ITALIAN LITERATURE

This course will provide a geneal overview of Italian Literature, from its origins to the twentieth century.

The students will learn how to deal with the main authors and themes of one of the most important and beautiful literatures in the world.

- No previous studies are requested
- Knowledge of Italian Language is welcome

1) Introduction
2) Italian Language / Italian Literature
3) The Origins in context (an overview)
4) Poetry and Prose
5) Dante (I)
6) Dante (II)
7) Dante (III)
8) Recap
9) Petrarch
10) Boccaccio
11) Recap
12) The birth of Humanism
13) The Renaissance: a new vision of the world
14) The “question of language”
15) Chivalric poems
16) Boiardo / Ariosto / Tasso
17) Recap
18) Artistic Literature (Vasari and Paleotti)
19) Science Literature
20) The Baroque
21) The Illuminism
22) Recap
23) The age of Romanticism
24) Leopardi
25) Manzoni
26) Italian Literature and Italy
27) Recap
28) Conclusions

Peter Brand and Lino Pertile, The Cambridge History of Italian Literature [Revised Edition], Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004

(https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-italian-literature/1BC749FAFCDF55A47FC2A96FDDD92B27 )

(https://books.google.it/books?id=3uq0bObScHMC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false )

(https://www.amazon.it/Cambridge-History-Italian-Literature/dp/0521666228 )

- Participation (25%)
- Recap discussions (35%)
- Final discussion (40%)

- Zoom Classes
- Readings
- Interpretation of texts
- Teamwork

English

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