ITALIAN LITERATURE

This course is part of the core curriculum and aims to provide a thorough critical understanding of Italian literature and the fundamental tools for textual interpretation. It therefore aims to introduce students to a historically and philologically informed analysis of literary texts, based on a mastery of basic rhetorical, stylistic, and metrical elements.
Achieving these educational objectives allows students to acquire the foundation for in-depth learning of the culture and society of three-year language courses, developing comparison and evaluation skills.

Knowledge of the historical and cultural context of the Italian literary civilization; the ability to correctly use basic specialist vocabulary; to understand, analyze and interpret the literary texts covered by the course with the appropriate methods and tools; to identify and examine themes, arguments and ideas developed by the authors treated; to organize the contents in appropriate syntheses by making comparisons between the texts, to formulate a motivated value judgement.

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.

Sea, cuttlefish bones, shipwrecks and other shipwrecks: the diary of a summer in Eugenio Montale's "Ossi di seppia".

The course aims to read the “Ossi”, with which Montale made his debut as a poet in 1925, privileging their nature as a ‘book’, that is, with an organised structure and not a simple collection: specifically, as a diary of a summer in Monterosso, which condenses all the summers spent at the seaside in the family villa since childhood. The themes will be the perception and discovery of reality, the relationship with the sea, and that with women.

Eugenio MONTALE, "Ossi di seppia", Milano, Oscar Mondadori;

Critical studies:
- A. Casadei, "Montale", il Mulino, 2008.
- P. Marini e N. Scaffai (a cura di), "Montale", Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 13-47;169-178.


-Notes from lectures.

The exam is oral and aims to ascertain mastery of the topics covered in class, the ability to frame, understand and analyze the texts that have been presented, and knowledge of the critical bibliography indicated.

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The evaluation criteria respond to different levels of ability: the minimum level of correct understanding of the meanings and elements of historical-cultural contextualization of literary texts, and of a sufficient ability to analyze them through the appropriate use of the rhetorical terminology learned in the course of lessons (18-22); the level of discrete knowledge of the contents, the ability to critically reorganize them and a good competence in the exposition and analysis of texts, (23-26); the excellent level, finally, which requires in-depth knowledge of the contents, the ability to critically reorganize them, excellent competence both in the exposition of the arguments and in the use of specific rhetorical terminology (27-30). The award of honors will correspond to excellent ability regarding the same requirements.

Lectures: discussion of historical-literary and theoretical issues and analysis of texts subject to study.

Reservations are required for the LT0180 Italian Literature course. Each student must book for one of the 3 Classes by logging on to the link below by 31 October 2025.
https://apps.unive.it/prenotazioni/p/dsaamletteratura?_lang=e )

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development