2017/18
28023 - Second Language Literature (Italian Literature)
Compulsory
5.3. Syllabus
Syllabus (or programme)
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