First semester.
Hours: 6 hours/week, for 6 weeks: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Monday 3 October 2022. End of the course: November 2022.

Course title 2022-2023: Paul after Paul. Creation and transformation of an apocryphal text: the Third Letter to the Corinthians.

Class recordings will be available to students, who meet the requirements (physical frailty, employment contract, socio-economic frailty, imprisonment), who request them.

The course aims to deepen - from the perspective of historico-literary, historico-doctrinal and history-of-reception investigation - a Pauline apocryphal work: the Correspondence between Paul and the Corinthians, known as the Third Letter to the Corinthians. In it, the anonymous author writes on Paul's behalf a text in which the apostle is made to return to a theme already dealt with in the authentic First Letter to the Corinthians: faith in the resurrection of the dead. The work well exemplifies the phenomenon of apostolic pseudepigraphy and issues related to the formation of the Christian canon of Scripture; it is also an excellent case study on research methodologies applied to proto-Christian texts.
The course has a seminar character and involves the active participation of students.

Lecture materials (including critical editions of texts read in class) will be provided by the teacher.

General section.
For students who have never taken an exam in Ancient Christian Literature: M. SIMONETTI - E. PRINZIVALLI, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, Bologna: EDB, 2010.
For students who have already taken exams in Ancient Christian Literature: H.Y. GAMBLE, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Brescia: Paideia, 2006.

First semester.
Hours: 6 hours/week, for 6 weeks: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Monday 14 November 2022.

Course title 2022-2023: Preparing the critical edition of an apocryphal work: the Latin tradition of the Third Letter to the Corinthians.

Class recordings will be available to students, who meet the requirements (physical frailty, employment contract, socio-economic frailty, imprisonment), who request them.

The course aims to investigate a case study, from a philological perspective: the Latin tradition of a Christian apocryphal work, the so-called Third Letter to the Corinthians. This work (also the subject of the course in Ancient Christian Literature 2022-2023, under a different study perspective), originally composed in Greek, presents a singular tradition in Latin, which attests to the existence of two distinct ancient versions. The course, a seminar format with the active participation of students, will be a true workshop in which, with the collaboration of all participants, an attempt will be made to produce a critical edition of this tradition.

Lecture materials will be provided by the teacher.

General part:
R. MAISANO, Filologia del Nuovo Testamento. La tradizione e la trasmissione dei testi, Roma: Carocci, 2014;
or, for students who have never taken an exam in Classical Philology: P .CHIESA, Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione, Bologna: Pàtron, 2012.

Jews and Romans in the 1st century AD

The course is aimed at an in-depth analysis of the ways in which Rome has organized its government on the Near East. Particular attention will be paid to the history of Palestine in the 1st century AD. The reading of the Jewish War by Josephus and other contemporary texts will allow students to acquire adequate information on the problems of the Jewish society of the period.

Flavio Giuseppe- La guerra giudaica, a cura di Giovanni Vitucci, Mondadori Editore, Milano 1982.
Giulio Firpo, Le rivolte giudaiche, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1999
Linda Marie Günther- Erode il Grande, Salerno
Editrice, Roma 2007

Pierfrancesco PORENA, Latin Epigraphy (Master degree) (36 hours - 6 ECTS)
DISCIPLINARY FIELD: L-ANT/03

“From Turia to Paulina. Latin inscriptions about Roman women. Voices of Roman women in Latin inscriptions”.

Roman women emerge in our sources mainly through the point of view of men, who attempted to standardise them in Latin and Greek learned literature in prose and verse, and in legal literature. But the communicative density of Latin inscriptions conceals and reveals, as in a game of the said and unsaid, the richness of the Roman female universe. An immense and long-lived universe, populated by aristocrats, Roman citizens and foreigners, slaves and freedwomen, children, wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, old women and widows. Beneath a supeficially immobile reality, epigraphy whispers instincts and draws asymmetrical sensibilities in perpetual tension between submission to fathers, the inevitable reproductive duty, and the evolution of a society in which even men were prisoners of unquestionable models.

Attending Students: Handouts (PDFs) and materials provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course and during the lessons.

Non-attending Students:
- A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, NUOVA EDIZIONE, Roma (Carocci) 2020 (contiene link con la traduzione italiana dei testi epigrafici esaminati). [mandatory];
- Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica, edited by R. Friggeri, M.G. Granino Cecere, G. Gregori, Milan (Electa) 2012 [757 pp. - € 46,00]: mandatory study of Room I + 4 Rooms of your choice.
Exercises: Visit to the 'Epigraphic Collection' (The Museum of Written Communication in the Roman World) of the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

Texts for specific non-attending programmes can be agreed with the teacher.

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States of Nature: Desire and Need from Plato to Modern Philosophy.
The course aims to consider the philosophical anthropology underlying conceptions of the state of nature in modernity. Its aim is to focus on desire and need as two different drivers of the transition from the state of nature to civil society.

- Plato, The Symposium [any edition]
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part One [any edition]
- D. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, Book III. On Morals [any edition]
- K. Marx, "Forms preceding capitalist production", in Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Grundrisse) [photocopies provided by the professor]

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The audience has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.
On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.
The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.

To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.

The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• M. Bellocchio, Henry IV (1984)

Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.

Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

The "radical evil" in Kant.
Reading and comment of "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason" of Immanuel Kant

I. Kant, "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason", (any edition)
K. Jaspers, "Il male radicale in Kant", morcelliana, Brescia 2011

The course aims to offer:
(1) an introduction to the Hellenistic world (2 lessons);
(2) an introduction to the world of the Greek poleis at that time and to the new phenomenon of royalty (2 lessons);
(3) in-depth lessons on the relationship between poleis and sovereigns (5 lessons);
(4) in-depth lessons on the hellenistic poleis’ political institutions (in the aspects of continuity and evolution), the role of the élite, and the intense mutual interconnection between poleis, made of diplomatic relations, exchange of honors and judges, recognition of syngeneia, common participation in cults (9-10 lessons);
(5) the presentation by the students of some topics related to the course and agreed with the teacher.

The topics will be addressed taking into account literary, epigraphic, archaeological and iconographic sources.
During the lessons an introduction to the main databases of Greek literary texts and inscriptions and to the most important bibliographic research tools will also be made.

A) M. Mari (a cura di), L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2019 (intero volume).
B) J. Ma, “Peer Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic Age”, P&P, 180, 9-40.
C) A. Chaniotis, “The Divinity of Hellenistic Ruler”, in A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003, 431-445.
D) L. Moretti, La scuola, il ginnasio, l’efebia, in R. Bianchi Bandinelli (dir.), Storia e civiltà dei Greci, 8. La società ellenistica. Economia, diritto, religione, Milano 1977, 469-490.
E) Two essays chosen from the following ones:
- essays by John Ma, Riet van Bremen, Patrice Baker, David Potter in A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003;
- Chr. Müller, “Oligarchy and the Hellenistic City”, in H. Börm – N. Luraghi (eds.), The Polis in the Hellenistic World, Stuttgart, F. Steiner Verlag, 2018, 27-52.
F) Material provided by the teacher.

The distinction between synthetic and analytic judgements in Immanuel Kant's theory of knowledge will be analysed, and then its reception and problematisation in Charles S. Peirce, Rudolf Carnap and Jean Cavaillès. Finally, some recent theoretical proposals will be considered.


The programme will be developed as follows:
- Synthetic and analytic judgements in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
- Peirce's reception of Kantian theory of knowledge
- Carnap's interpretation of analyticity
- The mathematical gesture in Jean Cavaillès and Giuseppe Longo
- Synthetic reasoning and gesture

I. Kant, Critica della ragion pura (preferibilmente edizione Bompiani, a cura di Costantino Esposito) [Introduzione e Dello schematismo dei concetti puri dell'intelletto].
C. S. Peirce, Scritti scelti, UTET, Torino 2008 [parti scelte].
R. Carnap, L’analiticità nel linguaggio osservativo e nel linguaggio teorico, in Analiticità, significanza, induzione, Il Mulino 1971.
G. Maddalena, Filosofia del gesto. Un nuovo uso per pratiche antiche, Carocci 2021.
G. Baggio, Lo schematismo trascendentale e il problema della sintesi tra senso, segno e gesto. Un'interpretazione pragmatista, in “Spazio filosofico”, 1/2018, pp. 83-99.
A text to select from:
J. Cavaillès, Sulla logica e la teoria della scienza, Mimesis 2006
G. Longo, Nella gestualità umana nelle prove e l'incompletezza del formalismo. In Id., Matematica e senso, Mimesis 2021

Recommended texts

R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti. Il pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci 2015
J.-M. C. Chevalier, Peirce’s relativization of the analytic vs. synthetic dichotomy, in BLITYRI, IX, 2, 2020
R. Hanna, The Return of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction, in “Paradigmi”, 2012, fascicolo 1, pp. 19-68.

The course will present and discuss some fundamental questions of contemporary moral philosophy. The course is divided into four parts, respectively focusing on themes in (1) moral psychology (investigating how people make moral decisions and judgments); (2) ethics (investigating what ought to be done from a moral point of view); applied ethics (investigating how general moral principles ought to be applied to specific areas of practical life); (4) metaethics (investigating the nature and meaning of moral belies and values).
Among the themes that will be discussed: free will and moral responsibility, moral luck, objectivism and relativism of morals, normativity, end of life issues. The goal of the course is that students learn to easily navigate the contemporary debate in moral philosophy, gaining an in-depth knowledge of some of its most important topics and methods.

FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. Mario De Caro, Sergio Filippo Magni, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (2021), Le Sfide dell'etica, Mondadori Università.
2. Booklet provided by the instructor with short excerpts from various essays and articles, including: H. Frankfurt (1969), Possibilità alternative e responsabilità morale; T. Nagel (1979), Sorte morale; D. Davidson (1970), Com'è possibile la debolezza della volontà?

FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. Mario De Caro, Sergio Filippo Magni, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (2021), Le Sfide dell'etica, Mondadori Università.
2. Booklet provided by the instructor with short excerpts from various essays and articles, including: H. Frankfurt (1969), Possibilità alternative e responsabilità morale; T. Nagel (1979), Sorte morale; D. Davidson (1970), Com'è possibile la debolezza della volontà?
3. Luca Fonnesu (2018), Storia dell'etica contemporanea, Carocci (parts listed by the instructor).

This course aims at giving the students the basic concepts of applied ethics and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WRITE THE PAPER (ON WHICH SEE THE SECTION "PROGRAMMA DELL'INSEGNAMENTO" AND WILL PASS THE PRE-EXAM AT THE END OF THE COURSE:

1. Photocopies of articles that the instructor will put on Moodle
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (the second part only)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza


FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT PASS THE PRE-EXAM
1. Article by John Searle: https://download.kataweb.it/mediaweb/pdf/espresso/scienze/1990_259_1.pdf
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (chs. 11-18)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza (entire book)

The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Durkheim, Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.D.1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (limitedly to chapters 1,2,5)
2. Beate Krais, Gunter Gebauer, Habitus, Rome, Armando, 2009.
U.D.2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine (1876), ed. D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4.Charles S. Peirce, Il fissarsi della credenza (1877), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 357-371.
5. Charles S. Peirce, Come chiarire le nostre idee (1878), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 377-393.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).

The course will focus on Bernard de Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. In particular, it will highlight the features that made it a favourite target of the arrows of philosophers such as Berkeley, Hutcheson, Hume, Rousseau and Smith, who were also often influenced by it: hedonism in general and the rehabilitation of "lust", the anti-Christian polemic, the deconstruction of traditional morals.

Bernard de Mandeville, Fable of the Bees, Oxford, ed. by F.B. Kaye

The course aims to show the relationship between activity and passivity of consciousness analyzing the concepts of perception, affectivity, unconscious, interest, association, judgment in Husserl.

Edmund Husserl, Lessons on Passive Synthesis, La Scuola, 2016.
Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology of the Unconscious, Udine, Mimesis 2021

The course will focus on Plotinus' account of eternity and time in his treatise III.7.
Plotinus' text will be explained in detail and the following issues will be considered:
1: Plotinus' method of inquiry
2: Eternity and the intelligible realm
3: Time, soul and the physical world.

a] Plotino, Sull'eternità e il tempo, in Enneadi di Plotino, a cura di M. Casaglia, C. Guidelli, A. Linguiti, F. Moriani, vol. 1, UTET, Torino 1997, pp. 471-498.
A. H. Armstrong (ed. and trans.), Plotinus, vol. 3, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1967, pp. 293-355.

[b] R. Chiaradonna, Plotino, Carocci, Roma 2009 (più volte ristampato).
R. Chiaradonna, Eternity and Time, in L.P. Gerson and J. Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, CUP, Cambridge 2022, pp. 267-288.
P. Kalligas, The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary, vol. 1, trans. E. K. Fowden and N. Pilavachi, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2014, pp. 577-620 (Commento a: III 7. On Eternity and Time).
S.K. Strange, ‘Plotinus on the Nature of Eternity and Time’, in L. Schrenk (ed.), Aristotle in Late Antiquity, Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 22–53.


[c] Students are required to prepare a paper in Italian or English (3.000 words) about one of the following topics:

[i] Plotinus' Method of inquiry in III.7
Bibliografia: ai testi elencati nel programma d’esame, sezioni [a] e [b] va aggiunto il seguente articolo:
A. Cornea, ‘Athroa epibolê: On an Epicurean Formula in Plotinus’ Work’, in A. Longo and D. P. Taormina (eds.), Plotinus and Epicurus: Matter, Perception, Pleasure, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, pp. 177–188.
A. Michalewski, ‘Plotinus on the Conception of Time (ennoia chronou): A Re-Examination of Enn. 3.7(45).12’, Méthexis 33, 2021, pp. 151–169.
R. Chiaradonna, ‘Athroa Epibolê: Galen as a Source for Plotinus, 3.7(45)’, Méthexis 34, 2022, pp. 109-118.

[ii] Eternity and the intelligible world
Bibliografia: ai testi elencati nel programma d’esame, sezioni [a] e [b] vanno aggiunti i seguenti articoli:
L. Karfíková, ‘Eternity According to Plotinus, Enn. III,7’, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 58 (2), 2011, pp. 437–452.
J. Wilberding, ‘Eternity in Ancient Philosophy’, in Y. Melamed (ed.), Eternity: A History, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016, pp. 14–55.

[iii] Time, soul and the physical world
Bibliografia: ai testi elencati nel programma d’esame, sezioni [a] e [b] vanno aggiunti i seguenti articoli:
R. Chiaradonna, ‘Il tempo misura del movimento? Plotino e Aristotele (Enn. III 7 [45])’, in M. Bonazzi and F. Trabattoni (eds.), Platone e la tradizione platonica: Studi di filosofia antica, Cisalpino, Milano 2003, pp. 221–250.
R.W. Sharples, ‘Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Time’, Phronesis 27 (1), 1982, pp. 58–81.
F. Karfík, ‘Le temps et l’âme chez Plotin: À propos des Ennéades VI 5 [23] 11; IV 4 [28] 15–16; III 7 [45] 11’, Elenchos 33 (2), 2012, pp. 227–257.

The thought of Thomas Aquinas in the contemporary philosophical debate.

Tommaso d’Aquino, La conoscenza di Dio, Fabbri Editori, RCS, Milano, 2001.
S. L. Brock, Percorsi di sapienza naturale. Dodici lezioni sulla metafisica di San Tommaso, Edusc, Roma, 2022.
L. Messinese, Il filosofo e la fede, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2022.
B. Ippolito, "DETRONIZZARE LA VERITA'?, Forum, Vol. 7, 2021, pp. 147–168.
M. Micheletti, “IL CONTRIBUTO DEL TOMISMO ANALITICO ALLA FILOSOFIA CONTEMPORANEA. DALL'ANTROPOLOGIA ALLA TEOLOGIA NATURALE E AL DIBATTITO SULL'ONTOLOGIA.” Divus Thomas, vol. 117, no. 2, 2014, pp. 110–175.
M. Marassi, “IL PROBLEMA DEL FONDAMENTO NEI CONTRIBUTI DELLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA»: A MARGINE DELLA PIÙ FAMOSA DISPUTA.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 323–348.
D. Sacchi, “LA PRESENZA DI GUSTAVO BONTADINI SULLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA» NELLA SECONDA METÀ DEL NOVECENTO.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 217–284.

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: Corsair Wars, slavery, conversions" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, free download here: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Students who have to take only 6 ECTS are required to prepare on the first teaching unit.

The course will present and discuss basic notions of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research fields at the interplay between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the course will focus on the topic of moral cognition, investigating the basis of moral reasoning, motivation, choice, and judgment.

Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze texts
- Capacity to navigate the contemporary debate on the bases and mechanisms of moral cognition
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (selected parts);
2 – M. Tomasello (2016) Storia naturale della morale umana, Raffaello Cortina Editore;
3 – Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: F. Nietzsche (2017) Genealogia della morale, Adelphi; A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.

FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (whole text);
2 – M. Tomasello (2016) Storia naturale della morale umana, Raffaello Cortina Editore;
3 – Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: F. Nietzsche (2017) Genealogia della morale, Adelphi; A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.

The classes will focus on the notions of ‘individuation’ and 'principle of individuation’ in medieval and late medieval thought, taking this issue in its main historical and theoretical coordinates. In particular, it dwells on the relationship between the problem of the individuation and those of the metaphysical status of universals, of the nature of primary substance, as well as of the form-matter composition. Special attention will be paid to the solutions of Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Pedro da Fonseca, and Francisco Suárez, in order to ideally conclude with some references to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The specific doctrines of these authors will be considered both dealing with their metaphysical, logical and theological premises and by accurate textual analysis.

• A selection of excerpts from Porphyry, Bonventura, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Pedro da Fonseca and Francisco Suárez
• J. J. E. Gracia (ed.), Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650. New York: SUNY Press, 1994.
• Th. Noone, Universals and Individuation, In Th. Williams (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Giovanni Duns Scoto, Il principio di individuazione, a cura di A. D’Angelo, Il Mulino: Bologna 2011.
• J. J. E. Gracia (ed.), Introduction, in Suarez on Individuation: Metaphysical Disputation V: Individual Unity and its Principle, Marquette University Press, 1982.
• S. Di Bella, Tota sua entitate. Suarez and Leibniz on Individuation, in M. Sgarbi (ed.), Francisco Suarez and His Legacy. The Impact of Suarezian Metaphysics and Epistemology on Modern Philosophy, Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2010.
• S. Di Bella, Il fantasma dell'ecceità. Leibniz, Scoto e il principio d'individuazione, Quaestio, 8 (2008).

Students who are unable to attend, must carefully study at least one of the following critical works:

• J. J. E. Gracia, Introduction to the Problem of Individuation in the Early Middle Ages, Muenchen-Wien: Philosophia Verlag, 1984.
• O Boulnois, Lire le Principe d’individuation de Duns Scot, Paris: Vrin, 2014.
• P.-N. Mayaud, (coor.), Le Probleme de l'individuation, Paris: Vrin, 1992.
• Pietro Abelardo, I commenti all'Isagoge di Porfirio, a cura di S. Follini, Milano: Mimesis 2022, pp. 9-175, 217-273, 729-743.

The course of Didactics of Geography, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretative of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualize the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
Topics of the course: Geographic knowledge in teaching and research; Developing geographical skills; Geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; Geography teaching in schools and universities; National guidelines and textbooks; Geotechnology and teaching; Simulation of didactic units.

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giorda C. (a cura di), L’immagine del mondo nella geografia dei bambini. Una ricerca sui materiali scolastici e parascolastici italiani fra Otto e Novecento, Franco Angeli, 2021 (Available in open access: https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/683)
• Papers suggested by Professor.

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social and cultural meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the collective and public memories of controversial events, arenas where gender identities, ethnicity and social classes are socially constructed.
The first part of the course will aim at studying artistic production and politics of cultural consumption. It will focus on the following topics: theories of the "author's death", theories of reception, art as social practice, the institutional definitions of artistic value, cases of " non-recognition " and plagiarism, politics of genius, canonization and practices of social exclusion, theories of cultural capital, relationship between art and advertising, the role of social media in the production of artistic reputations and in relation to the "arts worlds", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: art and the public sphere, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the cinema in shaping the public memory of very contested pasts, sociology of museums and politics of museum exhibition, representation of ethnic identities in museums, museums as technology of gender, multimedia arts.

1) Anna Lisa Tota e Antonietta De Feo (2019), Sociologia delle arti. Musei, memoria e performance digitali, Carocci, Roma.
2) Anna Lisa Tota, Lia Luchetti e Trever Hagen (2018) (a cura di) Sociologie della memoria. Verso un’ecologia del passato, Carocci, Roma.

The first part of the course is dedicated to the transformations taking place within the modern public and political scene and to the most relevant theoretical contributions in political communication. The main areas of transformation of Italian political communication and its actors and the evolution of electoral campaigns will be examined.
The second part, dedicated to visual politics, analyzes the history and evolution of political graphics and aesthetic codes of Italian political propaganda from 1945 to today and the contacts and influences with the main artistic currents. This part includes the analysis and study of new aesthetics related to the spread of digital communication and the use of social networks.
An integral part of the course is the viewing and analysis of a wide range of original audiovisual propaganda materials such as films, commercials, television programs, posters, and web cards, which constitute teaching materials and the subject of examination.
In the case of electoral campaigns during the teaching period, it is possible to activate their monitoring by involving the students actively and directly.

