Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities " and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

• Theoretical lectures.
• Practical lectures.
• Individual work.
• Personal study.
• Assessment activities.

5.3. Syllabus

1. Concepts of rhetoric and metre

2. Dante Alighieri
• Society and culture in the 13th century

• Dolce Stil Novo poetry. General characteristics

• The life of Dante Alighieri and notes on his works

• The Divina Commedia: composition, structure, themes and style

3. Francesco Petrarca

• The life of Petrarca and notes on his works

• The Canzoniere: composition, structure, themes and style

4. Giovanni Boccaccio

• The life of Boccaccio and notes on his works

• The invention of modern narrative and the Decamerone: composition, structure, themes and style

5. Humanism, the Renaissance and the Baroque

• Lorenzo the Magnificient, Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Niccolò Machiavelli and Ludovico Ariosto

• Torquato Tasso and Gerusalemme liberata

6. The Enlightenment

• Carlo Goldoni and the dramatic reform. Life and works

7. Italian melodrama

• Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti. Main works

8. The Ottocento

• Alessandro Manzoni. Life and works.

• Giacomo Leopardi: Life and works

• Giovanni Verga and Realism. Life and works

9. The Novecento

• Notes on the 20th century

• Hermetic poetry: characteristics, poets and poems. Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Saba

• The novel: Italo Calvino

• Theatre: Luigi Pirandello

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

• Petronio, Giuseppe. Historia de la literatura italiana / Giuseppe Petronio ; traducción de Manuel Carrera y Ma. de las Nieves Muñiz Madrid : Cátedra, D.L. 1990
• Sansone, Mario. Storia della letteratura italiana Milano: Principato, 1986
• Ferroni, G.. Storia della letteratura italiana / G. Ferroni. Milano : Einaudi, 1991
• Petronio, G. . L?attività letteraria in Italia / G. Petronio Palermo : Palumbo, 1981
• Luti, G.. Introduzione alla letteratura italiana del Novecento / G. Luti Roma : La Nuova Italia, 1985
• Santoro, M.. Letteratura italiana del Novecento / M. Santoro Firenze : Le Monnier, 1989
• Gonzalez, I.. Antología de la literatura italiana / I. Gonzalez Barcelona : Ariel, 1986