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Study Plan
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Laurea in Lettere - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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One course to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
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Latin literature (i)
One course to be chosen among the following
2 course to be chosen among the following
2 course to be chosen among the following
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018
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One course to be chosen among the following
3 course to be chosen among the following
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One course to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
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Latin literature (i)
One course to be chosen among the following
2 course to be chosen among the following
2 course to be chosen among the following
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One course to be chosen among the following
3 course to be chosen among the following
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
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Italian literature (p) (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S01344
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
12
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE
Period
First half of Semester 1 , Second half of Semester 1
Learning outcomes
Historical knowledge of Italian Literature from Seventeenth Century to Italian Unification (1861) with regard to its texts, contests, influences and codifications. Critical bibliography and essential tools and implements to understand literary forms and structures.
Program
Prerequisites: Complete knowledge of the former Italian literary tradition (from the beginning to the Sixteenth Century) is required; before taking Letteratura Italiana Exam (p), students must have passed the Letteratura Italiana exam (i) for 12 cfu.
Course content: For the introductory part: presentation of the main movements and authors of the Italian literary tradition from Seventeenth Century to Italian Unification (1861) making reference to exemplary texts.
The second part of the course will be dedicate to: Ugo Foscolo novelist, poet and prose writer (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, Odi e sonetti, Dei Sepolcri, Dell’origine e dell’ufficio della letteratura)
Reference Texts: For the introductory part: Gino Tellini, Letteratura italiana. Un metodo di studio, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2011 (the section: Dalla Nuova Scienza all’epica risorgimentale). Students will complete this study with a selection of the main authors of our literary tradition from Seventeenth Century to Italian Unification (available in e-learning platform). Worktexts will be suggested during the lectures.
Non attending students will demonstrate to be able to analyze:
G.B. Marino: a passage from Adone;
G. Galilei: a passage from Saggiatore or Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo;
C. Goldoni: choise of one act of any comedy play;
G. Parini: one ode and one passage from Il Giorno;
V. Alfieri: one act of Mirra and one passage from Vita;
U. Foscolo: two sonnets and one section of Dei Sepolcri;
G. Leopardi: three cantos and one choise from Operette morali;
A. Manzoni: one poem and one passage from I Promessi Sposi;
A written list of the students choises must be shown during the exam.
For the second part of the exam:
Ugo Foscolo's writings (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, Odi e sonetti, Dei Sepolcri, Dell’origine e dell’ufficio della letteratura) must be read in unabriged and commented edition. For example: Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, a cura di Pierantonio Frare (Milano, Fetrinelli), or a cura di Guido Bèzzola (Rizzoli-BUR), or a cura di Giovanna Ioli (Torino, Einaudi), or a cura di Walter Binni-Lucio Felici (Milano Garzanti);
Poesie (Odi, sonetti, Dei Sepolcri), a cura di Guido Bèzzola or a cura di Matteo Palumbo (Rizzoli-BUR)
Dell’origine e dell’ufficio della letteratura, a cura di Enzo Neppi, Firenze, Olschki
One of the following texts (two for non attending students):
Matteo Palumbo, Foscolo, Bologna, il Mulino
Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Foscolo, Bari, Laterza
Giuseppe Nicoletti, Foscolo, Roma, Salerno editrice
Cecilia Gibellini, Ugo Foscolo, Firenze, Le Monnier
«A egregie cose». Studi sui “Sepolcri” di Ugo Foscolo, a cura di Fabio Danelon, Venezia, Marsilio
Teaching methods: Lectures and reading and text interpretation exercises. Seminars and papers.
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Ugo Foscolo | Dell'origine e dell'ufficio della letteratura | Olschki | 2005 | ||
Gino Tellini | Letteratura italiana. Un metodo di studio | Le Monnier Università | 2011 | ||
Ugo Foscolo | Poesie | Rizzoli | 2010 | ||
Ugo Foscolo | Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis | Rizzoli | 2004 |
Examination Methods
Oral test on every single point of the syllabus for attending and non attending students.