Degree Course: Humanities Syllabus for A.Y. 2021/2022  

History of the West (Central-Western Europe and the Americas). Key Topics: 1. Definition and chronology of the modern age; 2. From the black plague to humanistic development; 3. Ottoman expansion and division of the Mediterranean; 4. Discovery and conquest of the New Worlds; 5. The Protestant Reformations (Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican); 6. Charles V: the Empire against France; 7. Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain: the clash on the sea; 8. The Thirty Years War and the End of the Religious Wars; 9. The English revolutions; 10. The France of Louis XIV and the struggle for European dominance; 11. Europe in the eighteenth century: political balance and technological-economic innovation; 12. The age of the Revolutions: United States, France, 1848; 13. The social and cultural evolution between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 14. The national question in the nineteenth century; 15. Migration and mobility in the modern age

First Annuity:
General Part: Renata Ago e Vittorio Vidotto, Storia moderna, nuova edizione, Laterza 2021
Monographic Part: Nicoletta Bazzano, Breve storia dell’economia europea in età moderna, Sette Città 2019 (obbligatorio); 2) one book among: Massimo Rubboli, La riforma protestante tra mito e memoria storica, Com-Nuovi Tempi 2020; and Alessandro Barbero, La guerra in Europa dal Rinascimento a Napoleone, Carocci 2020
E-book: Fatti e Misfatti nell’Europa di Antico Regime, a cura di Alessandro Boccolini, Viterbo, Sette Città, 2020, scaricabile gratuitamente all’indirizzo https://www.easterneuropeanhistory.eu/it/2020/10/15/1027/
Non-attending students must bring also : Matteo Sanfilippo, Historian’s Creed. L’età moderna tra vecchi e nuovi media, Viterbo, Sette Città, 2017

Second annuity: Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo, Il Mulino 2019

Interdisciplinary Seminar (with Storia dell'Europa di Centro): Regine e principesse nell’età moderna

• Introduction to the problems characterising the Iranian and Islamic, in particular Shiite, world (aimed at placing the proposed issues in a critical historical frame)• The Qajar dinasty
• The impact of European (in particular, British and Russian) imperialism on the politico-economic development of Iran and its involvment in the ‘Great Game’
• The cultural policy of Nasiroddin Shah
• Development of the nationalist movement; exaltation of the pre-Islamic past as an element of national identity
• The Costitutional Revolution
• The Anglo-Russian agreement
• Iran during the First World War
• The 1925 coup d’etat of Reza Khan and the creation of the new Pahlavi dinasty
• The modernization process under Reza Shah
• Iran during the Second World War
• Reza Shah’s dismissal and the rise to power of Mohammad Reza Shah
• The nationalist interregnum of Mossadeq, the oil nationalization and the 1953 coup d’etat
• The White Revolution and the modernization policies of the Shah
• The Islamic Revolution
• The political organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Farian Sabahi (2019), Il bazar e la moschea. Storia dell'Iran 1890-2018, Bruno Mondadori.

E. Abrahamian (2009), Storia dell’Iran dai primi del Novecento a oggi. Donzelli editore.

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (2014) ‘Arab invasion’ and decline, or the import of European racial thought by Iranian nationalists, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37:6, 1043-1061 (https://kcl.academia.edu/RezaZiaEbrahimi)


Further teaching material will be distributed during the course and made available on the Moodle platform. Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher.
Farian Sabahi (2019), Il bazar e la moschea. Storia dell'Iran 1890-2018, Bruno Mondadori.

E. Abrahamian (2009), Storia dell’Iran dai primi del Novecento a oggi. Donzelli editore.

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (2014) ‘Arab invasion’ and decline, or the import of European racial thought by Iranian nationalists, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37:6, 1043-1061 (https://kcl.academia.edu/RezaZiaEbrahimi)


Ulteriore materiale didattico sarà distribuito durante il corso e reso disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle. Gli studenti non frequentanti sono tenuti a contattare la docente.

Farian Sabahi (2019), Il bazar e la moschea. Storia dell'Iran 1890-2018, Bruno Mondadori.

E. Abrahamian (2009), Storia dell’Iran dai primi del Novecento a oggi. Donzelli editore.

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (2014) ‘Arab invasion’ and decline, or the import of European racial thought by Iranian nationalists, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37:6, 1043-1061 (https://kcl.academia.edu/RezaZiaEbrahimi)


Ulteriore materiale didattico sarà distribuito durante il corso e reso disponibile sulla piattaforma Moodle. Gli studenti non frequentanti sono tenuti a contattare la docente.

The Turkish problem in Europe between the 17th and 18th centuries
The training objective of the general course is the history of Central Eastern Europe during the long modern age. Moreover, during the course an interdisciplinary seminar will be held (historical, geographical and literary subjects) to facilitate the comprehension of the phenomena treated.
At the end of the course the students must be able to: 1) summarize the topics covered; 2) to autonomously interpret the main events in the centuries and in the geographic areas faced; 3) understand the interdisciplinary links necessary to follow the evolution of the period and of the geographic areas treated

Parte generale:
Maria Valente (a cura), Cenni Storico-geografici sull'Est d'Europa, Viterbo 2015 (collana "Quaderni del CESPoM/3) - da scaricare dalla piattaforma moodle
G. Platania, Rzeczpospolita, Europa e Santa Sede tra intese ed ostilità, Viterbo 2017.
T. Di Carpegna Falconieri, Nel labirinto del passato. 10 modi di riscrivere la storia. Bari 2020
A. Boccolini (a cura di), Fatti e misfatti nell'Europa di antico regime, Viterbo 2019
PIÙ UN TESTO A SCELTA DELLO STUDENTE TRA QUELLI SUGGERITI
A. Wheatcroft, Il Nemico alle porte, Bari 2010
M. A. Viesceglia, La città rituale, Roma 2002
J. Stoye, L'assedio di Vienna, Bologna 2011
AA.VV, L'Europa di Giovanni Sobieski, a cura di G. Platania, Viterbo 2005
F. Cardini, Il Turco a Vienna, Bari 2011.
E. Eickhoff, Venezia Vienna e i turchi, Milano 1991
AA.VV., I turchi e il mediterraneo, a cura di G. Motta, Milano 1998.
AA.VV., L'Europa centro orientale e il problema turco tra sei e settecento, Viterbo 1999
AA. VV., Romanzi nel tempo. Come la letteratura racconta la storia (Laterza 2017)
M. Sanfilippo, Historian’s Creed. L’età moderna tra vecchi e nuovi media (Sette Città 2017).
G. Platania, Mamma li turchi. L'idea di crociata nell'età moderna.
J. Brotton, La storia del mondo in 12 mappe, Feltrinelli 2017.
G. Platania, Rzeczpospolita, Europa e Santa Sede tra intese ed ostilità, Viterbo 2017.
F. De Caprio, Costruzione di una regina consorte.Cerimonie e propaganda nel viaggio verso il trono polacco di Maria Luisa Gonzaga Nevers (1645-46), Viterbo 2018.
G. Platania, Viaggio a Roma sede d'esilio, Roma 2002
i testi adottati sono disponibili presso la biblioteca del Polo umanistico Santa Maria in Gradi
www.amazon.it
www.settecitta.eu
www.ibs.it

Grammar: tenses – present simple and present continuous, past simple and past continuous – future (will/going to/present continuous) – 1st and 2nd conditionals – comparatives and superlatives – use of definite and indefinite articles – use of passive – modals - quantifiers
Topics: technology, environment, human resources, sport, nature, generational differences
Vocabulary: as per above topics
Skills:
Listening – understands main ideas when speaking about everyday matters, current affairs and issues of personal and professional interest
Reading – understands texts written in an everyday language or related to work, understands the description of personal emotions and wishes
Writing – able to write simple, well-connected texts on matters they are familiar with or of interest
Speaking – able to connect simple sentences in order to narrate events in the past, present and future, able to explain and motivate personal opinions and tell a story or plot of a film/book, etc.

Murphy: English Grammar in Use, Intermediate, Fifth Edition, Cambridge University Press
National Geographic Learning, Life Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book, Second Edition - material provided by teacher

This module of Digital and ICT skills is divided in three parts that focus respectively on the use of word processing and word processing programs, information retrieval via the Internet, and argumentative writing:

- the first part is about the the skills required to write a structured Word document, specifically using the Master Document, styles and bibliographic citation features (contact the professor for a list of resources related to these topics).
- The second part focuses on citation styles and the use of databases for bibliographic research; the reference text is Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018.
- the third and final part has as its subject argumentative writing, the use of logical procedures and the most appropriate rhetorical and communicative strategies to effectively structure and convey the contents of the thesis. The reference text for this module is Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (alternatively, students may opt for Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

- Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018
- Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (in alternativa Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

We will carefully study not only the history, but also the documents on wich medievals historians work to reconstructe it.

