ITALIAN LITERATURE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- CRISTINA MONTAGNANI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/10
Training objectives
- Advanced knowledge in the history of Italian literature; skills: to set a text in its cultural background; to develop quite independently a research work with modern tools
Prerequisites
- History of Italian Literature (from XIIIth to XVth century): basic notions.
Course programme
- Institutions: history of Italian Literature of 15th century (especially in Ferrara and Florence).
G. Alfano ecc., Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento, Mondadori università, pp. 393-475.
Good knowledge (paraphrase) of:
1) Angelo Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra
2) Angelo Poliziano, Orfeo
3) Luigi Pulci, Morgante (first 3 cantos)
4) Matteo Maria Boiardo, Amorum libri tres, (16 text: edited by Tiziano Zanato, Novara, Interlinea Centro Studi Matteo Maria Boiardo, 2012)
5) Matteo Maria Boiardo, Inamoramento de Orlando (first five cantos) edited by Antonia Tissoni Benvenuti and Cristina Montagnani, Milano-Napoli, Ricciardi, 1999; or edited by Andrea Canova, Milano, Rizzoli, 2011.
The monographic course concerns the development of the fifteenth-century chivalric poem.
FOREIGN STUDENTS
Foreign students are kindly urged to attend. Didactic methods
- Lectures and seminars. The course is available in streaming.
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam. A careful knowledge of the texts of the authors recommended in the summary list is a key part of the exam preparation (generally 3 questions).
Reference texts
- G. Alfano, P. Italia, E. Russo, F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle origini a metà Cinquecento, Mondadori Università and the introductions to the recommended editions; More bibliography will be suggested in class.
