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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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Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Lingua straniera competenza linguistica liv. b1 (informatizzato)
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2014/2015
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Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Due insegnamenti a scelta tra i seguenti
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2015/2016
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Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Tre insegnamenti a scelta tra i seguenti
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Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Lingua straniera competenza linguistica liv. b1 (informatizzato)
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Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Due insegnamenti a scelta tra i seguenti
Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
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Un insegnamento a scelta tra i seguenti
Tre insegnamenti a scelta tra i seguenti
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Italian literature (p) (2015/2016)
Teaching code
4S01344
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
12
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-FIL-LET/10 - ITALIAN LITERATURE
Period
Semestrino IA, Semestrino IB
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: Giacomo Leopardi poeta e prosatore
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:
Giacomo Leopardi, Canti, a cura di Franco Brioschi (Milano, Rizzoli-BUR); Operette morali, a cura di Laura Melosi (Milano, Rizzoli-BUR). Any other edition of Canti and Operette morali is accepted provided unabridged and commented.
One of the following texts (two for non attending students):
Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Leopardi, Bologna, il Mulino;
Emilio Bigi, Una vita più vitale. Stile e pensiero in Leopardi, Venezia, Marsilio;
Franco Brioschi, La poesia senza nome. Saggio su Giacomo Leopardi, Milano, il Saggiatore;
Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, Leopardi antiromantico e altri saggi sui Canti, Bologna, il Mulino;
Gilberto Lonardi, Classicismo e utopia nella lirica leopardiana, Firenze, Olschki.
Teaching methods: Lectures and reading and text interpretation exercises. Seminars and papers.
Examination Methods
Oral test on every single point of the syllabus.