Università Roma Tre

The epistolaries of humanists. The course intends to deepen the development of epistolary production, starting from the rebirth of the genre by Petrarch and from the new relationship established therewith correspondents, formed in a friendly and intellectual network, to continue with the epistolaries of humanism (Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini and others) until the sixteenth-century refoundation with the Letters of Pietro Aretino, the first example of a vulgar epistolary, and the letters of Bembo with their complex textual architecture.

F. Petrarca, Familiarum rerum libri, e Sine nomine, in any edition, also on line.
Selected passages from the letters of Coluccio Salutati, P. Aretino, P. Bembo and others, available on line, will be indicated during the course.