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18060 Letteratura latina in Sciences of Cultural Heritage L-1 FUSI Alessandro
(syllabus)
Course Title: I. Introduction to Latin Literature; II. Martial’s epigrams
Programme:
The course is divided into two parts: the first (16 hours) will include an extensive introduction to Latin literature, focusing on fundamental aspects for the study of the subject (literary genres; models; intertextuality; socio-historical contexts; motifs; linguistic and stylistic codes; preservation and loss of texts; reception); the second (32 hours) will focus on Martial’s fifteen books of epigrams. This work represents the culmination of a genre that has a long history in Greece and Rome and canonises a type of epigram that will have a wide fortune throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The course intends to provide a critical understanding of Martial’s epigrammatic corpus, framed in the Flavian age and in its relations with the Greco-Latin literary, not only epigrammatic, tradition. The aim will be pursued through the reading and literary and philological analysis of a wide selection of texts.
(reference books)
Texts: for the study of Latin literature any school textbook at the discretion of the student, to be approved by the professor (recommended G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina, in 2 voll., Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 20193). Literary history has to be studied from the origins down to Augustan age (included). For the text of the epigrams Marco Valerio Marziale, Epigrammi, transl. by M. Scàndola, notes by E. Merli, Milan, BUR, 1996 (reprinted several times) or Marziale Epigrammi, ed. by G. Norcio, Turin, Utet, 2013; M. Citroni, Pubblicazione e dediche dei libri in Marziale, “Maia” 40, 1988, pp. 3-39 (reprinted with some retouching and updating in the ed. cit., BUR, pp. 5-64); A. Fusi, La Musa epigrammatica di Marziale, in Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica. VI. I testi: 1. La poesia. Editor P. Parroni, edited by A. Fusi, A. Luceri, P. Parroni, G. Piras, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2009, pp. 716-751; A. Fusi, L’epigramma. Nota introduttiva, in Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica. VI. I testi. 1. La poesia, pp. 707-711.
Additional bibliography and teaching materials will be provided in class (for attending students). Non-attending students should contact the professor to arrange a programme
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