First semester.
Hours: 6 hours/week: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Monday 4 October 2021. End of the course: Monday 8 November 2021.

Course title 2021-2022: Prisoner Paul writes: Letter to the Philippians, Letter to Philemon.
Also available online, in synchronous and recorded mode.

The course aims to deepen, according to various perspectives of investigation (philological, linguistic, literary, historical, doctrinal), two authentic letters of Paul, united by the condition in which they were written: the author, in fact, is a prisoner. In them, the humanity of the sender, the clear identity of the respective addressees, and the relationship that binds both are immediately evident. The themes are different: the first deals with Christian identity and life. The second deals with the phenomenon of slavery, which pertains to the culture and structure of civil society, even though it is obviously treated on the basis of typically Christian criteria.
The course has a seminar character and involves the active participation of students.

R. PENNA, Lettera ai Filippesi. Lettera a Filemone, Roma: Città Nuova, 2002.

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 (six weeks).
Hours: 6 hours/week: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, from 12 to 14 h, Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico.
Beginning of the course: Wednesday 10 November 2021.

Course title 2021-2022: Overabundant multilingual traditions: the case of the Acts of Peter and Paul.
Also available online, in synchronous and recorded mode.

The traditions on the final part of the lives of the individual apostles are not contained in works that have become canonical, but in an apocryphal literary production that is interesting both from the point of view of content and from that of the phenomena of the history of tradition. The course aims to deepen the literary history of the so-called Acts of Peter and Paul, the oldest form of the legend that presents the two apostles associated in the preaching in Rome, in the fight against Simon Magus and in martyrdom. A work of great success, it is transmitted to us in almost all the ancient languages, has about 200 Latin witnesses, about 50 Greek ones and poses literary and philological questions that are still open.
The course has a seminar character and involves the active participation of students.

Lecture materials (including critical editions of the texts, taken from: R.A. LIPSIUS, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha. I: Acta Petri, Acta Pauli, Acta Petri et Pauli, Acta Pauli et Theclæ, Acta Thaddei, Lipsiæ 1891, 118-222) 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

“Aristocracy by birth, aristocracy by service. The inscriptions of the praetorian prefects of the 4th century”.
The praetorian prefecture was reformed by Constantine the sole Augustus between 326 and 328 AD. The transformation of the office from a role dangerously close to the Augusti to the top of the diocesan and provincial administration, definitively distant from the person of the emperor, explains the evolution of the typology of epigraphic messages relating to the late antique praetorian prefects. The new institutional status of the office in the 4th century had important epigraphic reflections on the typology and preservation of the inscribed monuments erected in honour of the prefects and commissioned by the prefects themselves. It is possible to reflect on the consistency and representativeness of this surviving epigraphic materials.The student is asked to reconstruct the historical context of the careers of the prefects, to formulate hypotheses on the paths of realization and preservation of the inscribed monuments, as well as to outline the social profile of this aristocracy at the top of the late Roman Empire: the aristocracy by birth, and the aristocracy of individuals ascended for their meritorious service.

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. - € 49,00]: mandatory study of Room I + 4 Rooms of your choice.
Exercises: Visit to the 'Epigraphic Collection' of the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

Michel Foucault: Governmentality and Biopolitics.
The course aims to analyse the categories of "governmentality" and "biopolitics" as Michel Foucault treated them, particularly in his courses at the Collège de France in the second half of the 1970s. The aim of the course is to reconstruct and define the use of these categories - which today often recur in the most current debates - within the thought of Foucault, who was the first to conceive and consider them.

- M. Foucault, ″Society Must Be Defended″, Picador.
- M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, Picador.
- M. Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, Picador.
- M. Foucault, Right of Death and Power over Life, in The Will to Knowledge. History of Sexuality, Vol. I, Penguin.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the 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, Enrico 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 messianism of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.

The course will examinate the messianic theory of Gershom Scholem in his peculiarities and the relation with the messianism of Walter Benjamin

G. Scholem, "The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality", Schocken Books.
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 4, 1938-1940 First Edition

The course aims to offer: (1) an introduction to the Hellenistic world, to the world of the Greek poleis at that time and to the new phenomenon of royalty: greek poleis’ political institutions (in the aspects of continuity and evolution), the role of the élite, poleis relationships with the sovereigns, and the intense mutual interconnection between them, made of diplomatic relations, exchange of honors and judges, recognition of syngeneia, common participation in cults will be studied and considered. The topics will be addressed taking into account literary, epigraphic, archaeological and iconographic sources. (2) An introduction to the main databases of Greek literary texts and inscriptions and to the most important bibliographic research tools. (3) The presentation by the students of some topics related to the course and agreed with the teacher.

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 to probe the ethical import of a personological view of self-narrativism that is well-entrenched in a naturalistic context. Against the backdrop of William James’ theory of the duplex self, the claim that we constitute ourselves as morally responsible agents (as ‘Lockean persons’) by forming and using autobiographical narratives is combined with Dan McAdams’ view of narrative identity as a layer of personality. During personality development, internalised and evolving stories of the self layer over other layers of personality, and this process of layering may be integrative. The process of self-representation originated from the I/Me dialectic, then, takes the form of what Jung identified as “individuation”, namely, a striving towards the unity of the various strata of personality. Such a process has an ethical dimension that is reminiscent of the ideal of eudaimonia, the discovery and actualization of one’s own unique potentials and talents.

A. Kind, Persons and Personal Identity, Polity Press, Cambridge 2015.

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).

The course aims at giving the students the basic concepts of ethics and the fundamental notions regarding roboethics and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

A part of the course will concern ethics and communication of economics and finance, with the participation of dr. Riccardo De Bonis, Head of the Finance Education of the Bank of Italy. A paper will exonerate the students from the first part of the volume "Le sfide dell'etica".

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)

1. Boden, L'intelligenza artificiale, Il Mulino
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (only the second part)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT PASS THE PRE-EXAM
1. Boden, L'intelligenza artificiale, Il Mulino
2. De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (interamente)
3. Massarenti, Stramaledettamente logico, Laterza

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) Victor Egger (1880), and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 (execpt chapter I).
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. Victor Egger, La nascita delle abitudini, ed. by S. Sandreschi, Milan, Mimesis, 2021
5. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
6. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" is both one of the most important texts of modernity and one of its greatest scandals.Anonymously published in 1670, it was the object of fierce criticism from the very beginning, but it continued to enjoy an important clandestine circulation, which allowed it to exert a great influence until the Age of Enlightenment. In the course we will proceed to a complete reading of the work and an analysis of its central themes: the critique of the theological imaginary (prophecy, law, vocation, miracles) as ideological support of non-democratic powers, the rethinking of the relationship between natural religion and historical religions, the naturalistic foundation of the legal-political sphere and the relationship between state and ecclesiastical power, the 'libertas philosophandi'.At the same time, an attempt will be made to highlight the heterogeneous theoretical positions held by the work, trying to frame them within the evolution that in Spinoza's thought is realized somewhere between the early works and the final drafting of "Ethics". In other words, it will be a matter of testing how in the very pages of the "Treatise" there is an imperceptible transition from a first position, in which good consists solely in the union of the mind with God guaranteed by intellectual knowledge and imagination and passions are therefore an obstacle to be freed from, to a second position, in which imagination and passions play a decisive role not only in politics but also in ethics.

