Italian Literature
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with a critical knowledge of the main elements of the Italian literary system, from the Origins to the Seventeenth century, following the tradition and development of models, themes, forms.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student must know the fundamental aspects and issues of Italian literature from the Origins to the Seventeenth century, with a proper historic contextualization and specific reference to genres, themes and poetics, authors and works, methods of transmission of texts and their philological problems. Furthermore, the student will have to know the tools (metric elements, rhetoric, style theory and narratology) and the critical methodologies necessary to analyse and interpret the texts.
The student will then have to demonstrate the ability to understand and analyse literary texts (in their thematic and formal aspects), framing them in their respective contexts. Likewise, the student must demonstrate competence in the comprehension and use of literary essays, ability to identify the bibliography and to make use of the main tools of bibliographic resources, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and correctly, both in oral and written presentation, with appropriate use of scientific terminology.
The student will then have to demonstrate the ability to understand and analyse literary texts (in their thematic and formal aspects), framing them in their respective contexts. Likewise, the student must demonstrate competence in the comprehension and use of literary essays, ability to identify the bibliography and to make use of the main tools of bibliographic resources, as well as the ability to communicate clearly and correctly, both in oral and written presentation, with appropriate use of scientific terminology.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
(A-D)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Instruction mode: synchronous online teaching on Microsoft Teams
Course syllabus
The class is subdivided into three units.
Parts A and B offer some exemplary critical readings selected from the main texts of the Italian literary tradition, typically from the Middle Ages and Dante to Romanticism. Their content will be assessed in a written exam at the end of the class.
In Part C (which may vary every year) the focus is on a specific work, author, or literary movement, treated monographically. Part C will be the main topic of the discussion during the oral exam.
This year's class examines the literary production of two major poets of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, Giovanni Pascoli and Luigi Di Ruscio.
Parts A and B offer some exemplary critical readings selected from the main texts of the Italian literary tradition, typically from the Middle Ages and Dante to Romanticism. Their content will be assessed in a written exam at the end of the class.
In Part C (which may vary every year) the focus is on a specific work, author, or literary movement, treated monographically. Part C will be the main topic of the discussion during the oral exam.
This year's class examines the literary production of two major poets of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, Giovanni Pascoli and Luigi Di Ruscio.
Prerequisites for admission
The class is conducted entirely in Italian. Course materials and readings require an average knowledge of the main currents of Italian medieval, early modern ad modern literature, set in their historic and cultural context, with special emphasis on their literary and linguistic peculiarities.
Teaching methods
The class consists in 30 lectures. Students are strongly invited to turn in written assignments, the content of which is discussed with the teacher. These papers, though, are not mandatory.
Teaching Resources
Parts A and B
Course materials are uploaded in the Ariel portal: https://ariel.unimi.it
Part C
Texts
Giovanni Pascoli, Myricae, in any edition. Strongly recommended the volume edited by Gianfranca Lavezzi, BUR
Luigi Di Ruscio, Poesie scelte, 1953-2010, edited by Massimo Gezzi, Marcos y Marcos 2019
Criticism
Massimo Castoldi, Pascoli, il Mulino 2011
Martino Marazzi, Italexit. Saggi su Risorgimento e disunione nazionale, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2019
Additional readings for non-attending students
One among the following works:
Giovanni Pascoli, Canti di Castelvecchio, in any edition; OR Rocco Scotellaro, È fatto giorno, OR, R. Scotellaro, Margherite e rosolacci, in their respective editions, or both in Tutte le poesie (ed. Franco Vitelli), and in Tutte le opere (eds. Vitelli - Dell'Aquila - Martelli)
Course materials are uploaded in the Ariel portal: https://ariel.unimi.it
Part C
Texts
Giovanni Pascoli, Myricae, in any edition. Strongly recommended the volume edited by Gianfranca Lavezzi, BUR
Luigi Di Ruscio, Poesie scelte, 1953-2010, edited by Massimo Gezzi, Marcos y Marcos 2019
Criticism
Massimo Castoldi, Pascoli, il Mulino 2011
Martino Marazzi, Italexit. Saggi su Risorgimento e disunione nazionale, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2019
Additional readings for non-attending students
One among the following works:
Giovanni Pascoli, Canti di Castelvecchio, in any edition; OR Rocco Scotellaro, È fatto giorno, OR, R. Scotellaro, Margherite e rosolacci, in their respective editions, or both in Tutte le poesie (ed. Franco Vitelli), and in Tutte le opere (eds. Vitelli - Dell'Aquila - Martelli)
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written + oral exam:
a written exam on Parts A and B (no dictionary allowed) tests the understanding of the specificities of literary texts, as well as students' familiarity with the basics of critical scholarship, and their acquisition of a personal and grounded judgement.
Grades breakdown: Fail, Basic, Average, Good, Excellent.
