ITALIAN LITERATURE OF THE HUMANISM AND THE RENAISSANCE

The course belongs to the master's degree program in Italian Philology, Linguistics and Literature. Its purpose is to deepen the critical knowledge of Italian literature of the 15th and 16th centuries and that of the fundamental tools for textual interpretation, so as to provide students with the necessary skills to contextualize the authors examined, to analyze the texts to rhetorical and stylistic level and achieve the capacity to interpret them in a reasonably autonomous way.

The course aims to enable the student to acquire in-depth and extensive knowledge and advanced level skills in the methodological field in the field of Italian literature of the 15th and 16th centuries, and a developed awareness of the plurality of critical-methodological approaches to the text, with particular attention to rhetorical-stylistic processes. The student must therefore be able to understand, analyze and interpret the literary texts covered by the course with the appropriate methods and tools, to identify and examine themes, topics and ideas developed by the authors treated, to organize the contents in appropriate syntheses, making comparisons between texts, to formulate a reasoned value judgment.

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.

Niccolò Machiavelli: Inside the writing of “The Prince”.

The module aims to delve into the writing of "The Prince" and analyse its themes and rhetorical procedures: the aim is to highlight the intellectual path taken by Machiavelli during the writing of the pamphlet, which in chapter XXV finds its outcome and reversal with respect to the premises. Textual analysis will allow us to read The Prince without the stereotypes that have characterized its reading over the centuries.

Niccolò Machiavelli, “Il Principe”. Nuova edizione a cura di Giorgio Inglese, Torino, Einaudi, 1995 (e successive)

Critical bibliography:
Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina e Raffaele Ruggiero (a cura di), “Machiavelli”, Roma, Carocci, 2018.

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.

The lecturer has a duty to ensure that the rules regarding the authenticity and originality of exam tests and papers are respected. Therefore, if there is suspicion of irregular conduct, an additional assessment may be conducted, which could differ from the original exam description.

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The lecturer has a duty to ensure that the rules regarding the authenticity and originality of exam tests and papers are respected. Therefore, if there is suspicion of irregular conduct, an additional assessment may be conducted, which could differ from the original exam description.

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.

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