1) per i frequentanti: A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Torino, UTET, 2016.
2) per i non frequentanti tutti e due i testi indicati : 1) A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Torino, UTET, 2016
2) C. Wickham, L'Europa nel Medioevo, Roma 2020.

Grammar: tenses – present simple and present continuous, past simple and past continuous – future (will/going to/present continuous) – 1st and 2nd conditionals – comparatives and superlatives – use of definite and indefinite articles – use of passive – modals - quantifiers
Topics: technology, environment, human resources, sport, nature, generational differences
Vocabulary: as per above topics
Skills:
Listening – understands main ideas when speaking about everyday matters, current affairs and issues of personal and professional interest
Reading – understands texts written in an everyday language or related to work, understands the description of personal emotions and wishes
Writing – able to write simple, well-connected texts on matters they are familiar with or of interest
Speaking – able to connect simple sentences in order to narrate events in the past, present and future, able to explain and motivate personal opinions and tell a story or plot of a film/book, etc.

Murphy: English Grammar in Use, Intermediate, Fifth Edition, Cambridge University Press
National Geographic Learning, Life Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book, Second Edition - material provided by teacher

This module of Digital and ICT skills is divided in three parts that focus respectively on the use of word processing and word processing programs, information retrieval via the Internet, and argumentative writing:

- the first part is about the the skills required to write a structured Word document, specifically using the Master Document, styles and bibliographic citation features (contact the professor for a list of resources related to these topics).
- The second part focuses on citation styles and the use of databases for bibliographic research; the reference text is Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018.
- the third and final part has as its subject argumentative writing, the use of logical procedures and the most appropriate rhetorical and communicative strategies to effectively structure and convey the contents of the thesis. The reference text for this module is Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (alternatively, students may opt for Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

- Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018
- Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (in alternativa Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

The course will follow the history of the Italian language in the eighteenth century, with particular attention to the role of Italian in Europe in science, theater and linguistic debate. These will be the main nuclei: historical and theoretical premises of the linguistic renewal of the Italian eighteenth century; the language of economics; the language of the theater (Goldoni and Italian for music); the linguistic debate; the influence of other European languages on Italian. Specific insights will be dedicated to the history of the relationship between English and Italian from the eighteenth century to today.
Elements of Italian historical grammar and a general picture of Italian linguistic history from the beginning to the present day will be an integral part of the course.

Required Textbooks
Libri di testo obbligatori:
G. Folena, L’italiano in Europa. Esperienze linguistiche del Settecento. Nuova edizione, Firenze, Cesati, 2017
G. Patota, Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell’italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012

Suggested readings:
Storia dell’italiano. La lingua e i testi, diretta da G. Frosini, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2020.

The cycle of lessons, entitled "Teaching languages in complex societies: the European context", is divided into two parts. The first part will be dedicated to the framing of historical natural languages within more general human communicative activities: from simpler codes, such as traffic lights, up to more complex ones, such as calculations and language, passing through catalogs and classifications. With in-depth studies and group work sessions, some codes will be examined through their 4 dimensions, illustrating how they work together; for languages, particular attention will be paid to the analysis of the semantic and pragmatic dimensions, focusing on the elementary glossary of linguistics for these specialistic fields.
In the second part of the course, the theoretical aspects previously addressed will be applied in a didactic key: how can a language be learned and taught in the light of its characteristics? What approaches have been experimented, and with what results in the analysis of these processes? What conceptual and methodological resources do we have today to guide us in the complexity of the challenges we face? The focus, this year, will be on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, a fundamental document for the promotion of language policy in the European context. In the classroom, we will carry out exercises on Italian written and oral texts from different channels (radio, television, computer-mediated communication, press, etc.), interpreting their characteristics from the point of view of the linguistic skills involved.

- Ciliberti, A. Glottodidattica. Per una cultura dell’insegnamento linguistico, Roma: Carocci, 2012, capp. 1-7.
- De Mauro, T. Guida all’uso delle parole, Bari-Roma: Laterza, 2019.
- De Mauro, T., Linguistica elementare. Con esercizi e test di verifica, Bari-Roma: Laterza, 2007 (11° edizione).
- Consiglio d’Europa, Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le lingue: apprendimento, insegnamento, valutazione, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 2002 (available in English and French at the following link: https://www.coe.int), capp. 1-5.

The course is divisible in two modules (each one with 24 hours). The first module “Per una storia dell’arte medievale dal tardo-antico al gotico internazionale (secoli IV-XIV)” offers a basic knowledge of medieval art history. The detailed module offers a deepen knowledge on some specific monumental context in Rome (Santi Cosma e Damiano, Santa Sabina, Santa Prassede, San Clemente, Santi Quattro Coronati, San Giovanni in Laterano e Sancta Sanctorum, Santa Maria in Ara Coeli) and in Viterbo (Santa Maria in Gradi, San Francesco alla Rocca, San Sisto, San Lorenzo)
The lections will be supported with exercises, seminars and visits to some monumental places, visits to a library for manuscript conservation (Biblioteca degli Ardenti, Viterbo), to museums (Museo Civico in Viterbo) and to exhibitions.

Exam texts (for students that take part to the lessons)

A. Pinelli, Le ragioni della bellezza, 2. Dalla tarda antichità a Giotto, Loescher editore, 2012.

You can request a pdf of the text to Dr Chiara Paniccia chiara.paniccia@unitus.it

Non-attending students are invited to agree the examination programme with the lecturer.

The course will illustrate the main stages of Roman history through a selection of events, not only political but also social, economic and cultural. The first part will focus on the problem of the origins of the city, its development in relation to nearby populations, and the evolution of republican institutions. The second part will be mainly devoted to the analysis of the economic and administrative structures of the imperial age.
Didactic visits to the Roman Forum, Palatine, Foro Boario and to the Museum and archaeological area of the Crypta Balbi are planned for the academic year 2021-2022.

Program for attending students (students present at 2/3 of the lessons are considered attending)
G. Geraci – A. Marcone (con la collaborazione di A. Cristofori), Storia romana – Editio maior, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2017.
S. Mazzarino, L’impero romano, II volume, Biblioteca storica Laterza, Roma-Bari.
E. Lo Cascio (a cura di), Roma imperiale. Una metropoli antica, Carocci Editore, Roma 2000 e 2010: one chapter.

Non-attending students:
In addition to the texts indicated above, the study of the entire volume by E. Lo Cascio is required.
EVENTUAL CHANGES AND INTEGRATIONS WILL BE COMMUNICATED DURING THE LESSON AND ON THE PORTAL:

Between the fifth and fourth centuries, poleis of Sicily appeared in the western political landscape as centers of particular importance, in order to overcome the now uncomfortable status of Greek colonies. The Congress of Gela (424), while the first phase of the Peloponnesian war sees the conflict between Sparta and Athens as inexorable, marks a decisive moment for this process: Hermocrates proposes a sort of alliance between the poleis in the name of a common interest and unitary. After the expedition to Sicily in 415 which in 413 ended with the defeat of Athens, Sicily now represents de facto a great political reality, which seeks internal strengthening and a hegemonic balance. It is no coincidence that in this complex scenario Syracuse tends to emerge from the other poleis under the leadership of Dionysus I in dynamic contrast with the Carthaginians and, at the same time, interested in extending its dominion in Magna Graecia and on the Adriatic coasts.
The course intends to dwell on this phase in which the strengthening of Syracuse shines through both in internal politics and in foreign policy thanks to the presence of refined and political experts. In Syracuse, the new regime imposed by Dionysus I and the charismatic influence of his brother-in-law Dion are intertwined with the arrival of Plato who will try in several stages, to direct towards enlightened choices, in an attempt, perhaps utopian, to create a government of politicians, capable of drawing on the source of philosophy.
During the course, Plutarch's Life of Dion will be read. Attendance at lessons is recommended. Those who cannot, however, follow the course, are invited to contact the professor.

