Università Roma Tre

Course title: The Risorgimento in literature.

Course description: The course aims to analyze the literary narrative of our Risorgimento through the analysis of different narrative forms such as the novel and the short story. The analysis of the texts that will be considered will require an in-depth study and reflection on the history / fiction binomial and on the debate around the question of the boundaries and specificities of literary and historiographic narration.

Bibliography:

The program for attending students involves the study of all the bibliographic included in points 1 and 2.

1. Texts:

- I. Nievo, Le confessioni d'un italiano, edited by S. Romagnoli, Venezia, Marsilio, 1998.
- Racconti del Risorgimento, edited by G. Pedullà, Milano, Garzanti, 2022

2. Critical studies:

- Il Risorgimento tra Storia e finzione, edited by R. Colombi, Firenze, Cesati, 2021
- Roberta Colombi, La verità della finzione. Storia e romanzo da Manzoni a Nievo, Rome, Carocci, 2022

Any other reference bibliography will be suggested during the course and may be the subject of individual or group studies and ongoing checks.

Non-attending students must personally agree on the integration of the exam program with the teacher