ITALIAN LITERATURE FROM 12TH TO 16TH CENTURY

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LETTERATURA ITALIANA SECOLI XII-XVI
Course code
FT0487 (AF:308654 AR:170014)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of ITALIAN LITERATURE 2 (FROM 13TH TO 16TH CENTURY)
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/10
Period
4th Term
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course is inserted between the basic disciplines common to the Program of Study. Its principal aim
is to provide the student with the indispensable tools and rudiments of the discipline, and to start him
to a critical interpretation of the development of Italian literature from the origins up to the Renaissance.
It's a monographical course, and tend to pay special attention to the large field of Italian poetry and prose
of the same period.
At the end of the course, the student is expected to know: the authors and works
that have been dealt with during the course; the historical and literary context;
the secondary discussion about the topics proposed in the lessons. These particular knowledge will be
completed by a refinement of the critical and exegetical tools indispensable to the interpretation
of an ancient literary text. So the student will be able to use such improvements in the whole field of Italian literature.
A good knowledge of Italian language.
The power of language. Reading of the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio.
G. BOCCACCIO, Decameron, a cura di V. Branca, Torino, Einaudi, 1992 (and following reprints).
The students that will regularly attend the lessons can prepare the examination by means of their notes.
The students that cannot attend the lessons will prepare the examination by means of a detailed
bibliography, that will be sent by request.
Oral examination based on questions about the author and his works. Comment on the texts
discussed during the course.
The course is founded on the traditional form of the so called frontal lessons.
Italian
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 15/04/2019