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 • The 1862 Italian mission in Persia: purposes of the mission and the travel report by F. de Filippi; reading and analysis of selected passages • 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. • Terence Ward, US expert in Middle East and his book Searching for Hassan; 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
F. de Filippi, Note di un viaggio in Persia nel 1862. Milano.
M. Gusso, La missione diplomatica italiana in Persia nel 1862. In Circolo vittoriese di ricerche storiche. Quaderno n. 13, 2017, p. 2'3-231
V. Bianchini, L’acqua del diavolo, Leonardo da Vinci 1962
Additional learning material will be distributed during the course. The student who do not attend the course are required to get in touch with prof. E. Filippone.
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