C. Bearzot, Manuale di Storia greca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015 [cap. I-II-II-IV-V (fino alla morte di Alessandro Magno)]
O. Murray, La città greca, Torino, Einaudi 1993
L. Canfora, Prima lezione di storia greca, Roma, Laterza 2000
C. Ampolo, Storie greche. La formazione della moderna storiografia sugli antichi Greci, Torino, Einaudi, 1997 [solo da pag. 38 a pag. 78 (IV capitolo)]

Syntax: The determinant system; The name system; The adjective system; The adverbs system; The
system of the verb (indicative - present, imperfect, passé composé, future; conditional: present;
subjunctive: present; infinite; past participle, imperative); negation; exclamation; interrogation
(direct and indirect); The personal pronouns subject (atonic and tonic form); The pronouns COD and COI; I
pronouns EN and Y; The relative pronouns; The prepositions of time and place; The expression of the cause and the
consequence (donc, en conséquence...) The expression of purpose (pour que, afin que...) The expression
of the hypothesis (au cas où, si...) The expression of the opposition and the concession (par contre, tandis que...) I
logical speech connectors (d'abord, ensuite...)

For the oral exam (one of your choice)
- KRISTOF, AGOTA, L'analphabète, Distribooks Inc.
- DE SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE, Le Petit Prince (qualsiasi edizione).
- PENNAC, DANIEL, L'oeil du loup (qualsiasi edizione).
- BEN JELLOUN, TAHAR, Le racisme expliqué à ma fille (qualsiasi edizione).
- MAALOUF, AMIN, Adriana Mater (qualsiasi edizione).
- DJIEBAR, ASSIA, La disparition de la langue française (qualsiasi edizione).

- Bidaud, F. (2012), Grammaire du français pour italophones, Novara, Utet: Università.
- Bidaud, F. (2012), Exercices de Grammaire française pour italophones, Novara, Utet : Università


Altro
- dispense degli esercizi fornite durante il corso.

Title: English in use: a grammar for communication
The course includes the following contents to be developed in a 60 hours course (+ 60 hours activities online):
1) a survey of the way students have learnt their English through formal and informal education in order to develop critical awareness about language and language learning process; an introduction to CEFR and its levels descriptors; what is communicative competence (1 week).
2) a survey of different descriptions of the morpho-syntactical level of the English language through consulting different grammar books; a detailed description of communicative/functional grammar (1 week).
3) through a communicative/functional approach a comparative analysis of the main areas of contrast between Italian and English
a. verb system, particularly tense and aspect (4 weeks)
b. modality (1 week)
c. word formation and word order (1 week)
d. concept of mass and of defining/non-defining (1 week)
4) presentation of the final exam through numerous sample tests (1 week).

A choice of one of the two following grammars:

Geoffrey Leech - Jan Svartvik, A Communicative Grammar of English, Longman;
Ronald Carter - Michael McCarthy, Cambridge Grammar of English, CUP.

Artistic literature from 1250 to 1650 by examining the main sources of art history. From medieval recipe books to the Renaissance treatises by Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, to the biographies by Giorgio Vasari and the publication of Leonardo's treatise on painting in 1651.

1) M. Motolese, Italiano lingua delle arti. Un’avventura europea (1250-1650), Il Mulino, Bologna 2012 (https://sba-unitus.on.worldcat.org/oclc/868333087);
2) S. Rinaldi, Letteratura tecnica sulla scultura lapidea, dal Rinascimento al Neoclassicismo, Settecittà, Viterbo 2018 (https://www.settecitta.eu/catalogo/libro/9788878537972/letteratura-tecnica-sulla-scultura-lapidea);
3) Antology of literary sources (pdf file on Unitus Moodle)

For non attending students, same books.

From Circe to the Sirens to Calypso: Odysseus narrator
Starting from the most recent Italian translations and based on the most advanced narratological analyses, the course offers the reading of large sections of the books IX-XII of the Odyssey, in which Odysseus himself narrates the today most famous moments of his return journey to Ithaca, in a path full of adventures and characterized by the encounter with extraordinary female figures.


2. General programme

Authors and literary genres from Homer to the Hellenistic age

Monografic course:
G. A. Privitera, Omero, Odissea, vol. III, libri IX-XII, Milano, Mondadori, 1983

General part:
- a handbook of Greek literature chosen from those presented and discussed during the introductory lessons

This course is intended to present the history of contemporary French literature with a particular emphasis on the Theatre of the Absurd.
The objectives will be:
- to provide students with the tools to orient themselves in the literary panorama of the 20th century
- to deepen reading and critical analysis skills of texts in order to acquire full autonomy of judgment.

TEXTS:
- "Le Serve", J. Genet, Einaudi
- "Aspettando Godot", S. Backett, Einaudi
- "Le Sedie", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Il Re Muore", E. Ionesco, Einaudi

HANDBOOK:
- AA. VV. "Storia europea della letteratura francese - vol. 2", Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi (to study only the section on the '900)

FURTHER READING (uploaded to Moodle):
- "Genet o la lotta con il teatro", B. Dort, in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Jean Genet, scrittore postumo", Albert Dichy, in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Le Serve, rovesciamento della tragedia", O. Pucciani, in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Una lettera a Jean-Jacques Pauvert", in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Esperienza del teatro", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "I miei critici e me", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Le Sedie", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Altre pagine di diario", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Ho fatto dell'antiteatro?", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi

Literature and cultural studies: the literary space in gastronomic culture studies.

Gian Mario Anselmi, Literary banquets, Carocci
Daniela de Liso, Wine Literature, Franco Cesati editor

Course presentation
This module provides both an historical and cultural framework of the Germanic tribes in the Middle Ages and a synchronic description of the Common Germanic and its later linguistic developments, with particular regard to the early varieties of West Germanic (Old English and Old High German dialects). It also offers an introduction to the philological and linguistic analysis of the earliest Germanic texts and to useful operational tools in this field of study.
Lesson plan
First part
Germanic Philology: subject, method and field of application; the comparative method in historical linguistics; Germanic and concept of proto-language reconstruction; trees vs waves: two models of language diversification; phonological and morphological development from Indo-European to Proto-Germanic and to medieval Germanic languages; linguistic interference: Germanic-Romans contacts in Antiquity and in the Early Middle Ages; Germanic tribes and writing.
Second part
Practical comparative-contrastive analysis of some Lord’s Prayer versions in Gothic, Old English and Old High German.

For the theoretical background of the discipline, a textbook to be chosen from:

-S. Leonardi – E. Morlicchio, La filologia germanica e le lingue moderne, il Mulino, Bologna 2009
otherwise:
-N. Francovich Onesti, Filologia germanica. Lingue e culture dei germani antichi, Carocci, Roma 2002 (rist. 2015).

For the origins of written literatures:
-M. Battaglia, Medioevo volgare germanico, Unipress, Pisa 2016 (2a edizione rivista e ampliata).

-Moreover, it is required to study all the supporting materials of lectures available on the learning platform (UniTus moodle).


N.B .: non-attending students will prepare independently the same programme as attending students including the supporting materials of lectures.

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 written 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.
DANTE AND THE TROUBADOURS: Another part is dedicated to the fortune of the troubadours tradition and its diffusion in medieval Europe, in particular to Dante's reception. The poetic texts that Dante mentions in his works, in particular in De Vulgari Eloquentia, are introduced from a literary historical perspective and analyzed from a thematic, linguistic and formal point of view.

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. Dante Alighieri, De vulgari eloquentia, a c. di Enrico Fenzi, con la collaborazione di Luciano Formisano e Francesco Montuori, in Nuova edizione commentata delle Opere di Dante Alighieri, vol. III, Salerno editrice, Roma 2012 (introduction, excerpts from the teacher and relative commentary, anthology of poetic texts quoted by Dante)
** Those who have difficulty finding these materials can contact the teacher directly.

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.

The course will deal with some of the most relevant narrative works to show the evolution of the English novel in its historical and cultural context and background. The aim of the course will be to explore English novels such as Robinson Crusoe, Joseph Andrews, The Castle of Otranto, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Jude the Obscure, Mrs Dalloway, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. After some lessons devoted to the form, the style and the main topics of the novel, the other lessons will be devoted to the close reading and analysis of the above-mentioned texts according to a historical arrangement.

Bibliography:

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto / Il castello di Otranto (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure / Jude l’oscuro (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway / La signora Dalloway (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
David Herbert Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover / L'amante di Lady Chatterley (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)

Russia: the people and the land. Linguistic evolution. Kievan Rus' to the Mongol invasion. The rise of Muscovy. New literary trends in 16th and 17th centuries. Peter the Great. 18th century: Lomonosov, Derzhavin and the others. The poetry in 19th cntury: Pushkin, Lermontov. The golden age: Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Turgenev. The silver age between Decadent movement, symbolism etc. Revolution and afterwards: Soviet literature to the end of the regime and nowadays.
More in depth: Unnecessary men: the crisis of the Russian man around the middle of the 19th century.
Erasmus students and those which are not fluent in Italian may contact the teacher for more information. Please also refer to the section "International" in Moodle.