Baruch Spinoza, Theological-political treatise (ed. by E. Curley)

- One of the following books:

Henri Laux, Imagination Et Religion Chez Spinoza: La Potentia Dans L'histoire, Paris, PUF, 1993
Vittorio Morfino, Il tempo e l'occasione. L'incontro Spinoza-Machiavelli, Milano, Led Edizioni universitarie, 2002
André Tosel, Spinoza, ou Le crépuscule de la servitude: Essai sur le 'Traité théologico-politique', Paris, Aubier, 1984
Theo Verbeek, Spinoza's 'Theologico-political Treatise': Exploring the Will of God, Routledge, 2003.
Stefano Visentin, La libertà necessaria. Teoria e pratica della democrazia in Spinoza, Pisa, ETS, 2001

The course will focus on Aristotle’s account of substance and predication in Categories, 1-5.
Aristotle's text will be explained in detail and the following aspects will be considered:
1: The relations “dici de subiecto” / “esse in subiecto” and Aristotle's list of the categories
2: Aristotle’s account of substance
3: Aristotle’s logical essentialism in the Categories

[a] Aristotle, Categories, Translated with a Commentary by J. Ackrill, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002, ch. 1-5, pp. 3-12 (text); 69-91 (Commentary).

[b] M. Vegetti – F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
P. Studtmann, Aristotle’s Categories, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-categories/
G. Matthews, Aristotelian Categories, in G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2013, pp. 144-161.
F. Ademollo, The Anatomy of Primary Substance in Aristotle’s Categories, “Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy”, 2022
Ch. Rapp,, Aristotle on Things and Super-Things
https://www.academia.edu/38892953/Aristotle_on_Things_and_Super_Things
I. Angelelli, Studies on Gottlob Frege and Traditional Philosophy, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 1967, pp. 9-36 (cap. 1 “Ontology”)

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

[i] Logical essentialism in Aristotle’s Categories
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
Ch. Rapp, Essentialism in Aristotle's Categories: Some Queries and Suggestions:
https://www.academia.edu/40326251/Essentialism_in_Aristotles_Categories_Some_Queries_and_Suggestions

[ii] Inherence and predication
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
G.E.L. Owen, Inherence, “Phronesis”, 10, 1965, 97-105.
R. Heinaman, Non-substantial Individuals in the Categories, “Phronesis”, 26, 1981, 295-307.

[iii] Universals and secondary substances
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
C. Perin, Substantial Universals in Aristotle’s Categories, “Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy” 33, 2007, pp. 125-144.
M. Loux, Aristotle on Universals, in in G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2013, pp. 186-196

The thought of Thomas Aquinas in the contemporary philosophical debate.

Tommaso d’Aquino, L’ente e l’essenza, Bompiani, Milano, 2002.
A. Kenny, Aquinas, MacMillan LTD, London, 1969.
B. Miller, Dall'esistenza a Dio, Carocci, Roma, 1992.
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.

Contemporary political spaces - the course aims to provide analytical tools to think about the spatial referent of politics, altogether with the need to redefine the scope of politics itself.

S. Sassen, Territorio, autorità, diritti: assemblaggi dal Medioevo all'età globale, Bruno Mondadori 2008

one between the following:
- H. Lefebvre, La produzione dello spazio, Pgreco 2018
- C. Galli, Spazi politici, Il Mulino 2001

Suggested readings:
F. Giardini, "Assemblaggio.Una mappatura", reperibile on line
F. Giardini, "Cosmopolitiche. Ripensare la politica a partire dal chosmos", reperibile on line
F. Giardini, Città stellari, in La Libertà è una Passeggiata. Donne e spazi urbani tra violenza strutturale e autodeterminazione, a c. di C. Belingardi, F. Castelli, S. Olcuire, IAPh Italia, Roma 2019, pp. 55-60 (pdf disponibile on line)

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Program for non attending students:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", italian translation by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (original edition Cambridge 2012)

Program for attending students:
- Lectures notes, articles and sources discussed during the lesson.

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, 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

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi 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.

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

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "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; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di 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, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre 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, 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

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, 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

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi 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.

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

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "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; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di 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, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre 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, 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 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, G. Sartori (2011) Neuroetica: Scienze del cervello, filosofia e libero arbitrio, il Mulino
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, G. Sartori (2011) Neuroetica: Scienze del cervello, filosofia e libero arbitrio, il Mulino
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
4. A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.

The class will focus on the notions of soul, intellect, and body in medieval and late medieval thought, and particularly on the discontinuity/continuity with the Cartesian mind-body dualism. The course will address the accounts of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Francisco Suárez, whose views and doctrines will be analyzed in light of their metaphysical/theological premises and analyzing their texts.

Selezione di testi da Tommaso d’Aquino, Duns Scoto e Francisco Suárez
• S. Guidi, L’angelo e la macchina. Sulla genesi della res cogitans cartesiana, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2018 (solo i primi due capitoli, pp. 41-214).
• M. Lenzi, Alberto e Tommaso sullo statuto dell’anima umana, «Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge», 74 (2007), pp. 27-58.
• Ch. Bazán, The Human Soul: Form and Substance? Thomas Aquinas’ Critique of Eclectic Aristotelianism, «Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age», 64 (1997), pp. 95-126.
• R. Cross, Philosophy of Mind, in Th. Williams (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus, Cambridge 2006, pp. 263-284.
• R. Cross, Plurality of Forms, in Id., The Physics of Duns Scotus. The Scientific Context of a Theological Vision, Cambridge 1998, pp. 47-76.
• J. South, Suárez, Immortality, and the Soul’s Dependence on the Body, in C. Leijenhorst, Suárez on Self-Awareness, in Hill B., Lagerlund L., The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez, Oxford 2012, pp. 121-136.

Per i non-frequentanti vi è un testo aggiuntivo dalla bibliografia, a scelta tra:
• R. Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on human nature: a philosophical study of Summa Theologiae I, 75-89, Cambridge 2008.
• M. Lenzi, Anima, forma, sostanza. Filosofia e teologia nel dibattito antropologico del XIII secolo, CISAM, Spoleto 2011.

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the public memory of controversial events, arena 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 definition 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".
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 (2020), 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, concerns 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.
The concomitance with the administrative elections of autumn 2021, currently not yet fixed, will offer the possibility of carrying out monitoring and research in seminar form.

A specific objective of the course is to develop the skills and competencies for the historical, political and artistic analysis of visual and audiovisual propaganda materials, such as posters, films, commercials, that will be showed and commented on during the lessons.

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

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 study and analysis of images and it refers particularly to the social aspects that affect the meaning construction. The first part of the course will provide the analytical and methodological tools to analyze images and photos (Roland Barthes' and Susan Sontag's theories will be considered). The second part will focus on the public and social uses of photos, devoting a special attention to the images of controversial pasts (wars, natural disasters, violence, terrorist attacks). Moreover, the following topics will be illustrated: a) the relation between memory and photography; b) the digital photography; c) selfie and social identities; d) photography as art; e) photography and fashion. The third part will deal with the use of images in advertising.

1) Roland Barthes (1979), La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino.
2) Roland Barthes (1964), The Rhetoric of the Image. Image-Music-Text. (Translation 1977). S. Heath, ed. London: Fontana, pp. 32-51.
3) Susan Sontag (1973), On Photography, Chapter 1 "In Plato's Cave, RosettaBooks, 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 (Hg.), 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, pp. 41-64.
7) Susie Linfield (2013), La luce crudele. Fotografia e violenza politica, Contrasto Edizioni, pp. 10-46.
8) Merskin, Debra (2004). Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising. “American Behavioral Scientist”, vol. 48, pp. 119-128.

The articles and essays will be available for the students on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it (personal webpage).

Last Frescoes

The aim of the course is to analyze the last decorations of the roman Catacombs in the light of the recent restorations.