The written exam (75 mins.) requires answering to 40 questions. Grades will be as follows. Ottimo (Excellent, A): 36-40 correct answers; Buono (Good, B): 30-35 correct answers; Discreto (Average, C): 22-29 correct answers; Sufficiente (Basic, D): 12-21 correct answers; Insufficiente (no mention due to privacy, Fail, F): 0-11 correct answers.
Once the written part is completed, students can access to the oral exam (Part C). Those who are graded as Fail will have to repeat the written exam.
The oral part asks for the same learning requirements as the written part, and, in compliance with the Italian academic tradition, will be graded on a 30-point scale, from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude .
a written exam on Parts A and B (no dictionary allowed) tests the understanding of the specificities of literary texts, as well as students' familiarity with the basics of critical scholarship, and their acquisition of a personal and grounded judgement.
Grades breakdown: Fail, Basic, Average, Good, Excellent.
The written exam (75 mins.) requires answering to 40 questions. Grades will be as follows. Ottimo (Excellent, A): 36-40 correct answers; Buono (Good, B): 30-35 correct answers; Discreto (Average, C): 22-29 correct answers; Sufficiente (Basic, D): 12-21 correct answers; Insufficiente (no mention due to privacy, Fail, F): 0-11 correct answers.
Once the written part is completed, students can access to the oral exam (Part C). Those who are graded as Fail will have to repeat the written exam.
The oral part asks for the same learning requirements as the written part, and, in compliance with the Italian academic tradition, will be graded on a 30-point scale, from 18/30 to 30/30 cum laude .
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
(E-N)
Lesson period
Second semester
Any health emergency will affect the course as described below.
1) Programme and reference materials
No change. Papers available on the Digital Library are already specified in the regular problem.
2) Teaching methods
PARTS A-B: The lessons in attendance will be replaced by two complementary modes of telematic teaching delivery, synchronous and asynchronous. All the contents of the course (literary history, commented reading of anthological texts, rudiments of textual criticism) will be proposed in ppt with audio uploaded in the Ariel site of the discipline in correspondence with the lesson times. Periodically - once every five lessons delivered in the asynchronous form described - a synchronous lesson on the Teams or Zoom platform will be dedicated to answering students' questions and to any in-depth analysis that may be requested; questions may be asked live during these lessons or proposed in advance on the forum that will be specifically activated in Ariel. These synchronous lessons will be recorded and left available to students in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
PART C: The lessons will be replaced by both synchronous and asynchronous telematic lessons, which will alternate regularly at normal course times. The initial presentation of the work will take place in synchronous lessons on Teams or Zoom platform, which will also be an opportunity to answer questions and for discussion; these lessons will be recorded and left available in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
FOR ALL PARTS: The calendar of all synchronous and asynchronous lessons will be published in Ariel as soon as the emergency arises; the site will also be the reference place for any organizational communication. All recorded lectures and uploaded ppts will remain available for the entire academic year.
3) Methods of learning verification
If possible, written tests will be taken remotely through proctoring system ; oral exams will be taken on Teams platform.
1) Programme and reference materials
No change. Papers available on the Digital Library are already specified in the regular problem.
2) Teaching methods
PARTS A-B: The lessons in attendance will be replaced by two complementary modes of telematic teaching delivery, synchronous and asynchronous. All the contents of the course (literary history, commented reading of anthological texts, rudiments of textual criticism) will be proposed in ppt with audio uploaded in the Ariel site of the discipline in correspondence with the lesson times. Periodically - once every five lessons delivered in the asynchronous form described - a synchronous lesson on the Teams or Zoom platform will be dedicated to answering students' questions and to any in-depth analysis that may be requested; questions may be asked live during these lessons or proposed in advance on the forum that will be specifically activated in Ariel. These synchronous lessons will be recorded and left available to students in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
PART C: The lessons will be replaced by both synchronous and asynchronous telematic lessons, which will alternate regularly at normal course times. The initial presentation of the work will take place in synchronous lessons on Teams or Zoom platform, which will also be an opportunity to answer questions and for discussion; these lessons will be recorded and left available in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
FOR ALL PARTS: The calendar of all synchronous and asynchronous lessons will be published in Ariel as soon as the emergency arises; the site will also be the reference place for any organizational communication. All recorded lectures and uploaded ppts will remain available for the entire academic year.
3) Methods of learning verification
If possible, written tests will be taken remotely through proctoring system ; oral exams will be taken on Teams platform.
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Tools and texts of Italian literature (60 hours, 9 cfu)
Part A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Part B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century to XIX century
Part C (20 hours, 3 cfu): «The life of Vittorio Alfieri written by himself»
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with E-N-
The teaching program of Parts A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; the third part (Part C) is dedicated to the analysis of «The life of Vittorio Alfieri written by himself»
Part A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
Part B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century to XIX century
Part C (20 hours, 3 cfu): «The life of Vittorio Alfieri written by himself»
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with E-N-
The teaching program of Parts A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; the third part (Part C) is dedicated to the analysis of «The life of Vittorio Alfieri written by himself»
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission. Nevertheless, a good high-school background is the ideal prerequisite for the course, which, however, is also thought to amend shortcomings.
