LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Learning of a critical method for a philological-literary analysis of prosaic and poetic texts, for the definition of the main literary genres.

Lectures.

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus.

Reading, translation, and philological-stylistic commentary of selected prosaic and poetic texts, with prosodic and metric analysis of the poetic language. In particular, analysis of forms of visual writing through reading, translation, stylistic- philological commentary of texts with prosodic-metrical analysis of the poetic language.

A) Basics (5 ECTS)

The knowledge of the basics of the History of Latin Literature is required, with special regard to the literary movements, literary genres, and main authors. Students can be use one of the following texts, already adopted in the course of Latin language and literature for Bachelor's Degree in Letters:

• G. B. Conte, E. Pianezzola, Letteratura e cultura latina, in 3 volumes: I. L’età arcaica e repubblicana (pp. 2-42; 92-108; 115-123; 165-166; 170-208; 267-270; 276-283; 338-346; 402-414; 474-487); II. L’età augustea (pp. 2-14; 15-32; 131-152; 226-239; 281-300; 360-368; 417-418); III. L’età imperiale (pp. 2-15; 17-19; 26-43; 113-123; 146-159; 189-201; 222-225; 228-231; 238-243; 273-279; 300-310; 319-335; 399-402; 415-426), Milano 2016 (total number of pages: 362).
• V. Citti - Claudia Casali - C. Neri, Gli autori nella letteratura latina. Disegno storico. Dalle origini alla tarda latinità, Bologna 2005, pp. 7-337.

Reading of classical texts:

• Cicero Orator 20. Suggested ed.: A.S. Wilkins, Oxonii 1903, pp. 19-20.
• Virgil Aeneid 5, 387-460. Suggested ed.: M. Geymonat, Roma 2008², pp. 345-349.
• Horace Satires 1, 5. Suggested ed.: F. Klingner, Lipsiae 1959³, pp. 181-185.
• Propertius Elegies 4, 10. Suggested ed.: P. Fedeli, Stutgardiae 1984, pp. 271-275.
• Quintilian Institutio oratoria 4, 2, 123-124; 8, 3, 61-70. Suggested ed.: L. Radermacher, Leipzig I 1965, p. 221; II 1971, pp. 92-94.

B) Detailed Studies (3 ECTS)

The evidentia of the invisible: forms and functions of the ‘visual writing’ from the comedy to the epos.

• Plautus Mostellaria 450-505. Suggested ed.: W.M. Lindsay, II, Oxonii 1905.
• Ovid Metamorphoses 2, 760-811; 8, 780-851; 11, 592-748; 12, 39-63. Suggested ed.: W.S. Anderson, Leipzig 1982², pp. 50-51, 200-202, 271-276, 279-280.

• The prosodic reading is required for the poetic texts listed in the programme. The following reference is recommended (elective/optional):

• S. Boldrini, La prosodia e la metrica dei Romani, Torino 1992 (or Roma 2017), pp. 21-81; 109-116; 120-124.
• L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina classica con cenni di metrica greca, Roma 2008, pp. 1-38; 40-41; 45; 68-69.

C) Critical Essays (1 ECTS)

The knowledge of one of the following studies (elective/optional) is required:

• G. Camassa – S. Fasce (a c. di), Idea e realtà del viaggio. Il viaggio nel mondo antico, Genova 1991, pp. 10-105.
• A. Manieri, L’immagine poetica nella teoria degli antichi: phantasia ed enargeia, Pisa 1998, pp. 1-154.
• Ch. Segal, Ovidio e la poesia del mito. Saggi sulle Metamorfosi, Venezia 1991, pp. 5-100.
• R. Raffaelli, A. Tontini (a c. di), Lecturae plautinae sarsinates XIII. Mostellaria, Urbino 2010, pp. 1-128
• A. Solbach, Evidentia und Erzähltheorie: die Rhetorik anschaulichen Erzählens in der Frühmoderne und ihre antiken Quellen, München 1994, pp. 1-167.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library. Specifc papers and sections of selected volumes, as well as lecture notes, will be made available for free consultation on the digital platform Studium.