Syllabus
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- E. Novelli. I Manifesti Politici, Carocci, Roma 2021, forthcoming, available from October 2021
- P. Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020

Participation in the "Laboratory for the design and analysis of platforms and digital archives", if not registered in the curriculum as "external activities" (equivalent to 3 CFU), exempts from Gerbaudo's book.

* The following websites and Tv programmes contain materials and documents illustrated in class and have to be considered audiovisual supports of the course:
–www.archivispotpolitici.it
– www.politicaltalkshow.it
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2010/07/Mi-consenta---I-politici-e-la-Tv---La-Grande-Storia-7ed9b459-9b06-41c5-8fd4-0bd9a3f997f3.html

The course is divided in two parts: the first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia;
- Il potere nella società in rete
- La comunicazione nell'età digitale
- Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

The course deals with the analysis of images. It refers specifically to the social factors intervening in the construction of their meanings. The first part of the course will provide analytical and methodological tolls to the students in order to analyse the images and, more specifically, the photos (referring above all to the theories of Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag). The second part of the course will focus on the social and public use of images, especially in relation to photos of controversial pasts (wars, natural disasters, violence, terroristic attacks). The course will be divided into five teaching modules: (1) What is photography? Theories and methods; (2) The “stories” of photography, the photographs of history; (3) Gender and race in advertising image ; (4) Photography and memory from analog to digital; (5) Visual communication and violence. The course will have an interactive structure, in which students will be asked to actively participate through short presentations, the sharing of images, and the collective interpretation of the visual materials presented by the teacher.

The exam will be based on the reading of the following texts:
1) Roland Barthes (1979), La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino.
2) Roland Barthes (1964), Image-Music-Text. (Translation 1977), capitolo II, “The Rhetoric of the Image”. S. Heath, ed. London: Fontana, pp. 32-51.
3) Susan Sontag (1973), On Photography, Capitolo I, "In Plato's Cave”, Rosetta Books, New York, pp. 1-19.
4) David Bate (2017), Il primo libro di fotografia, Capitolo 7 "Fotografia e Arte", Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi,Torino, pp. 193-211.
5) Barbie Zelizer (2004), “The Voice of the Visual in Memory”, in Phillips R. Kendall (ed.), Framing Public Memory, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, pp. 157-186.
6) Anna Lisa Tota (2013), “A Photo that Matter: The Memorial Clock in Bologna and its Invented Tradition”, in Olga Shevchenko (ed.), Double Exposure: Memory and Photography, Transaction Publishers, Piscaway, pp. 41-64.
7) Susie Linfield (2013), La luce crudele. Fotografia e violenza politica, Contrasto Edizioni, Roma, pp. 10-46.
8) Merskin, Debra (2004), “Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising”. American Behavioral Scientist 48, pp. 119-128.

Students will also have access the teaching materials used by the teacher (power points and images) and a series of suggested readings, whose reading is optional.

All materials are available on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it on the teacher's personal page.

RUSSIA, AN EMPIRE
The course will focus on empire as a peculiar element of continuity in contemporary Russian history despite the radical changes that the country has undergone. The unique characteristics of Russia’s imperial model will be analyzed in its various forms and manifestations, along with the diverse political strategies of Russian governors between 1800 and 1900s, from the Russian Empire through the USSR to the Russian Federation. The national question, the broader geographical dimension, the forms of government, foreign policies and international geopolitical visions will be studied in depth. The different imperial ideologies will also be examined.

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.
3. Gian Piero Piretto, Gli occhi di Stalin. La cultura visuale sovietica nell'era staliniana, Milano, Raffello Cortina Editore, 2010

The program includes a historical introduction to the formation of public opinion and mass culture in the twentieth century.
The second part of the course will deal with the Italian case, in particular with the role of television in the formation of public opinion and mass culture.
Finally, the third part will be dedicated to American mass culture, compared with "other" mass cultures, especially the Soviet one.

Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv, Carocci, Milano 2019
Alberto Mario Banti, Wonderland. La cultura di massa da Walt Disney ai Pink Floyd, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017
During the lessons further in-depth texts will be indicated.

“I will made of it, istead of a tragedy, a comic play”: Plautus’ Amphitruo. In the course a literary setting of the comedy will be offered, toghether with a close reading of the latin text, with italian interpretation and a full commentary, paying particular attention to the aspects of staging and poetical shape (models, metrics, style).

- Tito Maccio Plauto, Anfitrione, a cura di R. Oniga. Introduzione di M. Bettini, ed. Marsilio; or: Plautus, Amphitruo, ed. by D. M. Christenson, Cambridge University Press.
- Plauto, Molière, Kleist, Giraudoux, Anfitrione. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di L. Pasetti, ed. Marsilio.

Course title:
Monastic traditions of the Latin West: the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville

Course description:
The monographic module intends in the first place to retrace the origins and typologies of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the lexicon and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville, a text that has not been studied so far, but due to one of the greatest auctoritates of medieval culture. - As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at guiding the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.

1. Isidorus Hispalensis, Regula monachorum, ed. J. Campos Ruiz, in: Santos Padres españoles, II : San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda. Los tres libros de las ‘Sentencias’, Madrid 1971 (Bibl. de Auctores Cristianos, vol. 321), pp. 90-124.

2. M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia:aspetti istituzionali strutturali e materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas S.N. III/1 (2015), pp. 55-85.
Id., Dum ad dormiendum uadunt. Note sul lessico isidoriano relativo alle tentazioni notturne dei monaci (Isid. reg. monach. 13), in Paideia LXXIII (2018), pp. 1953-1967.
Id., ‘Psalmorum spiritalia sacramenta’ : note sul lessico liturgico-rituale nella ‘Regula monachorum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas S.N. VII/1 (2019), pp. 65-83.
Id., ‘Praecepta uel instituta ... sparsim prolata’: annotazioni sul lessico disciplinare morale e spirituale della Regula monachorum di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas N.S. IX/2 (2021), 67-112.

3. F. Trisoglio, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.

4. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti:
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
- A. Rapetti, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.

Optional readings:

- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission XI (2004), pp. 205-263.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.

Early Christian buildings and the mosaic decorations in the Italian peninsula (4th-6th century)

The aim of the course is to reconstruct the diffusion and the characteristics of the mosaic production of the Early Christian buildings in the main centers of the peninsula between the 4th and 6th centuries.
The study will focus on archaeological, iconographic, stylistic and artistic issues.
The course includes visits.

Texts:
F. Bisconti, Imprese musive paleocristiane negli edifici di culto dell’Italia Meridionale, in Atti del IV Colloquio dell’Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, Palermo 9-13 dicembre 1996, Tivoli 1997, pp. 733-746.
F. Bisconti, A. Nestori, I mosaici paleocristiani di Santa Maria Maggiore negli acquerelli della collezione Wilpert, Città del Vaticano 2000.
F. Bisconti, Mosaici nel cimitero di S. Gaudioso: revisione iconografica ed approfondimenti iconologici, in Atti del VII Colloquio dell’Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, Venezia 22-25 marzo 2000, Tivoli 2001, pp. 87-98.
F. Bisconti, Interazioni tematiche e formali tra le decorazioni musive delle aule teodoriane e dei cosiddetti oratori di Aquileia, in Antichità Altoadriatiche, 62 (2006), pp. 139-154.
F. Bisconti, M. Braconi, Il mosaico parietale nella Roma paleocristiana: dalla committenza imperiale ai programmi pontifici, in XII Colloquio AIEMA, Venezia 11-15 settembre 2012, Verona 2015, pp. 47-55.
F. Bisconti, Napoli. Catacombe di S. Gennaro. Cripta dei Vescovi. Restauri ultimi, in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 91 (2015), pp. 7-34.
F. Bisconti, Mosaici cristiani della tarda antichità. Orizzonti figurativi e programmi iconografici, in G. Castiglia, Ph. Pergola (ed.), Instrumentum Domesticum. Archeologia Cristiana, temi, metodologie e cultura materiale della tarda antichità e dell’alto medioevo, Città del Vaticano 2020, pp. 483-527.

Not attending students must add:
F. Bisconti, Temi di iconografia paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000, Introduction (pp. 13-86) and a choice of 20 entries

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. M. Bombardieri - M. C. Giorda - S. Hejazi (a cura di), Capire l'islam. Mito o realtà, Brescia: Morcelliana, 2019.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

This course focuses on practice of teaching Latin language in the schools with reference to morphology, metrical analysis and prose text translation

Didactic handouts available on the teacher's online page

The "Greek Literature I LM" course is intended for students who wish to combine the deepening of their knowledge of ancient Greek with the acquisition of valid critical tools for the interpretation of literary texts. The course comprises:
(A) a series of lectures aimed at illustrating the hermeneutic perspectives of the most recent criticism in its various articulations;
(B) the reading, translation and classroom commentary of a selection of texts from Callimachus' Aetia.
Course attendance is optional. Attending students must guarantee attendance at least two-thirds of the lessons (27 out of 40 hours). There is a reduced syllabus for attending students (see section C in Bibliography).

(A) an essential bibliography will be indicated by the lecturer at the beginning of the course; (B) a translation of Callimachus' Aetia with the Greek text is required, e.g. G. B. D'Alessio, Callimachus (BUR: Milan 1996); (C) M. Fantuzzi - R. L. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (CUP: Cambridge 2004). Attending students are not required to prepare for this volume.

The Course aimed to provide a geographically wider overview of the catacombs of Italy, analysing in detail those of Umbria and Tuscany.

Bibliography will be provided during the course lessons.

Not attending students should agree a bibliography with the professor.

Early medieval sculpture in Rome: from fragment to context
In Rome, between the 8th and 9th centuries, decorative models and working practices spread that, in the same centuries and to varying degrees, characterised the architectural decoration and sculpted furnishings of cult buildings in central and northern Italy and beyond. Early medieval sculpture is a territorially extensive field of research, with uncertain chronological limits and difficult to "frame" due to the fragmentary nature of the sculptures that have come down to us out of context.
From a look at the gradual abandonment of the sculptural practice of ancient tradition; through an in-depth study of techniques and some early medieval outcomes in sculpture, the course proposes a reflection on the methods and strategies employed in the study of so-called "interwoven" sculpture. Sources and historiography; style, technique and colour; symbols and/or ornamentation; forms and functions; finally, description and documentation will be the topics of the module: a path in stages to experience how each object of study imposes on the researcher the "critical" construction of his or her instruments of investigation.

Visit to: Sant'Agnese f.le.m; Catacombe di San Sebastiano; San Clemente; Santa Prassede.
Need to know: Museo Nazionale Crypta Balbi; Museo dell'Alto Medioevo.

Bibliography:
R. Coates-Stephens, La vita delle statue nella Roma tardoantica, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 130-151

M. Prusac Lindhagen, I ritratti del V e del VI secolo, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti,Milano 2016, pp. 160-177

H. Brandenburg, Sarcofagi tardoantichi, paleocristiani e altomedievali, Atti della giornata tematica dei Seminari di Archeologia Cristiana (École Française de Rome – 8 maggio 2002), pp. 1-34

F. Bisconti, La rinascita dei sarcofagi. Alcune considerazioni alla luce dei restauri dei sarcofagi di S. Sebastiano, in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 95 (2019), pp. 11-34.

A.Ballardini, Scolpire a Roma: dalla rinuncia al 3D alla riorganizzazione delle officine, in R. Santangeli Valenzani, Roma altomedievale. Paesaggio urbano, società e cultura (secoli V - X), Roma Carocci editore, c.s.

A.Ballardini, Scultura a Roma: standards qualitativi e committenza (VIII secolo), in L’VIII secolo: un secolo inquieto, Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Cividale del Friuli, 4-7 dicembre 2008, a cura di V. Pace, Cividale del Friuli 2010, pp. 141-148.

A.Ballardini, Scultura per l’arredo liturgico nella Roma di Pasquale I: tra modelli paleocristiani e Flechtwerk, in Medioevo: arte e storia, X Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Parma, 18-22 settembre 2007, a cura di A.C. Quintavalle, Milano-Parma 2008, pp. 225-246.

A.Ballardini, Scultura in pezzi: appunti sulla scultura alto medievale di Santa Prassede, in Svmma. Revista de Cultures Medievals, 9 (2017), pp. 5-20 (https://www.raco.cat/index.php/SVMMA/article/view/328534)

A.Ballardini, Scolpire a Roma per Pasquale I (817-824)? L'oratorio di San Zenone, in S. Ammirati, A. Ballardini, G. Bordi (a cura di), Grata più delle stelle. Pasquale I e la Roma del suo tempo, vol. 2, Roma: Efesto editore (Arte in questione, 2) 2020, pp. 16-51.

Sculpting Techniques:
W.Wootton, B.Russel, P. Rockwell, 1) StoneworkingTechniques and Process 2) Stoneworking, Tools and Toolmarks, in The Art of Making in Antiquity, Stoneworking in the Roman World
(consultabile in http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/) (in particolare per gli strumenti di lavoro + video)

M. Pfanner, Marmor, Steinmetze, Bildhauer und Werkstätten. Überlegungen zur Herstellung antiken und karolinischer Marmorwerke, in K. Roth-Rubi, H. R. Sennhauser, Die Frühe Marmorskulptur Aus Dem Kloster St. Johann in Müstair, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2015, Textband, pp. 300-311 (disponibile in TRADUZIONE)

Liturgical Fornitures:
A.Ballardini, Le recinzioni presbiteriali a Roma (VI-VIII secolo): una ricognizione, in A. Adrian (éd.), Le chancel de Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Actes du colloque, (Metz, 27-29 avril 2017), Cinisello Balsano: Silvana Editoriale 2021, pp. 142-55.

A.Ballardini, M. Caperna, A Santa Prassede, nella Gerusalemme nuova. L’assetto architettonico dello spazio absidale, l’arredo e la disposizione liturgica, in C. Bordino, C. Croci, V. Sulovsky (eds.), Rome on the Borders. Visual Cultures During the Carolingian Transition, in Convivium supplementum, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2020, pp. 176-205.

The course aims to provide the essential tools to deal critically and consciously with the content and perspectives posed by the teaching of Ancient Greek in secondary school today. The lectures will follow three lines of analysis:
(A) the current normative framework governing the teaching of Greek language and literature in the secondary school;
(B) current teaching methodologies, which will be discussed on the basis of an analysis of the textbooks in use;
(C) tools for the development of didactic paths; this part of the course is organised in the form of a workshop dedicated to textual analysis (a selection of texts from the 5th to the 3rd century B.C., from Herodotus to Aristotle, will be read and commented upon) and to the development of didactic approaches (by themes, literary genres and historical-cultural contexts) with particular attention to digital resources.
Course attendance is optional. Attending students must guarantee attendance to at least two thirds of the lessons (27 out of 40 hours). A reduced syllabus is available for attending students (see section D in Bibliography).

For sections A, B and C the bibliographical material will be made available to the students by the lecturer at the beginning of the lessons; (D) one volume to be chosen from: F. Carta Piras, Didactics of Greek Language and Literature. Materiali per la didattica del greco e per la funzione docente (Sandhi: Ortacesus 2011); L. Canfora - U. Cardinale (eds.), Disegnare il futuro con intelligenza antica. L’insegnamento del latino e del greco antico in Italia e nel mondo (Il Mulino: Bologna 2012); R. Oniga - U. Cardinale (eds.), Lingue antiche e moderne dai licei alle università (Il Mulino: Bologna 2012). For attending students it is not necessary to prepare this part of the bibliography.

On the basis of documents and contemporary testimonies to the different linguistic phenomena, the course will illustrate some aspects of linguistic communication in Latin, considered in its diachronic development (from protohistory to the Romance) and in its various registers (standard and informal). The reading and analysis of various texts regarding Latin epistular genre is aimed at providing the tools to grasp the specificities of the historical evolution of the Latin language and to identify its morphosyntactic and stylistic peculiarities. For this purpose the course consists of:
(1) A number of lessons minded in particular to offer an overview of the history of the Latin language from its origins up to the 6th century A.D., through the reconstruction of its evolution in the dimension of language of everyday use and literary language;
(2) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of Latin epistolary texts in prose (from Cicero, Seneca, Pliny the Younger, Fronto, Symmachus, Sidonius Apollinaris) and in poetry (Claudian).

As far as point 1:
- (a) F. Berardi, Le vie del latino. Storia della lingua latina con elementi di grammatica storica, Galatina, Congedo Editore, 2021 (2a ediz.).
- (b) Further bibliography and tools about the texts in the syllabus will be given during the course, and made available on line at the url of the course.

As far as point 2:
- (a) A. Fusi - A. Luceri, Gli epistolari, in A. Fusi-A. Luceri-P. Parroni-G. Piras (edited by), Lo Spazio Letterario di Roma antica, vol. VII (I Testi. 2 – Prosa), Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012, pp. 505-596.
- (b) Claudio Claudiano, Carmina minora 19, 22, 23, 31, 40 e 41 [selected pages from M.L. Ricci, Claudii Claudiani Carmina minora, Bari, Edipuglia, 2001]

Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:

- Elena Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata con la collaborazione di Ermanno Malaspina, Alessandria, Ediz. dell’Orso, 2014.

Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.
Seneca's two faces. Manuscript tradition and text of Seneca's Apokolokyntosis and Consolatio ad Polybium.

- P. Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini. Storia e metodo critico, Roma (Carocci);
- M. De Nonno, Transmission and Textual Criticism, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, edd. A. Barchiesi & W. Scheidel, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-48 [photocopies of this work will be made available on line at the url of the course]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura);
- As for the Apokolokyntosis, an edition as preferred among: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokolokyntosis, a cura di G. Vannini, Milano (Mondadori), Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di R. Mugellesi, Milani (Rizzoli) e Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, a cura di G. Focardi, Firenze (Giunti).
- As for the Consolation ad Polybium: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Le consolazioni: a Marcia, alla madre Helvia, a Polibio, introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Traina, Milano (Rizzoli).
- Further readings and materials relating to the text in the syllabus will be indicated during the course and / or be made available on line at the url of the course.

This section of the Byzantine Civilization teaching, addressed to graduate students of History and Art, Archaeology, and Religious Sciences, aims to investigate the reasons behind the fall of Constantinople and the way in which it fell in the hands of the Osman Turks, along with the direct and indirect consequences brought by this fall to the history of the Mediterranean civilization.
Firstly, this module shall deal with a topographical investigation of Constantinople, based on literary and figurative attestations that Byzantine writers and especially foreign travellers of the 14th and the 15th century offer on the city’s monuments, neighborhoods’ organizations and location and on the defensive structure, which includes but it is not limited to the great Theodosian walls.
Secondly, it shall reconstruct the final phases of the siege as well as the final battle.
Then, it shall unbiasedly analyse what was, contrary to popular belief, a not-so-predictable Turkish victory, which was the consequence of a superiority both numerical and of the military means or, with the words of Braudel, of the voluntary ‘will to fall’ of a politically exhausted Byzantium. On the contrary, the battle outcomes was unpredictable until the end, and what happened at last left speecheless and disoriented political observers from all around the world.

S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002

A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976

BETWEEN NOVELLA AND MYTH: GENESIS AND DIFFERENT REDACTIONS IN BOCCACCIO’S DECAMERON AND GENEALOGIE DEORUM GENTILIUM
The genesis and some moments of the compositional itinerary of Boccaccio’s Decameron and Genealogie deorum gentilium will be re-examined with particular reference to the manuscript tradition of the two works (starting from the two autographs) and with in-depth analysis of the sources, considering the manuscripts of Boccaccio’s library.

- G. BOCCACCIO, Decameron, Introduzione, note e repertorio di Cose (e parole) del mondo di A. QUONDAM, Testo critico e Nota al testo a cura di M. FIORILLA, Schede introduttive e notizia biografica di G. ALFANO, Milano, Bur-Rizzoli, 2013 (and following editions): a selection of Tales and passages from the Cornice will be read and analyzed.

- * G. BOCCACCIO, Genealogie deorum gentilium, a cura di V. Zaccaria, in Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, a cura di V. Branca, Milano, Mondadori, 1998: a selection of passage will be read and analyzed.

-*M. CURSI-M. FIORILLA, Boccaccio, in Autografi dei letterati italiani. Le Origini e il Trecento, I, a cura di G. Brunetti, M. Fiorilla, M. Petoletti, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013, pp. 43-56 e 68-70.
-* M. CURSI, Gli autografi del Decameron, in ID., La scrittura e i libri di Giovanni Boccaccio, Roma, Viella, 2013, pp. 107-128.
- *L. BATTAGLIA RICCI, Scrivere un libro di novelle. Giovanni Boccaccio autore, lettore, editore, Ravenna, Longo, 2013, pp. 157-217.
- * S. FIASCHI, Genealogia deorum gentilium, in Boccaccio autore e copista, a cura di T. De Robertis, C.M. Monti, M. Petoletti, G. Tanturli, S. Zamponi, Firenze, Mandragora, 2013, pp. 171-180.
- * M. FIORILLA, Il capolavoro narrativo: il Decameron, in Boccaccio, a cura di M. Fiorilla e I. Iocca, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 95-140.
- * V. ROVERE, La produzione erudita: le Genealogie deorum gentilium e il De montibus, in Boccaccio, a cura di Fiorilla- Iocca, cit., pp. 197-215.
- *M. FIORILLA, La Valle delle Donne (‘Dec.’, VI Concl. 17-38) tra allusioni ovidiane (Met. III 149-182) e dantesche (Inf. V 129), in «Studi sul Boccaccio», XLIX, 2021, 457-466.
- *M. FIORILLA, Intreccio e riscritture di fonti classiche e medievali nel Decameron: la novella di Chichibio tra le Metamorfosi di Apuleio e i Gesta Romanorum, in Santi, giullari, romanzieri, poeti, a cura di G. Crimi, L. Marcozzi, A. Pegoretti, Ravenna, Longo, 2022, 117-123.

