HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE II
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- PAOLO TROVATO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/12
Training objectives
- Study of the most relevant linguistic varieties of early Italian in order to read and understand Dante's Commedia and other early Italian literary text.
Inroduction to the study of Dante's Commedia. Prerequisites
- To have a practical knowledge of the Italian language. The student must master the tools of grammatical analysis and logical analysis.
Course programme
- Dante' s role in the history of Italian language
Italian varieties in Dante's age.
Poetical language in the second half of 13th century
The new language of the Commedia
Close reading of passages from Dante's Commedia Didactic methods
- Reading of texts and commentary on texts
Learning assessment procedures
- Open-ended questions
Reference texts
- 1) Any recent edition of Dante's Commedia with a commentary (e.g. edition Pasquini-Quaglio, Garzanti; ed. Chiavacci Leonardi, Mondadori; ed. Inglese, Carocci).
2) B. Migliorini, Storia della lingua italiana con presentazione di G. Ghinassi, Nuova edizione, Bompiani 2019
3) Luca Serianni, Lezioni di grammatica storica italiana, Bulzoni, Biblioteca di cultura, 1998
Other (short) early Italian texts will be provided by the teacher.
