30931 - Italian Literature 1 (S-Z)

Course contents

The course will be focused on the theme of the forest in some fundamental texts of the Italian literary tradition (Dante, Commedia; Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium Fragmenta; Boccaccio, Decameron; Ariosto, Orlando Furioso; Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata; I. Calvino, Il barone rampante; A. Zanzotto, Il Galateo in bosco).

Reading and commenting on a choice of 20 cantos from Dante's Comedy is also required, as well as the knowledge of Italian literary history from the second half of the Eighteenth Century to the first half of the Twentieth, with a specific regard to the following literary movements and authors: Goldoni, Alfieri, Neoclassicism, Foscolo, Romanticism, Manzoni, Leopardi, the "Scapigliatura", Verism, Verga, D'Annunzio, Pascoli, Pirandello, Svevo, Futurism, the Crepuscolarismo, Ungaretti, Montale.

Readings/Bibliography

Dante, Commedia, ed. by E. Pasquini-A. Quaglio, Milano, Garzanti, or by A.M. Chiavacci, Bologna, Zanichelli

One of the following anthologies is also recommended:
C. Segre, C. Martignoni, Testi nella storia, Milano, Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori
R. Luperini, La scrittura e l'interpretazione, Palermo, Palumbo
E. Raimondi, G.M. Anselmi et al., Letteratura italiana. Leggere, come io l'intendo..., Milano, Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori
M. Santagata et al., Il filo rosso. Antologia e storia della letteratura italiana ed europea, Roma-Bari, Laterza

The recommended guide for the rhetorical analysis of texts is B. Capaci, Presi dalle parole. Gli effetti della retorica nella letteratura e nella vita, Bologna, Pardes, 2010.

Specific bibliography will be given during the course.

Non attending students are required to contact the teacher directly (not by mail) to define an alternative programme with integrative bibliography.

Teaching methods

Lectures and analyses of literary texts.

Assessment methods

Written and oral exams.

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Baffetti