Università Roma Tre

The course is aimed at all students wishing to gain a solid understanding, in a historical-cultural perspective, of themes and forms of Latin literature ranging from the phases immediately preceding the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the threshold of the Carolingian Renaissance, with particular reference to the culture of the so-called Roman-barbarian kingdoms. To this end, it is divided into two parts.
1) An initial cycle of lessons will offer an organic picture of authors and tendencies of Latin literary production determined by the meeting of the barbarian civilizations with Romans and Christians, between the end of the 5th century and the end of the 7th century
2) In the second part, paying attention to the aspects of form, style and metric, the course will proceed with the complete reading, interpretation and commentary of Dracontius' "Epithalamia" (Romulea 6-7).

- Gli epitalami di Draconzio, edited by A. Luceri, Roma, Herder, 2007 (avalaible on teacher's web site)

Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- F. Gasti, Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina, Pavia University Press, 2013
(only chapters: 1-4, 8-9, 11-12, 23-26, 28-29).
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.