Teaching methods
The course will be taught, in Italian, through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Parts A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Parts A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching Resources
Texts to be studied in Parts A and B will be available on Ariel (Contenuti >
Materiali Didattici) prior to the beninning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel and bring it to each lesson. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Part A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Part B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Part C
The life of Vittorio Alfieri written by himself
Vittorio Alfieri, Vita, a cura di Marco Cerruti, Rizzoli, Milano,1987.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style); in case, an useful tool will be: Gabriella Fenocchio, Alfieri, il Mulino ("Itinerari. Filologia e critica letteraria"), Bologna, 2012
Students are also required to study three of the following papers:
1. Arnaldo Di Benedetto, Dalla vita di Alfieri. Verità e poesia, "Levia gravia", 2010, 12, pp. 195-210;
2. Alessandro Duranti, Vite parallele. Autobiografie e ritratti di Carlo Goldoni e Vittorio Alfieri, "Paragone", 2011, nn. 93-94-95, pp. 65-103;
3. Andrea Battistini, Ordine testuale e tumulto esistenziale nella Vita di Alfieri, "Studi italiani", 2005, 2, pp. 75-82;
4. Enrico Ghidetti, Vittorio Alfieri e la nascita della coscienza nazionale italiana, "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 5-22;
5. Guido Santato, La vita e i viaggi. Il tempo e lo spazio nell'Alfieri viaggiatore, "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana", 2000, 579, pp. 337-360;
6. Gino Tellini, Sull'autobiografia alfieriana, in "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 23-45.
Papers are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
Not attending students will study :
Bartolo Anglani, L'altro io: Vittorio Alfieri. Autobiografia e identità, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, 2018.
Furthermore, non attending students will study four of the following papers:
1. Arnaldo Di Benedetto, Dalla vita di Alfieri. Verità e poesia, "Levia gravia", 2010, 12, pp. 195-210;
2. Alessandro Duranti, Vite parallele. Autobiografie e ritratti di Carlo Goldoni e Vittorio Alfieri, "Paragone", 2011, nn. 93-94-95, pp. 65-103;
3. Andrea Battistini, Ordine testuale e tumulto esistenziale nella Vita di Alfieri, "Studi italiani", 2005, 2, pp. 75-82;
4. Enrico Ghidetti, Vittorio Alfieri e la nascita della coscienza nazionale italiana, "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 5-22;
5. Guido Santato, La vita e i viaggi. Il tempo e lo spazio nell'Alfieri viaggiatore, "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana", 2000, 579, pp. 337-360;
6. Gino Tellini, Sull'autobiografia alfieriana, in "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 23-45.
Papers are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
Materiali Didattici) prior to the beninning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel and bring it to each lesson. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Part A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Part B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Part C
The life of Vittorio Alfieri written by himself
Vittorio Alfieri, Vita, a cura di Marco Cerruti, Rizzoli, Milano,1987.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style); in case, an useful tool will be: Gabriella Fenocchio, Alfieri, il Mulino ("Itinerari. Filologia e critica letteraria"), Bologna, 2012
Students are also required to study three of the following papers:
1. Arnaldo Di Benedetto, Dalla vita di Alfieri. Verità e poesia, "Levia gravia", 2010, 12, pp. 195-210;
2. Alessandro Duranti, Vite parallele. Autobiografie e ritratti di Carlo Goldoni e Vittorio Alfieri, "Paragone", 2011, nn. 93-94-95, pp. 65-103;
3. Andrea Battistini, Ordine testuale e tumulto esistenziale nella Vita di Alfieri, "Studi italiani", 2005, 2, pp. 75-82;
4. Enrico Ghidetti, Vittorio Alfieri e la nascita della coscienza nazionale italiana, "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 5-22;
5. Guido Santato, La vita e i viaggi. Il tempo e lo spazio nell'Alfieri viaggiatore, "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana", 2000, 579, pp. 337-360;
6. Gino Tellini, Sull'autobiografia alfieriana, in "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 23-45.
Papers are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
Not attending students will study :
Bartolo Anglani, L'altro io: Vittorio Alfieri. Autobiografia e identità, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, 2018.
Furthermore, non attending students will study four of the following papers:
1. Arnaldo Di Benedetto, Dalla vita di Alfieri. Verità e poesia, "Levia gravia", 2010, 12, pp. 195-210;
2. Alessandro Duranti, Vite parallele. Autobiografie e ritratti di Carlo Goldoni e Vittorio Alfieri, "Paragone", 2011, nn. 93-94-95, pp. 65-103;
3. Andrea Battistini, Ordine testuale e tumulto esistenziale nella Vita di Alfieri, "Studi italiani", 2005, 2, pp. 75-82;
4. Enrico Ghidetti, Vittorio Alfieri e la nascita della coscienza nazionale italiana, "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 5-22;
5. Guido Santato, La vita e i viaggi. Il tempo e lo spazio nell'Alfieri viaggiatore, "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana", 2000, 579, pp. 337-360;
6. Gino Tellini, Sull'autobiografia alfieriana, in "Revue des études italiennes", 2004, 1-2, pp. 23-45.
Papers are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of a preliminary written test on the Parts A and B and an oral test on the Part C; both are aimed at ascertaining students' knowledge of the bibliography.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test (75 minutes) counts of two sections: 40 closed-ended questions (= 40 points) and the analysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework. The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the booklet uploaded on Ariel (= 10 points).
