Unit HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- 10999209
- Curriculum
- Lingue e studi sulla traduzione
- Teacher
- Erminia Irace
- Teachers
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- Erminia Irace
- Hours
- 36 ore - Erminia Irace
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline linguistico-letterarie, artistiche, storiche, demoetnoantropologiche e filosofiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- A cultural revolution in the age of the Renaissance: writing world history and reorganising information in the age of the invention of printing and geographical discoveries.
Topics that will be covered during the lectures and will be the subject of the examination:
a) the impact of movable type printing and geographical discoveries on Renaissance culture in Italy and Europe, 15th-16th centuries;
b) the confrontation between Europe and the new worlds: renewal of the literary genre of description, reconfiguration of historiographic genres; the "universal histories”;
c) the influx of new information, new ways of organising knowledge; Fernando Colombo's “universal library”. - Reference texts
- 1) Giuseppe Marcocci, Indios, cinesi, falsari. Le storie del mondo nel Rinascimento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016;
2) Edward Wilson-Lee, Il catalogo dei libri naufragati. Il figlio di Cristoforo Colombo e la ricerca della biblioteca universale, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2023.
The volumes are available in both print and ebook formats.
This program is also valid for non-attending students.
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. - Educational objectives
- The course intends to be a workshop in the learning of history, deepening the methodologies of analysis of historical sources and the valorisation of the sources in the light of the most recent historiographical interpretations, in order to refine students' knowledge and skills through the analysis of the specific monographic topic of the course. Particular attention will be paid to the development of skills inherent in the analysis and interpretation of historical and historiographical issues concerning the subject matter of the course. The same attention will be paid to the development of skills inherent to historiographical argumentation and skills concerning the interpretation of themes, documents and issues concerning the topic of the course.
- Prerequisites
- A good knowledge of the main chronological scansion, the main events and issues in European history of the early modern era is very important. The ability to use appropriate historical-critical language is important.
The same prerequisites are also required for students taking the examination as non-attenders. - Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons in the classroom with the use of powerpoint presentations. 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 are unable to attend classes (e.g. working students) and students with disabilities and/or DSA must contact the teacher by email (at erminia.irace@unipg.it) at the beginning of class in order to arrange an interview (in person or on Teams) to agree on how to conduct the examination. - 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
- Printing, Geographical Discoveries and The Widening of Horizons in the Age of the Renaissance: Printing, Information, Writing “Universal Histories”.
a) the impact of movable type printing and geographical discoveries on Renaissance culture in Italy and Europe, 15th-16th centuries;
b) the confrontation between Europe and the new worlds: renewal of the literary genre of description, reconfiguration of historiographic genres; the "universal histories”;
c) the influx of new information, new ways of organising knowledge; Fernando Colombo's “universal library”. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile