00562 - Italian Literature (A-L)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students will acquire the tools for the exegesis of the texts (ancient and modern, published and unpublished) of our age-old literary tradition, seen as a cultural monument of our national identity.

Course contents

For the written exam the student have to prepare:

Dante, Inferno (cantos: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, X, XIII, XV, XIX, XXVI, XXVII, XXXIII, XXXIV);
Petrarca, Canzoniere (poems: I, III, V, XI, XVI, XXXV, LII, LXI, XC, CXXVI, CXXVIII, CXXXIV, CXXXVII, CCLXXII, CCCII, CCCLXV, CCCLXVI);
Boccaccio, Decameron, Proemio, days I, IV, X, Conclusion of the author;
Ariosto, Orlando furioso, cantos I, XII, XXXIV
Machiavelli, Principe
Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, canto XII;
Foscolo, Sonetti e Sepolcri
Leopardi, Canti (L'infinito, Alla luna, A se stesso, Ad Angelo Mai, La quiete dopo la tempesta, Il sabato del villaggio, La ginestra)  Operette morali (All);

Erasmus and Overseas students don't have to sustain the written exam

Oral proof

The student should be able to read, explain and comment the following medieval texts:

a) Dante, Inferno, (canti: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, X, XIII, XV, XIX, XXVI, XXVII, XXXIII, XXXIV);

(advised comments: Pasquini-Quaglio, Garzanti; Bosco-Reggio, Le Monnier; Ciavacci Leonardi, Mondadori; G. Inglese, Carocci);

b) Petrarca, the following poems from Canzoniere: I, III, V, XI, XVI, XXXV, LII, LXI, XC, CXXVI, CXXVIII, CXXXIV, CXXXVII, CCLXXII, CCCII, CCCLXV, CCCLXVI; (recommended comments: Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di P. Vecchi Galli, Bur, 2012)

c) Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, days I, IV, X (advised comment: ed. by A. Quondam, G. Alfano, M. Fiorilla, Bur, 2013)

d) One book chosen among the following ones from the Umanistic-Renaissance section:

L. Valla, La falsa Donazione di Costantino; 

L.B. Alberti, Autobiografia e altre opere latine, a cura di L. Chines e A. Severi, Milano, Bur, 2012

N. Machiavelli, Principe;

F. Guicciardini, Ricordi

Or among:

M. M. Boiardo, Orlando innamorato: 5 canti;

L. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: 5 canti;

T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata: 5 canti.

 e) One book among the following ones from the XVIII-XIX centuries section:

G. Parini, Le odi o Il giorno

V. Alfieri, Vita

C. Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene;

U. Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis e Sepolcri;

G. Leopardi, Canti (10 poems) e Operette morali (10 texts);

A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi o La Storia delle Colonna Infame

G. Verga, I Malavoglia o Mastro-don Gesualdo.

 f) One book among the following ones from the XX century section:

L. Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal e Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore;

I. Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno;

G. Ungaretti, L'Allegria (or anathor poetical collection);

E. Montale, Ossi di seppia (or anathor poetical collection);

U. Saba, Canzoniere o Scorciatoie;

C.E. Gadda, La cognizione del dolore oppure Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana;

C. Pavese, Lavorare stanca o La luna e i falò;

B. Fenoglio, Una questione privata o Il partigiano Johnny;

G. Bassani, Gli occhiali d'oro o Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini;

P. Levi, Se questo è un uomo e I sommersi e i salvati;

I. Calvino, Gli amori difficili, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore;

E. Morante, L'isola di Arturo o La storia;

L. Sciascia, Il giorno della civetta, A ciascuno il suo; o La scomparsa di Majorana, L'affaire Moro.

g) Students have to study also the two following essays:

L. Chines, Petrarca, Bologna, Patron, 2016;

M.A. Bazzocchi, Leopardi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.

Notes for points e), f), g): besides reading recommended works, students have to know all the works of the author thay have chosen and the main cultural currents of the century in which their authors lived.

 

Students, of course, may read more texts than the ones compulsories. In any case, the student have to come to the oral proof with the written list of the read books.

Monographical course

During the lectures it will be dealt with philological, critical, interxtual problems (and concerning fortune) of litterary works, in poetry and prose, by Petrarca, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Leopardi, Foscolo and Manzoni, paying particular attention to the problem of identity during centuries.

Lessons will take place from Jenuary, 30th, 2017, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (11-13) in Aula C, Zamboni street 34.

Readings/Bibliography

It's useful for the preparation of the final test and for the themes concerning the analisis of literary text:

 L. Chines, C. Varotti, Che cos'è un testo letterario, Roma, Carocci, 2001

Book Compulsory

Itinerari nella letteratura italiana. Da Dante al Web, a cura di N. Bonazzi, A. Campana, F. Giunta, N. Maldina, coordinamento di G.M. Anselmi, Carocci, 2013 (chapters 1-9; 17-21; 25-32);

L. Chines, Petrarca, Bologna, Patron, 2016;

M.A. Bazzocchi, Leopardi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.

The not-frequenting students have to study also two volumes among the following four:

S. Nobili, Giovanni Boccaccio, Milano, Unicopli, 2013;

C. Dini, Ariosto. Guida all'Orlando Furioso, Roma, Carocci, 2001;

M. Palumbo, Foscolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010;

Manzoni. Profilo e antologia critica, a cura di C. Varotti, Milano, Mondadori, 2006.

Books Suggested (concerning the sections and the authors professor had spoken about)

Ezio Raimondi, G.M. Anselmi, L. Chines, G. Fenocchio, Leggere, come io l'intendo…, Mondadori.

G. Inglese, Guida alla "Divina Commedia", Roma, Carocci, 2012 (ristampa 2015);

 

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

The student who will show a lack of knowledge of the basic principles in the literary text and the absence of chronological orientation in the phenomena and essential moments of the Italian literary history, he will receive a negative evaluation;

The student who will show the ability to analyze the literary text and to correctly insert authors and works in the literary diachrony, he will receive a positive evaluation;

The student who will show a thorough knowledge of the specific aspects of the literary text, the ability of critically processing the subject contents, and who will join fluency in the exposition and a clear consistency in the argumentation, he will receive an excellent evaluation.

Teaching tools

Pc, videoproiettore.
Lessons of support will be effected aimed to prepare the text.

Office hours

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