History of the Renaissance
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course provides the broad outlines of the history of the European Renaissance and the tools necessary for critical understanding of the main political, social and religious aspects of Renaissance civilization between the 15th and 16th centuries.
The course consists of face-to-face lectures and seminar activities including reading sources and reports in the students' classrooms on texts proposed by the instructor.
The course consists of face-to-face lectures and seminar activities including reading sources and reports in the students' classrooms on texts proposed by the instructor.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the course, the student will have acquired the knowledge of the political, institutional, socio-economic and cultural development of the European Renaissance. They will be able to place the most representative events and figures in their chronological and geographical contexts. The student will be able to use language tools (language properties, correct specific lexicon) to express, in a clear and effective form, concepts of a political, institutional, economic, and religious nature. These skills will be acquired through a direct and continuous meeting with the instructor in the classroom. The discussion around the proposed sources will be an essential moment of critical reflection and methodological learning. Participation in meetings and seminars organized within the Department of Historical Studies will also be of great importance. Students opting not to attend the lessons will be able to make use of the educational tools provided by the instructor on Ariel, deepen their knowledge of main topics through special readings with the agreement with the instructor, and of course contact the instructor either by e-mail and during office hours.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
Title of the course: Rival Empires in the Early Global Age (1450-1581)
Module 1: Early Modern History from Humanism to the Thirty Years War
Module 2: Early Modern History from the English Civil War to the Fall of Napoleon
Module 3: Rival Empires in the Early Global Age (1450-1581)
Module 1: Early Modern History from Humanism to the Thirty Years War
Module 2: Early Modern History from the English Civil War to the Fall of Napoleon
Module 3: Rival Empires in the Early Global Age (1450-1581)
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements different from those requested for the degree admission.
Teaching methods
Attendance to classes is strongly recommended although not compulsory. The teaching is delivered through frontal lectures aimed primarily at the acquisition of knowledge, competence and specific language of the subject. Discussion with the teacher in the classroom is integrant part of the didactic method and aims at promoting a critical attitude and the capacity to apply the acquired competence and knowledge.
The teaching is also based on didactic and multimedia material provided on Ariel.
The teaching is also based on didactic and multimedia material provided on Ariel.
Teaching Resources
Attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1, 2 and 3)
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
- Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1, 2, 3)
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Marc. D. Baer, Khan, cesari e califfi, Torino Einaudi, 2023
- Fernand Braudel, Civiltà e imperi del Mediterraneo nell'età di Filippo II, Torino, Einaudi, 2010, esclusivamente il volume II;
- John H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale, 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
Non-attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Marc. D. Baer, Khan, cesari e califfi, Torino Einaudi, 2023
- Fernand Braudel, Civiltà e imperi del Mediterraneo nell'età di Filippo II, Torino, Einaudi, 2010, esclusivamente il volume II;
- John H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale, 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Marc. D. Baer, Khan, cesari e califfi, Torino Einaudi, 2023
- Fernand Braudel, Civiltà e imperi del Mediterraneo nell'età di Filippo II, Torino, Einaudi, 2010, esclusivamente il volume II;
- John H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale, 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Giancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Serge Gruzinski, Les Quatre parties du monde. Histoire d'une mondialisation, Paris, La Martinière, 2004 (anche in traduzione inglese o spagnola).
- Pierpaolo Merlin, La forza e la fede, Vita di Carlo V, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
- Alan Mikhail, L'ombra di Dio. Selīm il sultano, il suo Impero ottomano e la creazione del mondo moderno, Torino, Einaudi, 2021.
- Aurelio Musi, L'impero dei viceré, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.
- Gizella Nemeth Papo, Adriano Papo, I turchi nell'Europa centrale. Da Gallipoli a Passarowitz (secc. XIV-XVIII), Roma, Carocci, 2022.
- Angelantonio Spagnoletti, Filippo II, Roma, Salerno, 2018.
- Geoffrey Parker, Carlo V, Milano, Hoepli, 2021, parti 2-3-4.
- B. Yun Casalilla, Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415-1668, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1, 2 and 3)
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
- Knowledge of the topics taught in lectures (modules 1, 2, 3)
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Marc. D. Baer, Khan, cesari e califfi, Torino Einaudi, 2023
- Fernand Braudel, Civiltà e imperi del Mediterraneo nell'età di Filippo II, Torino, Einaudi, 2010, esclusivamente il volume II;
- John H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale, 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
Non-attending students:
- Programme for 6 cfu:
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Marc. D. Baer, Khan, cesari e califfi, Torino Einaudi, 2023
- Fernand Braudel, Civiltà e imperi del Mediterraneo nell'età di Filippo II, Torino, Einaudi, 2010, esclusivamente il volume II;
- John H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale, 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
- Programme for 9 cfu:
Knowledge of one of the following volume:
- A. Tallon, L'Europa del Cinquecento. Stati e relazioni internazionali, Carocci, Roma, 2014.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Marc. D. Baer, Khan, cesari e califfi, Torino Einaudi, 2023
- Fernand Braudel, Civiltà e imperi del Mediterraneo nell'età di Filippo II, Torino, Einaudi, 2010, esclusivamente il volume II;
- John H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale, 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
One volume to be chosen from the following:
- Giancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Serge Gruzinski, Les Quatre parties du monde. Histoire d'une mondialisation, Paris, La Martinière, 2004 (anche in traduzione inglese o spagnola).
- Pierpaolo Merlin, La forza e la fede, Vita di Carlo V, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
- Alan Mikhail, L'ombra di Dio. Selīm il sultano, il suo Impero ottomano e la creazione del mondo moderno, Torino, Einaudi, 2021.
- Aurelio Musi, L'impero dei viceré, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013.
- Gizella Nemeth Papo, Adriano Papo, I turchi nell'Europa centrale. Da Gallipoli a Passarowitz (secc. XIV-XVIII), Roma, Carocci, 2022.
- Angelantonio Spagnoletti, Filippo II, Roma, Salerno, 2018.
- Geoffrey Parker, Carlo V, Milano, Hoepli, 2021, parti 2-3-4.
- B. Yun Casalilla, Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415-1668, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Assessment methods and Criteria
- Method: oral exam
- Type of examination: oral interrogation.
- Evaluation criteria: capacity to demonstrate and elaborate knowledge; capacity for critical reflection on the completed work; quality of exposition, competence in the use of specialised lexicon, efficacy, clarity.
- Type of evaluation method: mark in 30s
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
- Type of examination: oral interrogation.
- Evaluation criteria: capacity to demonstrate and elaborate knowledge; capacity for critical reflection on the completed work; quality of exposition, competence in the use of specialised lexicon, efficacy, clarity.
- Type of evaluation method: mark in 30s
The format of the exam for students with disabilities should be arranged in advance with the professor, as well as the relevant office.
Unita' didattica A
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)