Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

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If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The 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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following
activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S002946

Credits

9

Coordinator

Rosanna Gorris

Language

French fr

Also offered in courses:

  • French literature 3 of the course Bachelor's degree in Languages and literatures for publishing and digital media

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/03 - FRENCH LITERATURE

The teaching is organized as follows:

Parte I

Credits

6

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere)

Academic staff

Rosanna Gorris

Parte II

Credits

3

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere)

Academic staff

Rosanna Gorris

Learning objectives

In accordance with the periodization adopted in our French literature courses (first year: from 1850 to the present ; second year: Eighteenth century and first half of the Nineteenth century; third year: Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries), this course aims to present the French Literature of the 16th and the 17th Centuries and the artistic and philosophical culture of those historical periods. Moreover, the professor intends to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools for the literary and linguistic analysis of the proposed texts. The lessons will be held in French, with the purpose of improving the students’ linguistic level as well. The courses will consist in lectures and seminars. Remedial courses will be organised as well.

Prerequisites and basic notions

According to the prerequisite criteria, the student must have passed the exams of French Literature 1, French Literature 2, French Language 1 and French Language 2.

Program

a. The lady of Roberval, Olympe and the other women of the Island
Texts
Marguerite de Navarre, L’Heptaméron, éd. Nicole CAZAURAN et Sylvie LEFÈVRE, Paris, Gallimard, Folio classique, 2000 (nouvelle n. 67, Dame de Roberval)
Karolia RAMQVIST, La femme-ourse, Babélio, 2020
Jacques GREVIN, L'Olimpe de Jacques Grévin. Ensemble les autres œuvres poëtiques dudit auteur, Paris, Estienne, 1560 (en ligne : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k71457q) testo fornito dalla docente in PDF
b. Jacques Grévin's Theater
Jacques GREVIN, César, édition critique et notes par E. S. Ginsberg, Genève-Paris, Droz-Minard, 1971
Jacques GREVIN, César par M. Mazzocchi Doglio, in La tragédie à l’époque d’Henri II et de Charles IX (1561-1566), «Théâtre français de la Renaissance», I, 2, Florence-Paris, Olschki-PUF, 1989, pp. 1-52.
Jacques GREVIN., La Trésorière et Les Esbahis, in La comédie à l’époque d’Henri II et de Charles IX (1561-1568), par Catherine Douël Dell’Agnola, «Théâtre français de la Renaissance», I, 7, Florence-Paris, Olschki-PUF, 1995, pp. 33-71 et 73-177.
Jacques GREVIN, La Tresorière. Les Esbahis. Comédies, éd. critique avec introduction et notes par E. Lapeyre, Paris, Champion, 1980
Critical texts
Marguerite de Navarre:
M. AUDET, La bibliothèque d’une reine : les lectures de Marguerite de Navarre, Sciences et littérature : actes du VIIe colloque Jeunes chercheurs du CIERL (8-9 juin 2007, Université Laval, Québec), Solange Lemaitre-Provost et Esther Quellet (dir.), Paris, Hermann, 2013, pp. 215-236.
N. VIET, Caméron, Décaméron, Heptaméron : la genèse de l’Heptaméron au miroir des traductions françaises de Boccace, « Seizième Siècle », n° 8, 2012, Les textes scientifiques à la Renaissance, V. Giacomotto-Charra et J. Vons (dir.), pp. 287-302, https://www.persee.fr/doc/xvi_1774-4466_2012_num_8_1_1058
N. CAZAURAN, Le langage ‘biblien’ des devisants de L'Heptaméron, « Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance », n° 70, Genève, 2008, pp. 281-200.
R. GORRIS CAMOS, Le fleuve et le pré: rhétorique du cœur et de l’esprit dans L’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre, in Pratiques de la rhétorique dans la littérature de la fin du Moyen Age et de la première modernité, Actes du Colloque de Wolfenbüttel (D), 9-11 octobre 2003, Herzog August Bibliothek, Turnhout, Brepols, 2008, pp. 65-88
About novel 67:
M. BIDEAUX, Roberval, la Damoiselle et le Gentilhomme, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2001
C. LA CHARITÉ, « Les questions laissées en suspens par le ‘Brief recit’ (1545) de Cartier et les réponses de la nouvelle 67 de L'Heptaméron (1559) de Marguerite de Navarre », Œuvres et Critiques, n° 36 / 1, Tübingen, 2011, p. 91-109
F. LESTRINGANT, « La demoiselle dans l'île. Prolégomènes à une lecture de laNouvelle 67 », Lire L'Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre, 2005, p. 183-196 (repris dans Bribes d’îles. La littérature en archipel de Benedetto Bordone à Nicolas Bouvier, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 72-80)
L. B. REZVANI, « The Heptaméron's 67th Tale : Marguerite de Navarre’s Humble Heroine Confronts the Querelle des femmes and Catholic Tradition », Romance Notes, 52, 2012, p. 43-50.
L. B. REZVANI, « Nature and Nourishment, Bodies and Beasts : The Heptaméron’s Portrayal of Marguerite de Roberval’s Marooning », Dalhousie French Studies, 102, 2014, p. 3-7.
Cf. la Bibliographie d’Agrégation, 2021 file:///C:/Users/user/Desktop/Biblio%20SFDES%20Heptamron%20Agrgation%202021%20WEB%20VDEF.pdf
Grévin:
R. GORRIS CAMOS, « J’eusse tousjours vescu au pied de ma montaigne » : Du Bellay et Grévin, cygnes romains, in Le Cygne : Du Bellay et l’Italie, Atti dei Convegni DUBI I-II-III, a cura di R. Gorris et D. Speziari, « Sidera », 2021, pp. 1-51
R. GORRIS CAMOS, Une Muse obstinée : l’Olimpe, un canzoniere à l’écoute des savoirs, in Une muse parfaite : Jacques Grévin, poète et homme de science, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2022
For the History of French Renaissance Literature:
F. LESTRINGANT, J. RIEU, A. TARRÊTE, Littérature française du XVIe siècle, Paris, PUF, 2000.
or:
R. CRESCENZO, Histoire de la littérature française du XVIe siècle, “Unichamp”, Paris, Champion, 2001.
or:
F. LESTRINGANT - M. ZINK dir., Histoire de la France Littéraire, Naissances, Renaissances, Moyen Age-XVIe siècle, Paris, PUF, 2006, capp. 3 e 4 (the part concerning the Renaissance period).
Antologia Il Cinquecento, a cura di Anna Bettoni e Bruna Conconi, Milano, LED, 1996
Storia europea della letteratura francese. Vol. 1: Dalle origini al Seicento, a cura di L. Sozzi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

The teaching will take place in lectures and in-depth seminars

Learning assessment procedures

The evaluation will take place through an oral assessment of the knowledge relating to the Course.

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

Evaluation criteria

The following will be assessed: the quality of the oral expression in French, the clarity and coherence of the argumentation, the completeness of the information and the ability to critically deepen the knowledge acquired.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

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Exam language

Francese