Assignment:
F. Bisconti, Il restauro dell’ipogeo di via Dino Compagni. Nuove idee per la lettura del programma decorativo del cubicolo “A”. Città del Vaticano 2003.
B. Mazzei, Il cubicolo degli apostoli nelle catacombe romane di Santa Tecla. Cronaca di una scoperta, Città del Vaticano 2010.

Not attending students must add to the Assignment:
F. Bisconti, Temi di Iconografia Paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000: Introduction and a choice of 20 iconographical entries.

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

E. Andreoni Fontecedro – M. Agosti – C. Senni, Guida alla traduzione del testo latino, Roma, Edizioni Studium, 2017
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.

From gesta to monumenta: the Liber Pontificalis as a source for the study of patronage in Rome in the early Middle Ages.

Written from the sixth century onwards, the series of biographies of the bishops of Rome known by the conventional title of Liber Pontificalis represents, especially for the early medieval centuries, the most important source for the history of the Church and the city of Rome.
After illustrating the stratified editorial history of the work, the history of its manuscript transmission and the modern projects of critical and popular edition, the course intends to focus on the more properly historical-artistic informative contents of the biographies, examining in particular the life of Paschal I (817-824). The Rome of Pope Paschal - marked by turbulent relations with the Frankish aristocracy and the Carolingian sovereigns and by the reflections of a renewed iconoclastic phase in the East - enjoyed substantial economic resources and the advantages of the reorganisation of the craftsmen (painters, mosaicists, sculptors, carpenters, master glassmakers, architects and goldsmiths) who had been working for generations in the service of the Church of Rome. By integrating historical and art-historical knowledge, the parallel reading of the monuments and biography of Paschal I will be an opportunity to experience how every ancient text is not "a storehouse of variants" but an exciting "mine of stories" (G. Billanovich).

Bibliography (in progress)
A.Ballardini, Stat Roma pristina nomine. Nota sulla terminologia storico-artistica nel Liber Pontificalis, in La committenza artistica dei Papi a Roma nel Medioevo, a cura di M. D'Onofrio, Roma 2016, pp. 381-439.

Biografia di Pasquale I in Le Liber Pontificalis. Texte, Introduction et commentaire, par l'abbé L. Duchesne, II, Paris ed. 1955, pp. 52-68

Grata più delle Stelle. Pasquale I (817-824) e la Roma del suo Tempo, a cura di S. Ammirati, A. Ballardini, Giulia Bordi, voll. 1 e 2, Roma 2020.

SVMMA n. 9 (Primavera 2017), contributi: Verardi; Caperna, Carpiceci, Ballardini; Mancho-Bordi-Velentini, scaricabili on line.

A.Ballardini, Dai gesta di Pasquale I secondo il Liber Pontificalis ai monumenta iconografici delle basiliche Romane di Santa Prassede, Santa Maria in Domnica e Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, in Archivio della Società romana di storia patria, 122 (1999), pp. 5-68.

THE SOURCES OF 'DECAMERON'
The course will examine the 'Decameron' considering the comparisons with the Classical, Biblical and Romanic antecedents which were the point of reference for the creation of the frame, the tales or of single passages of the work. The intertextual analysis will consider also the manuscipts of Boccaccio's library and will aim to show the elements of innovation (included the overthrow of cultural perspectives) which the author introduced in the re-elaboration of his sources.

- 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.

- *M. Fiorilla, Il capolavoro narrativo: il ‘Decameron’, in Boccaccio, a cura di M. Fiorilla e I. Iocca, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 95-140;
- *M. Cursi-M. Fiorilla, Giovanni Boccaccio, in Autografi dei letterati italiani. Le Origini e il Trecento, I, a cura di G. Brunetti, M. Fiorilla e M. Petoletti, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013, pp. 43-103 (solo le pp. 43-56, 69-70, 74-75, 88 e 98-103);
- *G. Velli, Memoria, in Lessico critico decameroniano, a cura di R. Bragantini e P.M. Forni, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1995, pp. 221-248;
- *L. Battaglia Ricci, Scrivere un libro di novelle. Giovanni Boccaccio autore, lettore, editore, Ravenna, Longo, 2013, pp. 157-203;
- *F. Bausi, Sull’utilità e il danno della ricerca sulle fonti. Il caso del ‘Decameron’, in «Carte Romanze», VIII/1, pp. 121-42;
- *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.

The articles marked by an asterisk will be available in photocopies along with other materials: an Anthology of classical, biblical and Romanic 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.

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

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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 (booklet available on the Moodle e-learning platform).
2) Roberto CICALA, I meccanismi dell'editoria: Il mondo dei libri dall'autore al lettore, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2021. ISBN 9788815292209.
3) Frédéric BARBIER, Storia delle biblioteche: dall’antichità a oggi, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2016. ISBN 9788870759020.
4) Carlo BIANCHINI, I fondamenti della biblioteconomia: attualità del pensiero di S.R. Ranganathan, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2015. ISBN 9788870758566. OPPURE:
Alessandro MARZO MAGNO, L’inventore di libri: Aldo Manuzio, Venezia e il suo tempo. 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.

Through the methods and tools of textual linguistics, the course considers the problems linked to the relationship between linguistic education and literary education and the didactics of text analysis and production. The digital revolution has in fact brought about a change in the reception and production of texts, but also the imposition of a different textuality. In such a scenario, the Italian language teacher is called upon, on the one hand, to deal with these new products and to introduce them into his or her teaching, but must also know how to provide learners with the appropriate tools to receive and produce "traditional" textual products and to approach the literary text. Particular attention is also given to the dimension of interculture and multilingualism: strategies and phenomena will be addressed from the perspective of teaching Italian as L1 and as L2.

Lavinio, Cristina, Testi a scuola. Tra lingua e letteratura, Firenze, Cesati, 2021.
Palermo, Massimo, Italiano scritto 2.0. Testi e ipertesti, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
Handouts provided by the professor.

The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, through methods and tools of textual linguistics, the course considers the problems linked to the relationship between linguistic education and literary education and to the didactics of text analysis and production. The digital revolution has in fact brought about a change in the reception and production of texts, but also the imposition of a different textuality. In such a scenario, the Italian language teacher is called upon, on the one hand, to deal with these new products and to introduce them into his or her teaching, but must also know how to provide learners with the appropriate tools to receive and produce "traditional" textual products and to approach the literary text. Particular attention is also given to the dimension of interculture and plurilingualism: strategies and phenomena will be addressed from the perspective of teaching Italian as L1 and as L2. The second part of the course is dedicated to syntax and to an approach capable of bringing the sentence back to the centre of linguistic analysis and teaching, in its role of formal grammatical structure but also of conceptual structure of meaning. Such a perspective - which also recovers the relational dimension of the lexicon - is then put into concrete teaching practice through a series of examples that will show its usefulness in teaching L1 and L2 learners. On the basis of the case studies, students will be asked to develop teaching activities concerning the categories covered by the course.

Lavinio, Cristina, Testi a scuola. Tra lingua e letteratura, Firenze, Cesati, 2021.
Palermo, Massimo, Italiano scritto 2.0. Testi e ipertesti, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
Prandi, Michele/Cuzzolin, Pierluigi / Grandi, Nicola /Napoli, Maria, Orizzonti della linguistica. Grammatica, tipologia, mutamento, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
Dispense fornite dal docente.

The messianism of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.

