Università Roma Tre

I TEACHING MODULE (6CFU)
Title: Modern History Institutions
The course will analyze the main meanings that identify the contents of the modern age from the fifteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century with a preliminary attention to historiographic categories, interpretative orientations, sources and tools specific to the discipline. The training objective is to offer students solid knowledge for acquiring a cognitive and critical familiarity with the "general history" of the modern age.
The lessons will focus mainly on the following topics: Europe and its interrelation with non-European worlds; Crisis and identity of modern Italy; Humanism and the Renaissance; Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation; The ancient regime society: élites and classes; Economic models: the land, work, finance and the market in the modern age; Political systems and their dynamics: empire, monarchies and republics; Family and demography; Literacy and culture; The birth of modern science; Enlightenment and reforms; The first industrial revolution; The American Revolution and the birth of the United States; French Revolution; the Napoleonic Age and the Europe of nations.


II TEACHING MODULE (6CFU)
Title: The age of the Renaissance between Italy and Europe
The course will examine the main historical events that have characterized the history of Italy and of the main European monarchies from the last thirty years of the fifteenth century to the first half of the sixteenth century. The lessons will also address the following topics: the intellectual and conceptual contents of the Renaissance, the discussion on Renaissance interpretations, the chronology and spaces of its diffusion, the use of the "Renaissance" historiographical category through the analysis of authoritative texts and appropriate sources.

I TEACHING MODULE (6CFU)
Exam texts (A+B):
A) A university textbook of modern history, chosen by the student from following list:

1) F. Benigno, L’età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell’America alla Restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza
2) C. Capra, Storia Moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier Università
3) G. Gullino-G. Muto-E.Stumpo, Il Mondo Moderno, Bologna, Monduzzi

B) P. Prodi, La storia moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino

II TEACHING MODULE (6 CFU)

Exam texts (A+B)

A.
1)P. Burke, Il Rinascimento europeo. Centri e periferie, Roma-Bari, Laterza (available in english éd.)
2) M. Pellegrini, Le guerre d’Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino

B. One text chosen by the student from this list:

1) L’uomo del Rinascimento, a cura di E. Garin, Roma-Bari, Laterza,
2) A. Tenenti, L’Italia del Quattrocento. Economia e società, Roma-Bari, Laterza
3) M. Pellegrini, Savonarola. Profezie e martirio nell'età delle guerre d'Italia, Roma, Salerno editrice
4) F. Chabod, Scritti sul Rinascimento, Torino, Einaudi (pp.1-239)
5) J. Burckhardt, La civiltà del Rinascimento in Italia, Firenze, Sansoni
6) E. Bonora, Aspettando l’imperatore. Principi italiani tra il papa e Carlo V, Torino, Einaudi
7) Niccolò Machiavelli, Il principe, Torino, Einaudi, (o Milano,Garzanti)
8) Francesco Guicciardini, Storia d’Italia (1490-1534), 3 voll.(un volume a scelta), Torino, Einaudi, (o Milano, Mondadori)
9) Baldassar Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Milano, Rizzoli