Unit PHILOLOGY AND DANTE CRITICISM
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP000579
- Curriculum
- Moderno
- Teacher
- Silvia Chessa
- Teachers
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- Silvia Chessa
- Hours
- 36 ore - Silvia Chessa
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/13
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The program includes
• an introduction to the Filologia e critica dantesca
• the life and works of Dante Alighieri, a specific insight into the Comedy
• a critical reading of a selection of texts (Inferno). - Reference texts
- Dante Alighieri, Commedia, a cura di A.M. Chiavacci Leonardi, Bologna, Zanichelli or Dante Alighieri, Inferno, a cura di S. Bellomo, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
- Educational objectives
- The teaching aims to convey to the student:
• the critical knowledge of the life and works of Dante Alighieri, especially the Comedy;
• Knowledge Dante’s Comedy, and philological analysis, linguistic, historical, cultural, intertextual;
• Knowledge of the main issues related to the exegesis;
• Knowledge of essential elements, the theory and practice of editing;
The main skills that allow to apply the acquired knowledge will be:
• Be able to understand and draw the outlines of Dante’s life and works, especially the Comedy;
• Be able to understand and define the main critical-textual and historical-literary issues related to the Comedy;
• Be able to identify the main issues related to the exegesis and the attribution;
• Know how to deal with a critical edition, reasoning on witnesses and issues;
• To achieve greater expertise in the description and read manuscripts. - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know how to tackle the course, students must have a general knowledge about Dante Alighieri and the Origins of Italian Literature; these are notions that the student should have already acquired in his/her school curriculum. This precondition is valid both for attending and not attending students.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- face-to-face lectures;
- seminar.
Students will be directly involved in the seminar exercise: they will be asked to analyze a canto of the Comedy (Inferno) with the professor. - Other information
- Attendance is recommended. Students who can not attend the course must agree the exam program directly with the professor.
For more information, contact the professor at silvia.chessa@unipg.it. - Learning verification modality
- The exam includes the final oral test consisting of a discussion-interview, in which the final assessment is expressed by a vote of thirty. The duration of the test is about thirty minutes, but varies depending on the performance of the test itself. The test aims at assuring the level of acquisition of specific content, methodology and bibliography of course. During the exam it is also appreciate the propriety of language and the ability of critical evaluation.
- Extended program
- The program provides an introduction to the Filologia e critica dantesca, the life and works of Dante Alighieri (a specific insight into the Comedy) and a critical reading of a choice of texts (Inferno).
1. an introduction to the Filologia e critica dantesca [lessons];
2. the life of Dante Alighieri, the language and the works (Comedy) [lessons];
3-4. Readings (Inferno) [seminar and exam].