1) Silvana de Vidovich, Letteratura russa, Milano, Vallardi, 2003 e ristampe successive; 2) materiali su Moodle; 3) [Uomini superflui etc.]: a) I.S. Turgenev, Padri e figli (qualunque edizione italiana); b) I.S. Turgenev, Diario di un uomo superfluo, trad. di Alessandro Niero, Roma, Voland, 2011; c) passi scelti da: 1. I.S. Turgenev, Rudin; 2. I.A. Goncharov, Oblomov; 3. N.A. Dobroljubov, Che cos'è l'oblomovismo (i materiali per il p. 3) saranno resi disponibili su Moodle).
Erasmus students or those who are not fluent in Italian may contact the teacher in order to find equivalents of above mentioned texts and for further information.
Please refer also to the section "International" in Moodle.

(program valid for attending and non-attending students)
- Module I (28 hours of frontal lectures): Fundamentals of Italian philology: history of the discipline; writing supports (manuscripts and prints); ecdotal theory and practices before and after Lachmann; author philology. In-depth study of some exemplary cases of Italian philology. Presentation of the main paper and electronic instruments of philological research.

- Module II (20 hours of lectures): Eugenio Montale's Le Silvae. Critical reading and philological analysis of the Silvae, with particular attention to the genesis of the book of poetry and to the related variants.

- Examination texts:

Module I:
A textbook of your choice between
- P. Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2008.
- A. Stussi, Breve avviamento alla filologia italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002.

Module II:
1) E. Montale, La bufera e altro, a cura di I. Campeggiani e N. Scaffai, Milano, Mondadori, 2019, limited to pp. 233-330.

2) F. Croce, Storia della poesia di Eugenio Montale, Genova, Costa & Nolan, 1991, limited to pp. 47-69 (pdf downloadable from the course materials).
3) N. Scaffai, Il fulcro della storia della Bufera: le Silvae, in Id., Montale e il libro di poesia, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 2002, pp. 173-187 (pdf downloadable from the course materials).
4) I. Campeggiani, La bufera e altro, in Montale, a cura di P. Marini e N. Scaffai, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 71-92.

Module I:
A textbook of your choice between
- P. Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2008.
- A. Stussi, Breve avviamento alla filologia italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002.

Module II:
1) E. Montale, La bufera e altro, a cura di I. Campeggiani e N. Scaffai, Milano, Mondadori, 2019, limited to pp. 233-330.

2) F. Croce, Storia della poesia di Eugenio Montale, Genova, Costa & Nolan, 1991, limited to pp. 47-69 (pdf downloadable from the course materials).
3) N. Scaffai, Il fulcro della storia della Bufera: le Silvae, in Id., Montale e il libro di poesia, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 2002, pp. 173-187 (pdf downloadable from the course materials).
4) I. Campeggiani, La bufera e altro, in Montale, a cura di P. Marini e N. Scaffai, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 71-92.

The terminology and periodization of palaeography. The palaeographic transcription. The subjects, tools and techniques of the manuscript book.
The origins of Latin writing and the archaic Latin alphabet. The scripts of Roman Age and Late Antiquity: the Epigraphical Capital, the Old Roman Cursive, the Roman Book Capital, the Minuscule and the New Roman Cursive, the Uncial, the Semi-Uncial, the Chanceries scripts. The abbreviations of the Roman and Medieval Ages; the “Nomina Sacra”.
The scripts of graphic particularism in the Early Middle Ages the Insular scripts, the Merovingian minuscule, the Visigothic, the Beneventan script, the high medieval Italian scripts, the Papal Curial (Chancery) script.
Caroline minuscule and the return the unity of writing in the High Middle Age; Diplomatic minuscule, “Romanesca” minuscule and Transition minuscule. The “littera textualis” (Gothic minuscule): the Italian Gothic “Rotunda”, the “littera Bononiensis” and the “littera Parisiensis”. The other scripts during the Late Middle Ages: the “Cancelleresca” minuscule, the Merchant script, the Bastard.
The reaction to Gothic writing and the scripts of Humanism and Renaissance: Francesco Petrarca and the Semi-gothic, Coluccio Salutati and the “Pre-antiqua”, Poggio Bracciolini and the “Antiqua” or Humanistic minuscule, the Semi-gothic cursive scripts (“Semigotiche delle carte”), Niccolò Niccoli and the Humanistic cursive, the Humanistic Epigraphical Capital. Handwriting in Italy after the invention and diffusion of printing: “Antiqua tonda” and “Italica”.

- Armando Petrucci, “Breve storia della scrittura latina”, Roma, Bagatto Libri, 1992.
- Paolo Cherubini, “La scrittura latina: storia, forme, usi”, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2019.
- Lecture notes and palaeography tables distributed during lessons and exercises. Many tables are taken from: “Paleografia latina. Tavole”, edited by Paolo Cherubini, Alessandro Pratesi, Città del Vaticano, Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica, 2004.

University of Tuscia

DISUCOM

Prof. Carlo Serafini

Contemporary Italian Literature (L-FIL-LET-11)

L-10 - 8 CFU - a.y. 2021-2022


Poetry and prose in Italian literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

The course examines the main authors and literary movements of poetry and fiction in the twentieth century and the first twenty years of the twenty-first century. We will focus in particular on the historical avant-gardes, the birth of the modern novel, the forms of realism and fiction between the two wars, the fantastic-surrealist and comic vein, the literature of the war, Neorealism, "The Polytechnic", relationships between literature and the new Italy of reconstruction and well-being, the neo-avant-garde, Group 63, the forms of the Postmodern. The literature of the first two decades of the 21st century will be analyzed with a view to the radical transformation of society in terms of communication and relationship with tradition.

Bibliography:

Students will have to demonstrate knowledge of the history of twentieth century literature, to be prepared on FLORIANA CALITTI (edited by), The life of the texts. (vol.3.2. Path of the poetry of the twentieth century + Path of the fiction of the twentieth century) Zanichelli, Bologna 2015. Of the manual, students will have to study the chapters relating to:
POETRY: Historical profile of the twentieth century, Path of twentieth century poetry, Futurism, Palazzeschi, Campana, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Penna, Caproni, Group 63, Merini, Magrelli.
NARRATIVE: Path of twentieth century prose, Svevo, Pirandello, Tozzi, Calvino, Pasolini, Gadda, Palazzeschi, Moravia, Buzzati, Pavese, Landolfi, Vittorini, P. Levi, Morante, Bassani, Sciascia, Bianciardi, Tondelli.

Students will have to read the novel by Isabella Becherucci, Gli amici di Brusuglio, Perrone publisher, Rome 2021

Students NOT ATTENDING, in addition to the above program, will have to read two novels (one per author) among those by the authors listed below: Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi, Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luciano Bianciardi, Umberto Eco.

Teacher reception: before and after lessons or by appointment to be agreed via email

Teacher contact: carlo.serafini@unitus.it

Floriana Calitti (edited by), The life of the texts. (vol.3.2. Path of twentieth century poetry + Path of twentieth century fiction) Zanichelli, Bologna 2015.

Isabella Becherucci, The friends of Brusuglio, Perrone publisher, Rome 2021

History of the West (Central-Western Europe and the Americas). Key Topics: 1. Definition and chronology of the modern age; 2. From the black plague to humanistic development; 3. Ottoman expansion and division of the Mediterranean; 4. Discovery and conquest of the New Worlds; 5. The Protestant Reformations (Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican); 6. Charles V: the Empire against France; 7. Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain: the clash on the sea; 8. The Thirty Years War and the End of the Religious Wars; 9. The English revolutions; 10. The France of Louis XIV and the struggle for European dominance; 11. Europe in the eighteenth century: political balance and technological-economic innovation; 12. The age of the Revolutions: United States, France, 1848; 13. The social and cultural evolution between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 14. The national question in the nineteenth century; 15. Migration and mobility in the modern age

First Annuity:
General Part: Renata Ago e Vittorio Vidotto, Storia moderna, nuova edizione, Laterza 2021
Monographic Part: Nicoletta Bazzano, Breve storia dell’economia europea in età moderna, Sette Città 2019 (obbligatorio); 2) one book among: Massimo Rubboli, La riforma protestante tra mito e memoria storica, Com-Nuovi Tempi 2020; and Alessandro Barbero, La guerra in Europa dal Rinascimento a Napoleone, Carocci 2020
E-book: Fatti e Misfatti nell’Europa di Antico Regime, a cura di Alessandro Boccolini, Viterbo, Sette Città, 2020, scaricabile gratuitamente all’indirizzo https://www.easterneuropeanhistory.eu/it/2020/10/15/1027/
Non-attending students must bring also : Matteo Sanfilippo, Historian’s Creed. L’età moderna tra vecchi e nuovi media, Viterbo, Sette Città, 2017

Second annuity: Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo, Il Mulino 2019

Interdisciplinary Seminar (with Storia dell'Europa di Centro): Regine e principesse nell’età moderna

The course aims to analyze the role and characteristics of the television medium within the new contemporary media scenario. Still incisive in defining the agenda setting, still an information and consensus tool, the television medium maintains a sense of rituality and community, in continuity with its and our past. At the same time, however, the digital convergence processes have transformed it at the level of production and supply of content, methods of use and consumption, from a transmedial and participatory perspective. Television resists and, changing its skin, adapting itself to the new and diversified needs of contemporary audiences, it still manages to remain somehow central within the media system, with its role still to be played in the field of cultural production and consumption. During the course, some focus lessons will be dedicated to case studies about information and television seriality. Particular attention will be devoted to TV series as the leading product of the contemporary offer.