- Jacopo da Lentini, Io m'aggio posto in core a Dio servire
- G. Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore
- G. Guinizelli, Io voglio del ver la mia donna laudare
- G. Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- G. Cavalcanti, Voi che per li occhi mi passaste il core
- Dante, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanze I e V)
- Dante, Vita nova: XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanze I e II)
- Dante, Vita nova: XXVI Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 365, I' vo piangendo i miei passati tempi
- N. Machiavelli, De principatibus XV § 1
- G. Della Casa, O dolce selva solitaria, amica
- L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso XXIV 1-4
- T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5
- G. Parini, La salubrità dell'aria, vv. 85-126
- U. Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- U. Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 1-90, e 272-95
- A. Manzoni, Adelchi, coro dell'a. III
- G. Leopardi, Ultimo canto di Saffo vv. 37-72
- G. Leopardi, A se stesso
- G. Leopardi, Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico
The student will have to obtain at least 35 points (and at least 5 in the analysis).
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Part C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
International students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test (75 minutes) counts of two sections: 40 closed-ended questions (= 40 points) and the analysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework. The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the booklet uploaded on Ariel (= 10 points).
- Jacopo da Lentini, Io m'aggio posto in core a Dio servire
- G. Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore
- G. Guinizelli, Io voglio del ver la mia donna laudare
- G. Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- G. Cavalcanti, Voi che per li occhi mi passaste il core
- Dante, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanze I e V)
- Dante, Vita nova: XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanze I e II)
- Dante, Vita nova: XXVI Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 365, I' vo piangendo i miei passati tempi
- N. Machiavelli, De principatibus XV § 1
- G. Della Casa, O dolce selva solitaria, amica
- L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso XXIV 1-4
- T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5
- G. Parini, La salubrità dell'aria, vv. 85-126
- U. Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- U. Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 1-90, e 272-95
- A. Manzoni, Adelchi, coro dell'a. III
- G. Leopardi, Ultimo canto di Saffo vv. 37-72
- G. Leopardi, A se stesso
- G. Leopardi, Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico
The student will have to obtain at least 35 points (and at least 5 in the analysis).
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Part C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
International students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
(O-Z)
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Any health emergency will affect the course as described below.
1) Programme and reference materials
No change. Papers available on the Digital Library are already specified in the regular problem.
2) Teaching methods
UNIT A-B: The lessons in attendance will be replaced by two complementary modes of telematic teaching delivery, synchronous and asynchronous. All the contents of the course (literary history, commented reading of anthological texts, rudiments of textual criticism) will be proposed in ppt with audio uploaded in the Ariel site of the discipline in correspondence with the lesson times. Periodically - once every five lessons delivered in the asynchronous form described - a synchronous lesson on the Teams or Zoom platform will be dedicated to answering students' questions and to any in-depth analysis that may be requested; questions may be asked live during these lessons or proposed in advance on the forum that will be specifically activated in Ariel. These synchronous lessons will be recorded and left available to students in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
UNIT C: The lessons will be replaced by both synchronous and asynchronous telematic lessons, which will alternate regularly at normal course times. The initial presentation of the work will take place in synchronous lessons on Teams or Zoom platform, which will also be an opportunity to answer questions and for discussion; these lessons will be recorded and left available in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
FOR ALL UNITS: The calendar of all synchronous and asynchronous lessons will be published in Ariel as soon as the emergency arises; the site will also be the reference place for any organizational communication. All recorded lectures and uploaded ppts will remain available for the entire academic year.
3) Methods of learning verification
If possible, written tests will be taken remotely through proctoring system ; oral exams will be taken on Teams platform.
1) Programme and reference materials
No change. Papers available on the Digital Library are already specified in the regular problem.
2) Teaching methods
UNIT A-B: The lessons in attendance will be replaced by two complementary modes of telematic teaching delivery, synchronous and asynchronous. All the contents of the course (literary history, commented reading of anthological texts, rudiments of textual criticism) will be proposed in ppt with audio uploaded in the Ariel site of the discipline in correspondence with the lesson times. Periodically - once every five lessons delivered in the asynchronous form described - a synchronous lesson on the Teams or Zoom platform will be dedicated to answering students' questions and to any in-depth analysis that may be requested; questions may be asked live during these lessons or proposed in advance on the forum that will be specifically activated in Ariel. These synchronous lessons will be recorded and left available to students in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
UNIT C: The lessons will be replaced by both synchronous and asynchronous telematic lessons, which will alternate regularly at normal course times. The initial presentation of the work will take place in synchronous lessons on Teams or Zoom platform, which will also be an opportunity to answer questions and for discussion; these lessons will be recorded and left available in the repository of the platform itself or in Ariel.
