- Docente: Franco Bacchelli
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-FIL/06
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Franco Bacchelli (Modulo 1) Franco Bacchelli (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Philosophy (cod. 9216)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 9216)
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide basic knowledge concerning the European Philosophy between the 14th and 16th century through texts and authors judged emblematic. In particular, students are able to recognize the major topics of Italian Renaissance and the relationships between speculative thought, philology and theory of the arts. Among the objectives of the course is to know and use the lexicon (in Latin and in Italian) of the humanistic philosophy as well as the main historiographical interpretations of the philosophical currents of the Renaissance.
Course contents
The course will focus on Leon Battista Alberti's moral philosophy. We will not only read texts from the Profugiorum ab aerumna and the Theogenius or from the Intercenales - the first two are vernacular texts, the latter is in Latin - but we will focus on the moral and political - and eventually religious - conception that it is possible to draw from a text on architecture and urbanism such as the De re aedificatoria: the conception of the city and political power and other disturbing aspects regarding advice on religious constructions.
Readings/Bibliography
The entry LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, written by C. Grayson and G. C. Argan for the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (on-line)
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Intercenales, edited by Luca d'Ascia, Bologna, Pendragon, 2003 (a PDF will be uploaded on my page for didactic material)
Teaching methods
Oral lessons
Assessment methods
Oral exams on appointment to be taken by calling the mobile number 3349113980.
Office hours
See the website of Franco Bacchelli