E. Menduni, I linguaggi della radio e della televisione, Laterza, Roma, 2006 - Tutto il volume esclusa la parte seconda.
I. Imperi, Il Caso Moro: cronaca di un evento mediale, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2016
M. Scaglioni, La tv dopo la tv. Il decennio che ha cambiato la televisione: scenario, offerta, pubblico, V&P, Milano, 2011

Part 1. Language and production
1. The film first draft – synopsis and pitching; 2. The screenplay; 3. Pre-production; 4. Key roles: director; 5. Key roles: director of photography; 6. Key roles: editor; 7. Shots and camera movements; 8. The grammar of film editing; 9. Technical issues in film editing between analog and digital formats; 10. Post-production and color correction; 11. Special effects from the analog era to present days; 12. Computer graphics and 3D.

Part 2. The contemporary landscape
1. Production between TV, cinema and digital media; 2. Digital and broadcast media: a new landscape; 3. Viral videos and web popularity; 4. The webseries’ formats and storytelling; 5. Branded contents and brand entertainment; 6. The serialization of cinema and the film as a brand; 7. The new golden age of TV in the digital era: Netflix, Prime and the rising of the OTT companies.

Robert Edgar, John Marland, Steven Rawle, The Language of Film, Fairchild Books, London 2015 (Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5)

Grammar: tenses – present simple and present continuous, past simple and past continuous – future (will/going to/present continuous) – 1st and 2nd conditionals – comparatives and superlatives – use of definite and indefinite articles – use of passive – modals - quantifiers
Topics: technology, environment, human resources, sport, nature, generational differences
Vocabulary: as per above topics
Skills:
Listening – understands main ideas when speaking about everyday matters, current affairs and issues of personal and professional interest
Reading – understands texts written in an everyday language or related to work, understands the description of personal emotions and wishes
Writing – able to write simple, well-connected texts on matters they are familiar with or of interest
Speaking – able to connect simple sentences in order to narrate events in the past, present and future, able to explain and motivate personal opinions and tell a story or plot of a film/book, etc.

Murphy: English Grammar in Use, Intermediate, Fifth Edition, Cambridge University Press
National Geographic Learning, Life Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book, Second Edition - material provided by teacher

This module of Digital and ICT skills is divided in three parts that focus respectively on the use of word processing and word processing programs, information retrieval via the Internet, and argumentative writing:

- the first part is about the the skills required to write a structured Word document, specifically using the Master Document, styles and bibliographic citation features (contact the professor for a list of resources related to these topics).
- The second part focuses on citation styles and the use of databases for bibliographic research; the reference text is Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018.
- the third and final part has as its subject argumentative writing, the use of logical procedures and the most appropriate rhetorical and communicative strategies to effectively structure and convey the contents of the thesis. The reference text for this module is Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (alternatively, students may opt for Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

- Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018
- Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (in alternativa Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

This course is intended to present the history of contemporary French literature with a particular emphasis on the Theatre of the Absurd.
The objectives will be:
- to provide students with the tools to orient themselves in the literary panorama of the 20th century
- to deepen reading and critical analysis skills of texts in order to acquire full autonomy of judgment.

TEXTS:
- "Le Serve", J. Genet, Einaudi
- "Aspettando Godot", S. Backett, Einaudi
- "Le Sedie", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Il Re Muore", E. Ionesco, Einaudi

HANDBOOK:
- AA. VV. "Storia europea della letteratura francese - vol. 2", Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi (to study only the section on the '900)

FURTHER READING (uploaded to Moodle):
- "Genet o la lotta con il teatro", B. Dort, in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Jean Genet, scrittore postumo", Albert Dichy, in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Le Serve, rovesciamento della tragedia", O. Pucciani, in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Una lettera a Jean-Jacques Pauvert", in "L'immoralità leggendaria. Il teatro di Jean Genet", Ubulibri
- "Esperienza del teatro", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "I miei critici e me", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Le Sedie", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Altre pagine di diario", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi
- "Ho fatto dell'antiteatro?", in "Note e contronote", E. Ionesco, Einaudi

The course will deal with some of the most relevant narrative works to show the evolution of the English novel in its historical and cultural context and background. The aim of the course will be to explore English novels such as Robinson Crusoe, Joseph Andrews, The Castle of Otranto, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Jude the Obscure, Mrs Dalloway, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. After some lessons devoted to the form, the style and the main topics of the novel, the other lessons will be devoted to the close reading and analysis of the above-mentioned texts according to a historical arrangement.

Bibliography:

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto / Il castello di Otranto (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure / Jude l’oscuro (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway / La signora Dalloway (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)
David Herbert Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover / L'amante di Lady Chatterley (qualsiasi edizione italiana e/o inglese)

Russia: the people and the land. Linguistic evolution. Kievan Rus' to the Mongol invasion. The rise of Muscovy. New literary trends in 16th and 17th centuries. Peter the Great. 18th century: Lomonosov, Derzhavin and the others. The poetry in 19th cntury: Pushkin, Lermontov. The golden age: Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Turgenev. The silver age between Decadent movement, symbolism etc. Revolution and afterwards: Soviet literature to the end of the regime and nowadays.
More in depth: Unnecessary men: the crisis of the Russian man around the middle of the 19th century.
Erasmus students and those which are not fluent in Italian may contact the teacher for more information. Please also refer to the section "International" in Moodle.

1) Silvana de Vidovich, Letteratura russa, Milano, Vallardi, 2003 e ristampe successive; 2) materiali su Moodle; 3) [Uomini superflui etc.]: a) I.S. Turgenev, Padri e figli (qualunque edizione italiana); b) I.S. Turgenev, Diario di un uomo superfluo, trad. di Alessandro Niero, Roma, Voland, 2011; c) passi scelti da: 1. I.S. Turgenev, Rudin; 2. I.A. Goncharov, Oblomov; 3. N.A. Dobroljubov, Che cos'è l'oblomovismo (i materiali per il p. 3) saranno resi disponibili su Moodle).
Erasmus students or those who are not fluent in Italian may contact the teacher in order to find equivalents of above mentioned texts and for further information.
Please refer also to the section "International" in Moodle.

Each lesson will last two hours; 24 lessons for a total of 48 hours.
Contents:
1. The bourgeoisie and the second industrial revolution
2. The European powers
3. United States and Japan; the colonial empires
4. The unification of Italy
5. The mass society
6. European and non-European societies at the beginning of the 20th century
7. Giolitti
8. The First World War; the October Revolution
9. The post-war period
10. The birth of fascism
11. The crisis of 1929
12. Totalitarianisms
13. The fascist regime
14. The crisis of colonial empires
15. The Second World War
16. Cold War and decolonization
17. The Republic in Italy
18. Consumer society; the 1970s
19. The fall of the Berlin Wall
20. The process of European integration
21. The Middle Eastern question
22. The end of the First Republic in Italy
23. Globalization; the “Asian Tigers”
24. Islam and the West; the 21st century

Giovanni Sabbatucci-Vittorio Vidotto, Il mondo contemporaneo, Bari-Roma, Editori Laterza, 2021

Grammar: tenses – present simple and present continuous, past simple and past continuous – future (will/going to/present continuous) – 1st and 2nd conditionals – comparatives and superlatives – use of definite and indefinite articles – use of passive – modals - quantifiers
Topics: technology, environment, human resources, sport, nature, generational differences
Vocabulary: as per above topics
Skills:
Listening – understands main ideas when speaking about everyday matters, current affairs and issues of personal and professional interest
Reading – understands texts written in an everyday language or related to work, understands the description of personal emotions and wishes
Writing – able to write simple, well-connected texts on matters they are familiar with or of interest
Speaking – able to connect simple sentences in order to narrate events in the past, present and future, able to explain and motivate personal opinions and tell a story or plot of a film/book, etc.