The course will examinate the messianic theory of Gershom Scholem in his peculiarities and the relation with the messianism of Walter Benjamin

G. Scholem, "The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality", Schocken Books.
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 4, 1938-1940 First Edition

Michel Foucault: Governmentality and Biopolitics.
The course aims to analyse the categories of "governmentality" and "biopolitics" as Michel Foucault treated them, particularly in his courses at the Collège de France in the second half of the 1970s. The aim of the course is to reconstruct and define the use of these categories - which today often recur in the most current debates - within the thought of Foucault, who was the first to conceive and consider them.

- M. Foucault, ″Society Must Be Defended″, Picador.
- M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, Picador.
- M. Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, Picador.
- M. Foucault, Right of Death and Power over Life, in The Will to Knowledge. History of Sexuality, Vol. I, Penguin.

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) Victor Egger (1880), and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 (execpt chapter I).
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. Victor Egger, La nascita delle abitudini, ed. by S. Sandreschi, Milan, Mimesis, 2021
5. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
6. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" is both one of the most important texts of modernity and one of its greatest scandals.Anonymously published in 1670, it was the object of fierce criticism from the very beginning, but it continued to enjoy an important clandestine circulation, which allowed it to exert a great influence until the Age of Enlightenment. In the course we will proceed to a complete reading of the work and an analysis of its central themes: the critique of the theological imaginary (prophecy, law, vocation, miracles) as ideological support of non-democratic powers, the rethinking of the relationship between natural religion and historical religions, the naturalistic foundation of the legal-political sphere and the relationship between state and ecclesiastical power, the 'libertas philosophandi'.At the same time, an attempt will be made to highlight the heterogeneous theoretical positions held by the work, trying to frame them within the evolution that in Spinoza's thought is realized somewhere between the early works and the final drafting of "Ethics". In other words, it will be a matter of testing how in the very pages of the "Treatise" there is an imperceptible transition from a first position, in which good consists solely in the union of the mind with God guaranteed by intellectual knowledge and imagination and passions are therefore an obstacle to be freed from, to a second position, in which imagination and passions play a decisive role not only in politics but also in ethics.

Baruch Spinoza, Theological-political treatise (ed. by E. Curley)

- One of the following books:

Henri Laux, Imagination Et Religion Chez Spinoza: La Potentia Dans L'histoire, Paris, PUF, 1993
Vittorio Morfino, Il tempo e l'occasione. L'incontro Spinoza-Machiavelli, Milano, Led Edizioni universitarie, 2002
André Tosel, Spinoza, ou Le crépuscule de la servitude: Essai sur le 'Traité théologico-politique', Paris, Aubier, 1984
Theo Verbeek, Spinoza's 'Theologico-political Treatise': Exploring the Will of God, Routledge, 2003.
Stefano Visentin, La libertà necessaria. Teoria e pratica della democrazia in Spinoza, Pisa, ETS, 2001

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 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.

The course builds knowledge and skills starting from the exegesis of sources for historical research: the impact of digitization on documentation originating in the pre-computer age and that of digital native documents on source critique is its focus.
A second argument will be related to the management of digital documentation from its origin to its becoming as a cultural food and as historical documentation.
The students will acquire knowledge to deal with historical research through the analysis of the document in the context of information systems, dissemination on the web, consultation and its limits. They will therefore be able to tackle a project of study, digitization and enhancement of documentary resources, within the framework of the critical issues related to the conservation and integrity of the digitized and digital document. They will access documentary sources also through the use of digital descriptive resources; will address the question of the interpretation of sources according to a methodology starting from their contextualization in the archives of origin. They will acquire the tools for their full interpretation in independent judgment. They will also know the reordering criteria of the documentation and therefore of their description, fundamental elements of a correct exegesis.
Finally, they will address the issues of historical and archival disclosure, refining communication skills through logical and lexical rigor.

Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, a cura di Linda Giuva - Maria Guercio, Roma, Carocci, 2020 (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15)

Stefano Pigliapoco, Progetto Archivio digitale, Lucca, Civita editoriale, 2018.

Two volumes from the following:

Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino 2009, pp. 3-169
Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Archivi e memoria storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1987
Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Andare in archivio, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009
Teresa Numerico - Domenico Fiormonte - Francesca Tomasi, L’umanista digitale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010
Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti: competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano 2015

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. Notes and materials read and discussed

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 OR
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).

Non attending Students will change 1. point with:
D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013 OR
J. Jensen, Che cosa è la Religione, Bulzoni, Roma 2017 OR
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

This module will provide an interpretation of the crisis of the Roman Republic. Students will read some of the major ancient sources relating to this period (Plutarch, Sallustius and so on). They will be introduced to the figure of Mario and the way in which he came into conflict with Lucio Cornelio Silla, a Roman "warlord", who after victories in the East eventually marched on Rome in 82 and assumed the office of dictator.

G.Geraci-A. Marcone- Storia Romana (editio maior), Le Monnier Università, Mondadori Education, Milano 2017.
G.Geraci-A. Marcone- Fonti per la storia romana, Le Monnier Università, Mondadori Education, Milano 2019.
Plutarco-Vita di Mario (qualsiasi edizione)
F. Santangelo- Gaio Mario, Jouvence Milano 2021.

Environmental History
Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last three centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (in particolare la Parte seconda e la Parte terza).
- A. W. Crosby, Lo scambio colombiano. Conseguenze biologiche e culturali del 1492, Einaudi, Torino 1992.
- M. Armiero - S. Barca, Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2004.
- F. Paolini, Ambiente. Una storia globale (secoli XX-XXI), tab edizioni, Roma 2020 (in particolare i capitoli 1-3 e l' "Appendice").
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provided during lessons.

TITOLO DEL CORSO

Ciriaco dei Pizzicolli di Ancona e la nascita dell'epigrafia

● Il corso ha impostazione seminariale ed è finalizzato all’acquisizione di conoscenze disciplinari avanzate sui metodi di ricostruzione testuale e di analisi storica delle epigrafi greche. Esso presuppone inoltre il possesso e la riattivazione di una diversificata gamma di conoscenze pregresse in campo antichistico più ampio, necessarie per l’applicazione dei metodi di analisi propri dei diversi tipi di fonti.

- E.W. Bodnar - C. Foss (eds.), Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels, Cambridge (MA) 2003 (The I Tatti Renaissance Library, Harvard University Press).
- G. Ragone, Umanesimo e ‘filologia geografica’: Ciriaco d’Ancona sulle orme di Pomponio Mela, "Geographia Antiqua" 3-4 (1994-95), pp. 109-185.
- J. Colin, Cyriaque d’Ancône: le voyageur, le marchand, l’humaniste, Paris, 1981.

The course will investigate the analytic/ synthetic distinction in Immanuel Kant's theory of knowledge, and then analyse its reception and problematisation in Charles S. Peirce, Rudolf Carnap and Willard Van Orman Quine. Lastly, 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 rejection of Quine's analytic/synthetic distinction.
- Synthetic reasoning and gesture

I. Kant, Critica della ragion pura (preferibilmente edizione Bompiani, a cura di Costantino Esposito) [parti scelte].
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.
W.V.O. Quine, Due dogmi dell’empirismo, in Da un punto di vista logico. Saggi logico-filosofici, a cura di P. Valore, Raffaello Cortina 2004.
G. Maddalena, Filosofia del gesto. Un nuovo uso per pratiche antiche, Carocci 2021.


Recommended texts

R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti. Il pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci 2015
F. Fistetti, Il Novecento nello specchio delle filosofie, Linguaggi, immagini del mondo, paradigmi, UTET 2021
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 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

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.).

