Università Roma Tre

The class is dedicated to a particular genre of italian literature: the prosimeter. Through the analysis of extracts taken from different texts - such as Dante's Vita Nova, some writings from Boccaccio, Sannazzaro's Arcadia, the Canti Orfici by Dino Campana and so on - I will try, along with the students who are going to participate, both to reconstruct the history of the genre and to identify the peculiarities of the works identifiable as prosimeters.

1. Dante Alighieri, Vita Nova (it is recommended the edition by S. Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli, 2009)
2. Dino Campana, Canti orfici (it is reccomende the edition Milano, Rizzoli, 1989)
3. Selected texts (in handouts)