Textes and articles marked by an asterisk will be available in photocopies along with other materials: an anthology of sources, copies of manuscripts, passages of other works, critical essays. Notes and other material will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page (MOODLE).

Students who chose not to attend the course are invited to contact the lecturer.

From the atelier to the worksite: Painting and decoration in Rome after the Concilio di Trento from Gregory XIII (1572-1585) to Clement VIII (1592-1605).

The course will address the subject of painting and decoration in Rome in the age of the Counter-Reformation, from the pontificate of Gregory XIII Boncompagni to that of Clement VIII Aldobrandini, a pivotal moment for artistic production in Rome. The ornamental systems of the palaces, churches and chapels of papal patronage will be examined in particular, devoting special attention to the mechanisms of the building site and the organization of the great collective artistic enterprises. Also, the iconographic themes deployed in such decorations, subject to the influence and direction of the intellectuals of the Roman Curia in the post-Tridentine age, will be discussed.

Bibliography:

Galleria Carte Geografiche:
L. Gambi, M. Milanesi, A. Pinelli, La Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in Vaticano. Storia e iconografia, Roma 1996.

Cappella Sistina in Santa Maria Maggiore:
S. F. Ostrow, L'arte dei papi. La politica delle immagini nella Roma della Controriforma, Roma 2002, pp. 9-117.
A. Zuccari, I pittori di Sisto V, Roma 1992, pp. 9-46.

Palazzo Lateranense:
C. Mandel, Golden Age and the Good Works of Sixtus V, in “Storia dell’arte”, 62 (1988), pp. 29-52.
C. Mandel, R. Torchetti, Il palazzo Lateranense, in Roma di Sisto V, pp. 94-119.

Scala Santa:
A. Zuccari, I pittori di Sisto V, Roma 1992, pp. 103-140.
P. Violini, Dal Patriarchio al nuovo Laterano: l’organizzazione di Domenico Fontana per il cantiere sistino della Scala Santa, in Le «invenzioni di tante opere». Domenico Fontana e i suoi cantieri, ed. by N. Navone, L. Tedeschi, P. Tosini, Roma 2022, pp. 87-112.

Biblioteca Sistina:
A. Zuccari, Il cantiere pittorico della Biblioteca Sistina. I cicli di affreschi e alcuni progetti grafici, in La Biblioteca Vaticana tra riforma cattolica, crescita delle collezioni e nuovo edificio (1535 - 1590), ed. by M. Ceresa, Milano 2012, pp. 379-417.
A. Zuccari, Una Babele pittorica ben composta. Gli affreschi Sistini della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, in La Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2012, pp. 266-307.
D. Frascarelli, Immagini e parole. Il programma iconografico degli affreschi sistini della Vaticana, in La Biblioteca Vaticana tra riforma cattolica, crescita delle collezioni e nuovo edificio (1535 - 1590), ed. by M. Ceresa, Milano 2012, pp. 333-377.

Villa Peretti Montalto a Termini:
P. Tosini, Immagini ritrovate. Decorazione a Villa Peretti Montalto tra Cinque e Seicento, Roma 2015, pp. 41-49; 55-76; 105-111.

Cappella Clementina:
I. Salvagni, Il destino manifesto: gli Aldobrandini di Clemente VIII e la Minerva, Roma 2017, pp. 81-120.

Sala Clementina in Vaticano:
S. Macioce, “Undique splendent”: Clemente VIII e gli affreschi della sala Clementina, in “Undique Splendent”. Aspetti della pittura sacra nella Roma di Clemente VIII Adobrandini (1592-1605), Roma 1990, pp. 169-224 + tavole.

Transetto lateranense:
J. Freiberg, The Lateran in 1600: Christian Concord in Counter-Reformation Rome, Cambridge 1995, pp. 1-80.
H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier d’Arpino Giuseppe Cesari d’Arpino, Roma 2002, pp. 325-327.



Further bibliography could be indicated during the course.

Artemisia Gentileschi and Seicento Neapolitan Painting: masters and workshops

Artemisia Gentileschi a Napoli, catalogo della mostra (Napoli, Gallerie d'Itaia), a cura di A.E. Denunzio - G. Porzio, Milano, Skira 2022 (more bibliography will be indicated during the course).

From the artwork to the context of origin and vice versa: Flemish and Dutch paintings from the deposits of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries

You have in front of you a work of art, a painting that is rarely exhibited, you can look at it closely with a magnifying glass, take apart its frame, touch (with gloves) the pictorial surface, you can turn it over, record the numbers or seals with which it is covered, and then what? Through this course, which is eminently workshop-based in nature, it is intended to prompt, strengthen, and problematize the students' manual skills and knowledge through direct confrontation with a limited number of paintings executed in the Flemish and Dutch areas from the 15th to the 18th centuries. For this purpose, the students will be welcomed one morning each week (on Fridays) at the Museo Laboratorio of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries, where, with the help of Dr. Paola Nicita and the collaboration of Prof. Giovanna Sapori, they will be introduced to the analysis of the work of art, its state of preservation, and the elements that contribute to the attestation of its collecting and material history. Conversely, in-class lectures will serve to contextualize the works within the stylistic, iconographic tradition, sources, and historiographical treatment, but above all within the framework of a general outline of the art history of the southern and northern Netherlands in the modern age. Each work, from the copy to the masterpiece, from the painting of the highest quality to that of commonplace workmanship, will participate directly in the process of discovering a school, a genre, a technique of execution, a medium, a relative and absolute chronology.

For the preparation for the exam it is necessary the critical study of

a) At least one of the following text: Ghislain Kieft, I Paesi Bassi settentrionali: arte, mestiere e committenza nel secolo d'oro, in La pittura nei Paesi Bassi, a cura di B.W.Meijer, Milano, Electa, 1997, tomo II, pp. 409-522 (scaricabile) or Mariette Westermann, The Art of the Dutch Republic. 1585-1718, New York, Harry Abrams, 1996.
b) at least one of the books that will be suggested during the workshop.
c)At least one of the texts that will be suggested during the workshop.
d) didactical materials (on Teams).

Non-attending students must add to this syllabus (with the exception of item d which is precluded to them) the in-depth study of a second text from those listed in item b) and must read all the essays listed in item c).

PROGRAM OF CANON LAW:

I. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: relations between canon law, theology, morality and history.

II. FOUNDATION AND HISTORICITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM

III. THEORY OF SOURCES OF CANON LAW

IV. THE REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH

V. THE TYPICALITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE NORM

VI. THE CHURCH AS INSTITUTION, GOD’S PEOPLE, SOCIETY

VII. ACTIVITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

For attending students (that is students attending at least 2/3 of classes and seminars) only:

C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (with the exception of some Chapters)

Non attending students can choose between program No. 1 and program No. 2:

PROGRAM No. 1

1. C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (except Chapter I or II or III).

PROGRAM No. 2

1. C. FANTAPPIE’, Storia del diritto e delle istituzioni della Chiesa, Bologna, Il Mulino 2011;
2. P. GROSSI, Diritto canonico e cultura giuridica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 32 (2003), pp. 373-389, downloadable from: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/32/0374.pdf

FOR MORE INFORMATIONS, SEE https://dirittocanonicoroma3.wordpress.com/

Memory, Writing and History in the Bible

The course will be centered on "writing as remembering", a theme Scriptures developed in different literary genres (historiography, novel, myth, poetry...), touching several central questions in the study of Hebrew Bible, such as Biblical narrative compared with the history we can reconstruct from archeological findings and external sources, place and function of myth in the Bible, historiography in the Bible and in ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

Jan Assmann, Cultural Memory and Early Civilization, Cambridge University Press 2012
Giovanni Garbini, History and Ideology of Ancient Israel, SCM, 1988
Notes and texts suggested/distributed during course sessions.

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

One of the following:


G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: https://longreads.tni.org/arab-uprisings
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
Corrao FM - Redaelli R (eds), States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region, PalgraveMacMillan, 2021.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

Translation and acquisition of linguistic and translation skills. Development of linguistic reflection and acquisition of translation strategies through the practice of reading, analysis and translation of texts of various types on modern and contemporary culture.

Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012

The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of Latin and Greek manuscripts, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, both the external characteristics of manuscripts will be examined (material techniques for the preparation of the book as a physical object, methods and tools for its preparation, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), and the cultural panorama of the times and places of origin of manuscript books. Therefore, each aspect will be illustrated by choosing a reference manuscript witness.
This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials, through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

The course provides the necessary skills to study all the fragmentary written materials from Antiquity, namely papyrus, ostraka, parchment, etc. Students will learn how to decypher and edit fragments of documents and literary works, and how to extract useful information in order to start and perform a historical, palaeographical and philological research. In particular, special consideration will be given to the phenomenon of language and graphic interaction between Greek and Latin that can be found in many fragments of documents and books from the 3rd to the 6th century AD in Egypt and other eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

The teacher will provide the students with all the needed study materials.

AIMS:
Acquiring adequate theoretical and technical knowledge regarding the common and distinctive elements that characterize bibliography and librarianship, the related areas of expertise and lines of development (including the digital one), with particular regard to:
1) design and compilation of bibliographies;
2) organization, management, evaluation and promotion of libraries in Italy;
3) evolution and use of document processing technologies (for both bibliographic and librarianship purposes);
4) history of printing and publishing (including the digital one).
By the end of the course, students will acquire the ability to apply the knowledge learned for bibliographic processing and understood the management problems of a library, the implications of the use of information and communication technologies in the two disciplinary fields, as well as in the editorial one.

STRUCTURE:

3 MODULES: 1) Information and Media Literacy; 2) Bibliography; 3) Library science, with final assessment for each module.

MODULE 1 (October): "Find your way in the docuverse for academic purposes".
The first module is an introductory one and offers an overview of the information complexity, the "document", the importance of acquiring information literacy and the role of libraries and librarians in this process. Furthermore, the module introduces the student to the search for information for the purpose of the final paper, to the different types of theses and to academic writing at the master's degree level.

MODULE 2 (November): Bibliography (Referencing).
The second module:
- examines the definitions of bibliography; illustrates the historical evolution of the bibliography and the disciplines of the book and document (history, diplomatic, archival);
- addresses information complexity and focuses on digital information and the tools to access it (catalog, discovery tools, databases, etc.);
- deepens the metamorphosis of the book (digital book, Google books, etc.), of the text, of reading and of scientific communication, as well as the relationship between bibliography and the web;
- provides for practical exercises in bibliographic research, with compilation of bibliographic citations according to various citation styles - eg. APA, MLA, Chicago / Turabian etc. - starting from the "bibliographic chain".

MODULE 3 (December month): Library Science (Librarianship).
The third module
- examines the definitions of librarianship;
- presents the areas of competence;
- outlines the historical aspects (history of the library with notes on the history of the book); types of libraries (state, university, public, etc.);
- faces the library as a complex system: organization, planning, management and evaluation; development of physical and digital collections; organization of physical and virtual spaces functional to resource- and problem-based learning.

1) Luisa Marquardt, Orientarsi tra le informazioni (dispensa su Moodle).
2) Maurizio Vivarelli, Le dimensioni della bibliografia: scrivere di libri al tempo della rete, Roma: Carocci, 2013
3) Frederic Barbier, Storia delle biblioteche: dall'antichità a oggi, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2016.
4) Carlo Bianchini, I fondamenti della biblioteconomia: attualità del pensiero di S. R. Ranganathan, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2015, OPPURE: Marzo Magno, L'inventore dei libri, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2020.

The first part of the master's course deals with the conceptual categories of changes and social changes, as well as some tools for reading and analysing them. In a second part, some relevant contemporary phenomena will be addressed, also through specific thematic seminars, such as, for example: poverty and inequalities, changes and transformations in health; social changes and articulation of response systems (organised solidarity and public and private bodies). The aim is to enable students to acquire theoretical and analytical skills which, in an analogical sense, are reflected in practice for a theory of practice.

1. a basic text to choose from:
Ambrosini A., Sciolla L. (2015), Sociologia, Mondadori Education, Milano.
Chirot D. (2010), Sociologia del mutamento. Come cambiano le società, il Mulino, Bologna.

2. a text to choose from:
Berti F., Valzania A. (2020) (a cura di), Precarizzazione delle sfere di vita e disuguaglianze, FrancoAngeli, Milano.
Giancola O., Salmieri L. (2020) (a cura di), Sociologia delle disuguaglianze. Teorie, metodi, ambiti, Carocci, Roma.
Wilkinson R., Pickett K. (2019), L'equilibrio dell'anima. Perchè l'uguaglianza ci farebbe vivere meglio, Feltrinelli, Milano.
Harari Y.N. (2018), Sapiens. Da animali a dèi. Breve storia dell'umanità, Bompiani, Milano.

Petrarch's world: Italian and European literature, culture and society of the fourteenth century. The course will focus on the historical figure of Francesco Petrarca, on his works and on his founding role of Renaissance humanism, through the plurality of his interests and his relationships. The reconstruction of the author's biographical and cultural profile will be based on a careful examination of the historical, political and cultural context in which he worked and of the figures of his correspondents and friends, in particular of those dedicated to the studia humanitatis. The course is of a seminar nature and requires the active participation of students for the preparation of biographical profiles of Petrarch's correspondents or authors who have been in contact with him.

L. Marcozzi, Profilo biografico del Petrarca. In F. Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi, 2016, pp. 67-176.
M. Ariani, Petrarca, Roma, Salerno editrice, 1999.
N. Tonelli, Leggere il Canzoniere, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
Lessico critico petrarchesco, a cura di L. Marcozzi e R. Brovia, Roma, Carocci, 2016.
Further texts provided by the lecturer.

Word and image at the origins of Italian literature

The course will address the connections between literary invention and the visual arts in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth century, with a specific focus on Dante. This relationship will be considered from several points of view: on the rhetorical level, with regard to the development of the resources of ecphrasis and evidence, and the use of memory images; on the iconographic level, as regards the mutual influence that literature and the visual arts exert. Initially we will examine the rhetorical exploitation of images for devotional purposes in Iacopone da Todi and in other texts. Then, the rest of the course will be devoted to Dante, to his reflection on the arts and to the visual sources of the "Commedia".
A school trip is planned.

Students must have a copy of Dante's "Commedia". Didactic material will be available on Moodle.

Students will read (those who regularly attend the course are exempted from reading the texts marked with **):

- LUCIA BATTAGLIA RICCI, «Come […] le tombe terragne portan segnato»: lettura del dodicesimo canto del «Purgatorio», in Ecfrasi. Modelli ed esempi tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, a cura di Gianni Venturi and Monica Farnetti, Roma, Bulzoni, 2004, vol. I, pp. 33–63 (disponibile su Moodle)
- **LUCIA BATTAGLIA RICCI, Decrittare i segni. A proposito di «Paradiso» XVIII 70-117, in Studi di letteratura italiana. Per Vitilio Masiello, a cura di Pasquale Guaragnella e Marco Santagata, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006, pp. 95–112
- **LINA BOLZONI, La rete delle immagini. Predicazione in volgare dalle origini a Bernardino da Siena, Torino, Einaudi, 2002, introduction e ch. I
- **MARCELLO CICCUTO, «Saxa Loquuntur». Aspetti dell’evidentia nella retorica visiva di Dante, in Dante e la retorica, a cura di Luca Marcozzi, Ravenna, Longo, 2017, pp. 151–66
- MARCELLO CICCUTO, I costruttori dell’«Inferno» e gli artisti del «Purgatorio»: dall’arte morta alla pietra vivente, in «Chroniques Italiennes. Série Web», 39/2 (2020), pp. 44–54
- LAURA PASQUINI, «Pigliare occhi per aver la mente». Dante, la «Commedia» e le arti figurative, Roma, Carocci, 2020
- **PIERMARIO VESCOVO, Ecfrasi con spettatore (Dante, «Purgatorio», X-XVII), in «Lettere Italiane», 45/3 (1993), pp. 335–60 (disponibile su Moodle)
- FRANCES A. YATES, L’arte della memoria, Torino, Einaudi, 1972 (e successive edizioni e ristampe), capp. I-IV

Literature in the print shops

For Renaissance literature, the printing press is not only a new and more powerful means of disseminating texts: it constitutes a new way of confronting the cultural, political and social reality of the time and it creates a new literary horizon, with the establishment of new genres, new professional figures and a new audience. It is also a competitive and litigious world, characterised by licit and illicit advertising strategies, misappropriations and outright fraud.
Analysing particularly significant cases of authors (Ludovico Ariosto, Baldassarre Castiglione, Torquato Tasso), publishers (Niccolò Zoppino, Gabriele Giolito, Aldo Manuzio) and problems characterising the relationship between literature and the press in the 16th century (from the relationship with orality to the question of language, from problems related to publishing privileges to the affirmation of women's voices), the course intends to examine in its various aspects this new reality, a point of no return for western literary and cultural history.

extbooks for attending students:

- Amedeo Quondam, La letteratura in tipografia, in Letteratura italiana II. Produzione e consumo, Torino, Einaudi, 1983, pp. 555-686**
- Brian Richardson, Pubblicazione a stampa: mecenatismo, contratti e privilegi, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 75-107**
- Brian Richardson, Dalla penna alla stampa: gli scrittori alle prese con la stampa, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 108-164**
- Conor Fahy, L’autore in tipografia: le edizioni ferraresi dell’Orlando furioso, in I libri di Orlando innamorato, Modena, Panini, 1987, pp. 105-115*
- Giancarlo Alfano, Una forma per tutti gli usi: l’ottava rima, in Atlante della letteratura italiana, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà, vol. II, Dalla Contro-riforma alla restaurazione, a cura di Erminia Irace, Torino, Einaudi, 2011, pp. 31-37**
- Rosa Salzberg, La lira, la penna e la stampa: cantastorie ed editoria popolare nella Venezia del Cinquecento, Milano, C.R.E.L.E.B., Università Cattolica, Milano Edizioni CUSL, 2011**
**Supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams/Moodle or available from the photocopy shop in front of the Department of Studi Umanistici.
Other materials will be provided during the lessons.

Textbooks for non-attending students:
Non-attending students should add the following texts to the syllabus for attending students:

- Lodovica Braida, Stampa e cultura in Europa tra 15° e 16° secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000

- Brian Richardson, Lettori e cultura della stampa, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 165-233**
- Marco Santoro, L’era del consolidamento (1500-1600), in Storia del libro italiano, Milano, Editrice Tipografica, 1994, pp. 71-136**
Marina Roggero, Libri di cavalleria, in Libri per tutti: generi editoriali di larga circolazione tra antico regime ed età contemporanea, a cura di Lodovica Braida e Mario Infelise; saggi di Giorgio Bacci ... [et al.], Torino, Utet, 2010, pp. 23-41**
Massimo Rospocher, Dall’oralità alla stampa: rivoluzione o transi¬zione? I cantastorie nel sistema multimediale del Cinquecento, in La transizione come problema storiografico. Le fasi critiche dello sviluppo della modernità (1494-1973), a cura di Paolo Pombe¬ni e Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013, pp. 151-172**
**Supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams/Moodle or available from the photocopy shop in front of the Department of Studi Umanistici.

Course title: The Risorgimento in literature.

Course description: The course aims to analyze the literary narrative of our Risorgimento through the analysis of different narrative forms such as the novel and the short story. The analysis of the texts that will be considered will require an in-depth study and reflection on the history / fiction binomial and on the debate around the question of the boundaries and specificities of literary and historiographic narration.

Bibliography:

The program for attending students involves the study of all the bibliographic included in points 1 and 2.

1. Texts:

- I. Nievo, Le confessioni d'un italiano, edited by S. Romagnoli, Venezia, Marsilio, 1998.
- Racconti del Risorgimento, edited by G. Pedullà, Milano, Garzanti, 2022

2. Critical studies:

- Il Risorgimento tra Storia e finzione, edited by R. Colombi, Firenze, Cesati, 2021
- Roberta Colombi, La verità della finzione. Storia e romanzo da Manzoni a Nievo, Rome, Carocci, 2022

Any other reference bibliography will be suggested during the course and may be the subject of individual or group studies and ongoing checks.

Non-attending students must personally agree on the integration of the exam program with the teacher

The history of our language can also be read and studied using dictionaries which have described and codified it. The module focuses on the diachronic and synchronic study of the Italian lexicon through lexicography. After having clarified the basic terms of the discipline, we will retrace the history of dictionaries in Italy, from its origins to the present day; typologies and compositional structures of some important dictionaries will be examined.

