Module I: introduction to technical and thematic analysis of literary text (history of Italian literature, metrics, philology)

Examination texts (attending and nonattending students):
Module I:
1. anthology (chosen from anthologies in use in high schools; the list of authors and required passages can be downloaded from the course materials uploaded on Unitus Moodle)
2. handbook of Italian metrics (one of your choice from M. Pazzaglia, La metrica italiana, Firenze, Le Lettere; G. Bertone, Breve dizionario di metrica italiana, Torino, Einaudi; P.G. Beltrami, La metrica italiana, Bologna, il Mulino)
3. handbook of Italian philology (P. Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci)

(programme valid for attending and non-attending students)

Francesco Petrarch's 'Canzoniere'.
We will examine the history, architecture, themes and style of Francesco Petrarch's 'Canzoniere' (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta), the work that, by breaking through the boundaries of the medieval poetic tradition in an exceptionally innovative manner, made a decisive contribution to the birth of modern Italian and European lyric poetry, becoming a founding and lasting normative model.

Exam texts:
- Annotated edition, chosen by the student, of Francesco Petrarch's Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta). Complete reading of the work.

- S. Fornasiero, Petrarca: guida al Canzoniere, Roma, Carocci, 2021

- R. Antonelli, "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" di Francesco Petrarca, in Letteratura Italiana Einaudi. Le Opere, Vol. I, a cura di Alberto Asor Rosa, Einaudi, Torino, 1992 (downloadable among the course materials on the moodle platform)

- A. Quondam, Francesco Petrarca, in Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero: Letteratura, direttore scientifico Giulio Ferroni, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2018, pp. 48-59 (downloadable among the course materials on the moodle platform)

(valid for attending and non-attending students)

- Annotated edition, chosen by the student, of Francesco Petrarch's Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta). Complete reading of the work.

- S. Fornasiero, Petrarca: guida al Canzoniere, Roma, Carocci, 2021

- R. Antonelli, "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" di Francesco Petrarca, in Letteratura Italiana Einaudi. Le Opere, Vol. I, a cura di Alberto Asor Rosa, Einaudi, Torino, 1992 (downloadable among the course materials on the moodle platform)

- A. Quondam, Francesco Petrarca, in Il contributo italiano alla storia del pensiero: Letteratura, direttore scientifico Giulio Ferroni, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2018, pp. 48-59 (downloadable among the course materials on the moodle platform)