FOR ALL UNITS: The calendar of all synchronous and asynchronous lessons will be published in Ariel as soon as the emergency arises; the site will also be the reference place for any organizational communication. All recorded lectures and uploaded ppts will remain available for the entire academic year.
3) Methods of learning verification
If possible, written tests will be taken remotely through proctoring system ; oral exams will be taken on Teams platform.
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Tools and texts of Italian literature (60 hours, 9 cfu)
PART A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
PART B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
PART C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Dante's Purgatorio
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with O-Z-
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Dante's Purgatorio
PART A (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from XIII to early XVI century
PART B (20 hours, 3 cfu): Italian literature from late XVI century XIX century
PART C (20 hours, 3 cfu): Dante's Purgatorio
The course is aimed at undergraduate Science of Cultural Property students whose surname begins with O-Z-
The teaching program of units A and B focuses on the history of Italian literature from Origins to Leopardi and Manzoni; teaching unit C is dedicated to the analysis of Dante's Purgatorio
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission. Nevertheless, a good high-school background is the ideal prerequisite for the course, which, however, is also thought to amend shortcomings.
Teaching methods
The course will be taught, in Italian, through frontal lessons; attendance is not mandatory, though strongly recommended.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching units A and B will be taught on texts included in the lecture notes. During the lessons, thanks to slide projection, the focus will be on movements, authors and works and their cultural context; on the main critical problems of every topic, through quotations from critical essays and comparisons between different positions; on tradition and reception of works and texts; on their most interesting formal aspects. All the materials will be available on Ariel (http://ariel.unimi.it).
Non-attending students must use the materials expressly indicated in this program and will have to ask the teacher for advice either by e-mail or during office hours.
Teaching Resources
Texts to be studied in teaching units A and B will be available on Ariel (Contenuti > Materiali Didattici) prior to the beninning of the class. Students are required to download the reading material from Ariel and bring it to each lesson. No course handouts will be provided.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Teaching unit C
Il Purgatorio di Dante Alighieri
Every edition provided with good introduction and notes. A good edition is Purgatorio, edited by U. Bosco e G. Reggio, Firenze, Le Monnier.
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style); in case, an useful tool will be G. Inglese, Dante: guida alla Divina Commedia, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Students will be asked to paraphrase the following cantos or parts of cantos :
Purgatorio I; V 22-136; VIII; X; XI; XVIII 130-145; XIX 1-63; XXI 76-136; XXII 19-99; XXIII 76-133; XXIV 40-93; XXVI, XXVII; XXVIII 1-84 e 121-148; XXX; XXXI 1-104; XXXIII 124-145.
Students are required to study three of the following papers:
1. Roberto Antonelli, Il destino del personaggio poeta: lettura del canto XXVI del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», XII, 2, 2012, pp. 361-387 [poi in «Lectura Dantis Romana. Cento canti per cento anni. II. Purgatorio. 2. Canti XVIII-XXXIII» (2014), pp. 775-800, con il titolo: Canto XXVI. Il destino del personaggio-poeta];
2. Marco Ariani, Regio spiritalis : il seme di felicitade e la sapienza di Matelda : lettura del canto XXVIII del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", XII, 2, 2012
3. Dante Della Terza, Dante e Forese. L'incontro in Purgatorio, in "Dante: rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri", I, 2004, pp. 101-111
4. Raffaele Giglio, Il canto del perdono. Purgatorio V, in "Critica letteraria», XXXIV, 3, n. 132, 2006, pp. 419-449.
5. Enrico Malato, La nostalgia che "volge il disio". Lettura del canto VIII del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», 2001, 1, pp. 91-119;
6. Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Da Ulisse a Catone. Una lettura del canto I del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", VI, 2006, pp. 3-24
7. Michelangelo Picone, Beatrice personaggio: dalla Vita nova alla Commedia, in «L'Alighieri», 30, 2007, pp. 5-23;
8. Michelangelo Picone, Il dolce stil novo di Dante: una lettura di Purgatorio XXIV, in "L'Alighieri", XXIII, 2004, pp. 75-95
9. Michelangelo Picone, Dante nel girone dei superbi (Purg. X-XII), in «L'Alighieri», 26, 2005, pp. 97-110;
10. Stefano Prandi, Teologia come pittura: Alain de Lille e Dante (Pg XI-XII) in M. Ariani et alii (a cura di), La parola e l'immagine. Studi in onore di Gianni Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 2011, I, pp. 99-216.
Papers 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
Not attending students will study :
Giuseppe Ledda, Dante, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008, limitatamente ai capitoli IV-VII (pp. 49-119).
