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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD

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

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

First language foreign literature and culture or a related course
Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

Second language foreign literature and culture or a related course

Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S002908

Coordinator

Felice Gambin

Credits

9

Language

Spanish es

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE

Period

I SEMESTRE dal Oct 3, 2016 al Jan 21, 2017.

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing skills and critical instruments for understanding Spanish literature and culture of the Golden Age within their historical and social context. The course will develop abilities of textual reading and analysis of fundamental texts both in prose (Don Quijote, Lazarillo de Tormes) and verse (Garcilaso de la Vega, Santa Teresa de Jesús, Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz…)


Program

En inglés y español


Textos de lectura obligatoria*:

- Antología comentada de la literatura española. Historia y textos. Siglo XVI, dirigida por Andrés Amorós, Madrid, Castalia, 2007 [All’inizio del corso verranno indicati i capitoli e i testi antologici che formano parte del programma d’esame*].
- - Lazarillo de Tormes, edición de Francisco Rico, Madrid, Cátedra.
- M. de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico, Madrid, Alfaguara, 2016.
[Existe, aunque no sostituye el libro impreso, edición electrónica: Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. F. Rico. Madrid: Centro Virtual Cervantes, 1997. http://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/clasicos/quijote]-

El curso está dividido en dos partes:

PRIMERA PARTE:
los reyes católicos; el imperio de Carlos V; el legado de Erasmo de Rotterdam; la reforma protestante y sus consecuencias; la Contrarreforma; la época de Felipe II; moros, judíos y moriscos: sus expulsiones; los géneros literarios: la picaresca, los libros de caballerías, la novela pastoril, bizantina, morisca. La poesía española: el petrarquismo, Garcilaso de la Vega, Santa Teresa de Jesús, Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz…

SEGUNDA PARTE: lectura, análisis y comentario del Lazarillo de Tormes y del Quijote de Cervantes con particular atención al papel de las mujeres y de los hombres en las dos obras.

Bibliografía crítica recomendada

- Mario Socrate, Il riso maggiore di Cervantes, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1998, pp.1229-220 (sobre la vida de Cervantes, páginas 1-54; sobre el Quijote, páginas 55-128; sobre las Novelas Ejemplares, páginas 129-220).
- M. G. Profeti (a cura di), L’età d’oro della letteratura spagnola: Il Cinquecento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1997.
- A. Spagnoletti, Il mondo moderno, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
- J. H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale. 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
- Historia de la literatura española, 2. La conquista del clasicismo 1500-1598, Jorge García López, Eugenia Fosalba y Gonzalo Pontón, Barcelona, Crítica, 2010.
- H. Rawlings, L’inquisizione spagnola, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
- AA. VV., Alle radici dell’Europa. Mori, giudei e zingari nei paesi del Mediterraneo occidentale (Volume I: secoli XV-XVII), a cura di F. Gambin, Firenze, Seid, 2008.
- AA. VV,, Alle radici dell’Europa. Mori, giudei e zingari nei paesi del Mediterraneo occidentale (Volume II: secoli XVII-XIX), a cura di F. Gambin, Firenze, Seid, 2009.
- A. Vanoli, La reconquista, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
- Po-chia Hsia, R. La controriforma. Il mondo del rinnovamento cattolico (1540-1770), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
- G. Bessong, I sefarditi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.
- F. Márquez Villanueva, Moros, moriscos y turcos en Cervantes. Ensayos críticos, Barcelona, Bellaterra, 2010.
- A. M. Paramio; J. C. Villaverde Amieva; A. I. Beneyto Lozano, Memoria de los Moriscos, escritos y relatos de una diáspora cultural, Madrid, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2010.
- P. de Valencia, Trattato sui moriscos di Spagna, introduzione, edizione e note di Felice Gambin. Alla traduzione ha collaborato Silvia Monti, Pisa, ETS, 2013.

Sobre la vida de Cervantes, véase, entre otros, Jorge García López, Cervantes: La figura en el tapiz. Itinerario personal y vivencia intelectual, Barcelona, Pasado&Presente, 2015.