Murphy: English Grammar in Use, Intermediate, Fifth Edition, Cambridge University Press
National Geographic Learning, Life Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book, Second Edition - material provided by teacher

This module of Digital and ICT skills is divided in three parts that focus respectively on the use of word processing and word processing programs, information retrieval via the Internet, and argumentative writing:

- the first part is about the the skills required to write a structured Word document, specifically using the Master Document, styles and bibliographic citation features (contact the professor for a list of resources related to these topics).
- The second part focuses on citation styles and the use of databases for bibliographic research; the reference text is Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018.
- the third and final part has as its subject argumentative writing, the use of logical procedures and the most appropriate rhetorical and communicative strategies to effectively structure and convey the contents of the thesis. The reference text for this module is Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (alternatively, students may opt for Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

- Andrea Capaccioni, Ricerche bibliografiche. Banche dati e biblioteche in rete, Maggioli editore 2018
- Marco Santambrogio, Manuale di scrittura non creativa, Laterza 2008 (in alternativa Giovanni Boniolo, Paolo Vidali, Strumenti per ragionare. Logica e teoria dell'argomentazione, Bruno Mondadori 2011).

The course deals with the relations between Europeans and travel in the modern age. It aims at offering a critical approach to the phenomenon of travel, considered as crucial for the advance of European societies. Students are offered general knowledge and are given specific reference points in order to conduct more precise research in the field of travel history and odeporics.
The theoretical approach of the presented topics is complemented with a methodological analysis of various types of sources, travel stories and guidebooks, arts related to travel, geographical maps and historical descriptions, lists and registers for the surveillance of travelling foreigners.
Travel-related occurrences will be examined from the point of view of female travel conditions.
Topics in the syllabus will be taught through video lessons, resources and activities (including interactive ones) that will be available to students on the Moodle platform.

Testi curriculari:
F. De Caprio, Costruzione di una regina consorte.Cerimonie e propaganda nel viaggio verso il trono polacco di Maria Luisa Gonzaga Nevers (1645-46), Viterbo 2018.
A. MÄczak, Viaggi e viaggiatori nell'Europa moderna, Bari 2000
AA.VV., Roma e Cristina di Svezia, a cura di G. Platania, Viterbo 2016
A. Boccolini (a cura di), Raccontare in breve. Cinque studi sul viaggio e viaggiatori, Viterbo 2019

PIÙ UN TESTO A SCELTA TRA QUELLI SUGGERITI
R. Mazzei, Per terra e per acqua. Viaggi e viaggiatori nell'Europa moderna, Roma 2013
G. Platania, Viaggio a Roma sede d'esilio. Sovrane alla conquista di Roma, secoli XVII-XVIII, Roma 2002
E.J. Leed, La mente del viaggiatore, dall'Odissea al turismo globale, Bologna 2007
A. Bocconi, Viaggiare e non partire, Parma 2002
G. Platania, Il viaggio in età moderna, Viterbo 2017
AA.VV., Il viaggio e l'Europa, a cura di R. Caldarelli e A. Boccolini, Viterbo 2018
G. Platania, Le donne di casa Sobieski nella Roma del Sei-Settecento, in Donne al potere. Donne di potere, Viterbo 2009
G. Platania, Viaggi mercatura e politica, Viterbo, 2003
M. A. Visceglie, La città rituale, Roma 2002
J. Brotton, La storia del mondo in 12 mappe, Feltrinelli 2017
S. Greenblatt, Il manoscritto, Rizzoli 2012
C. de Seta, L'Italia nello specchio del Grand Tour, Rizzoli 2014
C. De Seta, Il fascino dell'Italia nell'età moderna. Dal Rinascimento al Grand tour, Cortina Raffaello 2010
A. Brilli, Il viaggio in Italia. Storia di una grande tradizione culturale, Il Mulino 2008
A. Brilli, Quando viaggiare era un'arte. Il romanzo del Grand tour, Il Mulino 2017
A. Brilli, Dove finiscono le mappe. Storie di esplorazione e di conquista, Il Mulino 2017
F. Antinucci, Spezie. Una storia di scoperte, avidità e lusso, Laterza 2016
H. C. Peyer, Viaggiare nel Medioevo. Dall'ospitalità alla locanda, Laterza 2009
AA.VV, Immagini di donne in viaggio per l'Italia, Sette Città 2011

• Introduction to the problems characterizing the study of travel literature
• Outline of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Achaemenid Empire in the second half of the 4th century BCE
• The figure of Alexander and his conquests; genesis of a myth.
• Reading and commentary of passages from Arrian’s 'Anabasis of Alexander’ and ‘India’; further documentation relating to Alexander’s enterprises and travels in Greek and Roman literature.
• The exceptional fortune of The Romance of Alexander in the European Middle Ages, in the Islamic world and in other areas of the world; comments on the figure of Alexander in art and media (until contemporary times).
• Introduction to the problems characterizing the study of the Iranian and Islamic world, in particular Shiite (introduction aimed at placing the proposed themes in a critical historical framework)
• Safavid Iran and the figure of Shah Abbas I.
• Pietro della Valle’s life and works.
• Le Lettere dalla Persia of Pietro della Valle; reading and analyses of selected passages.
• Iran during the periodo of the Pahlavi dynasty and the figure of Mohammad Reza Shah
• Vincenzo Bianchini: biography and works
• Acqua del diavolo by Vincenzo Bianchini: reading and commentary of selected passages

C. Mossé, Alessandro Magno. La realtà e il mito, Economica Laterza 2005.

Arriano, Anabasi di Alessandro. Vol. I-II, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Arnoldo Mondadori Editore [Introduzione e brani scelti]

Arriano, L'India, BUR 2000 [Introduzione e brani scelti]

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

V. Bianchini, Acqua del diavolo, Leonardo da Vinci 1962



Further teaching material will be distributed during the course and made available on the Moodle platform. Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher.

Artistic literature from 1250 to 1650 by examining the main sources of art history. From medieval recipe books to the Renaissance treatises by Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, to the biographies by Giorgio Vasari and the publication of Leonardo's treatise on painting in 1651.

1) M. Motolese, Italiano lingua delle arti. Un’avventura europea (1250-1650), Il Mulino, Bologna 2012 (https://sba-unitus.on.worldcat.org/oclc/868333087);
2) S. Rinaldi, Letteratura tecnica sulla scultura lapidea, dal Rinascimento al Neoclassicismo, Settecittà, Viterbo 2018 (https://www.settecitta.eu/catalogo/libro/9788878537972/letteratura-tecnica-sulla-scultura-lapidea);
3) Antology of literary sources (pdf file on Unitus Moodle)

For non attending students, same books.

The first part of the course will be dedicated to the presentation of the distinctive elements - theoretical and methodological - of cultural anthropology and some of the disciplinary areas in which it exercises its critical vocation. Among the topics covered: notes on the history of anthropology; objects and methods of the discipline; distinctive features of the anthropological perspective; notions of race, culture and ethnicity; relativism and ethnocentrism; ethnographic methods, participant observation and theoretical paradigms; folklore, popular culture, mass culture and ethnography of cultural consumption; time, memory and history; global and local cultures; anthropology of violence and genocide; kinship and relatedness.
The second part of the course will focus on the contribution provided by anthropology to the analysis and implementation of cultural heritage making processes.

1. Dei F., Antropologia culturale, Seconda edizione, Il Mulino 2016
2. Lattanzi V., Musei e antropologia. Storia, esperienze, prospettive, Carocci 2021
3. Grechi G., Decolonizzare il museo. Mostrazioni, pratiche artistiche, sguardi incarnati, Mimesis 2021
4. Materials available in the Moodle section of the course

Syntax: The determinant system; The name system; The adjective system; The adverbs system; The
system of the verb (indicative - present, imperfect, passé composé, future; conditional: present;
subjunctive: present; infinite; past participle, imperative); negation; exclamation; interrogation
(direct and indirect); The personal pronouns subject (atonic and tonic form); The pronouns COD and COI; I
pronouns EN and Y; The relative pronouns; The prepositions of time and place; The expression of the cause and the
consequence (donc, en conséquence...) The expression of purpose (pour que, afin que...) The expression
of the hypothesis (au cas où, si...) The expression of the opposition and the concession (par contre, tandis que...) I
logical speech connectors (d'abord, ensuite...)

