ITALIAN LITERATURE

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LETTERATURA ITALIANA
Course code
LT0180 (AF:454272 AR:246032)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Subdivision
Class 1
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/10
Period
1st Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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VISIONS OF THE EASTERN WORLD IN ITALIAN LITERATURE

This course intends to arrange and analyse a number of texts of Italian Literature that talk about or refer to the Eastern World, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
The students should be able to navigate the odeporic, geographic and anthropological genres of Italian Literature, between XII and XVI century.
None. The knowledge of general paradigms of Italian Literature would be helpful.
PROGRAM

- Imagining alterity
- Geography and literature
- Travel literature
- Travel literature in Italian
- Travel literature and the vernacular
- Merchant and explorers
- Marco Polo's Milione
- Dante and the Islam
- Fantasy and reality: the novel
- From the Novellino to the Decameron
- Columbus's misunderstanding
- The world beyond Europe in chivalric poems (Boairdo; Ariosto; Tasso).
- An encyclopedia of travel literature: Ramusio.
Theoretical dissertations on single authors, cultural periods or contexts will be uploaded periodically on Moodle.
Oral exam, in which the texts will be analysed and discussed. The discussion will consist of reading, paraphrase and commentary of the texts treated in class. When possible, interdisciplinary digressions will take place.
Class lecture. Reading, comprehension and analysis of texts.
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 10/09/2023