Unit RENAISSANCE AND MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005238
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Simone Casini
- Teachers
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- Simone Casini
- Hours
- 36 ore - Simone Casini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Lingua e letteratura italiana
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/10
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course includes Italian literature from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Therefore, some specific critical, historiographical and cultural categories and the main problems relating to the literary and Italian studies of this period (in particular Renaissance, Classicism, Counter-Reformation, Enlightenment) will be preliminarily explored.
However, the course is monographic, on the theme: "Classicism and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Italian and European culture. The Odes and the Day by Giuseppe Parini”. The main characteristics of Enlightenment culture in Europe (Rousseau, encyclopedists) and in Italy will be explored in depth; and the different orientations of eighteenth-century classicism, from Arcadia to Neoclassicism. Giuseppe Parini's work will therefore be read in part, in the "Odes" and in the "Giorno", framing it both in the Milanese context and in a broader perspective in the European context. - Reference texts
- (1) For Parini's texts, we recommend the edition of “Il Giorno – Le Odi” edited by Giuseppe Nicoletti, Rizzoli, 2010 and rest.
(2) The in-depth critical bibliography will be specified at the beginning of the course. - Educational objectives
- The objective of the master's course in Renaissance and Modern Italian Literature is to provide students with an understanding of the peculiarities of literary values ¿¿in the culture of the 16th-18th centuries, in continuity with the literature of the previous and following centuries.
Attention is paid in particular to the tradition of classicism, and to the new culture of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, investigated both at a European and Italian level.
The course aims to provide students with the foundations and tools to carry out in-depth studies, research, reflections and connections independently, with a critical sense and historical and civil sensitivity.
Therefore the main knowledge acquired concerns: 1. Knowledge of the authors treated; 2. Knowledge of the salient characteristics of classicist poetics; 3. An in-depth knowledge of the new culture of the Enlightenment, in its links with the Renaissance scientific tradition and in its novel and disruptive features; 4. Knowledge of the specific bibliography and of the technical and formal tools. 5. The main references of critical and historical-literary reflection. - Prerequisites
- A good knowledge of the Italian language. At least one exam in Italian Literature and/or Italian Philology and/or Romance Philology. For non-native speaking students, a good knowledge of the Italian language is required.
- Teaching methods
- The prevailing teaching method involves classroom lectures, with reading, commentary and critical discussion of primary and secondary texts, aided by multimedia tools. Functional use will always be made of available digital technologies to make the texts available, both from the internet and from the Moodle pages of the Course, and also in versions and formats made available by the teacher. In-depth seminars and a visit to places and events related to the program are also planned. Some exercises will be proposed and the active participation of students in the analysis and commentary will be encouraged. A report from the students is also expected (forms, times and methods will be specified). Interventions by competent external teachers are planned, and at least one group outing is planned.
- Other information
- For students with disabilities, care will be taken to prepare the most suitable technological and logistical tools, any dispensatory measures will be agreed, as well as the forms and times of verification.
- Learning verification modality
- A written report is expected which will be subject to ongoing evaluation. The student's active participation during the course will be taken into account (which however does not constitute a condition or obligation). The exam, together with the evaluation of the written report, is oral and focuses on the agreed programme.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA are invited to visit the page dedicated to the tools and measures envisaged and to agree in advance what is necessary with the teacher (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e -dsa) - Extended program
- Introductory lessons on Renaissance and classicism. Aristotle's "Poetica", Horace's "Ars Poetica" and the sixteenth-century debate. Arcadia. French and European classicism.
The Enlightenment. General characteristics. Science, philosophy, erudition. Classicism and rationalism. Notes on the main experiences in France. The Enlightenment in Milan: la Accademia dei Trasformati, e la Accademia dei Pugni.
Giuseppe Parini, the “Odes”: Reading and commentary on a selection. "The day"; reading and commenting. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- 4,5,6,7,10,11,12