Università Roma Tre

INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
9 Credits 54 hours

Prof. Donatello Santarone

Title and Course Content

World Poetry in Dante’s Comedy


The course aims to read and analyze some parts of Dante’s Comedy. We will trace the intercultural dimension of Dante's work, which is characterized by cosmopolitanism, intertextuality, interdiscursion.
Reading these texts and interpreting them as a critical exercise of the imagination, with the consequent historical-critical commentary, will consolidate three capacities of which the critic Romano Luperini speaks: “the cognitive capacity, widening and deepening specific knowledge of the discipline and of the linguistic and cultural knowledge that is obtained from the dense network of interferences that presides over reading and interpretation; the imaginative capacity, as an existential, emotional and cultural enrichment produced by the contact with the great reservoir of imagination that is literature; the critical capacity, from education to the complexity and the problematic nature of the hermeneutical moment to the partiality and interdialogical character of every truth and to the democratic dialectic of the conflict of interpretations. These three capacities outline the many educational objectives.”
Part of the program is dedicated to practical applications in a learning environment for early childhood.

Exam Texts:

1) Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia: selected "canti"






Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia, complete edition to choose from the following comments (it is recommended to follow these guidelines and to obtain more than one comment for the necessary comparisons):

 Natalino Sapegno (La Nuova Italia)
 Umberto Bosco, Giovanni Reggio (Le Monnier Scuola – Mondadori Education)
 Saverio Bellomo, Stefano Carrai (Einaudi)
 Emilio Pasquini, Antonio Quaglio (Garzanti)
 Maria Corti, Bianca Garavelli (Bompiani)
 Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi (Mondadori o Zanichelli)
 Enrico Malato (Salerno)
 Giorgio Inglese (Carocci)
 Vittorio Sermonti (Rizzoli).


2. Marco Santagata, Dante. Il romanzo della sua vita, Mondadori, Milano 2020.



3. Critical readings that will be progressively uploaded to Formonline starting from the beginning of the course (October 2021).