Università Roma Tre

French literature of the sixteenth century. The course will explore mid-century poetry and late-century non-fiction prose, addressing the main hubs of sixteenth-century literary civilization.

Lagarde et Michard, XVIe Siècle, Bordas;
Storia europea della letteratura francese, vol. I: Lionello Sozzi, Il Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi, PBE, 2013

Montaigne, Essais I,II,III. Edizione consigliata: Bompiani, “Classici della letteratura europea”, a cura di F. Garavini e A. Tournon, con testo tradotto a fronte, 2012

a) The contents of the course (as indicated in the three thematic groups in point c) will be made comprehensible for all students, both those attending and not attending, thanks to the continuous alternation between French and Italian;

b) The course will be carefully set out according to the number of credits assigned;

c) The course will address three topics: a first part dedicated to the history of the sixteenth century with a particular focus on the geographical discoveries, the religious wars inside and outside Christianity and French Renaissance; a second part will examine some of the authors of the Pléiade; in the third and final part we will discuss some poetic reading through a close analysis of the text.

Attention please! The program has been modified. "Ronsard, Gli amori, Mondadori" has been removed.
So, you have to present only four books:

C. Vivanti, Le guerre di religione nel Cinquecento, Laterza, 2007

F. Braudel, Espansione europea e capitalismo (1450-1650), Il Mulino, 1999

Du Bellay, Rimpianti, Dedalus, 2014

Du Bellay, Le antichità di Roma, Carocci, 2005