HISTORY OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PERIOD
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2015/2016
- Teacher
- PAOLO TROVATO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/12
Training objectives
- Obiettivi
On the model of the monographic courses (usual in Italian universities until the reform of the so-called 3+2), the course addresses a sèecific issue related to the linguistic history of the Italian Renaissance, the "Discorso intorno alla nostra lingua" of Machiavelli. Prerequisites
- Basics of History of the Italian Language
Course programme
- The course of this year address one of the most controversial treatises on the Questione della lingua, the "Discorso intorno alla nostra lingua" of Machiavelli, and puts the treatise into context: we analyze the transmission of the text, the purposes, the cultural background of the theses and we discuss the likely date .
Didactic methods
- lectures and group discussions.
Learning assessment procedures
- - The exam consists in short written answers to a number of questions related to the more important issues of the classes (15/30 questions). The time of the exam is about 40 minutes. If necessary the teacher can also pass to a short oral examination
Reference texts
- a) Testi: - Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorso intorno alla nostra lingua, a cura di P. Trovato, Padova, libreriauniversitaria, 2014
b) Studi: - Carlo Dionisotti, Machiavelli e la lingua fiorentina, in Machiavellerie, Torino, Einaudi, 1980, pp. 267-363
- Paolo Trovato, Appunti sul ‘Discorso intorno alla nostra lingua' del Machiavelli, in “La Bibliofilia”, LXXIII, 1981, pp. 25-69
- Simone Bionda, Il “nodo” del ‘Dialogo della lingua' attribuito a Niccolò Machiavelli, in “Interpres”, XXVIII, 2009, pp. 275-297
- Paolo Trovato, Sul nodo “bene accomodato” di Machiavelli (Discorso intorno alla nostra lingua, 69), in “Interpres”, XXVIII, 2009, pp. 272-282
