Unit CULTURAL HISTORY IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A000195
- Curriculum
- Letteratura e filologia italiana
- Teacher
- Erminia Irace
- Teachers
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- Erminia Irace
- Hours
- 36 ore - Erminia Irace
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- Rome, the Papacy and the Church State: myth, image and reality in the early modern age (15th-19th centuries)
In the ancient regime, the Pope was both the head of the universal Catholic Church and the ruler of the Church State. These two roles were exercised in parallel, legitimized each other, and involved the construction of a massive government apparatus made up of officials deployed between Rome and the territories belonging to the Church State (the latter, through taxation, helped to shore up the papacy's finances). At the same time, to reinforce their dual image as ruler and head of the Church, the popes steadily adopted a precise cultural strategy aimed at presenting Rome as the heir to ancient Rome and the cultural myth of Romanity, a myth endowed with great appeal throughout Europe.
Admired, imitated, but also criticized and detested, the Rome of the early modern age was a kind of multifaceted prism. It was a capital similar to the others of Europe, but also the seat of power structures formed by ecclesiastics, as well as a city in which the memory of antiquity and, later, of the Renaissance dominated, an element that made it different from all other cities. After the political unification of the peninsula, Italy had to confront the intertwined legacy of "real" Rome and the Rome of myth. - Reference texts
- A. Giardina, A. Vauchez, Il mito di Roma. Da Carlo Magno a Mussolini, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2021, capitoli I-III (previous editions are also fine; ebook version is also available);
S. Tabacchi, Lo Stato della Chiesa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2023 (ebook version is also available);
R. Ago, Roma barocca. Potere, arte e cultura nel Seicento, Roma, Carocci, 2023, capitoli 1-3.
This program is also valid for non-attending students. - Educational objectives
- The course aims to strengthen the critical knowledge and skills of the students through the analysis of the specific monographic topic of the course. Particular attention will be paid to the development of skills related to the analysis and interpretation of the historical sources as well as the scientific literature on the subject of the course.
- Prerequisites
- It’s very important the good knowledge of the early modern history of Europe and also high standards of argumentative skills.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons in the classroom. The use of synchronous telematic mode (Teams platform) will be organized on the basis of the information provided by the University.
- Other information
- a) further information will be provided during lessons;
b) information and materials useful for exam preparation can be found on the Unistudium platform: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php on the page dedicated to this teaching.
Attention: students who cannot attend lessons (e.g. working students) and students with disabilities and / or SLDs must contact the teacher via email (at the address erminia.irace@unipg.it) at the beginning of the lessons in order to agree on the procedures for carrying out the exam. - Learning verification modality
- Oral exam that lasts about 20 minutes around the course topics. In particular, the critical-interpretative skills of the students will be evaluated, attesting to the good understanding and the ability to expose the subject matter of analysis in a complex and arguable way.
The achievement by the student of the ability to express an in-depth vision of the topics addressed (also elaborated on the basis of the careful study of the texts included in the program), combined with a good command of the expression and historiographical language, will allow to evaluate with good o excellent evaluations (from 27/30 to 30 e lode/30). A more superficial knowledge of the topics, combined with inadequate expressive skills, will lead to fair evaluations (from 24/30 to 26/30). Training gaps and / or inappropriate language - albeit in a context of minimal knowledge of the exam program - will lead to sufficient grades (from 18/30 to 23/30). Significant training gaps, inappropriate language and the inability to orient themselves in the topics under consideration will be evaluated negatively.
For students with certified disabilities and / or SLDs, compensatory measures are envisaged as provided for by the indications of the University (https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa). Contact the teacher at the beginning of the lessons. - Extended program
- Rome, the Papacy and the Church State: myth, image and reality in the early modern age (15th-19th centuries)
In the ancient regime, the Pope was both the head of the universal Catholic Church and the ruler of the Church State. These two roles were exercised in parallel, legitimized each other, and involved the construction of a massive government apparatus made up of officials deployed between Rome and the territories belonging to the Church State (the latter, through taxation, helped to shore up the papacy's finances). At the same time, to reinforce their dual image as ruler and head of the Church, the popes steadily adopted a precise cultural strategy aimed at presenting Rome as the heir to ancient Rome and the cultural myth of Romanity, a myth endowed with great appeal throughout Europe.
Admired, imitated, but also criticized and detested, the Rome of the early modern age was a kind of multifaceted prism. It was a capital similar to the others of Europe, but also the seat of power structures formed by ecclesiastics, as well as a city in which the memory of antiquity and, later, of the Renaissance dominated, an element that made it different from all other cities. After the political unification of the peninsula, Italy had to confront the intertwined legacy of "real" Rome and the Rome of myth. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile