Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Italian Literature

A.Y. 2024/2025
9
Max ECTS
60
Overall hours
SSD
L-FIL-LET/10
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
This course aims at two main objectives: 1) to provide students with a critically founded preparation on Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Italian literature, through the reading of texts and essays 2) to develope students' analytical and critical skills in order to understand and evaluate both ancient texts and their own and others' research work.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge: By the end of the course, the student is expected to: know the main lines of Italian literature from 13th to 16th cent. with relation to historical and cultural context; be acquainted with different instruments and methodologies to analyse and interpret texts; know the main lines of studies' history and more recent achievements regarding some fundamental themes and problems; know and use instruments of bibliographic research.

Abilities: By the end of the course, the student is expected to: fully comprehend and analyse ancient texts in historical and cultural context; find, select and critically evaluate previous scholarship, understanding possibilities and limitations of different methodological perspectives and identifying main themes and challenges of the discipline; prepare a full scientific bibliography on a topic; produce an articulate and personal judgment and express it with clarity using appropriate scholarly lexicon.
Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization
Professor(s)
Reception:
Prof. Berra will receive on Wednesday, 10.30-13.30, in person or via Teams, by appointment.
Dipartimento di Studi letterari filologici e linguistici, section Filologia Moderna, 1st floor
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