83249 - Latin Language and Literature 2 (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at offering an outline of the classical tradition by analysing the forms and the models of the reception of the Latin classics especially in modern literature.

Course contents

Lucretian receptions (between literature and art)

Lucretius, De rerum natura: I, 1-53; VI, 1-43; 1138-1285.

Cicero, Ad Familiares XIII, 1

Ovid, Metamorphoses: VII, 517-663

Poliziano, Epicedion in Albieram, 89-122.

Lectures from Bracciolini, Poliziano, Bruno, Donne, Voltaire, Shelley, Tennyson, Schwob, Moravia, Papini, Ponge, Queneau, Calvino, Frungillo.

The full list of the texts will be given by the end of the course.

Readings/Bibliography

Lucretius: De rerum natura

Lucrezio. La natura delle cose, introduzione di G.B. Conte, traduzione di L. Canali, testo e commento a cura di I. Dionigi, Milano, BUR, 1994 (costantemente ristampata); oppure Lucrezio. De rerum natura, a cura di A. Fellin, Torino, Utet 2005.

Ovid: Metamorphoses

Ovidio. Metamorfosi, vol. 4: Libri 7.-9, a cura di Edward J. Kenney, testo critico basato sull'edizione oxoniense di Richard Tarrant, traduzione di Gioachino Chiarini, Milano, Mondadori - Fondazione Lorenzo Valla 2011.

The other texts will be uploaded on the online teachings materials.

 

Studies:

L. Piazzi, Lucrezio. Il De rerum natura e la cultura occidentale, Napoli 2009 (for all courses)

 

a. Students of Tradition and Permanence of Classics (L-Fil-Let/05) have to read at least three of the following essays:

A. Brown, Lucretius and the Epicureans in the social and political context of Renaissance Florence, «I Tatti Studies. Essays in the Renaissance» 9, 2001, 11-62.

M. Reeve, Lucretius in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance: transmission and scholarship, in The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, ed. by S. Gillespie and Ph. Hardie, Cambridge 2007, 205-213.

E. Baker, Lucretius and the Europaean Enlightenment, in The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, ed. by S. Gillespie and Ph. Hardie, Cambridge 2007, 274-288.

F. Citti, Pierio recubans Lucretius antro: sulla fortuna umanistica di Lucrezio, in Lucrezio. La natura e la scienza, a c. di M. Beretta - F. Citti, Firenze 2008, 97-139.

M. Beretta, Gli scienziati e l'edizione del De rerum natura, in Lucrezio. La natura e la scienza, a c. di M. Beretta - F. Citti, Firenze 2008, 177-224.

Y. Haskell, Poetic Flights or Retreats? Latin Lucretian Poems in Sixteenth-Century Italy, in Lucretius and the Early Modern, ed. by D. Norbrook, S. Harrison, Ph. Hardie, Oxford 2016, 91-121.

 

b. Students of Latin Language and Literature 2 (L-Fil-Let/04) belonging to LM 39 are required to study the history of Latin Literature, in particular a biographical and stylistic profile of the following authors: Augustine, Apuleius, Catullus, Caesar, Cicero, Cornelius Nepo, Ennius, Juvenal, Horace, Jerome, Livy, Livius Andronicus, Lucan, Lucilius, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, Petronius, Plautus, Pliny the Elder, Propertius, Quintilian, Sallust, Seneca, Suetonius, Tacitus, Terence, Varro, Virgil. Suggested reading: G.B. Conte, Latin Literature: A History, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

 

c. Students of Latin Language and Literature 2 (L-Fil-Let/04) belonging to a LM other than LM 39 are required to prepare, in latin, Livy, Ab urbe condita, I praef. - 21.

Teaching methods

Lectures in class; Seminars (where individual research will be discussed and essays and tests corrected).

Assessment methods

Viva voce examination, which will test:
- knowledge of the literary history,
- ability of understanding and set the studied texts in their historical and literary environment
- main linguistics (phonetics, morphology and syntax), through reading and translating from the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the programme

Teaching tools

Online teaching materials: (see webpage above)

Office hours

See the website of Daniele Pellacani