Unit MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC LATIN LITERATURE
- Course
- Classical culture
- Study-unit Code
- GP005352
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Patrizia Stoppacci
- Teachers
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- Patrizia Stoppacci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Patrizia Stoppacci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- - Franciscan friars "in itinere": the Mongol Empire and the Far East
- Reference texts
- - Enrico Menestò, Relazioni di viaggi e di ambasciatori, in Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo. I: Il Medioevo latino. I/2: La produzione del testo, cur. G. Cavallo et alii, Roma-Salerno 1993, pp. 535-600.
- Giovanni di Pian di Carpine, Storia dei Mongoli, intr. Enrico Menestò, trad. Maria Cristiana Lungarotti, Spoleto, CISAM, 2017 (edizione breve, senza testo latino).
- Guglielmo di Rubruck, Viaggio in Mongolia, a cura di Paolo Chiesa, Mondadori 2011.
- Odorico da Pordenone, Racconto delle cose meravigliose d'Oriente, introduzione di Luciano Bertazzo, Padova 2018. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of the major representatives of Franciscan odeporic literature (XIII-XIV centuries) and their travel reports.
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of Latin language and Medieval history. Useful Latin paleography.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons on the subjects covered by the program. Some seminars will be held at the end of the course to discuss the most significant historiographic issues concerning the Franciscain travel literature.
- Other information
- Non-attending students will have to consult the teacher at the beginning of the course and before starting the study of the program (see the reception hours in the web-page http://www.unipg.it/pagina-personale?n=patrizia.stoppacci).
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination in annual sessions to verify the program on the topics of the two modules; expected average duration 20-30 minuts. The purpose of the test is to verify the knowledge gained during the course, evaluate the critical skills and the ability to expose the main topics discussed.
- Extended program
- The course will be devoted to the discovery of Medieval odeporic literature, trough the examination of some specific authors; particular attention will be given to the Franciscan Friars, such as Iohannes de Plano Carpine, Iohannes de Monte Corvino, Peregrinus de Castello, Andreas Perusinus, Odoricus de Portu Naonis et cet.