- V. Della Valle (2005), Dizionari italiani: storia, tipi, struttura, Roma, Carocci.
- C. Marazzini (2009), L’ordine delle parole. Storia di vocabolari italiani, Bologna, il Mulino: chapters III, VI, VIII.2 and 3 (photocopies made available by the teacher).
- I. Consales (2021), Nell’officina del lessicografo. Saggi di lessicografia italiana, Roma, Aracne, 2021.

The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, a survey of the various educational tools for L1 and L2 learners used throughout history will be presented: from glossaries and exercises of medieval versions through school grammars and grammars aimed at foreigners to an examination of today's manuals, with particular reference to grammar books and anthologies for the two-year course and manuals for the teaching of Italian as L2. In the second part of the course, various topics of grammar and textuality of Italian in the literary text will be tackled: through the observation of the functioning of the structures in the literary text, students will arrive at deepening and perfecting their grammatical and linguistic knowledge, also learning how to exploit the literary text in L1 and L2 teaching.

EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN:
Analisi e valutazione dei manuali didattici, in Diadori, P., Insegnare italiano a stranieri, Torino, UTET.
Cella, R. (2018). Grammatica per la scuola. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 97-140). Roma : Carocci.
Mattarucco, G. (2018). Grammatiche per stranieri. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 141-168). Roma : Carocci.
De Roberto, E. (2015). Glossari, versioni e proverbi. A proposito di una miscellanea scolastica tardoquattrocentesca. CAHIERS DE RECHERCHES MÉDIÉVALES ET HUMANISTES, 28, 33-88.
De Roberto, E. (2011). SCUOLA O SCOLA ? MONOLINGUISMO, POLIMORFIA E VARIAZIONE NEI SILLABARI POSTUNITARI. LA LINGUA ITALIANA, 7, 159-172.
De Roberto, E. (2018). La frase semplice. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 357-399). Roma : Carocci.
De Roberto, E. (2020). L’educazione plurilingue e interculturale nei manuali di italiano. In E. De Roberto (a cura di), Fuori e dentro il libro di italiano Grammatiche e antologie nella scuola secondaria (pp. 179-206). Firenze : Franco Cesati.

The "radical evil" in Kant.
Reading and comment of "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason" of Immanuel Kant

I. Kant, "Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason", (any edition)
K. Jaspers, "Il male radicale in Kant", morcelliana, Brescia 2011

States of Nature: Desire and Need from Plato to Modern Philosophy.
The course aims to consider the philosophical anthropology underlying conceptions of the state of nature in modernity. Its aim is to focus on desire and need as two different drivers of the transition from the state of nature to civil society.

- Plato, The Symposium [any edition]
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part One [any edition]
- D. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, Book III. On Morals [any edition]
- K. Marx, "Forms preceding capitalist production", in Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Grundrisse) [photocopies provided by the professor]

The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Durkheim, Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.D.1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (limitedly to chapters 1,2,5)
2. Beate Krais, Gunter Gebauer, Habitus, Rome, Armando, 2009.
U.D.2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine (1876), ed. D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4.Charles S. Peirce, Il fissarsi della credenza (1877), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 357-371.
5. Charles S. Peirce, Come chiarire le nostre idee (1878), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 377-393.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).

The course will focus on Bernard de Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. In particular, it will highlight the features that made it a favourite target of the arrows of philosophers such as Berkeley, Hutcheson, Hume, Rousseau and Smith, who were also often influenced by it: hedonism in general and the rehabilitation of "lust", the anti-Christian polemic, the deconstruction of traditional morals.

Bernard de Mandeville, Fable of the Bees, Oxford, ed. by F.B. Kaye

The course aims to show the relationship between activity and passivity of consciousness analyzing the concepts of perception, affectivity, unconscious, interest, association, judgment in Husserl.

Edmund Husserl, Lessons on Passive Synthesis, La Scuola, 2016.
Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology of the Unconscious, Udine, Mimesis 2021

This is an introductive course to sociolinguistics. The epistemological setting of this branch of knowledge will be discussed, and its basic elements and tools will be introduced. Specific attention will be paid to two major sociolinguistic approaches, i.e. correlational and interactional sociolinguistics.

Berruto, G. – M. Cerruti, (2015), Manuale di sociolinguistica, Torino, UTET

Additional material will be provided during the course.

Renaissance theater: from classical authors to modern Italian playwrights.

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8)
1. Primary Works: P. Aretino, Cortigiana (1525), any editions (edition by G. Innamorati is available online);
2. Primary Works: B. Dovizi detto il Bibbiena, La Calandra, edited by G. Padoan, Padova, Antenore, 1985 (this edition is available online);
3. Primary Works: N. Machiavelli, La Mandragola, edited by P. Stoppelli, Milan, Mondadori, 2006;
4. Criticism: Il teatro a Roma prima della Cortigiana (1525) di Pietro Aretino, edited by G. Crimi, Rome, Roma nel Rinascimento, 2020;
5. Criticism: *G. Aquilecchia, La favola “Mandragola” si chiama (1971), in Id., Schede di italianistica, Torino, Einaudi, 1976, pp. 97-126;;
6. Criticism: *R. Guarino, Feste e spettacoli a Roma nel primo Rinascimento. Tradizioni, spazi, poteri, in Roma 1347-1527. Linee di un’evoluzione. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Roma, 13-15 novembre 2017), a cura di M. Miglio e I. Lori Sanfilippo, Roma, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, 2020, pp. 129-41;
7. Criticism: *A. Guidotti, Il doppio gioco della Calandria, in «Modern Language Notes», 104 (1989), 1, pp. 98-116;
8. Criticism: *M. Pieri, Il montaggio della commedia nel laboratorio romano, in Leone X. Finanza, mecenatismo, cultura. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Roma, 2-4 novembre 2015), 2 tt., edited by F. Cantatore et alii, Rome, Roma nel Rinascimento, 2016, I, pp. 145-66;

Items 5, 6, 7 and 8 will be provided by the teacher.

Additional readings for non-attending students:

9. Criticism: C. Falletti Cruciani, Il Teatro in Italia. II. Il Cinquecento e Seicento, Rome, Edizioni Studium, 1999 e 2003, pp. 13-190.

This course is an introduction to the pragmatics of interaction. After an introduction to the theories and disciplines that have contributed to the development of models on interaction, we will focus on the approach of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, the theoretical and methodological principles of which will be discussed, in depth. The main features of interaction (e.g., turn-taking organization, sequential organization, repair phenomena) will be studied and authentic data, represented by audiovisual recordings and transcripts of conversational and institutional-type exchanges, will be analyzed. Particular attention will be paid to methodological issues related to data collection and processing.

References, to support and supplement the content treated in class, will be indicated weekly by the lecturer and uploaded to Moodle.
The texts to be read in preparation for the final essay will be agreed with the lecturer according to the topic chosen by the student.
Non-attending students are requested to contact the lecturer to arrange the exam program.

The course will present and discuss basic notions of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research fields at the interplay between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the course will focus on the topic of moral cognition, investigating the basis of moral reasoning, motivation, choice, and judgment.

Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze texts
- Capacity to navigate the contemporary debate on the bases and mechanisms of moral cognition
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (selected parts);
2 – M. Tomasello (2016) Storia naturale della morale umana, Raffaello Cortina Editore;
3 – Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: F. Nietzsche (2017) Genealogia della morale, Adelphi; A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.

FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (whole text);
2 – M. Tomasello (2016) Storia naturale della morale umana, Raffaello Cortina Editore;
3 – Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: F. Nietzsche (2017) Genealogia della morale, Adelphi; A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.

LEZIONE 1. Introduzione
LEZIONE 2. Il Principe I: il genere dello speculum; il contesto della scrittura; la dedica.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, lettera a Francesco Vettori del 10 dicembre 1513
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe Dedica a Lorenzo
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), parr. 1-3
LEZIONE 3. Il Principe II: i tipi di principati.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe I-XI
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 4
LEZIONE 4. Il Principe III: armare il principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XII-XIV
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 5
LEZIONE 5. Il Principe IV: le virtù del principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XV-XIX
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 6
LEZIONE 6. Il Principe V: i sussidi e la missione del principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XX-XXVI
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), parr. 7-8
LEZIONE 7. Francesco De Sanctis (1)
LEZIONE 8. Francesco De Sanctis (2)
LEZIONE 9. Francesco Ercole, Giovanni Gentile e Benito Mussolini
LEZIONE 10. Piero Gobetti e Giacomo Matteotti
LEZIONE 11: Federico Chabod e Delio Cantimori
LEZIONE 12. Benedetto Croce
LEZIONE 13. Luigi Russo
LEZIONE 14. Antonio Gramsci (1)
LEZIONE 15. Antonio Gramsci (2)

TESTI:
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, a cura di Gabriele Pedullà, Donzelli 2022 (integrale: introduzione, grafiche e note comprese). ISBN 9788855223041 NB: È ESSENZIALE prendere questa nuova edizione 2022, e non quella del 2013, o la editio minor 2022. Altre edizioni non saranno accettate
--Francesco De Sanctis, Storia della letteratura italiana, con un saggio di René Wellek, Bur, Milano 2006.
--Antonio Gramsci, Quaderno 13. Noterelle sulla politica del Machiavelli, Donzelli, Roma 2013.
--Laura Mitarotondo, Un “Preludio” a Machiavelli. Letture e interpretazioni tra Mussolini e Gramsci, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.
--Altri testi saranno forniti in pdf o saranno accessibili on-line.

SITI
--Enciclopedia machiavelliana, accessibile all’indirizzo: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/elenco-opere/Enciclopedia_machiavelliana (per le voci su Delio Cantimori, Federico Chabod, Benedetto Croce, Francesco De Sanctis, Francesco Ercole, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Gramsci, Benito Mussolini, Luigi Russo).

LETTURE IN PIU’ PER I NON FREQUENTANTI
--Claudio Calabrò, Machiavelli in Italia tra le due guerre (in pdf)
--Gabriele Pedullà, Machiavelli in Tumulto, Bulzoni, Roma 2011

Presentation of the essential notions of the typology, such as the relationship between typology and universals, the notion of 'type' at the various levels of analysis, and the relationship of typology with sociolinguistics, language teaching, areal and genetic comparison. Deepening of the mechanisms and explanations of linguistic change, also from the typological perspective. Special reflection on the concepts of grammaticalization and reanalysis. Case study on the diachronic typology of the perfect.

Grandi, N., 2003, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Roma, Carocci.
Napoli, M., 2019, Linguistica diacronica, Roma Carocci.

Additional material will be provided during the course.

Theme of this year's course: Culture, habitat, environment

1. A textbook for the general part:
Matthew Engelke, Pensare come un antropologo, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
Marshall Sahlins, L'economia dell'età della pietra, Milano, elèuthera, 2020.

2. The monographic part includes:
Stefano De Matteis, Il dilemma dell'aragosta. La forza della vulnerabilità, Milano, Meltemi, 2021.

The course is organized into two main sections:
Section A - Introduction to digital publishing: reading devices; mark-up and file formats; software and reading interfaces; models of content organization; multimedia, hypertexts, interactive books; enhanced e-books; digital book market.
Section B - The readers' point of view: reading habits in the digital ecosystem; social reading; augmented reading; online reading.

Modulo A - Gino Roncaglia, La quarta rivoluzione, Laterza 2010
Modulo B - Federico Meschini, Oltre il libro, Editrice bibliografica 2020
- Maurizio Vivarelli, La lettura, Editrice bibliografica 2018

Non attending students and students not participating in project work will add
- Tiziana Mancinelli ed Elena Pierazzo, Che cos'è un'edizione scientifica digitale, Carocci 2020

A list of alternative textbooks in English is available upon request.

Marco Armiero & Serenella Iovino, Environmental Humanities della X Appendice dell’Enciclopedia Treccani

Libby Robin et al., Mappare un terreno comune: ecocriticismo, storia dell’ambiente ed Environmental Humanities, in Angelucci et al. Environmental humanities

Marco Armiero, Environemntal Humanities. una indisciplina delle relazioni, https://operavivamagazine.org/environmental-humanities-unindisciplina-delle-relazioni/

Salvo Torre e Maura Benegiamo, Il Pensiero Decoloniale. Dalle Radici del Dibattito ad una Proposta di Metodo, Acme 19(2) 2002, https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1946

M. Armiero, L’era degli scarti, Torino, Einaudi, 2021

Jason Moore, GLI ANTROPOCENI E L'ALTERNATIVA DEL CAPITALOCENE, n Angelucci et al. Environmental humanities

Octavia Butler, La parabola del seminatore (qualunque edizione)

Elisa Privitera, Marco Armiero e Filippo Gravagno, Seeking justice in risk landscapes. Small data and toxic autobiographies from an Italian petrochemical town (Gela, Sicily), Local environment 27(7), 2021

Marco Armiero, Indisciplinare tutto! (fornito dal docente)

Armiero, Marco, Barca, Stefania, Velicu, Irina, Undisciplining political ecology, in Undisciplined Environments blog, 2019 https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2019/10/01/undisciplining-political-ecology-a-minifesto/

The course examines the following topics:
- the concept of the archive and the archival document;
- the archival bond and the relationship between creator and archive;
- archives and other cultural heritage complexes: similarities and differences;
- phases of archive life: current records, semi-current records, historical archives. Characteristics and management tools.
- The public archives of the State in Italy;
- records appraisal for preservation and disposal;
- elements of the history of the archives and of archival science;
- elements of archival legislation.

General texts:

F. Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2022;

P. Carucci, M. Guercio, Manuale di archivistica (nuova edizione), Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 17-97, 187-203, 259-376, 399-458.

Articles on specific topics:

G. Cencetti, Scritti archivistici (in particolare, Il fondamento teorico della dottrina archivistica; Sull'archivio come "universitas rerum"; Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico), Roma 1970, pp. 38-69.

C. Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l’archivio rispecchi l’istituto?, in “Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato”, XXX (1970), pp. 145-149.

A. D’Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell’archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in “Archivio storico italiano”, CXLVIII (1990), pp. 3-35.

FOR STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING CLASSES:

M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2009 (Per gli studenti dei corsi di laurea magistrale. In particolare: Capitolo secondo L'osservazione storica; Capitolo terzo La critica);

L. Giuva, S. Vitali, I. Zanni Rosiello, Il potere degli archivi. Usi del passato e difesa dei diritti nella società contemporanea, pp. 135-202.

Course program

The topics dealt with in the Course are:

▪ Sustainability in its historical development and in different contexts, from the internal/organizational to the external/social one up to the SDGs, i.e. from the sustainability of a role (in terms of values, knowledge, skills and soft skills) within an organizational contest to the sustainability of an organizational (cultural) identity, both at a strategic and a relational (communication) level (mission, vision, values and the ways of sharing them within a given context), up to the concept of sustainable society.

▪ Cultural (self-)awareness as a self-developmental, organizational and community awareness process to be implemented through:

a) a growing consciousness of one’s own cultural identity;
b) the acquisition of leadership and management skills, to be built and constantly upgraded;
c) the setting up of activities and policies to set up educational/cultural projects aiming at social cohesion and inclusiveness, at different forms of cultural entrepreneurship, at innovative approaches to curatorial practices;

▪ the role of content marketing and content co-creation in organizational strategies, and the ability of building sustainable, value(s)-based models of content management with the engagement of different audiences and communities.


The Course methodology is based on discussions about readings and presentations with an active participation of students. The main project of the Course will be developed with the action research methodology: students will carry out research activities on a theme assigned by a cultural institution based in Rome in which to develop a cultural leadership approach with reference to the Goals and Targets of the 2030 Agenda. In this perspective, the cultural awareness of each participant to the Course will be integrated in the individual and common reflection.

Bibliografia/Readings

 WCED, Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future , 1987 (“Brundtland Report”), Part I.1 and I.2, II.9.I, II.9.II.1,2,3.

 1. Kent E. Portney, Sustainability , Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, Chapter 1 “The Concepts of Sustainability”, pp. 1-56.

 Leena Lankoski, Alternative conceptions of sustainability in a business context , in «Journal of Cleaner Production», 139 (2016), pp. 847-857.

 Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, Faro, 27.X.2005 (Faro Convention; https://rm.coe.int/1680083746)

 Council of Europe, European Landscape Convention (https://rm.coe.int/1680080621)

 Arnold van der Valk, Introduction: sharing knowledge – stories, maps and design , in Tom Bloemers, et al. (eds.), Cultural Landscape & Heritage Paradox: Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological - histori cal Landscape and its European Dimension , Amsterdam University Press, 2010, pp. 365-85 2. Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity , Harper Collins Publishers, HarperPerennial, 1996, pp. vii-viii and chapters 8 (How respect has become more desirable than power) and 9 (How those who want neither to give orders nor to receive them can become intermediaries).

 The Festival of the Middle Ages. Short presentation for the Master’s Degree “Cultural Leadership” Spring School of the Universities of Groningen and Roma Tre, The Royal Netherlands Institute of Rome, April 6, 2017

 Chris Wickham, Medieval Europe. From the Breakup of the Western Roman Empire to the Reformation , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 20161, 2017 paperback edition pp. 1-21 and 252-7, plus maps

 Georges Duby, The Three Orders. Feudal Society Imagined, The University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. vii-viii, 1-9 and 354-6.

 Marc Prensky, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants , in On The Horizon, MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, Oct. 2001 and No. 6, Dec. 2001

 Marc Prenksy, Homo Sapiens Digital: From Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom, «Innovate: Journal of Onlie Educations», Vol. 5, Issue 3/2009, Art. 1.

 Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy, A Book Apart, New York, 2011, pp. 1-37.

 S. Addamiano, Living and Communication in a Changing Information Society: The Relevance and Impact of Big Data, «Journal of Media Research», Vol. 10, Issue 2(28), 2017, pp. 5-17 (http://www.mrjournal.ro/docs/R2/28JMR1-1.pdf).

One of the following readings/Uno dei seguenti articoli:

 Alister Scott, Beyond the conventional: Meeting the challenges of landscape governance within the European Landscape Convention? , in «Journal of Environmental Management», 92 (2011), pp. 2754-62

 Marie Stenseke, Local participation in cultural landscape maintenance: Lessons from Sweden , in «Land Use Policy», 26 (2009), pp. 214-23

 Sebastian Eiter, Marte Lange Vik, Public participation in landscape planning: Effective methods for implementing the European Landscape Convention in Norway , in «Land Use Policy», 44 (2015), pp. 44-53.

One of the following readings/Uno dei seguenti articoli:

 Carsten Paludan-Müller, Actors and orders: the shaping of landscapes and identities , in Tom Bloemers, et al. (eds.), Cultural Landscape & Heritage Paradox: Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological - historical Landscape and its European Dimension , Amsterdam University Press, 2010, pp.53-66 2.

 (for those fond of archaeology): Graham Fairclough and Heleen van Londen, Changing landscape of archaeology and heritage, in Tom Bloemers, et al. (eds.), Cultural Landscape & Heritage Paradox: Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological - historical Landscape and its European Dimension

Ulteriori letture sostitutive o integrative potranno essere indicate all’inizio del Corso.
Substitute or supplementary readings could be indicated at the beginning of the Course.

The course has a monographic character and aims at meeting some reflections on the ecological, anthropological, social, economic and political crisis of the "development era", focusing on the relation North-South. We will explore, specifically, the "alternatives to development" represented by Franco Cassano’s “Southern thought" and the project for degrowth, in the declination elaborated by Serge Latouche.

1. Cassano F., “Tre modi di vedere il Sud”, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.

2. Cassano F., "Il pensiero meridiano", Laterza, Bari 2021.

3. Latouche S., “La scommessa della decrescita”, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014.

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced. Italian and European cities were the space of creation and elaboration of social fears; in the last decades fear was related to economy, the environment, the pandemic crisis.
The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of social fear and religious answers, fears which were provoked by ecological crisis, the wars or sublimated by religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places)

Attending students

1. Appunti del corso e materiali
2. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, Milano 2021 oppure
M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not Attending students
1. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, 2021
2. M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020 e
Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

This course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of shared religious places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

Attending students:

1. course notes, materials and handouts
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020 Oppure
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Non-attending students will replace item 1 with a book of their choice from among

D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced. Italian and European cities were the space of creation and elaboration of social fears; in the last decades fear was related to economy, the environment, the pandemic crisis.
The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of social fear and religious answers, fears which were provoked by ecological crisis, the wars or sublimated by religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places)

Attending students

1. Appunti del corso e materiali
2. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, Milano 2021 oppure
M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not Attending students
1. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, 2021
2. M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020 e
Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

This course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of shared religious places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

Attending students:

1. course notes, materials and handouts
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020 Oppure
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Non-attending students will replace item 1 with a book of their choice from among

D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of Latin and Greek manuscripts, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, both the external characteristics of manuscripts will be examined (material techniques for the preparation of the book as a physical object, methods and tools for its preparation, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), and the cultural panorama of the times and places of origin of manuscript books. Therefore, each aspect will be illustrated by choosing a reference manuscript witness.
This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials, through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

AIMS:
Acquiring adequate theoretical and technical knowledge regarding the common and distinctive elements that characterize bibliography and librarianship, the related areas of expertise and lines of development (including the digital one), with particular regard to:
1) design and compilation of bibliographies;
2) organization, management, evaluation and promotion of libraries in Italy;
3) evolution and use of document processing technologies (for both bibliographic and librarianship purposes);
4) history of printing and publishing (including the digital one).
By the end of the course, students will acquire the ability to apply the knowledge learned for bibliographic processing and understood the management problems of a library, the implications of the use of information and communication technologies in the two disciplinary fields, as well as in the editorial one.