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://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

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 ECTS)

Books:
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, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Antonio Clericuzio, Uomo e natura, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (forthcoming)


Charles Webster, The Great Instauration, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2002

Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

John C. Greene, The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought, Iowa UP, 1983

The origins of the Theatine order

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

Testi di riferimento:

1) L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
2) A. Vanni, Gaetano Thiene. Spiritualità, politica, santità, Roma, Viella
3) A. Vanni, Dalla riforma delle ordinazioni sacerdotali alle origini dell’Inquisizione romana. La carriera ecclesiastica di Gian Pietro Carafa, in Europa e America allo specchio. Studi per Francesca Cantù, a cura di P. Broggio, L. Guarnieri Calò Carducci e M. Merluzzi, Roma, Viella, pp. 43-66.


4) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- E. Bonora, Roma 1564. La congiura contro il papa, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- M. Firpo - F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- G. Fragnito, La Bibbia al rogo. La censura ecclesiastica e i volgarizzamenti della Scrittura (1471-1605), Bologna, il Mulino
- G. Romeo - M. Mancino, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- A. Prosperi, Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari, Torino, Einaudi
- U. Vincenti, Lo studente che sfidò il papa. Inquisizione e supplizio di Pomponio de Algerio, Roma-Bari, Laterza

The first part of the course will be dedicated to explore the role of cultural diplomachy as a tool for managing international conflicts. The idea of the war as a clash of civilizations will be analyzed from the nineteenth century up to the present day.
The second part of the course will focus on the period between the two world wars, and in particular on the methods used by fascism for overseas promotion of Italian culture.

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017, p. 320
2) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021, p. 147

3) A book of your choice between:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009, p. 330
b) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006, p. 238.
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015, p. 397
d) Frances Stoner Saunders, La guerra fredda culturale. La Cia e il mondo delle lettere e delle arti, Fazi, Roma 2004
e) Fabio Ferrarini, L’«asse spezzato». Fascismo, nazismo e diplomazia culturale nei paesi nordici (1922-1945), Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2021, p. 288
f) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015, p. 332
g) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012

Aim of the course is to provide the basic elements of Public History and its practices.
A specific study will be conducted on popular music and the processes of construction of memory.

L. Bertucelli, La Public History in Italia. Metodologie, pratiche, obiettivi, in Public history. Discussioni e pratiche, a cura di P. Bertella Farnetti, L. Berucelli, A. Botti, Mimesis 2017, pp. 75-96

S. Noiret, "“Public history” e “storia pubblica” nella rete, in «Ricerche Storiche» XXXIX, 2009, n. 2-3, pp. 275-327 (Numero speciale dal titolo: Media e storia, a cura di F. Mineccia e L. Tomassini)

P. Carusi, Viva l'Italia. Narrazioni e rappresentazioni della storia repubblicana nei versi dei cantautori "impegnati", Firenze, Le Monnier, 2018

P. Carusi, M. Merluzzi (a cura di), Note tricolori. La storia dell'Italia repubblicana nella popular music, Pisa, Pacini, 2021

“Love Knots”: gender identity e reciprocity in Catullus’ carmina docta: Setting in context, full reading, translation, and commentary of the poems 61, 62, 63, 64 and 68 in the Liber Catullianus: “bridal” aspirations and anxieties in the mirror of a lot of poetry fundamental for the latin literary tradition.

Gaio Valerio Catullo, Le poesie. Testo, traduzione e commento a cura di Alessandro Fo. Con Interventi di A. M. Morelli e A. Rodighiero, Torino (Einaudi) 2018 and subsequent reprints.

Further readings and materials relating to the texts in the syllabus will be indicated during the course and / or be made available on line.

TITLE OF THE COURSE: The pseudo-Augustinian treatise De spiritu et anima (late 12th-early 13th century).

DESCRIPTION: First of all, the course intends to outline, in broad terms, the developments of a theme - that of the soul - dear to the tradition of Western thought since its beginnings, and capable, in addition to incessantly nourishing high-level philosophical and religious reflection, also to have a singular impact on mentalities, on the imaginary, on life conduct, on the self-perception and representation of man in Western culture, and in particular in the Latin Middle Ages. A work will then be analyzed - the De spiritu et anima - of uncertain attribution, datable between the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century, which enjoyed great success in the Middle Ages, and which - due to its eclectic character, but not lacking of originality - is well suited to provide a complex and problematic status quaestionis on the subject, before the most complete elaborations of Scholasticism. - As part of the module will also be activated exercises designed to guide the knowledge and use of the main electronic resources for the study and research on the Latin authors of the Middle Ages.

- Alcherus Claraeuallensis (dubium) [= ps. Augustinus], De spiritu et anima, PL 40, coll. 779-832.
- Anima e corpo nella cultura medievale, a cura di C. Casagrande e S. Vecchio, Ed. SISMEL, Firenze 1999 (Millennio medievale, 15).

Genesis as Narrative: the Memory of the World

The book of Genesis narrates the origin of humanity as a family – although conflictual – and describes the Patriarchs as living in a world where peaceful relationships with neighboring nations were still possible. These "inclusive" traits, among others, have contributed to the hypothesis of an original division and independent redaction of Genesis and the narrative of Exodus and the Conquest of Canaan. The course aims to be a critical analysis of some Genesis' stories that will highlight the parallels and influences of the historical context of ancient Israel.

For students attending course:

G. Deiana – A. Spreafico, Guida allo studio dell'ebraico biblico, Roma 1997 (e ristampe).
Notes and texts suggested/distributed during course sessions.
Students attending the monographic course on Genesis without attending Hebrew grammar lessons must contact Prof. Moro for more texts.

For students not attending course:

Please contact Prof. Moro (caterina.moro@uniroma3.it).

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. EW Said, Covering Islam. Come i media e gli esperti determinano la nostra visione del resto del mondo, Massa: Transeuropa, 2012.
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.
- Anna Bozzo, L’Islam questo sconosciuto, dispensa didattica (disponibile in pdf);
- C. Endress, Introduzione alla storia del mondo musulmano, Capp. 1-3-6 (dispensa disponibile in pdf).

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.

The Roman Forum in the Middle Ages and its churches (6th-14th centuries)

The course proposes an unprecedented journey through the Roman Forum between the 6th and 14th centuries. We will observe together how the square of the Forum in the course of these centuries changes physiognomy and undergoes a process of resemantization through the progressive Christianization of its monuments and its public spaces. We will enter inside the churches of: S. Maria Antiqua, Ss. Cosma e Damiano e la Rotonda, S. Adriano, S. Francesca Romana, S. Sebastiano al Palatino, S. Cesario in Palatio e S. Pietro in Carcere.
The course will be held in the classroom and in the field with the goal of learning to read the architectural and pictorial palimpsests that characterize these monuments and to visualize how the landscape between the Capitol and the Colosseum changes over the centuries examined.
We will discuss together the following topics: the transformation of the Forum from the Byzantine reconquest (6th-8th centuries) to the Rome of the Popes (8th-14th centuries); the churches of the Forum and their pictorial decoration; the religious and secular patronage; the Roman Forum and the great processions along the Via Sacra.

