ITALIAN LITERATURE
(objectives)
Class aims to get students familiar with Early Italian Literature, from its beginning to the end of Fourteenth Century. Comparisons are made with linguistical, artistical, social, political and intellectual history of medieval age, thus stressing the contribution of literature to the early birth of of an Italian identity, however limited to cultural dimension. It is intented that students acquire both knowledge and understanding of early literary works as documents of fhe forming of the Italian humanistic tradition, and knowledge and understanding applied to texts (considered as linguistical structures specifically shaped). At the same time class looks to students’ maturity as expresed by their making judgements, their communication skills and their awareness of the importance of learning skills (technics, tools and methods).
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