STRUCTURE:

3 MODULES: 1) Information and Media Literacy; 2) Bibliography; 3) Library science, with final assessment for each module.

MODULE 1 (October): "Find your way in the docuverse for academic purposes".
The first module is an introductory one and offers an overview of the information complexity, the "document", the importance of acquiring information literacy and the role of libraries and librarians in this process. Furthermore, the module introduces the student to the search for information for the purpose of the final paper, to the different types of theses and to academic writing at the master's degree level.

MODULE 2 (November): Bibliography (Referencing).
The second module:
- examines the definitions of bibliography; illustrates the historical evolution of the bibliography and the disciplines of the book and document (history, diplomatic, archival);
- addresses information complexity and focuses on digital information and the tools to access it (catalog, discovery tools, databases, etc.);
- deepens the metamorphosis of the book (digital book, Google books, etc.), of the text, of reading and of scientific communication, as well as the relationship between bibliography and the web;
- provides for practical exercises in bibliographic research, with compilation of bibliographic citations according to various citation styles - eg. APA, MLA, Chicago / Turabian etc. - starting from the "bibliographic chain".

MODULE 3 (December month): Library Science (Librarianship).
The third module
- examines the definitions of librarianship;
- presents the areas of competence;
- outlines the historical aspects (history of the library with notes on the history of the book); types of libraries (state, university, public, etc.);
- faces the library as a complex system: organization, planning, management and evaluation; development of physical and digital collections; organization of physical and virtual spaces functional to resource- and problem-based learning.

1) Luisa Marquardt, Orientarsi tra le informazioni (dispensa su Moodle).
2) Maurizio Vivarelli, Le dimensioni della bibliografia: scrivere di libri al tempo della rete, Roma: Carocci, 2013
3) Frederic Barbier, Storia delle biblioteche: dall'antichità a oggi, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2016.
4) Carlo Bianchini, I fondamenti della biblioteconomia: attualità del pensiero di S. R. Ranganathan, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2015, OPPURE: Marzo Magno, L'inventore dei libri, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2020.

Literature in the print shops

For Renaissance literature, the printing press is not only a new and more powerful means of disseminating texts: it constitutes a new way of confronting the cultural, political and social reality of the time and it creates a new literary horizon, with the establishment of new genres, new professional figures and a new audience. It is also a competitive and litigious world, characterised by licit and illicit advertising strategies, misappropriations and outright fraud.
Analysing particularly significant cases of authors (Ludovico Ariosto, Baldassarre Castiglione, Torquato Tasso), publishers (Niccolò Zoppino, Gabriele Giolito, Aldo Manuzio) and problems characterising the relationship between literature and the press in the 16th century (from the relationship with orality to the question of language, from problems related to publishing privileges to the affirmation of women's voices), the course intends to examine in its various aspects this new reality, a point of no return for western literary and cultural history.

extbooks for attending students:

- Amedeo Quondam, La letteratura in tipografia, in Letteratura italiana II. Produzione e consumo, Torino, Einaudi, 1983, pp. 555-686**
- Brian Richardson, Pubblicazione a stampa: mecenatismo, contratti e privilegi, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 75-107**
- Brian Richardson, Dalla penna alla stampa: gli scrittori alle prese con la stampa, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 108-164**
- Conor Fahy, L’autore in tipografia: le edizioni ferraresi dell’Orlando furioso, in I libri di Orlando innamorato, Modena, Panini, 1987, pp. 105-115*
- Giancarlo Alfano, Una forma per tutti gli usi: l’ottava rima, in Atlante della letteratura italiana, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà, vol. II, Dalla Contro-riforma alla restaurazione, a cura di Erminia Irace, Torino, Einaudi, 2011, pp. 31-37**
- Rosa Salzberg, La lira, la penna e la stampa: cantastorie ed editoria popolare nella Venezia del Cinquecento, Milano, C.R.E.L.E.B., Università Cattolica, Milano Edizioni CUSL, 2011**
**Supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams/Moodle or available from the photocopy shop in front of the Department of Studi Umanistici.
Other materials will be provided during the lessons.

Textbooks for non-attending students:
Non-attending students should add the following texts to the syllabus for attending students:

- Lodovica Braida, Stampa e cultura in Europa tra 15° e 16° secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000

- Brian Richardson, Lettori e cultura della stampa, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 165-233**
- Marco Santoro, L’era del consolidamento (1500-1600), in Storia del libro italiano, Milano, Editrice Tipografica, 1994, pp. 71-136**
Marina Roggero, Libri di cavalleria, in Libri per tutti: generi editoriali di larga circolazione tra antico regime ed età contemporanea, a cura di Lodovica Braida e Mario Infelise; saggi di Giorgio Bacci ... [et al.], Torino, Utet, 2010, pp. 23-41**
Massimo Rospocher, Dall’oralità alla stampa: rivoluzione o transi¬zione? I cantastorie nel sistema multimediale del Cinquecento, in La transizione come problema storiografico. Le fasi critiche dello sviluppo della modernità (1494-1973), a cura di Paolo Pombe¬ni e Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013, pp. 151-172**
**Supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams/Moodle or available from the photocopy shop in front of the Department of Studi Umanistici.

The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, a survey of the various educational tools for L1 and L2 learners used throughout history will be presented: from glossaries and exercises of medieval versions through school grammars and grammars aimed at foreigners to an examination of today's manuals, with particular reference to grammar books and anthologies for the two-year course and manuals for the teaching of Italian as L2. In the second part of the course, various topics of grammar and textuality of Italian in the literary text will be tackled: through the observation of the functioning of the structures in the literary text, students will arrive at deepening and perfecting their grammatical and linguistic knowledge, also learning how to exploit the literary text in L1 and L2 teaching.

EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN:
Analisi e valutazione dei manuali didattici, in Diadori, P., Insegnare italiano a stranieri, Torino, UTET.
Cella, R. (2018). Grammatica per la scuola. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 97-140). Roma : Carocci.
Mattarucco, G. (2018). Grammatiche per stranieri. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 141-168). Roma : Carocci.
De Roberto, E. (2015). Glossari, versioni e proverbi. A proposito di una miscellanea scolastica tardoquattrocentesca. CAHIERS DE RECHERCHES MÉDIÉVALES ET HUMANISTES, 28, 33-88.
De Roberto, E. (2011). SCUOLA O SCOLA ? MONOLINGUISMO, POLIMORFIA E VARIAZIONE NEI SILLABARI POSTUNITARI. LA LINGUA ITALIANA, 7, 159-172.
De Roberto, E. (2018). La frase semplice. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 357-399). Roma : Carocci.
De Roberto, E. (2020). L’educazione plurilingue e interculturale nei manuali di italiano. In E. De Roberto (a cura di), Fuori e dentro il libro di italiano Grammatiche e antologie nella scuola secondaria (pp. 179-206). Firenze : Franco Cesati.

The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Durkheim, Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.D.1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (limitedly to chapters 1,2,5)
2. Beate Krais, Gunter Gebauer, Habitus, Rome, Armando, 2009.
U.D.2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine (1876), ed. D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4.Charles S. Peirce, Il fissarsi della credenza (1877), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 357-371.
5. Charles S. Peirce, Come chiarire le nostre idee (1878), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 377-393.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with the following essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class:

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

Students not attending classes will study also Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Pearson, 2020, First and Second parts.

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with the following essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class:

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

Students not attending classes will study also Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Pearson, 2020, First and Second parts.

LEZIONE 1. Introduzione
LEZIONE 2. Il Principe I: il genere dello speculum; il contesto della scrittura; la dedica.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, lettera a Francesco Vettori del 10 dicembre 1513
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe Dedica a Lorenzo
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), parr. 1-3
LEZIONE 3. Il Principe II: i tipi di principati.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe I-XI
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 4
LEZIONE 4. Il Principe III: armare il principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XII-XIV
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 5
LEZIONE 5. Il Principe IV: le virtù del principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XV-XIX
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 6
LEZIONE 6. Il Principe V: i sussidi e la missione del principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XX-XXVI
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), parr. 7-8
LEZIONE 7. Francesco De Sanctis (1)
LEZIONE 8. Francesco De Sanctis (2)
LEZIONE 9. Francesco Ercole, Giovanni Gentile e Benito Mussolini
LEZIONE 10. Piero Gobetti e Giacomo Matteotti
LEZIONE 11: Federico Chabod e Delio Cantimori
LEZIONE 12. Benedetto Croce
LEZIONE 13. Luigi Russo
LEZIONE 14. Antonio Gramsci (1)
LEZIONE 15. Antonio Gramsci (2)

TESTI:
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, a cura di Gabriele Pedullà, Donzelli 2022 (integrale: introduzione, grafiche e note comprese). ISBN 9788855223041 NB: È ESSENZIALE prendere questa nuova edizione 2022, e non quella del 2013, o la editio minor 2022. Altre edizioni non saranno accettate
--Francesco De Sanctis, Storia della letteratura italiana, con un saggio di René Wellek, Bur, Milano 2006.
--Antonio Gramsci, Quaderno 13. Noterelle sulla politica del Machiavelli, Donzelli, Roma 2013.
--Laura Mitarotondo, Un “Preludio” a Machiavelli. Letture e interpretazioni tra Mussolini e Gramsci, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.
--Altri testi saranno forniti in pdf o saranno accessibili on-line.

SITI
--Enciclopedia machiavelliana, accessibile all’indirizzo: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/elenco-opere/Enciclopedia_machiavelliana (per le voci su Delio Cantimori, Federico Chabod, Benedetto Croce, Francesco De Sanctis, Francesco Ercole, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Gramsci, Benito Mussolini, Luigi Russo).

LETTURE IN PIU’ PER I NON FREQUENTANTI
--Claudio Calabrò, Machiavelli in Italia tra le due guerre (in pdf)
--Gabriele Pedullà, Machiavelli in Tumulto, Bulzoni, Roma 2011

Presentation of the essential notions of the typology, such as the relationship between typology and universals, the notion of 'type' at the various levels of analysis, and the relationship of typology with sociolinguistics, language teaching, areal and genetic comparison. Deepening of the mechanisms and explanations of linguistic change, also from the typological perspective. Special reflection on the concepts of grammaticalization and reanalysis. Case study on the diachronic typology of the perfect.

Grandi, N., 2003, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Roma, Carocci.
Napoli, M., 2019, Linguistica diacronica, Roma Carocci.

Additional material will be provided during the course.

The course is organized into two main sections:
Section A - Introduction to digital publishing: reading devices; mark-up and file formats; software and reading interfaces; models of content organization; multimedia, hypertexts, interactive books; enhanced e-books; digital book market.
Section B - The readers' point of view: reading habits in the digital ecosystem; social reading; augmented reading; online reading.

Modulo A - Gino Roncaglia, La quarta rivoluzione, Laterza 2010
Modulo B - Federico Meschini, Oltre il libro, Editrice bibliografica 2020
- Maurizio Vivarelli, La lettura, Editrice bibliografica 2018

Non attending students and students not participating in project work will add
- Tiziana Mancinelli ed Elena Pierazzo, Che cos'è un'edizione scientifica digitale, Carocci 2020

A list of alternative textbooks in English is available upon request.

Marco Armiero & Serenella Iovino, Environmental Humanities della X Appendice dell’Enciclopedia Treccani

Libby Robin et al., Mappare un terreno comune: ecocriticismo, storia dell’ambiente ed Environmental Humanities, in Angelucci et al. Environmental humanities

Marco Armiero, Environemntal Humanities. una indisciplina delle relazioni, https://operavivamagazine.org/environmental-humanities-unindisciplina-delle-relazioni/

Salvo Torre e Maura Benegiamo, Il Pensiero Decoloniale. Dalle Radici del Dibattito ad una Proposta di Metodo, Acme 19(2) 2002, https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1946

M. Armiero, L’era degli scarti, Torino, Einaudi, 2021

Jason Moore, GLI ANTROPOCENI E L'ALTERNATIVA DEL CAPITALOCENE, n Angelucci et al. Environmental humanities

Octavia Butler, La parabola del seminatore (qualunque edizione)

Elisa Privitera, Marco Armiero e Filippo Gravagno, Seeking justice in risk landscapes. Small data and toxic autobiographies from an Italian petrochemical town (Gela, Sicily), Local environment 27(7), 2021

Marco Armiero, Indisciplinare tutto! (fornito dal docente)

Armiero, Marco, Barca, Stefania, Velicu, Irina, Undisciplining political ecology, in Undisciplined Environments blog, 2019 https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2019/10/01/undisciplining-political-ecology-a-minifesto/

The course has a monographic character and aims at meeting some reflections on the ecological, anthropological, social, economic and political crisis of the "development era", focusing on the relation North-South. We will explore, specifically, the "alternatives to development" represented by Franco Cassano’s “Southern thought" and the project for degrowth, in the declination elaborated by Serge Latouche.

1. Cassano F., “Tre modi di vedere il Sud”, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.

2. Cassano F., "Il pensiero meridiano", Laterza, Bari 2021.

3. Latouche S., “La scommessa della decrescita”, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014.

Early Christian buildings and the mosaic decorations in the Italian peninsula (4th-6th century)

The aim of the course is to reconstruct the diffusion and the characteristics of the mosaic production of the Early Christian buildings in the main centers of the peninsula between the 4th and 6th centuries.
The study will focus on archaeological, iconographic, stylistic and artistic issues.
The course includes visits.

Texts:
F. Bisconti, Imprese musive paleocristiane negli edifici di culto dell’Italia Meridionale, in Atti del IV Colloquio dell’Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, Palermo 9-13 dicembre 1996, Tivoli 1997, pp. 733-746.
F. Bisconti, A. Nestori, I mosaici paleocristiani di Santa Maria Maggiore negli acquerelli della collezione Wilpert, Città del Vaticano 2000.
F. Bisconti, Mosaici nel cimitero di S. Gaudioso: revisione iconografica ed approfondimenti iconologici, in Atti del VII Colloquio dell’Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, Venezia 22-25 marzo 2000, Tivoli 2001, pp. 87-98.
F. Bisconti, Interazioni tematiche e formali tra le decorazioni musive delle aule teodoriane e dei cosiddetti oratori di Aquileia, in Antichità Altoadriatiche, 62 (2006), pp. 139-154.
F. Bisconti, M. Braconi, Il mosaico parietale nella Roma paleocristiana: dalla committenza imperiale ai programmi pontifici, in XII Colloquio AIEMA, Venezia 11-15 settembre 2012, Verona 2015, pp. 47-55.
F. Bisconti, Napoli. Catacombe di S. Gennaro. Cripta dei Vescovi. Restauri ultimi, in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 91 (2015), pp. 7-34.
F. Bisconti, Mosaici cristiani della tarda antichità. Orizzonti figurativi e programmi iconografici, in G. Castiglia, Ph. Pergola (ed.), Instrumentum Domesticum. Archeologia Cristiana, temi, metodologie e cultura materiale della tarda antichità e dell’alto medioevo, Città del Vaticano 2020, pp. 483-527.

Not attending students must add:
F. Bisconti, Temi di iconografia paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000, Introduction (pp. 13-86) and a choice of 20 entries

This course focuses on practice of teaching Latin language in the schools with reference to morphology, metrical analysis and prose text translation

Didactic handouts available on the teacher's online page

The Course aimed to provide a geographically wider overview of the catacombs of Italy, analysing in detail those of Umbria and Tuscany.

Bibliography will be provided during the course lessons.

Not attending students should agree a bibliography with the professor.

Early medieval sculpture in Rome: from fragment to context
In Rome, between the 8th and 9th centuries, decorative models and working practices spread that, in the same centuries and to varying degrees, characterised the architectural decoration and sculpted furnishings of cult buildings in central and northern Italy and beyond. Early medieval sculpture is a territorially extensive field of research, with uncertain chronological limits and difficult to "frame" due to the fragmentary nature of the sculptures that have come down to us out of context.
From a look at the gradual abandonment of the sculptural practice of ancient tradition; through an in-depth study of techniques and some early medieval outcomes in sculpture, the course proposes a reflection on the methods and strategies employed in the study of so-called "interwoven" sculpture. Sources and historiography; style, technique and colour; symbols and/or ornamentation; forms and functions; finally, description and documentation will be the topics of the module: a path in stages to experience how each object of study imposes on the researcher the "critical" construction of his or her instruments of investigation.

Visit to: Sant'Agnese f.le.m; Catacombe di San Sebastiano; San Clemente; Santa Prassede.
Need to know: Museo Nazionale Crypta Balbi; Museo dell'Alto Medioevo.

Bibliography:
R. Coates-Stephens, La vita delle statue nella Roma tardoantica, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 130-151

M. Prusac Lindhagen, I ritratti del V e del VI secolo, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti,Milano 2016, pp. 160-177

H. Brandenburg, Sarcofagi tardoantichi, paleocristiani e altomedievali, Atti della giornata tematica dei Seminari di Archeologia Cristiana (École Française de Rome – 8 maggio 2002), pp. 1-34

F. Bisconti, La rinascita dei sarcofagi. Alcune considerazioni alla luce dei restauri dei sarcofagi di S. Sebastiano, in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 95 (2019), pp. 11-34.

A.Ballardini, Scolpire a Roma: dalla rinuncia al 3D alla riorganizzazione delle officine, in R. Santangeli Valenzani, Roma altomedievale. Paesaggio urbano, società e cultura (secoli V - X), Roma Carocci editore, c.s.

A.Ballardini, Scultura a Roma: standards qualitativi e committenza (VIII secolo), in L’VIII secolo: un secolo inquieto, Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Cividale del Friuli, 4-7 dicembre 2008, a cura di V. Pace, Cividale del Friuli 2010, pp. 141-148.

A.Ballardini, Scultura per l’arredo liturgico nella Roma di Pasquale I: tra modelli paleocristiani e Flechtwerk, in Medioevo: arte e storia, X Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Parma, 18-22 settembre 2007, a cura di A.C. Quintavalle, Milano-Parma 2008, pp. 225-246.

A.Ballardini, Scultura in pezzi: appunti sulla scultura alto medievale di Santa Prassede, in Svmma. Revista de Cultures Medievals, 9 (2017), pp. 5-20 (https://www.raco.cat/index.php/SVMMA/article/view/328534)

A.Ballardini, Scolpire a Roma per Pasquale I (817-824)? L'oratorio di San Zenone, in S. Ammirati, A. Ballardini, G. Bordi (a cura di), Grata più delle stelle. Pasquale I e la Roma del suo tempo, vol. 2, Roma: Efesto editore (Arte in questione, 2) 2020, pp. 16-51.

Sculpting Techniques:
W.Wootton, B.Russel, P. Rockwell, 1) StoneworkingTechniques and Process 2) Stoneworking, Tools and Toolmarks, in The Art of Making in Antiquity, Stoneworking in the Roman World
(consultabile in http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/) (in particolare per gli strumenti di lavoro + video)

M. Pfanner, Marmor, Steinmetze, Bildhauer und Werkstätten. Überlegungen zur Herstellung antiken und karolinischer Marmorwerke, in K. Roth-Rubi, H. R. Sennhauser, Die Frühe Marmorskulptur Aus Dem Kloster St. Johann in Müstair, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2015, Textband, pp. 300-311 (disponibile in TRADUZIONE)

Liturgical Fornitures:
A.Ballardini, Le recinzioni presbiteriali a Roma (VI-VIII secolo): una ricognizione, in A. Adrian (éd.), Le chancel de Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Actes du colloque, (Metz, 27-29 avril 2017), Cinisello Balsano: Silvana Editoriale 2021, pp. 142-55.

A.Ballardini, M. Caperna, A Santa Prassede, nella Gerusalemme nuova. L’assetto architettonico dello spazio absidale, l’arredo e la disposizione liturgica, in C. Bordino, C. Croci, V. Sulovsky (eds.), Rome on the Borders. Visual Cultures During the Carolingian Transition, in Convivium supplementum, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2020, pp. 176-205.

On the basis of documents and contemporary testimonies to the different linguistic phenomena, the course will illustrate some aspects of linguistic communication in Latin, considered in its diachronic development (from protohistory to the Romance) and in its various registers (standard and informal). The reading and analysis of various texts regarding Latin epistular genre is aimed at providing the tools to grasp the specificities of the historical evolution of the Latin language and to identify its morphosyntactic and stylistic peculiarities. For this purpose the course consists of:
(1) A number of lessons minded in particular to offer an overview of the history of the Latin language from its origins up to the 6th century A.D., through the reconstruction of its evolution in the dimension of language of everyday use and literary language;
(2) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of Latin epistolary texts in prose (from Cicero, Seneca, Pliny the Younger, Fronto, Symmachus, Sidonius Apollinaris) and in poetry (Claudian).

As far as point 1:
- (a) F. Berardi, Le vie del latino. Storia della lingua latina con elementi di grammatica storica, Galatina, Congedo Editore, 2021 (2a ediz.).
- (b) Further bibliography and tools about the texts in the syllabus will be given during the course, and made available on line at the url of the course.