For the oral exam (one of your choice)
- KRISTOF, AGOTA, L'analphabète, Distribooks Inc.
- DE SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE, Le Petit Prince (qualsiasi edizione).
- PENNAC, DANIEL, L'oeil du loup (qualsiasi edizione).
- BEN JELLOUN, TAHAR, Le racisme expliqué à ma fille (qualsiasi edizione).
- MAALOUF, AMIN, Adriana Mater (qualsiasi edizione).
- DJIEBAR, ASSIA, La disparition de la langue française (qualsiasi edizione).

- Bidaud, F. (2012), Grammaire du français pour italophones, Novara, Utet: Università.
- Bidaud, F. (2012), Exercices de Grammaire française pour italophones, Novara, Utet : Università


Altro
- dispense degli esercizi fornite durante il corso.

Title: English in use: a grammar for communication
The course includes the following contents to be developed in a 60 hours course (+ 60 hours activities online):
1) a survey of the way students have learnt their English through formal and informal education in order to develop critical awareness about language and language learning process; an introduction to CEFR and its levels descriptors; what is communicative competence (1 week).
2) a survey of different descriptions of the morpho-syntactical level of the English language through consulting different grammar books; a detailed description of communicative/functional grammar (1 week).
3) through a communicative/functional approach a comparative analysis of the main areas of contrast between Italian and English
a. verb system, particularly tense and aspect (4 weeks)
b. modality (1 week)
c. word formation and word order (1 week)
d. concept of mass and of defining/non-defining (1 week)
4) presentation of the final exam through numerous sample tests (1 week).

A choice between one of the two following grammars:

Geoffrey Leech - Jan Svartvik, A Communicative Grammar of English, Longman;
Ronald Carter - Michael McCarthy, Cambridge Grammar of English, CUP.

1. New Musicology?
2. Historical overview
3. From the Social to the Global
4. Historiography
5. Mediating Music I: Texts
6. Mediating Music II: Sounds
7. Pop, Film and Media
8. Philosophy and Aesthetics

1
Nuova Musicologia?
1- Storia o Storie della Musica?

Guido Adler, ‘The Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology’ (1885), trans. & comm. E. Mugglestone, Yearbook for Traditional Music 13 (1981), 1-21.

J. J. Nattiez, Storia o Storie della Musica? Enciclopedia della Musica, Einaudi, Vol. IV, p. XXIII-XLIX.

2- L’effetto Kerman.

Joseph Kerman, Musicology (London, 1985), Introduzione, 11-30

3- Musicologia del Ventunesimo secolo, oltre il nuovo.

Susan McClary, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality, new ed. (Minnesota, 2002), Prefazione (‘Feminine Endings in Retrospect’), Introduzione (‘A Material Girl in Bluebeard’s Castle’).

2

Ricognizione Storica


1- Musica vocale versus Musica strumentale

M. Jennifer Bloxam, La messa polifonica da Machaut a Palestrina, in Enciclopedia della Musica, Einaudi, Vol. IV, p. 225.
Kate Van Orden, Dalla Corte alla città – la chanson nei secoli XV e XVI, in Enciclopedia della Musica, Einaudi, Vol. IV, p. 242.
2- L’universo Wagneriano
Denis de Rougemont, L’amore e L’occidente, Bur, 2006, Il Mito di Tristano – p. 59-98, Le Origini del Mito p. 101-188.
3- Opera, melodramma
Paolo Fabbri, La Nascita dell’opera in Musica, in Enciclopedia della Musica, Einaudi, Vol. IV, p. 380.
Reinhard Strohm, Aria e Recitativo. Dalle Origini all’Ottocento, In Enciclopedia della Musica, Einaudi, Vol. IV p. 416.

3

Dal Sociale al Globale

1-Sociologia della musica.

Theodor W. Adorno, Introduzione alla Sociologia della Musica, (Einaudi, 1971), capitolo 1, 1-20.

2- Etnomusicologia

Barz, Gregory and Timothy J. Cooley. 2008. Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. 2nd Edition. Introduction: Casting Shadows: Fieldwork Is Dead! Long Live Fieldwork!, by Timothy J. Cooley and Gregory Barz, 3-24.

3-Etnomusicologia Italiana e Studi post-coloniali

Diego Carpitella, “Ethnomusicology in Italy”, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1974, Vol. 11, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Folklore Studies in Italy, pp. 81-98.

Georgina Born and Desmond Hesmondhalgh, Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 2000), introduzione, 1-58.

4

Storiografia


1-Il tempo, la musica e la storia: puntellare le Fondamenta.
Carl Dahlhaus, Foundations of Music History, trans. J. B. Robinson (Cambridge, 1983), capitoli 2-3 (‘The significance of art’ & ‘What is a fact of music history?’), 19-43.

2-Futuri storiografici.

Gary Tomlinson, ‘Music, Anthropology, History’, in Richard Middleton, ed., The Cultural Study of Music, 59-72

3-L'ultima grande narrazione.

Richard Taruskin, ‘Introduction’ from The Oxford History of Western Music (Oxford, 2004)

5

Mediatore Musicale I: il testo

1- Creazione e composizione.

Laurence Dreyfus, Bach and the Patterns of Invention (Cambridge, MA, 1996), Capitoli 1, 1-32.

Douglas Johnson, ‘Beethoven Scholars and Beethoven’s Sketches’, in 19CM 2 (1978), 3-17.

Torsten Anders and Eduardo Miranda, ‘Interfacing manual and machine composition’ Contemporary music review 28.2 (2009), 133-47.


2- Editing

a) Musica antica

Margaret Bent, ‘Editing Music: The Dilemma of Translation’, EM 22 (1994), 373-92.

b) Diciannovesimo secolo

John Rink, Chopin’s First Editions Online: www.cfeo.org.uk

3- Esecuzione Musicale

Richard Taruskin, Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance (New York, 1995), chap. 4, ‘The Pastness of the Present and the Presence of the Past’, 90-154.


6

Mediatore Musicale II: il Suono

1) Parliamo di esecuzione musicale.

Eric Clark, Nicholas Cook, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and John Rink, The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge, 2009), Introduction.

2) Incisioni discografiche e produzione musicale.

Mark Katz, Capturing Sound (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 2010), chap. 7 ‘Music in 1s and 0s: The art and politics of digital sampling’ 146-76.

Andrew Blake, ‘Recording Practices and the Role of the Producer’, Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge, 2010), 36-53.

3) Ascolto e Percezione musicale

Ian Cross, ‘Music Analysis & Music Perception’, MA 17 (1998), 3-20.

Friedrich Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford, 1999), introduzione, 1-20; capitolo 1
‘Gramophone’ (unstarred), 21-114.

Eric Clarke, Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning (Oxford, 2005), Introduction and chap.1 (‘Perception, Ecology and Music’), 3-47



7

Pop, Film e Media

1- Interazioni nella Storia

Hesmondalgh, David and Keith Negus. 2002. ‘Introduction: popular music studies: meaning, power and value,’ in Popular music studies, ed. by Hesmondalgh, David and Keith Negus. London: Arnold.


2- Pop versus Avant-Garde

Susan McClary, ‘Terminal Prestige: The Case of Avant-Garde Music Composition’, in Cultural Critique 12 (1989), 57-81.

Franco Fabbri and Iain Chambers, What kind of Music? Popular Music, 1982, Vol. 2, Theory and Method (1982), pp. 131-143.

Jacopo Tomatis, Storia Culturale della Canzone Italiana, Il Saggiatore, 2019, capitolo 6, 329-388.

3- Film e Multimedia

Michel Chion, Audio-Vision: Sound and Screen, ed. and trans. C. Gorbman (New York, 1994), chaps. 1-4 (3-94).

Nicholas Cook, Analysing Musical Multimedia (Oxford, 2000), capitoli 3 e 6, ‘Models of Multimedia’, ‘Reading Film and Rereading Opera’.



8

Filosofia, Estetica

1- Espressione e autonomia della musica

Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works (Oxford, 1992), esp. Introduction and chap.4.

2- La Tradizione Occidentale e il significato della musica

Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on music, painting, and the arts (New York, 2003), part 1, 13-76.

Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility,’ in The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility And Other Writings on Media, ed. Michael W Jennings, Brigid Doherty and Thomas Levin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2008), 19-55.

Slavoj Zizek, ‘‘There is no Sexual Relationship’: Wagner as a Lacanian’, in New German Critique 69 (1996), 7-35

David Clarke, ‘Elvis and Darmstadt, or: Twentieth-Century Music and the Politics of Cultural Pluralism’, in twentieth-century music 4 (2007), 3-45.

