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Teacher
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FILIPPONE Elina
(syllabus)
• Introduction to the problems characterising the Iranian and Islamic, in particular Shiite, world (aimed at placing the proposed issues in a critical historical frame)
• Introduction to the problems related to travel literature;
• Safavid Iran and the figure of Shah Abbas
• Pietro della Valle: biography and works
• The Letters form Persia by Pietro della Valle; reading and analysis of selected passages
• Qajar Iran and the figure of Nasiroddin Shah
• Luigi Pesce and Antonio Giannuzzi, army officers and photographers at the court of Nasiroddin Shah, and their photographic documentation of Iran
• The 1862 Italian mission in Persia: purposes of the mission and documentation
• Luigi Montebone, army officer and photographer of the 1862 Italian mission, and his photographic documentation of Iran
• Pahlavi Iran and the figure of Mohammad Reza Shah
• Vincenzo Bianchini: biography and works
• Acqua del diavolo by Vincenzo Bianchini: reading and analysis of selected passages.
(reference books)
M. Bernardini, A. Vanzan, “Italy. Iv. Travel accounts” in Encyclopaedia iranica, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/italy-iv-travel-accounts-2
I Viaggi di Pietro della Valle. Lettere dalla Persia I, a cura di F. Gaeta e L. Lockhart, Roma 1972 [Introduzione e brani scelti]
C. Masetti, Città varie e costumi il fin prescrisse. La Persia di Pietro Della Valle (1617-1623), Franco Angeli 2017
E. Filippone, Appunti e riflessioni sulla figura e sugli scritti di Pietro della Valle, il Pellegrino. In: (a cura di): MANCINI M. , Esilio, Pellegrinaggio e altri Viaggi, Viterbo, 2004. p. 219-247
D. Stein, "Three Photographic Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Iran", Muqarnas 6 (1989), pp. 112-130
M. F. Bonetti, "Gli esordi della fotografia in Persia: contributi italiani", e in M. F. Bonetti, A. Prandi (eds.), La Persia Qajar. Fotografi italiani in Iran 1848-1864, Roma 2010, pp. 23-28
V. Bianchini, L’acqua del diavolo, Leonardo da Vinci 1962
Additional learning material will be distributed during the course. The students who do not attend the course are required to get in touch with prof. E. Filippone.
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