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Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-FIL-LET/05
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
2 course to be chosen among the following
activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-FIL-LET/05
6
B
L-FIL-LET/04
2 course to be chosen among the following
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Other activitites
6
F
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Teaching code

4S01253

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/02 - MODERN HISTORY

Period

Second half of Semester 1  dal Nov 13, 2017 al Jan 20, 2018.

Learning outcomes

[NB: After two years in which teaching was held in English, for this academic year the lecturer intends to experiment bilingual teaching. For each lecture, the first hour will be held in Italian, the second in English. Interested students are invited to participate in both; alternatively, they may choose to attend one or the other hour of each lesson. The structure and the reading list of the course are designed so that the two parts can be used both independently and together: there will inevitably be a relative overlapping (which may function as revision), but also a thread of autonomous discourse along each of the two halves.]

An introduction to the social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance, and the most significant critical approaches to it, including an initiation to the direct reading of sources.

Program

As well as proposing a general overview, this year's course will analyse a case study: Savonarola and Renaissance Florence.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Lauro Martines Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence (Edizione 1) Oxford University Press 2006 required reading for the English program (any format or edition. also issued by Jonathan Cape as: Scourge and Fire. Savonarola and Renaissance Florence)
John Najemy (ed.) Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550 (The Short Oxford History of Italy) (Edizione 1) Oxford University Press 2010 9780198700401 required reading for the English program
Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan Rinascimenti italiani. 1380-1500 (Edizione 1) Viella 2012 9788883343483 obbligatorio per il programma italiano
Lauro Martines Savonarola. Moralità e politica nella Firenze nel Quattrocento (Edizione 1) Mondadori 2009 9788804585633 obbligatorio per il programma italiano (in qualsiasi edizione)

Examination Methods

Written questionnaire on the set texts, followed by an oral interview.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE