Unit LATE ANCIENT LATIN LITERATURE
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A000194
- Curriculum
- Civiltà e cultura dell'antico
- Teacher
- Alessandra Di Pilla
- Teachers
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- Alessandra Di Pilla
- Hours
- 48 ore - Alessandra Di Pilla
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- Lessons:
1) Introduction to the main problems in Latin literature of Late Antiquity (III-VII c. AD)
2) Main topic of the course: "Literary cosmographies between classical culture and Christianity": readings and commentary in the Latin works “De natura rerum” of Isidore of Seville and Bede.
3) Practical trainings:
translation and analysis of some chosen Latin texts. - Reference texts
- 1) Chapters from the followings handbooks:
Fabio GASTI, Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina, Pavia, Pavia University Press, 2013. Free access:
http://archivio.paviauniversitypress.it/didattica/gasti_lett-tardolatina-2013/.
Manlio SIMONETTI, Romani e barbari. Le lettere latine alle origini dell'Europa (secoli V-VIII), Roma, Carocci, 2006.
2) Main topic of the course:
a) Latin texts in critical editions:
ISIDORE DE SÉVILLE, Traité de la nature. Introduction, texte critique, traduction et notes par Jacques Fontaine, Paris 2002 (reprint ed. 1960).
BEDAE VENERABILIS De natura rerum liber. Cura et studio Charles W. Jones, in: BEDAE VENERABILIS Opera didascalica 1, Turnhout 1975 (CCh SL, 123A).
b) Critical commentaries:
Francesco TRISOGLIO (a cura di), Isidoro, La natura delle cose, Roma 2001.
Elisa TINELLI (a cura di), Beda il Venerabile, De natura rerum, Bari 2013.
c) Practical trainings: the Latin texts subject to exercise will be indicated during the lessons and made available, together with the necessary bibliographical indications, on the course page on the unistudium.unipg.it platform.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- 1)to acquire appropriate critical knowledge of the discipline (authors and themes);
2) to consolidate the Latin language skills through contact with the texts proposed both in the monographic part and during the practical training;
3) to be able to adequately deal with a monographic topic through contact with the author's texts and reference to the critical bibliography (in Italian and at least one of the main European languages). - Prerequisites
- Medium level knowledge of Latin language.
Knowledge of the history of Latin literature up to the second century AD included. - Teaching methods
- Face – to – face lessons.
Training in translating selected Latin texts. - Other information
- Working students and non-attending students:
1.Knowledge of the authors of late Latin literature included in the manual being adopted (according to the list available in unistudium on the course page):
Fabio GASTI, Historical profile of late Latin literature, Pavia, Pavia University Press, 2013 (free download at: http://archivio.paviauniversitypress.it/didattica/gasti_lett-tardolatina-2013).
2. Reading, translation from Latin and linguistic-grammatical examination of the following authorial texts representative of the centuries in question (with metric reading where necessary):
- Minucius Felix, Octavius, 5, 1-13 (from the speech of Caecilius); 17, 1-6. 10-11; 18, 1-4 (from Octavius' speech);
- Claudianus, De raptu Prosepinae II, 247-306 (the meeting between Pluto and Proserpina);
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 25, 3, 15-23 (speech of the emperor Julian on his deathbed);
- Rutilius Namatianus, De reditu suo 1, 1-96 (the departure and the anthem to Rome);
- Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae I, poems I and II; prose I, 1-45.
3. Special topic: “Ancient and Late Antique Latin encyclopedism”, by reading the following texts (provided in .pdf):
a) U. PIZZANI, Enciclopedisti, in: Dictionary of Greek and Latin writers, Marzorati 1988, pp. 693-707;
b) U.PIZZANI, The encyclopedic trend in patristics from S. Augustine to S. Isidore of Seville, "Augustinianum" 14 (1974), pp. 667-696.
c) M.C. DIAZ Y DIAZ, Encyclopedism and Christian knowledge between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, Milan 1999 (available at the Humanistic Library):
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Learning verification modality
- A single oral exam (not divisible).
Student will be asked about the following items:
a) main problems in Latin literature of Late Antiquity (III-VII c. AD).
b) knowledge of the Late Latin: reading, translation and analysis of one of the texts examined during the hours of supplementary teaching.
c) about the main topic of the course: reading, translation and commentary of a text from the works of the authors included in the program (Isidore of Seville, Bede).
The purpose of the exam is to test:
- student's knowledge about the main topics of the discipline (authors III to VII B. C.);
- student's competence in translating from Latin texts.
- student's ability to understand and expound with clarity a particular topic by translating a text from Latin and analyzing it in the light of the guidance carried out during the lessons and by the reading of the critical bibliography.
The oral exam will last an average of 30 minutes.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Extended program
- Lessons:
1) Introduction to the main problems in Latin literature of Late Antiquity (III-VII c. AD)
2) Main topic of the course: "Literary cosmographies between classical culture and Christianity": readings and commentary in the Latin works “De natura rerum” of Isidore of Seville and Bede.
Practical trainings:
translation and analysis of selected Latin texts. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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