INTRODUCTION TO DANTE

Academic year

2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years

Official course title

INTRODUZIONE A DANTE

Course code

FT0472 (AF:401054 AR:217268)

Modality

On campus classes

ECTS credits

6

Degree level

Bachelor's Degree Programme

Educational sector code

L-FIL-LET/13

Period

2nd Term

Where

VENEZIA

Moodle

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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals

The course is included in the interdisciplinary activities of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Humanities and aims to read critically Dante's Commedia, providing also linguistic, metrical and rhetorical notions for reading medieval vernacular texts.

Expected learning outcomes

By the end of the cours students are expected to be able to:
- read critically and carefully Dante's Divine Comedy, linking the sacred poem to other Italian, Romance and Classical texts;
- use precisely critical, metrical, philological, rhetorical instruments to face a Medieval poetical text;
- reinforce the awareness of the plurality of the critical approaches to the text of the Divine Comedy.

Pre-requirements

Foreigners attending this course are expected to be fluent in Italian and to have a general knowledge of the Italian literature.

Contents

Reading and commentary of Dante's "Purgatorio".

The course will offer a reading of some "canti" of Dante's "Purgatorio", with particular focus on linguistic, metrical and rhetorical issues.

Referral texts

- DANTE ALIGHIERI, Purgatorio, a cura di S. Bellomo e S. Carrai, Torino, Einaudi, 2019;
- S. BELLOMO, "Filologia e critica dantesca". Nuova edizione riveduta e ampliata, Brescia, La Scuola, 2012: capp. 1 (Vita di Dante) e 13 (Commedia), §§ 1-8;
- A.M. CHIAVACCI LEONARDI, Le beatitudini e la struttura poetica del "Purgatorio", in "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana", 161 (1984), pp. 1-29.

Not-attending students must read also: G. LEDDA, Leggere la Commedia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016.

Assessment methods

Written test to be completed in 90 minutes. It consists of a series of open questions about the course and bibliography and of a paraphrase of a passage of Dante's "Purgatorio".

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons; further material will be available on the e-learning platform moodle.unive.it.

Teaching language

Italian

Type of exam

written

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Definitive programme.

Last update of the programme: 12/12/2022