Durante el desarrollo del curso se darán ulteriores indicaciones bibliográficas actualizadas.


Inglés:
Silabus
- Antología comentada de la literatura española. Historia y textos. Siglo XVI, dirigida por Andrés Amorós, Madrid, Castalia, 2007.
- - Lazarillo de Tormes, edición de Francisco Rico, Madrid, Cátedra.
- M. de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico, Madrid, Alfaguara, 2016.
[Esiste anche se non sostituisce il cartace un'edizione online: Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. F. Rico. Madrid: Centro Virtual Cervantes, 1997. http://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/clasicos/quijote]-

Recommended but not required critical bibliography:

Mario Socrate, Il riso maggiore di Cervantes, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1998, pp.129-220.
- M. G. Profeti (a cura di), L’età d’oro della letteratura spagnola: Il Cinquecento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1997.
- A. Spagnoletti, Il mondo moderno, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.
- J. H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale. 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
- Historia de la literatura española, 2. La conquista del clasicismo 1500-1598, Jorge García López, Eugenia Fosalba y Gonzalo Pontón, Barcelona, Crítica, 2010.
- H. Rawlings, L’inquisizione spagnola, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
- AA. VV., Alle radici dell’Europa. Mori, giudei e zingari nei paesi del Mediterraneo occidentale (Volume I: secoli XV-XVII), a cura di F. Gambin, Firenze, Seid, 2008.
- AA. VV,, Alle radici dell’Europa. Mori, giudei e zingari nei paesi del Mediterraneo occidentale (Volume II: secoli XVII-XIX), a cura di F. Gambin, Firenze, Seid, 2009.
- A. Vanoli, La reconquista, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
- Po-chia Hsia, R. La controriforma. Il mondo del rinnovamento cattolico (1540-1770), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
- G. Bessong, I sefarditi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.
- F. Márquez Villanueva, Moros, moriscos y turcos en Cervantes. Ensayos críticos, Barcelona, Bellaterra, 2010.
- A. M. Paramio; J. C. Villaverde Amieva; A. I. Beneyto Lozano, Memoria de los Moriscos, escritos y relatos de una diáspora cultural, Madrid, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2010.
- P. de Valencia, Trattato sui moriscos di Spagna, introduzione, edizione e note di Felice Gambin. Alla traduzione ha collaborato Silvia Monti, Pisa, ETS, 2013.
- Jorge García López, Cervantes: La figura en el tapiz. Itinerario personal y vivencia intelectual, Barcelona, Pasado&Presente, 2015.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
AAVV Antología comentada de la literatura española castalia 2006
M. de CERVANTES Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico Alfaguara 2016
María de Zayas Novelas amorosas y ejemplares Cátedra 2004 978-84-376-1825-8

Examination Methods

Ingles y español
The exam will be an oral discussion in Spanish/Italian. Attending students will take a self-assessment test (verifica in itinere) during the course. The grade given will be part of the final grade. The self- assessment test will be done only once (in December).
Students who pass the written exam will have to prepare, for the oral examination, only the second part, which consists on the reading and commenting of Don Quijote.
In order to take the oral exam, students need to have already passed both Lingua spagnola 1 (Spanish Language 1) and Letteratura spagnola 1 (Spanish Literature 1). All students are allowed to take part on the self-assessment test (prova in itinere).
The syllabus is the same for non-attending students. Students who cannot attend the lessons are kindly invited to get in touch with the professor.

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Examen oral en español. DURANTE el curso los estudiantes que frecuentan presentarán breves relaciones orales y podrán acceder a un examen escrito optativo (test) parcial (verifica in itinere), consiguiendo una nota que contribuirá a la evaluación final. La prueba escrita tiene lugar solamente una vez al año.

Los que superen la prueba escrita tienen que preparar para el examen oral solo la segunda parte, o sea la lectura del Lazarillo de Tormes y del Quijote de Cervantes.

Para acceder a este examen hay que haber superado Lingua spagnola 1 e Letteratura spagnola 1

El programa vale también para los estudiantes que no asisten a clase, aunque se invitan a los no frecuentantes a escribir al docente .

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