During the first module, a general analysis of the history of the modern world, from the geographical discoveries of the fifteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century, will be carried out.
Analysis of the History of the Idea of Europe with particular attention to exchanges and conflicts among the West and the Rest of the World.
The programme retraces, from the historical point of view, the awareness of “being European” which developed within a tradition that stems from Greek thought and reaches the end of the Nineteenth century.