Università Roma Tre

During the course there will be an in-depth reading of poems by three protagonists of nineteenth and twentieth century Italian literature: Giacomo Leopardi, Eugenio Montale, Giorgio Caproni.

- Leopardi "Package"
1. Giacomo Leopardi, Canti, edited by Lucio Felici, Newton Compton, Rome 2007 (or subsequent editions): including introduction and annotations.
2. Marco Dondero, Leopardi personaggio. Il poeta nei "Canti" e nella letteratura italiana contemporanea, Carocci, Rome 2020.

- Montale "Package"
1. Eugenio Montale, Ossi di seppia, edited by Pietro Cataldi and Floriana d'Amely, Oscar Mondadori, Milan 2016 (or subsequent editions): including introduction and annotations.
2. Massimiliano Tortora, Living one's own contradiction. Immanence and transcendence in Eugenio Montale's "Ossi di seppia", Pacini, Pisa 2015.

- Caproni "Package"
1. Giorgio Caproni, "Antologia personale", edited by Stefano Verdino, Garzanti, Milan 2017 (or subsequent editions).
2. Adele Dei, "L'orma della parola. Su Giorgio Caproni", Esedra, Padova 2016.

Attending students will prepare one of the three "packages" (n° 1. literary text + n° 2. book of criticism) of their choice. Non-attending students will prepare the "Canti" and "Ossi di seppia" and choose one of the two related books for criticism.