As far as point 2:
- (a) A. Fusi - A. Luceri, Gli epistolari, in A. Fusi-A. Luceri-P. Parroni-G. Piras (edited by), Lo Spazio Letterario di Roma antica, vol. VII (I Testi. 2 – Prosa), Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012, pp. 505-596.
- (b) Claudio Claudiano, Carmina minora 19, 22, 23, 31, 40 e 41 [selected pages from M.L. Ricci, Claudii Claudiani Carmina minora, Bari, Edipuglia, 2001]

Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:

- Elena Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata con la collaborazione di Ermanno Malaspina, Alessandria, Ediz. dell’Orso, 2014.

From the artwork to the context of origin and vice versa: Flemish and Dutch paintings from the deposits of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries

You have in front of you a work of art, a painting that is rarely exhibited, you can look at it closely with a magnifying glass, take apart its frame, touch (with gloves) the pictorial surface, you can turn it over, record the numbers or seals with which it is covered, and then what? Through this course, which is eminently workshop-based in nature, it is intended to prompt, strengthen, and problematize the students' manual skills and knowledge through direct confrontation with a limited number of paintings executed in the Flemish and Dutch areas from the 15th to the 18th centuries. For this purpose, the students will be welcomed one morning each week (on Fridays) at the Museo Laboratorio of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries, where, with the help of Dr. Paola Nicita and the collaboration of Prof. Giovanna Sapori, they will be introduced to the analysis of the work of art, its state of preservation, and the elements that contribute to the attestation of its collecting and material history. Conversely, in-class lectures will serve to contextualize the works within the stylistic, iconographic tradition, sources, and historiographical treatment, but above all within the framework of a general outline of the art history of the southern and northern Netherlands in the modern age. Each work, from the copy to the masterpiece, from the painting of the highest quality to that of commonplace workmanship, will participate directly in the process of discovering a school, a genre, a technique of execution, a medium, a relative and absolute chronology.

For the preparation for the exam it is necessary the critical study of

a) At least one of the following text: Ghislain Kieft, I Paesi Bassi settentrionali: arte, mestiere e committenza nel secolo d'oro, in La pittura nei Paesi Bassi, a cura di B.W.Meijer, Milano, Electa, 1997, tomo II, pp. 409-522 (scaricabile) or Mariette Westermann, The Art of the Dutch Republic. 1585-1718, New York, Harry Abrams, 1996.
b) at least one of the books that will be suggested during the workshop.
c)At least one of the texts that will be suggested during the workshop.
d) didactical materials (on Teams).

Non-attending students must add to this syllabus (with the exception of item d which is precluded to them) the in-depth study of a second text from those listed in item b) and must read all the essays listed in item c).

PROGRAM OF CANON LAW:

I. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: relations between canon law, theology, morality and history.

II. FOUNDATION AND HISTORICITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM

III. THEORY OF SOURCES OF CANON LAW

IV. THE REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH

V. THE TYPICALITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE NORM

VI. THE CHURCH AS INSTITUTION, GOD’S PEOPLE, SOCIETY

VII. ACTIVITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

For attending students (that is students attending at least 2/3 of classes and seminars) only:

C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (with the exception of some Chapters)

Non attending students can choose between program No. 1 and program No. 2:

PROGRAM No. 1

1. C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (except Chapter I or II or III).

PROGRAM No. 2

1. C. FANTAPPIE’, Storia del diritto e delle istituzioni della Chiesa, Bologna, Il Mulino 2011;
2. P. GROSSI, Diritto canonico e cultura giuridica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 32 (2003), pp. 373-389, downloadable from: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/32/0374.pdf

FOR MORE INFORMATIONS, SEE https://dirittocanonicoroma3.wordpress.com/

Translation and acquisition of linguistic and translation skills. Development of linguistic reflection and acquisition of translation strategies through the practice of reading, analysis and translation of texts of various types on modern and contemporary culture.

Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012

Pierfrancesco PORENA, Latin Epigraphy (Master degree) (36 hours - 6 ECTS)
DISCIPLINARY FIELD: L-ANT/03

“From Turia to Paulina. Latin inscriptions about Roman women. Voices of Roman women in Latin inscriptions”.

Roman women emerge in our sources mainly through the point of view of men, who attempted to standardise them in Latin and Greek learned literature in prose and verse, and in legal literature. But the communicative density of Latin inscriptions conceals and reveals, as in a game of the said and unsaid, the richness of the Roman female universe. An immense and long-lived universe, populated by aristocrats, Roman citizens and foreigners, slaves and freedwomen, children, wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, old women and widows. Beneath a supeficially immobile reality, epigraphy whispers instincts and draws asymmetrical sensibilities in perpetual tension between submission to fathers, the inevitable reproductive duty, and the evolution of a society in which even men were prisoners of unquestionable models.

Attending Students: Handouts (PDFs) and materials provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course and during the lessons.

Non-attending Students:
- A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, NUOVA EDIZIONE, Roma (Carocci) 2020 (contiene link con la traduzione italiana dei testi epigrafici esaminati). [mandatory];
- Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica, edited by R. Friggeri, M.G. Granino Cecere, G. Gregori, Milan (Electa) 2012 [757 pp. - € 46,00]: mandatory study of Room I + 4 Rooms of your choice.
Exercises: Visit to the 'Epigraphic Collection' (The Museum of Written Communication in the Roman World) of the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

Texts for specific non-attending programmes can be agreed with the teacher.

States of Nature: Desire and Need from Plato to Modern Philosophy.
The course aims to consider the philosophical anthropology underlying conceptions of the state of nature in modernity. Its aim is to focus on desire and need as two different drivers of the transition from the state of nature to civil society.

- Plato, The Symposium [any edition]
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part One [any edition]
- D. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, Book III. On Morals [any edition]
- K. Marx, "Forms preceding capitalist production", in Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Grundrisse) [photocopies provided by the professor]

How to get out of war: strategies of negotiation and peacemaking in the Early Modern Age

In the Early Modern Age, the themes of war, peace and negotiation with internal and external actors of the different political communities were particularly important and they extended from the European continent to the non-European worlds. It was a phenomenon that involved the society as a whole and not only diplomats and soldiers. The tools and practices adopted by the societies of the ancien régime constructed a complex web of actions and theories that ranged from the construction of the diplomatic system to private negotiation in and out of the judicial sphere.

The class will explore the issues of negotiation, pacification, and warfare in early modern societies, analysing paths and strategies of bargaining and peacemaking between Europe and the Americas and exploring theories and practices of warfare.

The course will also include a reading of Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795) as a summa of the experience gained in previous centuries.

Three books from the following list:

A) Both the following books:
• Arcangeli, Che cos’è la storia culturale, Carocci, Roma 2007
• M. Merluzzi, La pacificazione del regno: Negoziazione e creazione del consenso in Perù (1533-1581), Viella, Roma 2021

B) One book of your choice within the following:
• P. Broggio e M. P. Paoli, «Stringere la pace». Teorie e pratiche della conciliazione nell’Europa moderna (secoli XV-XVIII), 2011
• G. Brunelli, La guerra in età moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2021
• F. Cantù, L’immagine del nemico, Storia, ideologia e rappresentazione tra età moderna e contemporanea, Viella Roma 2009
• V. Favarò, Pratiche negoziali e reti di potere. Carmine Nicola Caracciolo tra Europa e America (1694-1725), Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2020
• V. Lavenia, Dio in uniforme. Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna, Il mulino, Bologna 2018
• P. Volpini, Ambasciatori nella prima età moderna tra corti italiane ed europee, Sapienza Università editrice, Roma 2022

This course aims at giving the students the basic concepts of applied ethics and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WRITE THE PAPER (ON WHICH SEE THE SECTION "PROGRAMMA DELL'INSEGNAMENTO" AND WILL PASS THE PRE-EXAM AT THE END OF THE COURSE:

1. Photocopies of articles that the instructor will put on Moodle
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (the second part only)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza


FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT PASS THE PRE-EXAM
1. Article by John Searle: https://download.kataweb.it/mediaweb/pdf/espresso/scienze/1990_259_1.pdf
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (chs. 11-18)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza (entire book)

The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Durkheim, Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.D.1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (limitedly to chapters 1,2,5)
2. Beate Krais, Gunter Gebauer, Habitus, Rome, Armando, 2009.
U.D.2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine (1876), ed. D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4.Charles S. Peirce, Il fissarsi della credenza (1877), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 357-371.
5. Charles S. Peirce, Come chiarire le nostre idee (1878), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 377-393.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).

The thought of Thomas Aquinas in the contemporary philosophical debate.

Tommaso d’Aquino, La conoscenza di Dio, Fabbri Editori, RCS, Milano, 2001.
S. L. Brock, Percorsi di sapienza naturale. Dodici lezioni sulla metafisica di San Tommaso, Edusc, Roma, 2022.
L. Messinese, Il filosofo e la fede, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2022.
B. Ippolito, "DETRONIZZARE LA VERITA'?, Forum, Vol. 7, 2021, pp. 147–168.
M. Micheletti, “IL CONTRIBUTO DEL TOMISMO ANALITICO ALLA FILOSOFIA CONTEMPORANEA. DALL'ANTROPOLOGIA ALLA TEOLOGIA NATURALE E AL DIBATTITO SULL'ONTOLOGIA.” Divus Thomas, vol. 117, no. 2, 2014, pp. 110–175.
M. Marassi, “IL PROBLEMA DEL FONDAMENTO NEI CONTRIBUTI DELLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA»: A MARGINE DELLA PIÙ FAMOSA DISPUTA.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 323–348.
D. Sacchi, “LA PRESENZA DI GUSTAVO BONTADINI SULLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA» NELLA SECONDA METÀ DEL NOVECENTO.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 217–284.

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

The exam program will be valid from the 2023 summer session.
Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://uniroma3.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/AA2223-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO2/Documenti%20condivisi/General/Caraci%20Dall%27esperienza%20del%20viaggio%20al%20sapere%20geografico%20OCR.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=mpg1f1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Il viaggio prima del viaggio. Credenze, miti e desideri dalle esperienze odeporiche terrestri a quelle extraterrestri, in Annalisa D'Ascenzo (a cura di), I viaggi e la modernità. Dalle grandi esplorazioni geografiche ai mondi extraterrestri, Roma, CISGE – Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici, 2021, https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/1092.

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

Reformation and the history of religious toleration

Testi di riferimento

1) L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
2) D. Cantimori, Eretici italiani del Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
- M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- G. Caravale, Il profeta disarmato. L'eresia di Francesco Pucci nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Bologna, il Mulino
- L. Biasiori, L'eresia di un umanista. Celio Secondo Curione nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
- Leonardo Rapone (a cura di), "L’Europa del novecento", Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
- Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
- Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine;
- Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine;
- Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine;
- Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
- Leonardo Rapone (a cura di), "L’Europa del novecento", Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
- Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
- Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine;
- Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine;
- Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine;
- Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

The course of Didactics of Geography, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretative of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualize the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
Topics of the course: Geographic knowledge in teaching and research; Developing geographical skills; Geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; Geography teaching in schools and universities; National guidelines and textbooks; Geotechnology and teaching; Simulation of didactic units.

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giorda C. (a cura di), L’immagine del mondo nella geografia dei bambini. Una ricerca sui materiali scolastici e parascolastici italiani fra Otto e Novecento, Franco Angeli, 2021 (Available in open access: https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/683)
• Papers suggested by Professor.

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017
2) Joseph S. Nye Junior, Smart power, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012 (since page 134)
3) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021

A book of your choice:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009
b) Mario Isnenghi, Le guerre degli italiani. Parole, immagini, ricordi, 1848-1945, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015
d) George Mosse, Le guerre mondiali. Dalla tragedia al mito dei caduti, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018
e) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
f) Sergio Marelli, ONG: una storia da raccontare. Dal volontariato alle multinazionali della solidarietà, Carocci, Roma 2015
g) Carlo Felice Casula, Liliosa Azara, Unesco 1945-2005. Un’utopia necessaria: scienza, educazione e cultura nel secolo mondo, Città aperta, Troina 2005, p. 302
h) Victoria De Grazia, L’impero irresistibile. La società dei consumi americani alla conquista del mondo, Einaudi, Torino 2020
i) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012
j) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006
k) Nicola Sbetti, Giochi diplomatici. Sport e politica estera nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra, Viella, Roma 2020
l) Michael L. Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the present day, Bloomsbury, London 2017

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social and cultural meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the collective and public memories of controversial events, arenas where gender identities, ethnicity and social classes are socially constructed.
The first part of the course will aim at studying artistic production and politics of cultural consumption. It will focus on the following topics: theories of the "author's death", theories of reception, art as social practice, the institutional definitions of artistic value, cases of " non-recognition " and plagiarism, politics of genius, canonization and practices of social exclusion, theories of cultural capital, relationship between art and advertising, the role of social media in the production of artistic reputations and in relation to the "arts worlds", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: art and the public sphere, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the cinema in shaping the public memory of very contested pasts, sociology of museums and politics of museum exhibition, representation of ethnic identities in museums, museums as technology of gender, multimedia arts.

1) Anna Lisa Tota e Antonietta De Feo (2019), Sociologia delle arti. Musei, memoria e performance digitali, Carocci, Roma.
2) Anna Lisa Tota, Lia Luchetti e Trever Hagen (2018) (a cura di) Sociologie della memoria. Verso un’ecologia del passato, Carocci, Roma.

The first part of the course is dedicated to the transformations taking place within the modern public and political scene and to the most relevant theoretical contributions in political communication. The main areas of transformation of Italian political communication and its actors and the evolution of electoral campaigns will be examined.
The second part, dedicated to visual politics, analyzes the history and evolution of political graphics and aesthetic codes of Italian political propaganda from 1945 to today and the contacts and influences with the main artistic currents. This part includes the analysis and study of new aesthetics related to the spread of digital communication and the use of social networks.
An integral part of the course is the viewing and analysis of a wide range of original audiovisual propaganda materials such as films, commercials, television programs, posters, and web cards, which constitute teaching materials and the subject of examination.
In the case of electoral campaigns during the teaching period, it is possible to activate their monitoring by involving the students actively and directly.

Syllabus
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- E. Novelli. I Manifesti Politici, Carocci, Roma 2021, forthcoming, available from October 2021
- P. Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020

Participation in the "Laboratory for the design and analysis of platforms and digital archives", if not registered in the curriculum as "external activities" (equivalent to 3 CFU), exempts from Gerbaudo's book.

* The following websites and Tv programmes contain materials and documents illustrated in class and have to be considered audiovisual supports of the course:
–www.archivispotpolitici.it
– www.politicaltalkshow.it
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2010/07/Mi-consenta---I-politici-e-la-Tv---La-Grande-Storia-7ed9b459-9b06-41c5-8fd4-0bd9a3f997f3.html

The course is divided in two parts: the first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia;
- Il potere nella società in rete
- La comunicazione nell'età digitale
- Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

The course deals with the analysis of images. It refers specifically to the social factors intervening in the construction of their meanings. The first part of the course will provide analytical and methodological tolls to the students in order to analyse the images and, more specifically, the photos (referring above all to the theories of Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag). The second part of the course will focus on the social and public use of images, especially in relation to photos of controversial pasts (wars, natural disasters, violence, terroristic attacks). The course will be divided into five teaching modules: (1) What is photography? Theories and methods; (2) The “stories” of photography, the photographs of history; (3) Gender and race in advertising image ; (4) Photography and memory from analog to digital; (5) Visual communication and violence. The course will have an interactive structure, in which students will be asked to actively participate through short presentations, the sharing of images, and the collective interpretation of the visual materials presented by the teacher.

The exam will be based on the reading of the following texts:
1) Roland Barthes (1979), La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino.
2) Roland Barthes (1964), Image-Music-Text. (Translation 1977), capitolo II, “The Rhetoric of the Image”. S. Heath, ed. London: Fontana, pp. 32-51.
3) Susan Sontag (1973), On Photography, Capitolo I, "In Plato's Cave”, Rosetta Books, New York, pp. 1-19.
4) David Bate (2017), Il primo libro di fotografia, Capitolo 7 "Fotografia e Arte", Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi,Torino, pp. 193-211.
5) Barbie Zelizer (2004), “The Voice of the Visual in Memory”, in Phillips R. Kendall (ed.), Framing Public Memory, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, pp. 157-186.
6) Anna Lisa Tota (2013), “A Photo that Matter: The Memorial Clock in Bologna and its Invented Tradition”, in Olga Shevchenko (ed.), Double Exposure: Memory and Photography, Transaction Publishers, Piscaway, pp. 41-64.
7) Susie Linfield (2013), La luce crudele. Fotografia e violenza politica, Contrasto Edizioni, Roma, pp. 10-46.
8) Merskin, Debra (2004), “Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising”. American Behavioral Scientist 48, pp. 119-128.

Students will also have access the teaching materials used by the teacher (power points and images) and a series of suggested readings, whose reading is optional.

All materials are available on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it on the teacher's personal page.

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with the following essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class:

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

Students not attending classes will study also Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Pearson, 2020, First and Second parts.

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with the following essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class:

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

Students not attending classes will study also Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Pearson, 2020, First and Second parts.

The program includes a historical introduction to the formation of public opinion and mass culture in the twentieth century.
The second part of the course will deal with the Italian case, in particular with the role of television in the formation of public opinion and mass culture.
Finally, the third part will be dedicated to American mass culture, compared with "other" mass cultures, especially the Soviet one.

Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv, Carocci, Milano 2019
Alberto Mario Banti, Wonderland. La cultura di massa da Walt Disney ai Pink Floyd, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017
During the lessons further in-depth texts will be indicated.

First semester.
Hours: 6 hours/week, for 6 weeks: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Monday 3 October 2022. End of the course: November 2022.

Course title 2022-2023: Paul after Paul. Creation and transformation of an apocryphal text: the Third Letter to the Corinthians.

Class recordings will be available to students, who meet the requirements (physical frailty, employment contract, socio-economic frailty, imprisonment), who request them.

The course aims to deepen - from the perspective of historico-literary, historico-doctrinal and history-of-reception investigation - a Pauline apocryphal work: the Correspondence between Paul and the Corinthians, known as the Third Letter to the Corinthians. In it, the anonymous author writes on Paul's behalf a text in which the apostle is made to return to a theme already dealt with in the authentic First Letter to the Corinthians: faith in the resurrection of the dead. The work well exemplifies the phenomenon of apostolic pseudepigraphy and issues related to the formation of the Christian canon of Scripture; it is also an excellent case study on research methodologies applied to proto-Christian texts.
The course has a seminar character and involves the active participation of students.

Lecture materials (including critical editions of texts read in class) will be provided by the teacher.

General section.
For students who have never taken an exam in Ancient Christian Literature: M. SIMONETTI - E. PRINZIVALLI, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, Bologna: EDB, 2010.
For students who have already taken exams in Ancient Christian Literature: H.Y. GAMBLE, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Brescia: Paideia, 2006.

First semester.
Hours: 6 hours/week, for 6 weeks: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Monday 14 November 2022.

Course title 2022-2023: Preparing the critical edition of an apocryphal work: the Latin tradition of the Third Letter to the Corinthians.

Class recordings will be available to students, who meet the requirements (physical frailty, employment contract, socio-economic frailty, imprisonment), who request them.

The course aims to investigate a case study, from a philological perspective: the Latin tradition of a Christian apocryphal work, the so-called Third Letter to the Corinthians. This work (also the subject of the course in Ancient Christian Literature 2022-2023, under a different study perspective), originally composed in Greek, presents a singular tradition in Latin, which attests to the existence of two distinct ancient versions. The course, a seminar format with the active participation of students, will be a true workshop in which, with the collaboration of all participants, an attempt will be made to produce a critical edition of this tradition.

Lecture materials will be provided by the teacher.

General part:
R. MAISANO, Filologia del Nuovo Testamento. La tradizione e la trasmissione dei testi, Roma: Carocci, 2014;
or, for students who have never taken an exam in Classical Philology: P .CHIESA, Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione, Bologna: Pàtron, 2012.

Pierfrancesco PORENA, Latin Epigraphy (Master degree) (36 hours - 6 ECTS)
DISCIPLINARY FIELD: L-ANT/03

“From Turia to Paulina. Latin inscriptions about Roman women. Voices of Roman women in Latin inscriptions”.

Roman women emerge in our sources mainly through the point of view of men, who attempted to standardise them in Latin and Greek learned literature in prose and verse, and in legal literature. But the communicative density of Latin inscriptions conceals and reveals, as in a game of the said and unsaid, the richness of the Roman female universe. An immense and long-lived universe, populated by aristocrats, Roman citizens and foreigners, slaves and freedwomen, children, wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, old women and widows. Beneath a supeficially immobile reality, epigraphy whispers instincts and draws asymmetrical sensibilities in perpetual tension between submission to fathers, the inevitable reproductive duty, and the evolution of a society in which even men were prisoners of unquestionable models.

Attending Students: Handouts (PDFs) and materials provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course and during the lessons.

Non-attending Students:
- A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, NUOVA EDIZIONE, Roma (Carocci) 2020 (contiene link con la traduzione italiana dei testi epigrafici esaminati). [mandatory];
- Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica, edited by R. Friggeri, M.G. Granino Cecere, G. Gregori, Milan (Electa) 2012 [757 pp. - € 46,00]: mandatory study of Room I + 4 Rooms of your choice.
Exercises: Visit to the 'Epigraphic Collection' (The Museum of Written Communication in the Roman World) of the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

Texts for specific non-attending programmes can be agreed with the teacher.