Furthermore, non attending students will study four of the following papers:
1. Roberto Antonelli, Il destino del personaggio poeta: lettura del canto XXVI del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», XII, 2, 2012, pp. 361-387 [poi in «Lectura Dantis Romana. Cento canti per cento anni. II. Purgatorio. 2. Canti XVIII-XXXIII» (2014), pp. 775-800, con il titolo: Canto XXVI. Il destino del personaggio-poeta];
2. Marco Ariani, Regio spiritalis : il seme di felicitade e la sapienza di Matelda : lettura del canto XXVIII del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", XII, 2, 2012
3. Marcello Ciccuto, Strategie dell'esilio dantesco: luoghi reali, sognati, traslati in Letture classensi. 43. Letture e lettori di Dante. Umanesimo e Rinascimento, a cura di F. Furlan, Ravenna, Longo 2015 [oppure in «Humanistica», IX, 2014, pp. 65-72];
4. Dante Della Terza, Dante e Forese. L'incontro in Purgatorio, in "Dante: rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri", I, 2004, pp. 101-111
5. Nicola Fosca, Dante e Beatrice nell'Eden, in «L'Alighieri», 33, 2009, pp. 45-63;
6. Raffaele Giglio, Il canto del perdono. Purgatorio V, in "Critica letteraria», XXXIV, 3, n. 132, 2006, pp. 419-449.
7. Giuseppe Ledda., Modelli classici e modelli romanzi nella Commedia dantesca, in «L'Alighieri», 34, 2009, pp. 19-29;
8. Enrico Malato, La nostalgia che "volge il disio". Lettura del canto VIII del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», 2001, 1, pp. 91-119;
9. Giuseppe Mazzotta, Le virtù e la prospettiva dell'arte (Purgatorio X-XII), in Confine quasi orizzonte. Saggi su Dante, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2014 [prima in Dialoghi con Dante. Riscritture e ricodificazioni della Commedia, a cura di E. Ardissino e altri, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007, pp. 3-16]
10. Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Da Ulisse a Catone. Una lettura del canto I del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", VI, 2006, pp. 3-24
11. Michelangelo Picone, Beatrice personaggio: dalla Vita nova alla Commedia, in «L'Alighieri», 30, 2007, pp. 5-23;
12. Michelangelo Picone, Il dolce stil novo di Dante: una lettura di Purgatorio XXIV, in "L'Alighieri", XXIII, 2004, pp. 75-95
13. Michelangelo Picone, Dante nel girone dei superbi (Purg. X-XII), in «L'Alighieri», 26, 2005, pp. 97-110;
14. Stefano Prandi, Teologia come pittura: Alain de Lille e Dante (Pg XI-XII) in M. Ariani et alii (a cura di), La parola e l'immagine. Studi in onore di Gianni Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 2011, I, pp. 99-216.
Gli articoli 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
A full knowledge of the historical and cultural context of works and authors is strictly necessary. A good manual for high schools with a wide anthological selection is recommended (e.g. Guglielmino-Grosser, Il sistema letterario, Milano, Principato; Grosser, Il canone letterario, Milano, Principato; Segre-Martignoni, Leggere il mondo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori; Alfano-Italia-Russo-Tomasi, Letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori). An excellent and compact handbook is Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi; it has to be mentioned that the handbook doesn't include texts, which have to be read from other sources.
Useful reference tools will be, will be
a) for metre and poetic forms:
- P. Beltrami, Gli strumenti della poesia, Bologna, il Mulino;
- G. Lavezzi, I numeri della poesia, Roma, Carocci;
- G. Sangirardi-F. De Rosa, Breve guida alla metrica italiana, Milano, Sansoni.
b) for rethoric:
- B. Mortara Garavelli, Prima lezione di retorica, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Teaching unit A:
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Frederick II, Sicilian School and the sonnet.
Guinizelli and the canzone.
Dolce stil novo, Cavalcanti and the ballata.
Dante: Rime, Vita Nova, "rime petrose" and treaties.
Dante: Commedia.
Petrarch: Secretum, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (composition, structure, metrics, topics, language).
Boccaccio and Decameron.
XV century poetry in volgare (Poliziano, Stanze).
Romances in ottavas (Boiardo and Inamoramento de Orlando).
Machiavelli and Principe.
Bembo and Prose della volgar lingua.
Petrarchism (Bembo e il Casa).
Teaching unit B
The following topics will be the subject of the exam:
Castiglione and Il cortegiano.
Ariosto: Furioso (composition, structure, topics, language, entrelacement).
Tasso: Gerusalemme liberata.
Marino and L'Adone.
Goldoni's revolution in theater.
Alfieri, tragedies and Vita.
The Enlightment. Parini, Il giorno and Odi.
Neoclassicism. Foscolo: sonnets, Ortis, Sepolcri.
Romanticism. Manzoni: tragedies and Promessi sposi (genre, composition, topics, language).
Leopardi: Operette morali (models, style, topics) and Canti (topics and metrics).
