ITALIAN LITERATURE II COURSE

9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

ANTONIO DI GRADO - Module Italian Literature II course - Module A - L-FIL-LET/10 - 6 CFU
SERGIO ALFIO MARIA CRISTALDI - Module Italian Literature II course - Module B - L-FIL-LET/10 - 3 CFU

Learning Objectives

Italian Literature II course - Module A
Students must be able to develop critical competence concerning literary characters and literature about detection.
Italian Literature II course - Module B
Students must be able to develop critical competence concerning New Sweet Style, Petrarch and Boccaccio.

Detailed Course Content

Italian Literature II course - Module A
A – History of the literary character (3 CFU)

B – Thought and detection: De Roberto and Sciascia (3 CFU)
Italian Literature II course - Module B
A - Guinizelli and the Sweet New Style (1 CFU)

Guido Guinizelli, sonnets and “canzoni”.

B - Petrarch from Time to Eternity (1 CFU)

Critical reading of passages from the Trionfi.

C - Boccaccio and the Elegy (1 CFU)

Critical reading of the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta.

Textbook Information

Italian Literature II course - Module A
1. S. Battaglia, Mitografia del personaggio, Napoli, Liguori, 1991, pp. 7-603 (chapters to be studied will be specified).

2. F. De Roberto, Spasimo, Roma, Donzelli, 2010; L. Sciascia, La scomparsa di Majorana e Il cavaliere e la morte, Milano, Adelphi; R. Castelli, «Contraddisse e si contraddisse». Le solitudini di Leonardo Sciascia, Firenze, Cesati, 2016, pp. 11-135.
Italian Literature II course - Module B
1. D. Pirovano, Il dolce stil novo, Roma, Salerno Editrice, I (pp. 15-38), VI (pp. 266-280), VII (pp. 281-311), VIII (pp. 312-321).

2. Guido Guinizzelli, Rime (photocopies, pp. 10).

3. L. Marcozzi e R. Brovia (editors), Lessico critico petrarchesco, Roma, Carocci, 2016, pp. 44-55, 126-139, 182-194, 208-219, 293-307, 321-332, 359-375, 376-386.

4. Francesco Petrarca, Trionfi (photocopies, pp. 16).

5. L. Surdich, Boccaccio, Bologna, Il Mulino, I (pp. 7-34), II (pp. 35-54), IV (pp. 121-130).

6. G. Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta (photocopies, pp. 45)

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