FUNDAMENTALS OF ROMANCE PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS: A part of the course is dedicated to the fundamentals of the discipline, therefore to the birth and differentiation of the Romance languages and to the origins of the literature writ-ten in those languages. During the lectures a general overview of the historical-cultural and linguistic processes that led to the birth and development of Romance languages and literatures is provided and some ancient testimonies are analyzed from a historical and linguistic point of view. Particular attention is paid to the genetic relationships between the various languages and to the factors that determined their progressive differentiation.
ROMAN LINGUISTIC INTERCOMPREHENSION: In the second part, the skills acquired through the comparative study of Romance languages are put into practice in an experimental inductive learning program which aims to bring students closer to the simultaneous understanding of multiple Romance languages. Reading and listening to texts in different Romance languages are proposed, accompanied by comprehension exercises and grammatical study sheets.
HISTORY AND TRADITION OF POETRY: A third part is dedicated to the history of Romance poetry, that is, to the medieval origins and development up to the present day of some long-lasting themes, forms, structures and linguistic elements: the objective is to retrace the poetic tradition by focusing attention on individual phenomena, through which it is possible to observe the continuity of the tradition over time and the strong connections between the different linguistic areas of Romània. Students are called to intervene directly in the research and analysis of these el-ements of continuity.

1. Lorenzo Renzi - Alvise Andreose, Manuale di linguistica e filologia romanza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003 (or later editions).
A digital version of the volume is available for a fee on the publisher's website: https://www.pandoracampus.it/store/10.978.8815/325884

2. Susana Benavente Ferrera Francisco Calvo del Olmo Erika Hilde Frisan Veronica Manole Karine Marielly Rocha da Cunha Hugues Sheeren, PanromanIC. Manuale di intercomprensione tra lingue romanze, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2022

3. In addition FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS: handouts and texts provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course.

4. In addition FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS: handouts and texts agreed with the teacher.

IT IS SUGGESTED TO ALL NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE TEACHER BEFORE THE EXAM.