States of Nature: Desire and Need from Plato to Modern Philosophy.
The course aims to consider the philosophical anthropology underlying conceptions of the state of nature in modernity. Its aim is to focus on desire and need as two different drivers of the transition from the state of nature to civil society.

- Plato, The Symposium [any edition]
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part One [any edition]
- D. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, Book III. On Morals [any edition]
- K. Marx, "Forms preceding capitalist production", in Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Grundrisse) [photocopies provided by the professor]

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The audience has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.
On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.
The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.

To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.

The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• M. Bellocchio, Henry IV (1984)

Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.

Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

The course aims to offer:
(1) an introduction to the Hellenistic world (2 lessons);
(2) an introduction to the world of the Greek poleis at that time and to the new phenomenon of royalty (2 lessons);
(3) in-depth lessons on the relationship between poleis and sovereigns (5 lessons);
(4) in-depth lessons on the hellenistic poleis’ political institutions (in the aspects of continuity and evolution), the role of the élite, and the intense mutual interconnection between poleis, made of diplomatic relations, exchange of honors and judges, recognition of syngeneia, common participation in cults (9-10 lessons);
(5) the presentation by the students of some topics related to the course and agreed with the teacher.

The topics will be addressed taking into account literary, epigraphic, archaeological and iconographic sources.
During the lessons an introduction to the main databases of Greek literary texts and inscriptions and to the most important bibliographic research tools will also be made.

A) M. Mari (a cura di), L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2019 (intero volume).
B) J. Ma, “Peer Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic Age”, P&P, 180, 9-40.
C) A. Chaniotis, “The Divinity of Hellenistic Ruler”, in A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003, 431-445.
D) L. Moretti, La scuola, il ginnasio, l’efebia, in R. Bianchi Bandinelli (dir.), Storia e civiltà dei Greci, 8. La società ellenistica. Economia, diritto, religione, Milano 1977, 469-490.
E) Two essays chosen from the following ones:
- essays by John Ma, Riet van Bremen, Patrice Baker, David Potter in A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003;
- Chr. Müller, “Oligarchy and the Hellenistic City”, in H. Börm – N. Luraghi (eds.), The Polis in the Hellenistic World, Stuttgart, F. Steiner Verlag, 2018, 27-52.
F) Material provided by the teacher.

This course aims at giving the students the basic concepts of applied ethics and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WRITE THE PAPER (ON WHICH SEE THE SECTION "PROGRAMMA DELL'INSEGNAMENTO" AND WILL PASS THE PRE-EXAM AT THE END OF THE COURSE:

1. Photocopies of articles that the instructor will put on Moodle
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (the second part only)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza


FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT PASS THE PRE-EXAM
1. Article by John Searle: https://download.kataweb.it/mediaweb/pdf/espresso/scienze/1990_259_1.pdf
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (chs. 11-18)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza (entire book)

The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Durkheim, Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.D.1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (limitedly to chapters 1,2,5)
2. Beate Krais, Gunter Gebauer, Habitus, Rome, Armando, 2009.
U.D.2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine (1876), ed. D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4.Charles S. Peirce, Il fissarsi della credenza (1877), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 357-371.
5. Charles S. Peirce, Come chiarire le nostre idee (1878), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 377-393.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).

The thought of Thomas Aquinas in the contemporary philosophical debate.

Tommaso d’Aquino, La conoscenza di Dio, Fabbri Editori, RCS, Milano, 2001.
S. L. Brock, Percorsi di sapienza naturale. Dodici lezioni sulla metafisica di San Tommaso, Edusc, Roma, 2022.
L. Messinese, Il filosofo e la fede, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2022.
B. Ippolito, "DETRONIZZARE LA VERITA'?, Forum, Vol. 7, 2021, pp. 147–168.
M. Micheletti, “IL CONTRIBUTO DEL TOMISMO ANALITICO ALLA FILOSOFIA CONTEMPORANEA. DALL'ANTROPOLOGIA ALLA TEOLOGIA NATURALE E AL DIBATTITO SULL'ONTOLOGIA.” Divus Thomas, vol. 117, no. 2, 2014, pp. 110–175.
M. Marassi, “IL PROBLEMA DEL FONDAMENTO NEI CONTRIBUTI DELLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA»: A MARGINE DELLA PIÙ FAMOSA DISPUTA.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 323–348.
D. Sacchi, “LA PRESENZA DI GUSTAVO BONTADINI SULLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA» NELLA SECONDA METÀ DEL NOVECENTO.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 217–284.

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: Corsair Wars, slavery, conversions" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, free download here: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Students who have to take only 6 ECTS are required to prepare on the first teaching unit.

The course of Didactics of Geography, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretative of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualize the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
Topics of the course: Geographic knowledge in teaching and research; Developing geographical skills; Geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; Geography teaching in schools and universities; National guidelines and textbooks; Geotechnology and teaching; Simulation of didactic units.

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giorda C. (a cura di), L’immagine del mondo nella geografia dei bambini. Una ricerca sui materiali scolastici e parascolastici italiani fra Otto e Novecento, Franco Angeli, 2021 (Available in open access: https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/683)
• Papers suggested by Professor.

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social and cultural meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the collective and public memories of controversial events, arenas where gender identities, ethnicity and social classes are socially constructed.
The first part of the course will aim at studying artistic production and politics of cultural consumption. It will focus on the following topics: theories of the "author's death", theories of reception, art as social practice, the institutional definitions of artistic value, cases of " non-recognition " and plagiarism, politics of genius, canonization and practices of social exclusion, theories of cultural capital, relationship between art and advertising, the role of social media in the production of artistic reputations and in relation to the "arts worlds", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: art and the public sphere, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the cinema in shaping the public memory of very contested pasts, sociology of museums and politics of museum exhibition, representation of ethnic identities in museums, museums as technology of gender, multimedia arts.

1) Anna Lisa Tota e Antonietta De Feo (2019), Sociologia delle arti. Musei, memoria e performance digitali, Carocci, Roma.
2) Anna Lisa Tota, Lia Luchetti e Trever Hagen (2018) (a cura di) Sociologie della memoria. Verso un’ecologia del passato, Carocci, Roma.

The first part of the course is dedicated to the transformations taking place within the modern public and political scene and to the most relevant theoretical contributions in political communication. The main areas of transformation of Italian political communication and its actors and the evolution of electoral campaigns will be examined.
The second part, dedicated to visual politics, analyzes the history and evolution of political graphics and aesthetic codes of Italian political propaganda from 1945 to today and the contacts and influences with the main artistic currents. This part includes the analysis and study of new aesthetics related to the spread of digital communication and the use of social networks.
An integral part of the course is the viewing and analysis of a wide range of original audiovisual propaganda materials such as films, commercials, television programs, posters, and web cards, which constitute teaching materials and the subject of examination.
In the case of electoral campaigns during the teaching period, it is possible to activate their monitoring by involving the students actively and directly.

Syllabus
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- E. Novelli. I Manifesti Politici, Carocci, Roma 2021, forthcoming, available from October 2021
- P. Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020

Participation in the "Laboratory for the design and analysis of platforms and digital archives", if not registered in the curriculum as "external activities" (equivalent to 3 CFU), exempts from Gerbaudo's book.

* The following websites and Tv programmes contain materials and documents illustrated in class and have to be considered audiovisual supports of the course:
–www.archivispotpolitici.it
– www.politicaltalkshow.it
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2010/07/Mi-consenta---I-politici-e-la-Tv---La-Grande-Storia-7ed9b459-9b06-41c5-8fd4-0bd9a3f997f3.html

The course is divided in two parts: the first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia;
- Il potere nella società in rete
- La comunicazione nell'età digitale
- Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

The course deals with the analysis of images. It refers specifically to the social factors intervening in the construction of their meanings. The first part of the course will provide analytical and methodological tolls to the students in order to analyse the images and, more specifically, the photos (referring above all to the theories of Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag). The second part of the course will focus on the social and public use of images, especially in relation to photos of controversial pasts (wars, natural disasters, violence, terroristic attacks). The course will be divided into five teaching modules: (1) What is photography? Theories and methods; (2) The “stories” of photography, the photographs of history; (3) Gender and race in advertising image ; (4) Photography and memory from analog to digital; (5) Visual communication and violence. The course will have an interactive structure, in which students will be asked to actively participate through short presentations, the sharing of images, and the collective interpretation of the visual materials presented by the teacher.

The exam will be based on the reading of the following texts:
1) Roland Barthes (1979), La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino.
2) Roland Barthes (1964), Image-Music-Text. (Translation 1977), capitolo II, “The Rhetoric of the Image”. S. Heath, ed. London: Fontana, pp. 32-51.
3) Susan Sontag (1973), On Photography, Capitolo I, "In Plato's Cave”, Rosetta Books, New York, pp. 1-19.
4) David Bate (2017), Il primo libro di fotografia, Capitolo 7 "Fotografia e Arte", Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi,Torino, pp. 193-211.
5) Barbie Zelizer (2004), “The Voice of the Visual in Memory”, in Phillips R. Kendall (ed.), Framing Public Memory, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, pp. 157-186.
6) Anna Lisa Tota (2013), “A Photo that Matter: The Memorial Clock in Bologna and its Invented Tradition”, in Olga Shevchenko (ed.), Double Exposure: Memory and Photography, Transaction Publishers, Piscaway, pp. 41-64.
7) Susie Linfield (2013), La luce crudele. Fotografia e violenza politica, Contrasto Edizioni, Roma, pp. 10-46.
8) Merskin, Debra (2004), “Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising”. American Behavioral Scientist 48, pp. 119-128.

Students will also have access the teaching materials used by the teacher (power points and images) and a series of suggested readings, whose reading is optional.

All materials are available on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it on the teacher's personal page.

The program includes a historical introduction to the formation of public opinion and mass culture in the twentieth century.
The second part of the course will deal with the Italian case, in particular with the role of television in the formation of public opinion and mass culture.
Finally, the third part will be dedicated to American mass culture, compared with "other" mass cultures, especially the Soviet one.

Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv, Carocci, Milano 2019
Alberto Mario Banti, Wonderland. La cultura di massa da Walt Disney ai Pink Floyd, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017
During the lessons further in-depth texts will be indicated.

Early Christian buildings and the mosaic decorations in the Italian peninsula (4th-6th century)

The aim of the course is to reconstruct the diffusion and the characteristics of the mosaic production of the Early Christian buildings in the main centers of the peninsula between the 4th and 6th centuries.
The study will focus on archaeological, iconographic, stylistic and artistic issues.
The course includes visits.

Texts:
F. Bisconti, Imprese musive paleocristiane negli edifici di culto dell’Italia Meridionale, in Atti del IV Colloquio dell’Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, Palermo 9-13 dicembre 1996, Tivoli 1997, pp. 733-746.
F. Bisconti, A. Nestori, I mosaici paleocristiani di Santa Maria Maggiore negli acquerelli della collezione Wilpert, Città del Vaticano 2000.
F. Bisconti, Mosaici nel cimitero di S. Gaudioso: revisione iconografica ed approfondimenti iconologici, in Atti del VII Colloquio dell’Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico, Venezia 22-25 marzo 2000, Tivoli 2001, pp. 87-98.
F. Bisconti, Interazioni tematiche e formali tra le decorazioni musive delle aule teodoriane e dei cosiddetti oratori di Aquileia, in Antichità Altoadriatiche, 62 (2006), pp. 139-154.
F. Bisconti, M. Braconi, Il mosaico parietale nella Roma paleocristiana: dalla committenza imperiale ai programmi pontifici, in XII Colloquio AIEMA, Venezia 11-15 settembre 2012, Verona 2015, pp. 47-55.
F. Bisconti, Napoli. Catacombe di S. Gennaro. Cripta dei Vescovi. Restauri ultimi, in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 91 (2015), pp. 7-34.
F. Bisconti, Mosaici cristiani della tarda antichità. Orizzonti figurativi e programmi iconografici, in G. Castiglia, Ph. Pergola (ed.), Instrumentum Domesticum. Archeologia Cristiana, temi, metodologie e cultura materiale della tarda antichità e dell’alto medioevo, Città del Vaticano 2020, pp. 483-527.

Not attending students must add:
F. Bisconti, Temi di iconografia paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000, Introduction (pp. 13-86) and a choice of 20 entries

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. M. Bombardieri - M. C. Giorda - S. Hejazi (a cura di), Capire l'islam. Mito o realtà, Brescia: Morcelliana, 2019.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

This course focuses on practice of teaching Latin language in the schools with reference to morphology, metrical analysis and prose text translation

Didactic handouts available on the teacher's online page

The Course aimed to provide a geographically wider overview of the catacombs of Italy, analysing in detail those of Umbria and Tuscany.

Bibliography will be provided during the course lessons.

Not attending students should agree a bibliography with the professor.

Early medieval sculpture in Rome: from fragment to context
In Rome, between the 8th and 9th centuries, decorative models and working practices spread that, in the same centuries and to varying degrees, characterised the architectural decoration and sculpted furnishings of cult buildings in central and northern Italy and beyond. Early medieval sculpture is a territorially extensive field of research, with uncertain chronological limits and difficult to "frame" due to the fragmentary nature of the sculptures that have come down to us out of context.
From a look at the gradual abandonment of the sculptural practice of ancient tradition; through an in-depth study of techniques and some early medieval outcomes in sculpture, the course proposes a reflection on the methods and strategies employed in the study of so-called "interwoven" sculpture. Sources and historiography; style, technique and colour; symbols and/or ornamentation; forms and functions; finally, description and documentation will be the topics of the module: a path in stages to experience how each object of study imposes on the researcher the "critical" construction of his or her instruments of investigation.

Visit to: Sant'Agnese f.le.m; Catacombe di San Sebastiano; San Clemente; Santa Prassede.
Need to know: Museo Nazionale Crypta Balbi; Museo dell'Alto Medioevo.

Bibliography:
R. Coates-Stephens, La vita delle statue nella Roma tardoantica, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 130-151

M. Prusac Lindhagen, I ritratti del V e del VI secolo, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti,Milano 2016, pp. 160-177

H. Brandenburg, Sarcofagi tardoantichi, paleocristiani e altomedievali, Atti della giornata tematica dei Seminari di Archeologia Cristiana (École Française de Rome – 8 maggio 2002), pp. 1-34

F. Bisconti, La rinascita dei sarcofagi. Alcune considerazioni alla luce dei restauri dei sarcofagi di S. Sebastiano, in Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana, 95 (2019), pp. 11-34.

A.Ballardini, Scolpire a Roma: dalla rinuncia al 3D alla riorganizzazione delle officine, in R. Santangeli Valenzani, Roma altomedievale. Paesaggio urbano, società e cultura (secoli V - X), Roma Carocci editore, c.s.

A.Ballardini, Scultura a Roma: standards qualitativi e committenza (VIII secolo), in L’VIII secolo: un secolo inquieto, Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Cividale del Friuli, 4-7 dicembre 2008, a cura di V. Pace, Cividale del Friuli 2010, pp. 141-148.

A.Ballardini, Scultura per l’arredo liturgico nella Roma di Pasquale I: tra modelli paleocristiani e Flechtwerk, in Medioevo: arte e storia, X Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Parma, 18-22 settembre 2007, a cura di A.C. Quintavalle, Milano-Parma 2008, pp. 225-246.

A.Ballardini, Scultura in pezzi: appunti sulla scultura alto medievale di Santa Prassede, in Svmma. Revista de Cultures Medievals, 9 (2017), pp. 5-20 (https://www.raco.cat/index.php/SVMMA/article/view/328534)

A.Ballardini, Scolpire a Roma per Pasquale I (817-824)? L'oratorio di San Zenone, in S. Ammirati, A. Ballardini, G. Bordi (a cura di), Grata più delle stelle. Pasquale I e la Roma del suo tempo, vol. 2, Roma: Efesto editore (Arte in questione, 2) 2020, pp. 16-51.

Sculpting Techniques:
W.Wootton, B.Russel, P. Rockwell, 1) StoneworkingTechniques and Process 2) Stoneworking, Tools and Toolmarks, in The Art of Making in Antiquity, Stoneworking in the Roman World
(consultabile in http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/) (in particolare per gli strumenti di lavoro + video)

M. Pfanner, Marmor, Steinmetze, Bildhauer und Werkstätten. Überlegungen zur Herstellung antiken und karolinischer Marmorwerke, in K. Roth-Rubi, H. R. Sennhauser, Die Frühe Marmorskulptur Aus Dem Kloster St. Johann in Müstair, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2015, Textband, pp. 300-311 (disponibile in TRADUZIONE)

Liturgical Fornitures:
A.Ballardini, Le recinzioni presbiteriali a Roma (VI-VIII secolo): una ricognizione, in A. Adrian (éd.), Le chancel de Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Actes du colloque, (Metz, 27-29 avril 2017), Cinisello Balsano: Silvana Editoriale 2021, pp. 142-55.

A.Ballardini, M. Caperna, A Santa Prassede, nella Gerusalemme nuova. L’assetto architettonico dello spazio absidale, l’arredo e la disposizione liturgica, in C. Bordino, C. Croci, V. Sulovsky (eds.), Rome on the Borders. Visual Cultures During the Carolingian Transition, in Convivium supplementum, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2020, pp. 176-205.

On the basis of documents and contemporary testimonies to the different linguistic phenomena, the course will illustrate some aspects of linguistic communication in Latin, considered in its diachronic development (from protohistory to the Romance) and in its various registers (standard and informal). The reading and analysis of various texts regarding Latin epistular genre is aimed at providing the tools to grasp the specificities of the historical evolution of the Latin language and to identify its morphosyntactic and stylistic peculiarities. For this purpose the course consists of:
(1) A number of lessons minded in particular to offer an overview of the history of the Latin language from its origins up to the 6th century A.D., through the reconstruction of its evolution in the dimension of language of everyday use and literary language;
(2) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of Latin epistolary texts in prose (from Cicero, Seneca, Pliny the Younger, Fronto, Symmachus, Sidonius Apollinaris) and in poetry (Claudian).

As far as point 1:
- (a) F. Berardi, Le vie del latino. Storia della lingua latina con elementi di grammatica storica, Galatina, Congedo Editore, 2021 (2a ediz.).
- (b) Further bibliography and tools about the texts in the syllabus will be given during the course, and made available on line at the url of the course.

As far as point 2:
- (a) A. Fusi - A. Luceri, Gli epistolari, in A. Fusi-A. Luceri-P. Parroni-G. Piras (edited by), Lo Spazio Letterario di Roma antica, vol. VII (I Testi. 2 – Prosa), Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012, pp. 505-596.
- (b) Claudio Claudiano, Carmina minora 19, 22, 23, 31, 40 e 41 [selected pages from M.L. Ricci, Claudii Claudiani Carmina minora, Bari, Edipuglia, 2001]

Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:

- Elena Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata con la collaborazione di Ermanno Malaspina, Alessandria, Ediz. dell’Orso, 2014.

This section of the Byzantine Civilization teaching, addressed to graduate students of History and Art, Archaeology, and Religious Sciences, aims to investigate the reasons behind the fall of Constantinople and the way in which it fell in the hands of the Osman Turks, along with the direct and indirect consequences brought by this fall to the history of the Mediterranean civilization.
Firstly, this module shall deal with a topographical investigation of Constantinople, based on literary and figurative attestations that Byzantine writers and especially foreign travellers of the 14th and the 15th century offer on the city’s monuments, neighborhoods’ organizations and location and on the defensive structure, which includes but it is not limited to the great Theodosian walls.
Secondly, it shall reconstruct the final phases of the siege as well as the final battle.
Then, it shall unbiasedly analyse what was, contrary to popular belief, a not-so-predictable Turkish victory, which was the consequence of a superiority both numerical and of the military means or, with the words of Braudel, of the voluntary ‘will to fall’ of a politically exhausted Byzantium. On the contrary, the battle outcomes was unpredictable until the end, and what happened at last left speecheless and disoriented political observers from all around the world.

S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002

A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976

From the artwork to the context of origin and vice versa: Flemish and Dutch paintings from the deposits of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries

You have in front of you a work of art, a painting that is rarely exhibited, you can look at it closely with a magnifying glass, take apart its frame, touch (with gloves) the pictorial surface, you can turn it over, record the numbers or seals with which it is covered, and then what? Through this course, which is eminently workshop-based in nature, it is intended to prompt, strengthen, and problematize the students' manual skills and knowledge through direct confrontation with a limited number of paintings executed in the Flemish and Dutch areas from the 15th to the 18th centuries. For this purpose, the students will be welcomed one morning each week (on Fridays) at the Museo Laboratorio of the Barberini Corsini National Galleries, where, with the help of Dr. Paola Nicita and the collaboration of Prof. Giovanna Sapori, they will be introduced to the analysis of the work of art, its state of preservation, and the elements that contribute to the attestation of its collecting and material history. Conversely, in-class lectures will serve to contextualize the works within the stylistic, iconographic tradition, sources, and historiographical treatment, but above all within the framework of a general outline of the art history of the southern and northern Netherlands in the modern age. Each work, from the copy to the masterpiece, from the painting of the highest quality to that of commonplace workmanship, will participate directly in the process of discovering a school, a genre, a technique of execution, a medium, a relative and absolute chronology.