1) Coates-Stephens 2011 = R. Coates-Stephens, The Forum romanum in the byzantine period, in Marmoribus vestita. Miscellanea in onore di Federico Guidobaldi, a cura di O. Brandt e Ph. Pergola, Città del Vaticano: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana 2011, pp. 385-408.
2) Serlorenzi 2016 = M. Serlorenzi, All'origine del Medioevo : passeggiando nel Foro romano, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 110-124.
3) Parlato 2000 = E. Parlato, Le icone in processione, in Arte e iconografia a Roma. Da Costantino a Cola di Rienzo, a cura di M. Andaloro, S. Romano, Milano 2000, pp. 69-92.
4) Santa Maria Antiqua
- Bordi 2021 = G. Bordi, The apse wall of Santa Maria Antiqua (IV-IX centuries), in E. Rubery, G. Bordi, J. Osborne, Santa Maria Antiqua. The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages, London-Turnhout, 2021, pp. 387-422.
- Bordi 2016 = in M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti (a cura di), Santa Maria Antiqua. Tra Roma e Bisanzio (Catalogo della mostra, Roma 17 marzo-11 settembre 2016), Milano, Electa, 2016, pp. 260-277; 278-287; 300-315.
- Andaloro 2016 = M. Andaloro, L’imago antiqua e il ritorno nella sua chiesa, ivi, pp.190-196.
- Bordino 2016 = C. Bordino, Nella cappella dei santi Anargyroi, in Santa Maria Antiqua, ivi, pp. 200-211.
5) Ss. Cosma e Damiano e Rotonda
- Foletti 2015 = I. Foletti, Maranatha: spazio, liturgia e immagini nella basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano sul Foro Romano, in Setkávání. Studie o středověkém umění věnované Kláře Benešovské, Jan Chlíbec, Zoe Opacic ed., Praga, Nakladatelství Artefactum 2015, pp. 68-86.
- Bordi, Quadri 2012 = G. Bordi, I. Quadri, 44. I dipinti ai Santi Cosma e Damiano, in S. Romano (a cura di), Il Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca., Corpus V, Milano 2012, pp. 266-273.
- Bordi 2014 = G. Bordi, Un monumento per due. Memorie di cardinali nella Rotonda dei Santi Cosma e Damiano (XII-XIII secolo), in Il potere dell’arte nel Medioevo. Studi in onore di Mario D’Onofrio, a cura di M. Gianandrea, F. Gangemi, C. Costantini, Roma, Campisano Editore, 2014, pp. 355-366.
6) Bordi 2011 = G. Bordi, Committenza laica nella chiesa di Sant’Adriano al foro romano nell’Altomedioevo, in Medioevo: i committenti, Atti del XIII Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Parma, 21-26 settembre 2010), a cura di C.A. Quintavalle, Bologna 2011, pp. 63-75.
7) S. Maria Nova / S. Francesca Romana
- J. Enckell Juillard, S. Romano, 58. I mosaici dell’abside e dell’arco absidale in Santa Maria Nova, in S. Romano (a cura di), Riforma e tradizione. 1050-1198, Corpus IV, Milano 2006, pp. 335-343.
- J. Enckell Juillard, 59. La decorazione perduta della facciata di Santa Maria Nova, ivi, pp. 344-345
- G. Bordi, Basilica di Santa Maria Nova. Il mosaico dell’abside (1143-1161), in Mosaici medievali a Roma attraverso il restauro dell’ICR 1991-2004, a cura di M. Andaloro e C. D’Angelo, Roma, Gangemi editore international 2017, pp. 327-329.
- K. Queijo, 14. Il volto duecentesco dell’icona di Santa Maria Nova, in S. Romano (a cura di), Il Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca., Corpus V, Milano 2012, pp. 96-97.
- W. Angelelli, 18. I frammenti della decorazione della parete absidale di Santa Maria Nova, in S. Romano (a cura di), Il Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca., Corpus V, Milano 2012, pp. 110-112.
8) S. Pietro in Carcere
- Saggi di P. Fortini e G. Bordi in: Carcer-Tullianum. Il carcere mamertino al foro romano, a cura di P. Fortini e A. Russo, Roma-Bristol 2022 (in corso di stampa).

Further insights will be indicated during the course.

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 Bucolic 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 Bucolic texts from Virgilius, Calpurnius Siculus and Nemesianus.

Point 1:
- (a) F. Berardi, Le vie del latino. Storia della lingua latina con elementi di grammatica storica, Galatina, Congedo Editore, 2020.
- (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.

Point 2:
- (a) Publio Virgilio Marone, Le Bucoliche. Traduzione di A. Traina. Introduzione e commento a cura di A. Cucchiarelli, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (4a rist. 2020).
- (b) A. Luceri, La poesia bucolica, in A. Fusi-A. Luceri-P. Parroni-G. Piras (a cura di), Lo Spazio Letterario di Roma antica, vol. VI (I Testi. 1 – Poesia), Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2009, pp. 603-636.


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.
Transmission and text of Phaedrus. Philological reading of a selection of Phaedrus’ Fabulae Aesopiae, i.e.: I prol. + 1-13; 17-22; II 5-9 + epil.; III prol. + 14; 17-18 + epil.; IV prol. + 6 + epil.; V 21; 24-25; 30; App. 3-4;9-11, 20, 29-30.

- 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);
- Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae, recensuit et adnotavit G. Zago, Berlin-New York (De Gruyter), 2020 [parts of this book will be made available on line at the url of the course]; as a reference text in italian: Fedro e Aviano, Favole, a cura di G. Solimano, Torino (UTET) 2005 and subsequent reprints.
- 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.

A) Mandatory texts
- 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

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 lecturer’s departmental teaching webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio).

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.
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.

The course is focused on Chinese lexicology and includes the following content:
- Chinese word's form: simple words, compounds, multiword expressions, idiomatic expressions;
- Chinese lessicon formation and innovation: neologisms and borrowings;
- the quantitative dimension of lexicon;
- the diamesic variation of lexicon;
- the diatopic variation of lexicon;
- corpus-based analysis of lexicon.

Academic papers will be available.

MURAL DECORATION IN ROMAN PALACES FROM PAUL III (1534-1549) TO SIXTUS V (1585-1590).

The course will investigate the great fresco decoration in Roman palaces in the Late Renaissance, from the pontificate of Paul III (1534-1549) to Sixtus V (1585-1590). Trough a selection of some case studies of the Roman Maniera, we will examine papal patronage, and that of Roman families, the artists responsible of these decorations, the iconographic programs and and the evolution of the different types of wall decorations in the Maniera age. Classes will be supported, whenever possible, by visits of the monuments considered during the course, with the active participation of the students, trough seminars and oral papers.

Bibliography:

Introduction:

G. Sapori, Maestri, botteghe, équipes nei palazzi romani: Perino del Vaga, Salviati, Vasari e Zuccari, in “Bollettino d’arte” (Numero speciale: Palazzi del Cinquecento a Roma, a cura di G. Sapori, C. Conforti), 2016, pp. 1-52.
G. Sapori, Decorare i palazzi da Raffaello a Zuccari, Roma 2020, pp. 59-75 (chapters 3 e 4).
Frustrations about Friezes: Themes, Functions, Accessibility, in Frises peintes. Les décors des villas et palais au Cinquecento, actes du colloque international a sous la direction de A. Lemoine, A. Fenech Kroke, Roma, Accademia di Francia, 16-17 dicembre 2011, Paris 2017, pp. 27-41.

Castel Sant’Angelo:
E. Gaudioso, F. Aliberti Gaudioso, Gli affreschi di Paolo III a Castel Sant’Angelo. Progetto ed esecuzione, exhibition cat., Roma 1981-82, Roma 1981, I, pp. 23-46; II, pp. 104-117.

Palazzo della Cancelleria:
Palazzo della Cancelleria in Oltre Raffaello. Aspetti della cultura figurativa del Cinquecento romano, Roma 1984, pp. 127-142.
C. Robertson, Il Gran Cardinale Alessandro Farnese Patron of the Arts, New Haven-London 1992, pp. 53-74.
J. Kliemann, Gesta Dipinte. La grande decorazione nelle dimore italiane dal Quattrocento al Seicento, Cinisello Balsamo 1993, pp. 35-68.

