Università Roma Tre

This course aims to offer an in-depth knowledge of a foundational text of Italian literature, the "Vita nova" by Dante Alighieri, which will be read and discussed in its entirety. This juvenile work is a crucial text in relation to both Dante's experience as a poet and the development of Italian literature in the thirteenth century as a whole, as well as with regard to the influence that it exerted on later authors such as Petrarch. A lecture will be devoted to the afterlife of this work; special attention will be devoted to the British painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and to his artistic elaboration of the "Vita nova".

Dante ALIGHIERI, 'Vita nova', a cura di Stefano Carrai, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli, 2009

NB: those students who won't attend lectures are asked to read the 'Vita nova' not in the edition edited by Carrai, but rather in the one edited by Pirovano (introduction, 'nota al testo' and commentary included): Dante ALIGHIERI, Vita nuova, a cura di Donato Pirovano, in Nuova edizione commentata delle Opere di Dante, I. Vita nuova – Rime, ed. by D. Pirovano and Marco Grimaldi, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2015, pp. 1-289