For the preparation for the exam it is necessary the critical study of

a) At least one of the following text: Ghislain Kieft, I Paesi Bassi settentrionali: arte, mestiere e committenza nel secolo d'oro, in La pittura nei Paesi Bassi, a cura di B.W.Meijer, Milano, Electa, 1997, tomo II, pp. 409-522 (scaricabile) or Mariette Westermann, The Art of the Dutch Republic. 1585-1718, New York, Harry Abrams, 1996.
b) at least one of the books that will be suggested during the workshop.
c)At least one of the texts that will be suggested during the workshop.
d) didactical materials (on Teams).

Non-attending students must add to this syllabus (with the exception of item d which is precluded to them) the in-depth study of a second text from those listed in item b) and must read all the essays listed in item c).

PROGRAM OF CANON LAW:

I. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: relations between canon law, theology, morality and history.

II. FOUNDATION AND HISTORICITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM

III. THEORY OF SOURCES OF CANON LAW

IV. THE REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH

V. THE TYPICALITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE NORM

VI. THE CHURCH AS INSTITUTION, GOD’S PEOPLE, SOCIETY

VII. ACTIVITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

For attending students (that is students attending at least 2/3 of classes and seminars) only:

C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (with the exception of some Chapters)

Non attending students can choose between program No. 1 and program No. 2:

PROGRAM No. 1

1. C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (except Chapter I or II or III).

PROGRAM No. 2

1. C. FANTAPPIE’, Storia del diritto e delle istituzioni della Chiesa, Bologna, Il Mulino 2011;
2. P. GROSSI, Diritto canonico e cultura giuridica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 32 (2003), pp. 373-389, downloadable from: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/32/0374.pdf

FOR MORE INFORMATIONS, SEE https://dirittocanonicoroma3.wordpress.com/

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

One of the following:


G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: https://longreads.tni.org/arab-uprisings
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
Corrao FM - Redaelli R (eds), States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region, PalgraveMacMillan, 2021.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

Translation and acquisition of linguistic and translation skills. Development of linguistic reflection and acquisition of translation strategies through the practice of reading, analysis and translation of texts of various types on modern and contemporary culture.

Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012

The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of Latin and Greek manuscripts, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, both the external characteristics of manuscripts will be examined (material techniques for the preparation of the book as a physical object, methods and tools for its preparation, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), and the cultural panorama of the times and places of origin of manuscript books. Therefore, each aspect will be illustrated by choosing a reference manuscript witness.
This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials, through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

AIMS:
Acquiring adequate theoretical and technical knowledge regarding the common and distinctive elements that characterize bibliography and librarianship, the related areas of expertise and lines of development (including the digital one), with particular regard to:
1) design and compilation of bibliographies;
2) organization, management, evaluation and promotion of libraries in Italy;
3) evolution and use of document processing technologies (for both bibliographic and librarianship purposes);
4) history of printing and publishing (including the digital one).
By the end of the course, students will acquire the ability to apply the knowledge learned for bibliographic processing and understood the management problems of a library, the implications of the use of information and communication technologies in the two disciplinary fields, as well as in the editorial one.

STRUCTURE:

3 MODULES: 1) Information and Media Literacy; 2) Bibliography; 3) Library science, with final assessment for each module.

MODULE 1 (October): "Find your way in the docuverse for academic purposes".
The first module is an introductory one and offers an overview of the information complexity, the "document", the importance of acquiring information literacy and the role of libraries and librarians in this process. Furthermore, the module introduces the student to the search for information for the purpose of the final paper, to the different types of theses and to academic writing at the master's degree level.

MODULE 2 (November): Bibliography (Referencing).
The second module:
- examines the definitions of bibliography; illustrates the historical evolution of the bibliography and the disciplines of the book and document (history, diplomatic, archival);
- addresses information complexity and focuses on digital information and the tools to access it (catalog, discovery tools, databases, etc.);
- deepens the metamorphosis of the book (digital book, Google books, etc.), of the text, of reading and of scientific communication, as well as the relationship between bibliography and the web;
- provides for practical exercises in bibliographic research, with compilation of bibliographic citations according to various citation styles - eg. APA, MLA, Chicago / Turabian etc. - starting from the "bibliographic chain".

MODULE 3 (December month): Library Science (Librarianship).
The third module
- examines the definitions of librarianship;
- presents the areas of competence;
- outlines the historical aspects (history of the library with notes on the history of the book); types of libraries (state, university, public, etc.);
- faces the library as a complex system: organization, planning, management and evaluation; development of physical and digital collections; organization of physical and virtual spaces functional to resource- and problem-based learning.

1) Luisa Marquardt, Orientarsi tra le informazioni (dispensa su Moodle).
2) Maurizio Vivarelli, Le dimensioni della bibliografia: scrivere di libri al tempo della rete, Roma: Carocci, 2013
3) Frederic Barbier, Storia delle biblioteche: dall'antichità a oggi, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2016.
4) Carlo Bianchini, I fondamenti della biblioteconomia: attualità del pensiero di S. R. Ranganathan, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2015, OPPURE: Marzo Magno, L'inventore dei libri, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2020.

Literature in the print shops

For Renaissance literature, the printing press is not only a new and more powerful means of disseminating texts: it constitutes a new way of confronting the cultural, political and social reality of the time and it creates a new literary horizon, with the establishment of new genres, new professional figures and a new audience. It is also a competitive and litigious world, characterised by licit and illicit advertising strategies, misappropriations and outright fraud.
Analysing particularly significant cases of authors (Ludovico Ariosto, Baldassarre Castiglione, Torquato Tasso), publishers (Niccolò Zoppino, Gabriele Giolito, Aldo Manuzio) and problems characterising the relationship between literature and the press in the 16th century (from the relationship with orality to the question of language, from problems related to publishing privileges to the affirmation of women's voices), the course intends to examine in its various aspects this new reality, a point of no return for western literary and cultural history.

extbooks for attending students:

- Amedeo Quondam, La letteratura in tipografia, in Letteratura italiana II. Produzione e consumo, Torino, Einaudi, 1983, pp. 555-686**
- Brian Richardson, Pubblicazione a stampa: mecenatismo, contratti e privilegi, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 75-107**
- Brian Richardson, Dalla penna alla stampa: gli scrittori alle prese con la stampa, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 108-164**
- Conor Fahy, L’autore in tipografia: le edizioni ferraresi dell’Orlando furioso, in I libri di Orlando innamorato, Modena, Panini, 1987, pp. 105-115*
- Giancarlo Alfano, Una forma per tutti gli usi: l’ottava rima, in Atlante della letteratura italiana, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà, vol. II, Dalla Contro-riforma alla restaurazione, a cura di Erminia Irace, Torino, Einaudi, 2011, pp. 31-37**
- Rosa Salzberg, La lira, la penna e la stampa: cantastorie ed editoria popolare nella Venezia del Cinquecento, Milano, C.R.E.L.E.B., Università Cattolica, Milano Edizioni CUSL, 2011**
**Supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams/Moodle or available from the photocopy shop in front of the Department of Studi Umanistici.
Other materials will be provided during the lessons.

Textbooks for non-attending students:
Non-attending students should add the following texts to the syllabus for attending students:

- Lodovica Braida, Stampa e cultura in Europa tra 15° e 16° secolo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2000

- Brian Richardson, Lettori e cultura della stampa, in Id., Stampatori, autori e lettori nell’Italia del Rinascimento, Milano, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004, pp. 165-233**
- Marco Santoro, L’era del consolidamento (1500-1600), in Storia del libro italiano, Milano, Editrice Tipografica, 1994, pp. 71-136**
Marina Roggero, Libri di cavalleria, in Libri per tutti: generi editoriali di larga circolazione tra antico regime ed età contemporanea, a cura di Lodovica Braida e Mario Infelise; saggi di Giorgio Bacci ... [et al.], Torino, Utet, 2010, pp. 23-41**
Massimo Rospocher, Dall’oralità alla stampa: rivoluzione o transi¬zione? I cantastorie nel sistema multimediale del Cinquecento, in La transizione come problema storiografico. Le fasi critiche dello sviluppo della modernità (1494-1973), a cura di Paolo Pombe¬ni e Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013, pp. 151-172**
**Supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams/Moodle or available from the photocopy shop in front of the Department of Studi Umanistici.

The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, a survey of the various educational tools for L1 and L2 learners used throughout history will be presented: from glossaries and exercises of medieval versions through school grammars and grammars aimed at foreigners to an examination of today's manuals, with particular reference to grammar books and anthologies for the two-year course and manuals for the teaching of Italian as L2. In the second part of the course, various topics of grammar and textuality of Italian in the literary text will be tackled: through the observation of the functioning of the structures in the literary text, students will arrive at deepening and perfecting their grammatical and linguistic knowledge, also learning how to exploit the literary text in L1 and L2 teaching.

EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN:
Analisi e valutazione dei manuali didattici, in Diadori, P., Insegnare italiano a stranieri, Torino, UTET.
Cella, R. (2018). Grammatica per la scuola. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 97-140). Roma : Carocci.
Mattarucco, G. (2018). Grammatiche per stranieri. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 141-168). Roma : Carocci.
De Roberto, E. (2015). Glossari, versioni e proverbi. A proposito di una miscellanea scolastica tardoquattrocentesca. CAHIERS DE RECHERCHES MÉDIÉVALES ET HUMANISTES, 28, 33-88.
De Roberto, E. (2011). SCUOLA O SCOLA ? MONOLINGUISMO, POLIMORFIA E VARIAZIONE NEI SILLABARI POSTUNITARI. LA LINGUA ITALIANA, 7, 159-172.
De Roberto, E. (2018). La frase semplice. In G. Antonelli, M. Motolese, & L. Tomasin (a cura di), Storia dell'italiano scritto. IV. Grammatiche (pp. 357-399). Roma : Carocci.
De Roberto, E. (2020). L’educazione plurilingue e interculturale nei manuali di italiano. In E. De Roberto (a cura di), Fuori e dentro il libro di italiano Grammatiche e antologie nella scuola secondaria (pp. 179-206). Firenze : Franco Cesati.

States of Nature: Desire and Need from Plato to Modern Philosophy.
The course aims to consider the philosophical anthropology underlying conceptions of the state of nature in modernity. Its aim is to focus on desire and need as two different drivers of the transition from the state of nature to civil society.

- Plato, The Symposium [any edition]
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part One [any edition]
- D. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, Book III. On Morals [any edition]
- K. Marx, "Forms preceding capitalist production", in Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Grundrisse) [photocopies provided by the professor]

The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Durkheim, Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.D.1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (limitedly to chapters 1,2,5)
2. Beate Krais, Gunter Gebauer, Habitus, Rome, Armando, 2009.
U.D.2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine (1876), ed. D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4.Charles S. Peirce, Il fissarsi della credenza (1877), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 357-371.
5. Charles S. Peirce, Come chiarire le nostre idee (1878), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 377-393.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).

LEZIONE 1. Introduzione
LEZIONE 2. Il Principe I: il genere dello speculum; il contesto della scrittura; la dedica.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, lettera a Francesco Vettori del 10 dicembre 1513
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe Dedica a Lorenzo
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), parr. 1-3
LEZIONE 3. Il Principe II: i tipi di principati.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe I-XI
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 4
LEZIONE 4. Il Principe III: armare il principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XII-XIV
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 5
LEZIONE 5. Il Principe IV: le virtù del principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XV-XIX
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), par. 6
LEZIONE 6. Il Principe V: i sussidi e la missione del principe nuovo.
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Principe XX-XXVI
--Gabriele Pedullà, L’arte fiorentina dei nodi (introduzione al Principe), parr. 7-8
LEZIONE 7. Francesco De Sanctis (1)
LEZIONE 8. Francesco De Sanctis (2)
LEZIONE 9. Francesco Ercole, Giovanni Gentile e Benito Mussolini
LEZIONE 10. Piero Gobetti e Giacomo Matteotti
LEZIONE 11: Federico Chabod e Delio Cantimori
LEZIONE 12. Benedetto Croce
LEZIONE 13. Luigi Russo
LEZIONE 14. Antonio Gramsci (1)
LEZIONE 15. Antonio Gramsci (2)

TESTI:
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, a cura di Gabriele Pedullà, Donzelli 2022 (integrale: introduzione, grafiche e note comprese). ISBN 9788855223041 NB: È ESSENZIALE prendere questa nuova edizione 2022, e non quella del 2013, o la editio minor 2022. Altre edizioni non saranno accettate
--Francesco De Sanctis, Storia della letteratura italiana, con un saggio di René Wellek, Bur, Milano 2006.
--Antonio Gramsci, Quaderno 13. Noterelle sulla politica del Machiavelli, Donzelli, Roma 2013.
--Laura Mitarotondo, Un “Preludio” a Machiavelli. Letture e interpretazioni tra Mussolini e Gramsci, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.
--Altri testi saranno forniti in pdf o saranno accessibili on-line.

SITI
--Enciclopedia machiavelliana, accessibile all’indirizzo: https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/elenco-opere/Enciclopedia_machiavelliana (per le voci su Delio Cantimori, Federico Chabod, Benedetto Croce, Francesco De Sanctis, Francesco Ercole, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Gramsci, Benito Mussolini, Luigi Russo).

LETTURE IN PIU’ PER I NON FREQUENTANTI
--Claudio Calabrò, Machiavelli in Italia tra le due guerre (in pdf)
--Gabriele Pedullà, Machiavelli in Tumulto, Bulzoni, Roma 2011

Presentation of the essential notions of the typology, such as the relationship between typology and universals, the notion of 'type' at the various levels of analysis, and the relationship of typology with sociolinguistics, language teaching, areal and genetic comparison. Deepening of the mechanisms and explanations of linguistic change, also from the typological perspective. Special reflection on the concepts of grammaticalization and reanalysis. Case study on the diachronic typology of the perfect.

Grandi, N., 2003, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Roma, Carocci.
Napoli, M., 2019, Linguistica diacronica, Roma Carocci.

Additional material will be provided during the course.

The course is organized into two main sections:
Section A - Introduction to digital publishing: reading devices; mark-up and file formats; software and reading interfaces; models of content organization; multimedia, hypertexts, interactive books; enhanced e-books; digital book market.
Section B - The readers' point of view: reading habits in the digital ecosystem; social reading; augmented reading; online reading.

Modulo A - Gino Roncaglia, La quarta rivoluzione, Laterza 2010
Modulo B - Federico Meschini, Oltre il libro, Editrice bibliografica 2020
- Maurizio Vivarelli, La lettura, Editrice bibliografica 2018

Non attending students and students not participating in project work will add
- Tiziana Mancinelli ed Elena Pierazzo, Che cos'è un'edizione scientifica digitale, Carocci 2020

A list of alternative textbooks in English is available upon request.

Marco Armiero & Serenella Iovino, Environmental Humanities della X Appendice dell’Enciclopedia Treccani

Libby Robin et al., Mappare un terreno comune: ecocriticismo, storia dell’ambiente ed Environmental Humanities, in Angelucci et al. Environmental humanities

Marco Armiero, Environemntal Humanities. una indisciplina delle relazioni, https://operavivamagazine.org/environmental-humanities-unindisciplina-delle-relazioni/

Salvo Torre e Maura Benegiamo, Il Pensiero Decoloniale. Dalle Radici del Dibattito ad una Proposta di Metodo, Acme 19(2) 2002, https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1946

M. Armiero, L’era degli scarti, Torino, Einaudi, 2021

Jason Moore, GLI ANTROPOCENI E L'ALTERNATIVA DEL CAPITALOCENE, n Angelucci et al. Environmental humanities

Octavia Butler, La parabola del seminatore (qualunque edizione)

Elisa Privitera, Marco Armiero e Filippo Gravagno, Seeking justice in risk landscapes. Small data and toxic autobiographies from an Italian petrochemical town (Gela, Sicily), Local environment 27(7), 2021

Marco Armiero, Indisciplinare tutto! (fornito dal docente)

Armiero, Marco, Barca, Stefania, Velicu, Irina, Undisciplining political ecology, in Undisciplined Environments blog, 2019 https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2019/10/01/undisciplining-political-ecology-a-minifesto/

The course examines the following topics:
- the concept of the archive and the archival document;
- the archival bond and the relationship between creator and archive;
- archives and other cultural heritage complexes: similarities and differences;
- phases of archive life: current records, semi-current records, historical archives. Characteristics and management tools.
- The public archives of the State in Italy;
- records appraisal for preservation and disposal;
- elements of the history of the archives and of archival science;
- elements of archival legislation.

General texts:

F. Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2022;

P. Carucci, M. Guercio, Manuale di archivistica (nuova edizione), Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 17-97, 187-203, 259-376, 399-458.

Articles on specific topics:

G. Cencetti, Scritti archivistici (in particolare, Il fondamento teorico della dottrina archivistica; Sull'archivio come "universitas rerum"; Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico), Roma 1970, pp. 38-69.

C. Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l’archivio rispecchi l’istituto?, in “Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato”, XXX (1970), pp. 145-149.

A. D’Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell’archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in “Archivio storico italiano”, CXLVIII (1990), pp. 3-35.

FOR STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING CLASSES:

M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2009 (Per gli studenti dei corsi di laurea magistrale. In particolare: Capitolo secondo L'osservazione storica; Capitolo terzo La critica);

L. Giuva, S. Vitali, I. Zanni Rosiello, Il potere degli archivi. Usi del passato e difesa dei diritti nella società contemporanea, pp. 135-202.

The course has a monographic character and aims at meeting some reflections on the ecological, anthropological, social, economic and political crisis of the "development era", focusing on the relation North-South. We will explore, specifically, the "alternatives to development" represented by Franco Cassano’s “Southern thought" and the project for degrowth, in the declination elaborated by Serge Latouche.

1. Cassano F., “Tre modi di vedere il Sud”, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.

2. Cassano F., "Il pensiero meridiano", Laterza, Bari 2021.

3. Latouche S., “La scommessa della decrescita”, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014.

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced. Italian and European cities were the space of creation and elaboration of social fears; in the last decades fear was related to economy, the environment, the pandemic crisis.
The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of social fear and religious answers, fears which were provoked by ecological crisis, the wars or sublimated by religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places)

Attending students

1. Appunti del corso e materiali
2. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, Milano 2021 oppure
M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not Attending students
1. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, 2021
2. M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020 e
Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

This course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of shared religious places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

Attending students:

1. course notes, materials and handouts
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020 Oppure
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Non-attending students will replace item 1 with a book of their choice from among

D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

“I will made of it, istead of a tragedy, a comic play”: Plautus’ Amphitruo. In the course a literary setting of the comedy will be offered, toghether with a close reading of the latin text, with italian interpretation and a full commentary, paying particular attention to the aspects of staging and poetical shape (models, metrics, style).

- Tito Maccio Plauto, Anfitrione, a cura di R. Oniga. Introduzione di M. Bettini, ed. Marsilio; or: Plautus, Amphitruo, ed. by D. M. Christenson, Cambridge University Press.
- Plauto, Molière, Kleist, Giraudoux, Anfitrione. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di L. Pasetti, ed. Marsilio.

Course title:
Monastic traditions of the Latin West: the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville

Course description:
The monographic module intends in the first place to retrace the origins and typologies of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the lexicon and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville, a text that has not been studied so far, but due to one of the greatest auctoritates of medieval culture. - As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at guiding the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.

1. Isidorus Hispalensis, Regula monachorum, ed. J. Campos Ruiz, in: Santos Padres españoles, II : San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda. Los tres libros de las ‘Sentencias’, Madrid 1971 (Bibl. de Auctores Cristianos, vol. 321), pp. 90-124.

2. M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia:aspetti istituzionali strutturali e materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas S.N. III/1 (2015), pp. 55-85.
Id., Dum ad dormiendum uadunt. Note sul lessico isidoriano relativo alle tentazioni notturne dei monaci (Isid. reg. monach. 13), in Paideia LXXIII (2018), pp. 1953-1967.
Id., ‘Psalmorum spiritalia sacramenta’ : note sul lessico liturgico-rituale nella ‘Regula monachorum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas S.N. VII/1 (2019), pp. 65-83.
Id., ‘Praecepta uel instituta ... sparsim prolata’: annotazioni sul lessico disciplinare morale e spirituale della Regula monachorum di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas N.S. IX/2 (2021), 67-112.

3. F. Trisoglio, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.

4. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti:
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
- A. Rapetti, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.

Optional readings:

- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission XI (2004), pp. 205-263.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.

The "Greek Literature I LM" course is intended for students who wish to combine the deepening of their knowledge of ancient Greek with the acquisition of valid critical tools for the interpretation of literary texts. The course comprises:
(A) a series of lectures aimed at illustrating the hermeneutic perspectives of the most recent criticism in its various articulations;
(B) the reading, translation and classroom commentary of a selection of texts from Callimachus' Aetia.
Course attendance is optional. Attending students must guarantee attendance at least two-thirds of the lessons (27 out of 40 hours). There is a reduced syllabus for attending students (see section C in Bibliography).

(A) an essential bibliography will be indicated by the lecturer at the beginning of the course; (B) a translation of Callimachus' Aetia with the Greek text is required, e.g. G. B. D'Alessio, Callimachus (BUR: Milan 1996); (C) M. Fantuzzi - R. L. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (CUP: Cambridge 2004). Attending students are not required to prepare for this volume.