Teaching unit C
Il Purgatorio di Dante Alighieri
Every edition provided with good introduction and notes. A good edition is Purgatorio, edited by U. Bosco e G. Reggio, Firenze, Le Monnier.
More texts to be discussed in the class will be available on Ariel.
Students are asked to prove an overall knowledge of the work (writing, structure, models, themes, style); in case, an useful tool will be G. Inglese, Dante: guida alla Divina Commedia, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
Students will be asked to paraphrase the following cantos or parts of cantos :
Purgatorio I; V 22-136; VIII; X; XI; XVIII 130-145; XIX 1-63; XXI 76-136; XXII 19-99; XXIII 76-133; XXIV 40-93; XXVI, XXVII; XXVIII 1-84 e 121-148; XXX; XXXI 1-104; XXXIII 124-145.
Students are required to study three of the following papers:
1. Roberto Antonelli, Il destino del personaggio poeta: lettura del canto XXVI del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», XII, 2, 2012, pp. 361-387 [poi in «Lectura Dantis Romana. Cento canti per cento anni. II. Purgatorio. 2. Canti XVIII-XXXIII» (2014), pp. 775-800, con il titolo: Canto XXVI. Il destino del personaggio-poeta];
2. Marco Ariani, Regio spiritalis : il seme di felicitade e la sapienza di Matelda : lettura del canto XXVIII del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", XII, 2, 2012
3. Dante Della Terza, Dante e Forese. L'incontro in Purgatorio, in "Dante: rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri", I, 2004, pp. 101-111
4. Raffaele Giglio, Il canto del perdono. Purgatorio V, in "Critica letteraria», XXXIV, 3, n. 132, 2006, pp. 419-449.
5. Enrico Malato, La nostalgia che "volge il disio". Lettura del canto VIII del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», 2001, 1, pp. 91-119;
6. Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Da Ulisse a Catone. Una lettura del canto I del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", VI, 2006, pp. 3-24
7. Michelangelo Picone, Beatrice personaggio: dalla Vita nova alla Commedia, in «L'Alighieri», 30, 2007, pp. 5-23;
8. Michelangelo Picone, Il dolce stil novo di Dante: una lettura di Purgatorio XXIV, in "L'Alighieri", XXIII, 2004, pp. 75-95
9. Michelangelo Picone, Dante nel girone dei superbi (Purg. X-XII), in «L'Alighieri», 26, 2005, pp. 97-110;
10. Stefano Prandi, Teologia come pittura: Alain de Lille e Dante (Pg XI-XII) in M. Ariani et alii (a cura di), La parola e l'immagine. Studi in onore di Gianni Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 2011, I, pp. 99-216.
Papers 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
Not attending students will study :
Giuseppe Ledda, Dante, Bologna, il Mulino, 2008, limitatamente ai capitoli IV-VII (pp. 49-119).
Furthermore, non attending students will study four of the following papers:
1. Roberto Antonelli, Il destino del personaggio poeta: lettura del canto XXVI del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», XII, 2, 2012, pp. 361-387 [poi in «Lectura Dantis Romana. Cento canti per cento anni. II. Purgatorio. 2. Canti XVIII-XXXIII» (2014), pp. 775-800, con il titolo: Canto XXVI. Il destino del personaggio-poeta];
2. Marco Ariani, Regio spiritalis : il seme di felicitade e la sapienza di Matelda : lettura del canto XXVIII del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", XII, 2, 2012
3. Marcello Ciccuto, Strategie dell'esilio dantesco: luoghi reali, sognati, traslati in Letture classensi. 43. Letture e lettori di Dante. Umanesimo e Rinascimento, a cura di F. Furlan, Ravenna, Longo 2015 [oppure in «Humanistica», IX, 2014, pp. 65-72];
4. Dante Della Terza, Dante e Forese. L'incontro in Purgatorio, in "Dante: rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri", I, 2004, pp. 101-111
5. Nicola Fosca, Dante e Beatrice nell'Eden, in «L'Alighieri», 33, 2009, pp. 45-63;
6. Raffaele Giglio, Il canto del perdono. Purgatorio V, in "Critica letteraria», XXXIV, 3, n. 132, 2006, pp. 419-449.
7. Giuseppe Ledda., Modelli classici e modelli romanzi nella Commedia dantesca, in «L'Alighieri», 34, 2009, pp. 19-29;
8. Enrico Malato, La nostalgia che "volge il disio". Lettura del canto VIII del Purgatorio, in «Rivista di studi danteschi», 2001, 1, pp. 91-119;
9. Giuseppe Mazzotta, Le virtù e la prospettiva dell'arte (Purgatorio X-XII), in Confine quasi orizzonte. Saggi su Dante, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2014 [prima in Dialoghi con Dante. Riscritture e ricodificazioni della Commedia, a cura di E. Ardissino e altri, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007, pp. 3-16]
10. Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Da Ulisse a Catone. Una lettura del canto I del Purgatorio, in "Rivista di Studi Danteschi", VI, 2006, pp. 3-24
11. Michelangelo Picone, Beatrice personaggio: dalla Vita nova alla Commedia, in «L'Alighieri», 30, 2007, pp. 5-23;
12. Michelangelo Picone, Il dolce stil novo di Dante: una lettura di Purgatorio XXIV, in "L'Alighieri", XXIII, 2004, pp. 75-95
13. Michelangelo Picone, Dante nel girone dei superbi (Purg. X-XII), in «L'Alighieri», 26, 2005, pp. 97-110;
14. Stefano Prandi, Teologia come pittura: Alain de Lille e Dante (Pg XI-XII) in M. Ariani et alii (a cura di), La parola e l'immagine. Studi in onore di Gianni Venturi, Firenze, Olschki, 2011, I, pp. 99-216.
