Università Roma Tre

The course aims to outline an overview of Portuguese literature from the beginning to the fifteenth century, placing special emphasis on the evolution of the Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry(XII-XIV century).
Main contents of the course:
- Cultural and historical overview on development of Galician-Portuguese language, the origins of the Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry, centres of medieval poetry in the Iberian Peninsula;
- analysis of the themes and formal aspects of the three main genres of the Galego-Portuguese lyric poetry: cantiga d'amor, cantiga de amigo, cantigas d'escarnho e maldizer;
- Analysis of the main aspects of the religious-Marian genre: Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X;
- The Manuscript Tradition of Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry;
- Evolution of Portuguese literature: prose and historiography.

V. Bertolucci, “La letteratura portoghese medievale”, in V. Bertolucci, C. Alvar, S. Asperti, Storia delle letterature medievali romanze. L’area iberica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999;
G. Lanciani, “L’ambasceria portoghese a Leone X e la lirica galego-portoghese”, in La meccanica dell’errore, Roma, Viella, 2010;
G. Lanciani, “La cantiga de amigo, canzone di «retroguardia»”, in La meccanica dell’errore, Roma, Viella, 2010;
G. Lanciani, Profilo di storia linguistica e letteraria del Portogallo, Roma, Bulzoni, 1999.