MODERN HISTORY 3

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA MODERNA 3
Course code
LT2790 (AF:233048 AR:117958)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-STO/02
Period
1st Semester
Course year
3
Moodle
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The course aims to outline a long path of cultural history from late antiquity until the expiration of the ancient regime, identifying in the century of the Enlightenment ("siècle qui élabora la plupart des idées dont nous vivons" [Francastel]) the moment of the foundation of sensitivity of the modern, both in the public domains of society and politics as well as in the global perception of the nature of man, understood as a political creature and as a unique and unrepeatable individual, holder of inalienable rights.
To this end we will analyze the relationship between the arts and politics from the Homeric poem to today's consumer music, focusing on the different forms of representation of the mission of man between the age of "discipline" and "confessionalization" and age of rights, thus using the main media of historical times in question: literature, theater, music, visual arts. The metamorphoses of the symbols and the themes of the duties, the rights and the imperatives of politics and faith occurred within the different cultural objects vehicles of social communication will allow to warn and to signal some of the salient passages crossed by the European culture during its tiring transit towards 'our' modernity
Knowledge and understanding:
• knowledge of the methods of analysis of the specific areas of historiographical research in the languages ​​of study in relation to the different types of sources (of political-institutional history, religious, social and culture, historical mentality, cultural systems, literary history, artistic and performative);
• long-term knowledge and framing of origins and dynamics of the development of the European social imaginary, from antiquity to the current global geopolitical framework (cultures, religious, political, economic institutions);
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• ability to articulate a coherent historical framework of the events that are at the origin of the processes of secularization of thought and of today's arrival in the modernity of the individual and of rights;
• ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the kind of historical sources used, with the conscious use of the historiographical categories;
• ability to autonomously initiate investigations on specific cases related to the thesis topic.
The course is structured on the learning needs of students of the curriculum "political-international", but can be attended (as a test of free choice) from all students of the LCSL C.o.S.
The ancient regime and the origins of modern sensibility: politics, religion, art, culture, society. From Homeic poems to Britney Spears.
ATTENDING STUDENTS

1) lesson's notes, 2) the book G. TOCCHINI, Arte e politica nella cultura dei Lumi. Diderot, Rousseau e la critica dell'antico regime artistico, Roma, Carocci, 2016; as an alternative to the volume, some readings to be chosen at the beginning of the course


NON ATTENDING STUDENTS

* G. TOCCHINI, Arte e politica nella cultura dei Lumi. Diderot, Rousseau e la critica dell'antico regime artistico, Roma, Carocci, 2016

Furthermore: 1 book of your choice from list A plus 1 book of your choice from list B.
LIST A


* BERTELLI, S., Il corpo del re. Sacralità e potere nell’Europa medievale e moderna, Firenze, Ponte alle Grazie, 1990
* BIFERALI, F., FIRPO, M., “Navicula petris”. L’arte dei papi nel Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009
* BREWER, J., I piaceri dell'immaginazione. La cultura inglese del Settecento (trad. it.), Roma, Carocci, 1999
* CROW, Th., Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Yale University Press, 1985 [trad. fr.: Id., La peinture et son public à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Macula, 2000]
* FIRPO, M., Gli affreschi di Pontormo a San Lorenzo. Eresia, politica e cultura nella Firenze di Cosimo I, Torino, Einaudi, 1994
* HASKELL, F., Mecenati e pittori. Studi sui rapporti tra arte e società italiana nell'età Barocca, Firenze, Sansoni, 1966 [opp. 1985; Torino, Allemandi, 2000; trad. fr.: Mècènes et peintres. L'art et la société au temps du baroque italien, Paris, Gallimard, 1991]
* MARAVALL, J. A., La cultura del barocco. Analisi di una struttura storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1985 e rist.
* PANOFSKY, E., Studi di iconologia. I temi umanistici nell’arte del Rinascimento, Torino, Einaudi, 1999
* TOCCHINI, G., Su Greuze e Rousseau. Romanzo, politica e committenza d'arte della tarda età dei Lumi, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2016.

LIST B

* BAXANDALL, M., Pittura ed esperienze sociali nell'Italia del Quattrocento, Torino, Einaudi, 2001
* DARNTON, R., Edition et sédition. L'univers de la littérature clandestine au XVIIIe siècle, Gallimard, Paris 1991
* ELIAS, N., Mozart. Sociologia di un genio (trad. it.), Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991
* GRAFTON, A., Falsari e critici. Creatività e finzione nella tradizione letteraria occidentale (trad. it.), Torino, Einaudi, 1996;
* GRELL, Ch., Histoire intellectuelle et culturelle de la France du grand siècle, Nathan, Paris 2000;
* PANOFSKY, E., Architettura gotica e filosofia scolastica, Milano, Abscondita, 2010
* SETTIS, S., La tempesta interpretata. Giorgione, i committenti il soggetto, Torino, Einaudi, 1978
* TOCCHINI, G., Minacciare con le immagini. Gli affreschi scomparsi della ‘Casa Barbariga’ e la svolta ideologica del patriziato veneziano, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2010
* ZAPPERI, R., Eros e controriforma. Preistoria della galleria Farnese, Torino, Bollati-Boringhieri, 1994
* ZERI, F., L’arco di Costantino. Divagazioni sull’antico, Ginevra-Milano, Skira, 2004
The oral exam, with an average duration of about 20 minutes, will focus on at least two topics covered during the lessons and aims at a cross-examination of the student's preparation and of his ability to show and coordinate the topics covered by the course. ability to link different topics.

In carrying out the oral examination the student must demonstrate a) to know how to articulate a coherent historical picture of the events and debates that are the origin of the sunset of the long ancient regime and of the Enlightenment cultural revolution, turning point of the birth of the contemporary world; b) ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the different historical, artistic, musical and literary sources examined, therefore c) to be able to adequately comment on the complex of historical sources (visual, sound and written) analyzed in class, d) to show a conscious use of the historiographical categories used during the lessons; d) the ability to autonomously initiate investigations and reflections on specific cases related to the topic of the course.
15 frontal lessons, with iconology and multimedial
Italian
Students attending will be required to print and bring to class a hard copy of the text to be read during the lessons, downloadable in pdf from the Moodle section in this webpage.
oral

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Last update of the programme: 18/05/2018