3- Previsioni in Musica

J. J. Nattiez, Unità della Musica… unità della musicologia? A mo’ di Conclusione, Enciclopedia della Musica, Einaudi, Vol. V, p. 1199-1210.

The course presents a series of preparatory lessons aimed at defining the guidelines of the history of contemporary art. In particular, preparatory lessons are planned to define the guidelines of the history of contemporary art from impressionism to the most recent experiences. During the lessons we provide, through the analysis of some basic figures and joints, the contexts, the foundational texts, the works, the main interpretations that allow the student an adequate approach to the problems of contemporary art, to its fundamental concepts , to the protagonists, to the new languages, to the new hermeneutical models involved, to the new technologies.
The course will be spend particular attention to praxis of art towards environmental trespassing, the aspiration to transform itself into a practice that is hybrid with the space of everyday life, and to the relationship between art and architecture, between art and environment and landscape (city and nature) during the 20th and 21th centuries.

1. D. Riout, L’arte del ventesimo secolo, Einaudi, 2002
2. N. Bourriaud, Inclusioni. Estetica del capitalocene, Postmedia Books, 2020
3. E. Cristallini, Dialoghi tra arte e architettura negli anni della ricostruzione. 1945-1955, Gangemi, 2017
4. E. Cristallini (a cura di), L’arte fuori dal museo, Gangemi, 2008
5. P. Mania, R. Petrilli, E. Cristallini, Arte sui muri della città, Round Robin Editrice, 2017

Literature and cultural studies: the literary space in gastronomic culture studies.

Gian Mario Anselmi, Literary banquets, Carocci
Daniela de Liso, Wine Literature, Franco Cesati editor

-Orality and writing. The history of man and the communicative artefact, means of communication and social transformations.
-The roots of the modern: birth of metropolitan civilization and consumer aesthetics, archeology of mass communication media (1800-1850).
-Advent of the technical reproducibility of the work of art, development of the means of mass communication and audiovisual, progressive transformations of literature and society (1850-1900).
-From the historical avant-gardes to the birth of the modern collective imagination (1900-1930).
-Growth and deconstruction of the mass culture industry, information, education, entertainment. Redefinition of public opinion (1930-1970).
-Transformation of cultural policies and of the generalist media system, advent of neo-television (1970-1980).
-Birth and development of new interactive media, spread of information technology and telematics, relationship between technological innovation, knowledge models and social relations.
The society of networks. Convergent culture (1980-2020).

1. A. Abruzzese, P. Mancini, Sociologie della comunicazione, Laterza, Roma 2007
(ISBN 978-88-420-8484-6), tutto il volume per un totale di pagine 265.

2.
G. Fiorentino, Dalla parte del suono. Radio, Sud e Mediterraneo 1943-1978, Settecittà, Viterbo 2018 (ISBN ISBN 978-88-7853-827-6)
G. Fiorentino, Il flaneur e lo spettatore. La fotografia dallo stereoscopio all'immagine digitale, con testi di C. Baudelaire e O. W. Holmes, Franco Angeli, Milano 2014 (ISBN 9788891708960); o in alternativa, G. Fiorentino, Il sogno dell'immagine. Per un'archeologia fotografica dello sguardo. Benjamin, Rauschenberg e Instagram, Meltemi, Milano 2019 (ISBN 8855190571).

3.
M. Pireddu, M. Serra, a cura di, Mediologia. Una disciplina attraverso i suoi classici, Liguori, Napoli 2012 (ISBN 978-88-207-5601-7).

The course is divisible in two modules (each one with 24 hours). The first module “Per una storia dell’arte medievale dal tardo-antico al gotico internazionale (secoli IV-XIV)” offers a basic knowledge of medieval art history. The detailed module offers a deepen knowledge on some specific monumental context in Rome (Santi Cosma e Damiano, Santa Sabina, Santa Prassede, San Clemente, Santi Quattro Coronati, San Giovanni in Laterano e Sancta Sanctorum, Santa Maria in Ara Coeli) and in Viterbo (Santa Maria in Gradi, San Francesco alla Rocca, San Sisto, San Lorenzo)
The lections will be supported with exercises, seminars and visits to some monumental places, visits to a library for manuscript conservation (Biblioteca degli Ardenti, Viterbo), to museums (Museo Civico in Viterbo) and to exhibitions.

Exam texts (for students that take part to the lessons)

A. Pinelli, Le ragioni della bellezza, 2. Dalla tarda antichità a Giotto, Loescher editore, 2012.

You can request a pdf of the text to Dr Chiara Paniccia chiara.paniccia@unitus.it

Non-attending students are invited to agree the examination programme with the lecturer.

The course and the relative exam focus on the institutional part, that is the knowledge of the artistic events in Italy in the period 1400-1799.
Starting from themes of wide horizons, such as the history of art history and touching on the current orientations of the discipline, the first part of the course will propose the periodization of the subject and the different ways of investigating images, with openings also to artistic literature and in particular to the role of Giorgio Vasari, 'father of the discipline'. This introductory section will be followed by a series of readings of works of art that, due to their chronology, will follow the development of the discipline from the beginning of the 15th century to the last decades of the 18th century.
Direct knowledge of works of art and monuments will be encouraged through site trips.
However, it must be remembered that the preparation of the institutional part is inevitably based on the study of manuals by the students.
Attendance is not mandatory, even though strongly recommended, and the exam program is the same regardless of attendance. However, the partecipation to site and guided tours shouldn't be missed.

Salvatore Settis, Tomaso Montanari, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile. 3 Dal Quattrocento alla Controriforma (intero volume); 4 Dal Barocco all'Impressionismo (fino a p. 259), Torino, Einaudi Scuola, 2019.
Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite... (ed. 1550), ed. a cura di Luciano Bellosi e Aldo Rossi, Torino, Einaudi, 1986 (ed. edizioni successive), pp. 539-544 (proemio alla terza parte delle Vite).*


NB. The texts marked with an asterisk are available in the library and in pdf format in the dropbox dedicated to the course.

We will carefully study not only the history, but also the documents on wich medievals historians work to reconstructe it.

1) per i frequentanti: A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Torino, UTET, 2016.
2) per i non frequentanti tutti e due i testi indicati : 1) A. Zorzi, Manuale di storia medievale, Torino, UTET, 2016
2) C. Wickham, L'Europa nel Medioevo, Roma 2020.

University of Tuscia

DISUCOM

Prof. Carlo Serafini

Contemporary Italian Literature (L-FIL-LET-11)

L-10 - 8 CFU - a.y. 2021-2022


Poetry and prose in Italian literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

The course examines the main authors and literary movements of poetry and fiction in the twentieth century and the first twenty years of the twenty-first century. We will focus in particular on the historical avant-gardes, the birth of the modern novel, the forms of realism and fiction between the two wars, the fantastic-surrealist and comic vein, the literature of the war, Neorealism, "The Polytechnic", relationships between literature and the new Italy of reconstruction and well-being, the neo-avant-garde, Group 63, the forms of the Postmodern. The literature of the first two decades of the 21st century will be analyzed with a view to the radical transformation of society in terms of communication and relationship with tradition.

Bibliography:

Students will have to demonstrate knowledge of the history of twentieth century literature, to be prepared on FLORIANA CALITTI (edited by), The life of the texts. (vol.3.2. Path of the poetry of the twentieth century + Path of the fiction of the twentieth century) Zanichelli, Bologna 2015. Of the manual, students will have to study the chapters relating to:
POETRY: Historical profile of the twentieth century, Path of twentieth century poetry, Futurism, Palazzeschi, Campana, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Penna, Caproni, Group 63, Merini, Magrelli.
NARRATIVE: Path of twentieth century prose, Svevo, Pirandello, Tozzi, Calvino, Pasolini, Gadda, Palazzeschi, Moravia, Buzzati, Pavese, Landolfi, Vittorini, P. Levi, Morante, Bassani, Sciascia, Bianciardi, Tondelli.

Students will have to read the novel by Isabella Becherucci, Gli amici di Brusuglio, Perrone publisher, Rome 2021

Students NOT ATTENDING, in addition to the above program, will have to read two novels (one per author) among those by the authors listed below: Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi, Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luciano Bianciardi, Umberto Eco.

Teacher reception: before and after lessons or by appointment to be agreed via email

Teacher contact: carlo.serafini@unitus.it

Floriana Calitti (edited by), The life of the texts. (vol.3.2. Path of twentieth century poetry + Path of twentieth century fiction) Zanichelli, Bologna 2015.

Isabella Becherucci, The friends of Brusuglio, Perrone publisher, Rome 2021