teaching methods

Lessons, seminars and conferences given by external scholars.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Multimedia devices

Office hours

See the website of Patrizia Caraffi