Gli articoli 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 are available on the Digital Library of Università degli Studi di Milano ("Banche dati e altre risorse" > Lettera E > EIO Editoria italiana online > accessTorrossa. To use the search tool).
Students are required to show at the exam a written list of the chosen papers.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of a preliminary written test on the teaching units A and B and an oral test on the teaching unit C; both are aimed at ascertaining students' knowledge of the bibliography.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test (75 minutes) counts of two sections: 40 closed-ended questions (= 40 points) and the alasysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework. The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the booklet uploaded on Ariel (= 10 points).
- Jacopo da Lentini, Io m'aggio posto in core a Dio servire
- G. Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore
- G. Guinizelli, Io voglio del ver la mia donna laudare
- G. Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- G. Cavalcanti, Voi che per li occhi mi passaste il core
- Dante, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanze I e V)
- Dante, Vita nova: XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanze I e II)
- Dante, Vita nova: XXVI Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 365, I' vo piangendo i miei passati tempi
- N. Machiavelli, De principatibus XV § 1
- G. Della Casa, O dolce selva solitaria, amica
- L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso XXIV 1-4
- T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5
- G. Parini, La salubrità dell'aria, vv. 85-126
- U. Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- U. Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 1-90, e 272-95
- A. Manzoni, Adelchi, coro dell'a. III
- G. Leopardi, Ultimo canto di Saffo vv. 37-72
- G. Leopardi, A se stesso
- G. Leopardi, Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico
The student will have to obtain at least 35 points (and at least 5 in the analysis).
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Unit C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
International students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
The written test is held in January, May and September 2021; passing the written test is a prerequisite for the oral exam. Written tests will be graded sufficient, discreet, good, excellent and will be considered in the final overall grade. Grades of the written test will be published in Ariel in the specifically dedicated section.
The written test (75 minutes) counts of two sections: 40 closed-ended questions (= 40 points) and the alasysis of a text: the student will be required to define author, work, genre, metrics, rhyme scheme, and to provide a paraphrasis and a short cultural and stylistical framework. The analysis will concerne one of the following texts (or part of texts), provided in the booklet uploaded on Ariel (= 10 points).
- Jacopo da Lentini, Io m'aggio posto in core a Dio servire
- G. Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore
- G. Guinizelli, Io voglio del ver la mia donna laudare
- G. Cavalcanti, Chi è questa che vèn, ch'ogn'om la mira
- G. Cavalcanti, Voi che per li occhi mi passaste il core
- Dante, Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io
- Dante, Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro (stanze I e V)
- Dante, Vita nova: XIX Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore (stanze I e II)
- Dante, Vita nova: XXVI Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 1, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 90, Erano i capei d'oro a l'aura sparsi
- F. Petrarca, Rvf: 365, I' vo piangendo i miei passati tempi
- N. Machiavelli, De principatibus XV § 1
- G. Della Casa, O dolce selva solitaria, amica
- L. Ariosto, Orlando furioso XXIV 1-4
- T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata I 1-5
- G. Parini, La salubrità dell'aria, vv. 85-126
- U. Foscolo, Né più mai toccherò le sacre sponde
- U. Foscolo, Dei sepolcri, vv. 1-90, e 272-95
- A. Manzoni, Adelchi, coro dell'a. III
- G. Leopardi, Ultimo canto di Saffo vv. 37-72
- G. Leopardi, A se stesso
- G. Leopardi, Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico
The student will have to obtain at least 35 points (and at least 5 in the analysis).
The oral test consists of a critical discussion on the main issues of the work studied in Unit C. The student will have, at request, to prove his ability to paraphrase the text. The student will be required to prove his ability to develop a critical and organized exposition of the informations and compétences acquired through the classes and the bibliography, with a proper terminology
The final grade will be expressed in the 30 grade point system, and it will take into consideration the grade of the written test.
International students and Erasmus students are invited to contact the professor via email in office hours for further information on the exam.
Examination methods for students with disabilities or SLD must be defined with the teacher in agreement with the University Disability and SLD Services.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
Office hours: wednesday 15.00-18.00, by appointment only. Nevertheless, due to multiple administrative tasks, appointments could be given in other days.
Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics; sector Modern Philology, 1st floor, via Francesco Sforza