Palazzo Farnese:
I. Cheney, Le premiéres décorations: Daniele da Volterra, Salviati et les frères Zuccari, in Le Palais Farnèse, I.1, Roma 1981, pp. 243-267.
J. Kliemann, L’immagine di Paolo III come pacificatore. Osservazioni sul “salotto dipinto”, in Francesco Salviati e la Bella Maniera, ed. by C. Goguel, Ph. Costamagna. M. Hochmann, Roma 2001, pp. 287-310.
C. Acidini Luchinat, Taddeo e Federico Zuccari fratelli pittori, I, Firenze 1998, pp. 244-255.

Palazzo Spada Capodiferro:
Palazzo Spada. Arte e Storia, Roma 1992, pp. 25-38.
Palazzo Spada. Le decorazioni restaurate, Milano 1995, pp. 13-31.
S. Urcioli, Palazzo Spada, Roma 2017.

Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti:
J. de Jong, An important Patron and an Unknown Artist: Giovanni Ricci, Ponsio Jacquio, and the Decoration of the Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti in Rome, in “Art Bulletin”, 74 (1992), pp. 135-156.
V. Catalucci, La decorazione del piano nobile del palazzo Ricci Sacchetti a Roma, in “Ricerche di Storia dell’arte”, 91-92, 2007 (Reverse engineering. Un nuovo approccio allo studio dei grandi cicli rinascimentali), pp. 93-105.
N. Dacos, Artisti stranieri a Roma nel ‘500: il decoro di palazzo Ricci Sacchetti, Milano 2016, pp. 11-20.

Appartamento di Belvedere di Pio IV:
P. Tosini, Federico Zuccari, Pirro Ligorio e Pio IV: la sala del Buon Governo nell'Appartamento di Belvedere in Vaticano, in “Storia dell’arte”, 86 (1996), pp. 13-38.

Villa d’Este a Tivoli:
D. R. Coffin, Villa d’Este at Tivoli, Princeton 1960, pp. 41-68.
P. Tosini, Girolamo Muziano e la nascita del paesaggio alla veneta nella Villa d’Este a Tivoli: con alcune osservazioni su Federico Zuccari, Livio Agresti, Cesare Nebbia, Giovanni de’ Vecchi e altri, in “Rivista dell’Istituto di Archeologia e Storia dell’arte”, 22, 1999 (2000), pp. 189-231.

Palazzo Farnese di Caprarola:
I. Faldi, Il palazzo Farnese di Caprarola, Torino 1981, pp. 15-72; 93-96; 136-137; 177-178; 209-210; 241-242; 261-263; 283-284; 305-307.
P. Tosini, entry with bibliographical updates about Caprarola.

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

Palazzo Lateranense:
C. Mandel, Golden Age and the Good Works of Sixtus V, in “Storia dell’arte”, 62 (1988), pp. 29-52.

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.

Further bibliography could be indicated during the course.

Caravaggio and Artemisia: Judith's challenge. A masterpiece between art, history and poetry.

Selected bibliography:
R. Longhi, Gentileschi padre e figlia, Abscondita, 2019
Caravaggio e Artemisia: la sfida di Giuditta. Violenza e seduzione nella pittura tra Cinque e Seicento, catalogo della mostra, a cura di M. Cristina Terzaghi
Paola Cosentino, Le virtù di Giuditta, Aracne, 2012
More bibliography will be indicated during the course.

Course title: 17th-century Dutch Painting. Works and contexts from Frans Hals to Vermeer

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 followings bools (or better all!): Svetlana Alpers, Arte del descrivere. Scienza e pittura nel Seicento olandese, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, ed. 1999; Simon Shama, Il disagio dell'abbondanza. La cultura olandese dell'epoca d'oro, Milano, Mondadori, ed.1993 o successive; Svetlana Alpers, L'officina di Rembrandt. L'atelier e il mercato, Torino, Einaudi, ed.2006; Daniel Arasse, L'ambizione di Vermeer, Torino, Einaudi, ed. 2006; Marco Mascolo, Rembrandt. Un artista nell'Europa del Seicento, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
c)At least one of the following text:
- Eric Jan Sluijter, How Rembrandt surpassed the Ancients, Italians and Rubens as Master of “the Passions of the Soul”’, in, Batavian Phlegm? The Dutch and their Emotions in Pre-Modern Times, a cura di H. Roodenburg and C. Santing, "BMGN-Low Countries Historical Review", 129, no. 2 , 2014, pp. 63-89. (scaricabile sul sito http://www.ericjansluijter.nl/publications/)
- Eric Jan Sluijter, On Brabant Rubbish, Economic Competition, Artistic Rivalry and the Growth of the Market for Paintings in the First Decades of the Seventeenth Century, in "Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art", 1, 2009, n. 2 ( http://jhna.org/index.php/ )
- A.McNeil Kettering, Ter Borch’s ladies in satin, in Looking at seventeenth-century Dutch art, a cura di W.Franits, 1997, pp. 98-115. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_hnr9sLU5-Bel96R2pOQ3Z3YTQ/edit?usp=sharing
oppure, in alternativa, una tesina su un dipinto presentato nelle lezioni (concordata con la docente e consegnata per mail almeno una settimana prima dell'appello d'esame)
d) didactic material, consisting of the ppts of the slides projected during the lessons and available on the blog at the address, following the research indications contained there (for example: the lessons on Rembrandt should be studied by checking the site rembrandtdatabase.org, those on Vermeer by exploring, and you will enjoy, the site http://www.essentialvermeer.com/).
Students taking the course for 6 CFUs may avoid point (c).
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).

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.

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) Victor Egger (1880), and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 (execpt chapter I).
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. Victor Egger, La nascita delle abitudini, ed. by S. Sandreschi, Milan, Mimesis, 2021
5. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
6. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

1. Iacopone da Todi and the religious literature of his time
2. Introduction to "romantic" literary theories.

1. Iacopone da Todi e la poesia religiosa del Duecento, a cura di P. Canettieri, Milano, BUR Rizzoli, e una monografia che sarà indicata durante il corso.
I Fioretti di san Francesco, ed. consigliata a cura di L. Morini, BUR Rizzoli
G. Contini, Letteratura italiana delle Origini, Milano, BUR Rizzoli

2. M. Puppo, Il Romanticismo, Roma, Studium
E. Raimondi, Romanticismo italiano e romanticismo europeo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori
F. Suitner, I Promessi Sposi: un’idea di romanzo, Roma, Carocci

- Students will also read two classics of Italian literature, with appropriate critical comments, which will be indicated during the course. Further information on the texts to be prepared will be provided during the lessons.

"Philosophers and poets, that is: on Cavalcanti and Dante"

The course will take into account a foundational relationship in early Italian lyric: the one between Dante and his "first friend" Guido Cavalcanti. The brief collection of rhymes by Cavalcanti will be read in its entirety, alongside the most important and audacious work of the young Dante, his "Vita nova". Moreover, some passages from his "De vulgari eloquentia" and the "Commedia" will be read, where it is possible to trace echoes of the dialogue with his old friend. Specific attention will be devoted to the philosophical content and the intellectualistic character of their poetry, to their different ideas about love and intellectual happiness, and to the reception of their figures among readers.

