Teaching code

4S01344

Teacher

Fabio Danelon

Coordinator

Fabio Danelon

Credits

12

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE

Period

1 A, 1 B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to learn the historical path of Italian literature, especially from the seventeenth century to the Unification of Italy, with special regard to texts and contexts, influences and codifications. It also intends to provide information on the critical bibliography and on the essential tools for the interpretation of structures and literary forms.

Prerequisites and basic notions

A good knowledge of the previous Italian literary tradition (from the origins to the sixteenth century). It is therefore necessary to have taken the 12 cfu Italian literature exam (i) before taking the Italian literature exam (p).

Program

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 and poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis; Odi e sonetti; Dei sepolcri; Le Grazie).
Reference Texts: For the introductory part: Gino Tellini, Letteratura italiana. Un metodo di studio, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, (the section: Dalla Nuova Scienza all’epica risorgimentale); or Giancarlo Alfano-Paola Italia-Emilio Russo-Franco Tomasi, Profilo di letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori Università, pp. 401-702. 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.
The students, attending and not attending, who had not entered any exam of "Modern and contemporary Italian literature" (L-FIL-LET / 11) in their study plan have the possibility (NOT the obligation) to integrate the program of exam with Gino Tellini, Letteratura italiana. Un metodo di studio, Firenze, Le Monnier University, pp. 337-589. This additional information will be communicated to the teacher at the time of the exam.
For the second part of the exam:
Complete reading of Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis; of the two odes and twelve main sonnets; of poem Dei sepolcri; of Grazie. There are suggested the editions: Ugo Foscolo, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, ed. Guido Bezzola, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli (or ed. Pierantonio Frare, Milano, Feltrinelli; or ed. Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Roma, Carocci; or ed. Giovanna Ioli, Torino, Einaudi); Id., Poesie, ed. Guido Bezzola, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli (or ed. Matteo Palumbo, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli).
One of the following texts (two for non attending students):
Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Foscolo, Roma- Bari, Laterza, 2000;
Giuseppe Nicoletti, Foscolo, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2006;
Arnaldo Bruni, Belle vergini, Le Grazie tra Canova e Foscolo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009
Matteo Palumbo, Foscolo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Teaching methods: Lectures and reading and text interpretation exercises. Seminars and papers. The teaching materials proposed are consistent with the exam program.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral assessment of the acquired knowledge, in relation to each of the two parts in which the program is distinct, both for attending students and non-attending students.

Evaluation criteria

In particular for the first part: 1) Verification of historical-literary knowledge and relative ability to contextualise; 2) Verification of the ability to understand and analyze the different types of literary texts through the detailed examination of texts in verse and prose. In particular for the second part: 1) Verification of the ability to contextualise and critical analysis of texts, also with reference to the main methods of investigation; 2) Verification of the knowledge of the reference critical bibliography and of the ability to use it in reference to the texts analyzed.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade will be the result of the average of the assessments on the two parts of the exam.

Exam language

italiano