Unit MEDIEVAL AND HUMANISTIC ITALIAN LITERATURE
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005237
- 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 is dedicated to Italian literature from its origins to the fifteenth century. Therefore, some critical, historiographical and cultural categories specific to Italian studies of this period will be preliminarily explored.
The course will have a monographic nature, on Boccaccio's "Decameron" and on the traditions to which each novella belongs. Short story traditions, narrative schemes and models and ideological values ¿¿will be explored in depth. - Reference texts
- (1) For literary history, the reference manual is: Stefano Carrai – Giorgio Inglese, “Italian Literature of the Middle Ages”, Rome, Carocci, third ed., 2023.
(2) For the text of the "Decameron", the editions edited by Vittore Branca (Le Monnier, Einaudi, Mondadori), by Cesare Segre (Mursia, on the critical text by V. Branca), by Marco Veglia (Feltrinelli) are recommended .
(3) The in-depth critical bibliography will be specified at the beginning of the course. - Educational objectives
- The main objective of the course in Italian Medieval and Humanistic Literature is to understand the peculiarity of literary values ¿¿in the culture of the 13th-15th centuries, and at the same time to show the elements of continuity with the literature of the following centuries. With the in-depth study of Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron" we intend to achieve the following educational objectives: knowledge of a masterpiece of Italian and world literature; development of historical-critical and linguistic skills; knowledge of the specialized critical bibliography on the topic and similar topics; maturation of skills in understanding and analyzing narrative texts; development of sensitivity and skills in the research of narrative traditions, both in the sense of the archetypal-mythological schemes of oral fiction, both in the sense of its written elaboration, and in the sense of the identification and comparison of more or less direct sources; critical reflection on the forms of narration; ability to compare and excavate.
In fact, the course intends 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. - Prerequisites
- 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 lessons will be held mainly in oral form, with reading, commentary and critical discussion of primary and secondary texts. 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. 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
- 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 with 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
- Medieval Literature: definitions, historical-critical debate, main themes, forms and authors. Relationship between history and literature, between society and individual, between tradition and innovation.
Humanistic Literature: definitions and historical-critical debate around Humanism. The relationship between classics and moderns, between Latin and vernacular, between past and present, between arts and literature.
Boccaccio: history of Boccaccio criticism. The critical edition of the “Decameron”. Main critical reading proposals. The genre of the short story. Orality and writing. The society of the time and the recipients of the work. Examination of different novelistic traditions and sources. Narrative structures. The “Decameron” and the Italian and European narrative tradition.
Analysis and discussion of the individual short stories, by day and theme. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- 4,5,6,7,10,11,12