ITALIAN LITERATURE

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LETTERATURA ITALIANA
Course code
LT0180 (AF:296906 AR:163484)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Subdivision
Class 4
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/10
Period
1st Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
The course is inserted between the basic disciplines common to the Program of Study and aims to provide an adequate critical knowledge of Italian literature and the fundamental tools for the textual interpretation. The teaching activity aims to start an analysis historically and philologically aware of the literary texts, founded on the mastery of the technical language.
The achievement of these instructional goals allows the student to acquire the bases for an in-depth learning of the culture and society of the triennial languages developing the skills of comparison and evaluation.
By the end of this course the student will know the historical and cultural context of the Italian literary civilization and will know how to correctly use a specialistic lexicon of base. It is expected to be able to understand, to analyze and to interpret the literary texts object of the course with the appropriate methods and tools, to identify and to examine themes, topics and ideas developed by the treated authors, to organize the contents in appropriate synthesis operating comparisons between texts also belonging to the European literature, to formulate a reasoned judgment of value.
To adequately follow the lessons the student must possess the essential lines of the history of Italian literature and easily move between the texts and the authors of greater importance, recognize the formal and linguistic aspects of a text, have a good knowledge of the Italian language written and oral.
The sixteenth century of Ariosto and Machiavelli: the theme of this course are the main categories that summarize the civilization of Humanism-Renaissance, as the question of models, the debate on language, the concepts of "norm" and "transgression". Within this historical-literary framework, the study of Ariosto and Machiavelli will be addressed through the reading and analysis of some passages from” Orlando Furioso” and ”Principe”.
In the first part we will introduce the period with a review of the main issues; in the second will be addressed the chivalric poem and the genres of the treatise, deepening the study of the Orlando furious and the "Prince".
Italian literature from the second half of the fifteenth Century to the early decades of the Sixteenth into a good literature handbook. The following manuals are recommended: C. Segre-C. Martignoni, “Testi nella storia”, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1991-’92, e R. Luperini-P. Cataldi-L. Marchiani, “La scrittura e l’interpretazione”, Palermo, Palumbo, 1996-99; C. Giunta, "Cuori intelligenti".
It requires the reading of L. ARIOSTO, “Orlando Furioso”, edited by L. Caretti, Torino, Einaudi, ET Classici, 2005, and of N. MACHIAVELLI, “Il Principe” edited by Giorgio Inglese, Torino, Einaudi, 1995.
The didactic materials commented during the lessons will be inserted in the e-learning platform "Moodle" of the University of Venice.
Students not attending lessons will read also G. ALFANO, C. GIGANTE, E. RUSSO, “Il Rinascimento”, Salerno Editrice, Roma, 2016.
The final verification of learning consists in an oral exam of about 30 minutes on the topics discussed and in-depth on the texts. The student must show to know the historical and cultural context, object of the course, to be able to frame, analyze and comment appropriately the texts and to be able to expose correctly and clearly the contents.
The evaluation criteria respond to different skill levels: from the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and the elements of historical-cultural contextualization of the literary texts at the highest level of knowledge deepened of the contents and the ability of critical reorganization of the same and of excellent exhibition competence.
Lectures: discussion of historical-literary and theoretical issues and analysis of texts subject to study.
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 04/05/2018