1. Guido Cavalcanti, Rime, a cura di Roberto Rea e Giorgio Inglese, Roma, Carocci editore, 2011 (e successive ristampe);
2. Enrico Fenzi, La canzone d’amore di Guido Cavalcanti e i suoi antichi commenti, Milano, Ledizioni, 2015, pp. 1-174 [ristampa anastatica dell’edizione originale: Genova, Il melangolo, 1999];
3. **Giacomo da Pistoia, Questio de felicitate, in Irene Zavattero, La «Quaestio de felicitate» di Giacomo da Pistoia: un tentativo di interpretazione alla luce di una nuova lettura critica del testo in Le felicità nel Medioevo, in Le felicità nel Medioevo: atti del convegno della Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (S.I.S.P.M.), Milano, 12-13 settembre 2003, a c. di Maria Bettetini e Francesco D. Paparella, Louvain-la-Neuve, FIDEM, 2005, pp. 355-409;
4. Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, a cura di Stefano Carrai, 2009 (e successive ristampe);
5. **Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron VI, 9 (testo critico di M. Fiorilla);
6. **Italo Calvino, Leggerezza, in Id., Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio, Milano, Mondadori, 1993 [1988].
Texts with ** and others discussed during lectures will be made available online on Moodle, together with didactic materials. The volumes (or selected portions) in programme will be read in their entirety (introductions, essays and editorial notes included).
A critical bibliography will be given by the end of the course.

Students who did not attend lectures will complete their preparation by reading the first two chapters of Natascia Tonelli, Fisiologia della passione. Poesia d'amore e medicina da Cavalcanti a Boccaccio, Firenze, Sismel, 2015.

Literature and History in the XIX sec. Manzoni and Nievo.

The course aims to analyze, within the European affirmation of the novel genre, the Italian debate and the main models of our nineteenth-century tradition. Through the analysis of the "Promessi Sposi" and "Le confessioni d'un italiano", we intend to offer a deepening and a reflection on the binomial history/ fiction, theoretical node of the romance tradition.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1. Primary Works:

- A. Manzoni, “I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame”, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014
- I. Nievo, "Le Confessioni d’un italiano", a cura di S. Romagnoli, Venezia, Marsilio, 1998.

2. Criticism:

- G. Mazzoni, Teoria del romanzo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011
- Alberto Cadioli, La storia finta. Il romanzo e i suoi lettori nei dibattiti di primo Ottocento, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2001.

Di entrambi i testi si approfondiranno solo alcuni capitoli. Ulteriore bibliografia si fornirà durante il corso.

A selection of essays will be provided in photocopies by the teacher to complete the critical bibliography and to support the students

Non-attending students will add: - Giovanni Maffei, Ippolito Nievo, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2012 and - P. Frare, Leggere i Promessi Sposi,

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: capp. III, VI, VIII.3 (in dispense messe a disposizione dal docente).
- I. Consales (2021), Nell’officina del lessicografo. Saggi di lessicografia italiana, Roma, Aracne, 2021.

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Program for non attending students:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", italian translation by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (original edition Cambridge 2012)

Program for attending students:
- Lectures notes, articles and sources discussed during the lesson.

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, (2019), II ed., Manuale di sociolinguistica, Torino, UTET

Additional material will be provided during the course.

«Roma coda mundi». Renaissance theater in Rome between Tradition and Innovation.

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: *C. Giovanardi, Roma e le sue lingue nelle commedie del Rinascimento, in Scrivere il volgare fra Medioevo e Rinascimento, edited by N. Cannata and M.A. Grignani, Pisa, Pacini, 2009, pp. 199-211;
6. Criticism: *R. Guarino., Archeologia e spettacolo a Roma nell’età di Giulio II, in Metafore di un pontificato. Giulio II (1503-1513). Atti del convegno (Roma, 2-4 dicembre 2008), edited by F. Cantatore et alii, Rome, Roma nel Rinascimento, 2010, pp. 345-64;
7. 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), edited by M. Miglio e I. Lori Sanfilippo, Rome, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, 2020, pp. 129-41.
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 a presentation of the theories and disciplines that have contributed to the development of the models of interaction, we will focus on the approach of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, by discussing in detail their theoretical and methodological principles. The main features of interaction (e.g., turn-taking organisation, sequential organisation, repair phenomena) will be studied and authentic data, represented by audiovisual recordings and transcripts of conversational and institutional exchanges, will be analysed. Particular attention will be paid to methodological issues related to data collection and processing.

Non-exhaustive bibliography (please note: the final list of volumes and papers that will be discussed in class will be communicated at the beginning of the course and will be available on the webpage of the course):

Bazzanella, C. (2008). Linguistica e pragmatica del linguaggio. Un'introduzione. Laterza.
Bazzanella, C., Merlino, S. (2014). Multimodalità e trascrizione. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata. Anno XLVI, 1-2, 193-224.
De Stefani, E., Veronesi, D. (2020). Dagli studi sul parlato alla linguistica interazionale. Ricerche sull’uso ordinario della lingua italiana. Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, anno XLIX, numero 3, 464-490.
Fatigante, M. (2006). Teoria e pratica della trascrizione in Analisi Conversazionale. L’irriducibilità interpretativa del sistema notazionale. In I. Burki, E. De Stefani (a cura di) Trascrivere la lingua. Dalla filologia all'analisi conversazionale. Bern, P. Lang (pp. 219-256).
Fele, G. (2007). L’analisi della conversazione. Il Mulino.
Mondada, L. (2006). La pertinenza del dettaglio. Registrazione e trascrizione di dati video per la linguistica interazionale. In I. Burki, E. De Stefani (a cura di) Trascrivere la lingua. Dalla filologia all'analisi conversazionale. Bern, P. Lang, 313-344.
Orletti F. (1994). Fra conversazione e discorso. Roma: Carocci.
Sacks, H. (2007). L’analisi della conversazione. A cura di E. Caniglia. Armando Editore.
Sidnell, J. (2010). Conversation Analysis. An introduction. Wiley-Blackwell.

The teaching is an introduction to ethnography as a practice and theory of the description of social and cultural phenomena. The first part will focus on field research through a historical examination of the methods and reflection on them: from the expeditions season, to participatory observation, to the most recent and innovative forms. A second part will focus on ethnography as a space for reflection on the narrative strategies put in place in the human and social sciences, thus providing critical awareness around discursive rhetoric and ethnographic writing. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of the research question, the identification of the object of analysis, its empirical development, the role and relationship with the informants, the questions that ethnography formulates and the answers it provides, through its specific modalities. Classroom readings and presentations of classical and more recent anthropological ethnographies will provide an overview of the potential of the approach.

Testi d’esame:
Piasere, L., L'etnografo imperfetto. Esperienza e cognizione in antropologia, Laterza 2002.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
Bourgois, P., Cercando rispetto. Drug economy e cultura di strada, Derive Approdi, 2005.
Crapanzano V., Tuhami. Ritratto di un uomo del Marocco, Meltemi, 1995.
Griaule, M., Dio d’acqua. Incontri con Ogotemmeli, Bollati Boringhieri 2002.
Malinowski, B. Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011.
Mead M., L’adolescenza a Samoa, Giunti, 2007.
Shostack, M., Nisa. La vita e le parole di una donna!Kung, Meltemi, 2017.
Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 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, from the following texts (see "bibliografia di riferimento").

Non attending students will add 2 chapters from:
Fabietti, U. (a cura di), Etnografia e culture. Antropologi, informatori e politiche dell’identità, Carocci, 2001.

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, G. Sartori (2011) Neuroetica: Scienze del cervello, filosofia e libero arbitrio, il Mulino
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, G. Sartori (2011) Neuroetica: Scienze del cervello, filosofia e libero arbitrio, il Mulino
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
4. A. Damasio (1995) L’errore di Cartesio, Adelphi.