PHILOLOGY OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Academic year and teacher
If you can't find the course description that you're looking for in the above list,
please see the following instructions >>
- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- VALENTINA GRITTI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/13
Training objectives
- During the course students will acquire a competence useful for a more complete and solid knowledge of masterpieces of Italian authors of Renaissance (Ariosto, Tasso, Guicciardini), by the study of their manuscripts and prints and of their textual reconstruction.During the course students will read some of Guicciardini's Ricordi, a canto of Ariosto's Cinque canti, the IX-X-XI cantos of Furioso (Olimpia's episode), some of the Tasso's Rime.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of Italian language
Course programme
- The course is devoted to the history of tradition of same Renaissance masterpieces and the modalities to do their critical editions (for example the Ariosto's Orlando furioso and the famous "Cinque canti" or Guicciardini's Ricordi, or Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and Rime).
Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons. Analysis of the textual tradition of literary works of different genders and reading of texts with author's variants.
Lessons recording for all students, also for those not attending the course. Classroom key: hxa7ewk Learning assessment procedures
- Oral questions on the topics covered (on Machiavelli, Guicciardini or Tasso and on Ariosto, ecc.), as many as necessary to verify the level of student learning (from simple memorization of data to more valuable use of concepts learned).
Reference texts
- Claudio Gigante, Tasso, Salerno editrice, 2007, pp. 124-204 and 3o9-333;
Come lavorava Guicciardini, a cura di Paola Moreno, Carocci editore, 2020.
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, a cura di Emilio Bigi e Cristina Zampese, Milano, Rizzoli, all kind of reprints.
Ariosto, Cinque canti, edizione critica, introduzione e commento a cura di Valentina Gritti, Padova, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2018, introduction and the IV canto of Cinque canti with commnent.
Course material in digital format for Ariosto, Guicciardini and Tasso's Rime
