Teleology without final end. Walter Benjamin's Reflections on the Critique of Knowledge, Ethics and Politics and the relation with Kant.

The course will handle Benjamin's attempt to delineate the task of the "true philosopher" and the "true politician", starting from his critique of Kant' philosophy of knowledge and history, between 1916 and 1940.
We will read the essays "On Language in general and on the Language of Men" (1916), "On the Program of the Coming Philosophy" (1917/18), the "Theological-Political Fragment (1920-21 ca), the "Episthemological Preface" to "Origin of the German Tragic Drama" (1925), "On the Concept of History" (1940), and other texts and fragments on knowledge and language, ethics, histoty and politics. We will read three of Kant's writing on history, politics and right: "Toward Perpetual Peace", "Idea of a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan point of View", "Aswer to the Question: What is Enlightment"".

For a choice of texts in english please contact Tamara Tagliacozzo (tamara.tagliacozzo@uniroma3.it)

"Sulla lingua in generale e sulla lingua dell'uomo", in Walter Benjamin, Opere complete, a cura di E. Ganni, vol. I, 2008, pp. 281-295.
"Sul programma della filosofia futura", ivi, pp. 329-341.
"Premessa gnoseologica" a "Il dramma barocco tedesco", a cura di Flavio Cuniberto, Einaudi, Torino 1999, pp. 3-31
Walter Benjamin, La politica e altri scritti. Frammenti III, cura di Dario Gentili, Mimesis 2016.
Walter Benjamin, Sul concetto di storia, a cura di Gianfranco Bonola e Michele Ranchetti, Einaudi, Torino 1997 (VII-XIX, 5-13; 17-103)
Immanuel Kant, "Scritti di storia, politica e diritto", a cura di Filippo Gonnelli, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1995 (pp. VII-XXXV; 29-44; 45-52; 163-207) .
Tamara Tagliacozzo, Esperienza e compito infinito nella filosofia del primo Benjamin, Quodlibet, Macerata 2013 (pp. 253-456).

Optional Texts:

Massimiliano Tomba, “La vera politica.” Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2006.

The 1848-1849 Revolutions: sources and interpretations of a fundamental moment of Italian Risorgimento

Inside a general sight of the Risorgimento’s events and debates, the course will examine the important rule of revolutions 1848-1849 for the diffusion of ideals of democracy, independence and liberty and for the subsequent results of Risorgimento’s proceedings. It will confront the principal historiographical debates about these arguments and the sources’ reading and analysis, in order to introduce the students to the literature and documents’ critical approach.

Texts
- MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
- ROGER PRICE, Le rivoluzioni del 1848, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004.
The students that frequent the lessons will have other information during the course.

The first module intends to address the main critical and problematic nodes of early modern history in a perspective aimed at enucleating original characters and identity processes of the European continent. Particular attention will be devoted to the philosophical-political and political-institutional peculiarities that emerged in European states between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 19th century. From the English Revolutions of the 17th Century and later with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, parliamentary democracy, secularization, religious tolerance and the recognition of human rights became traditionally not only the key ideas of the definition of "being European", but real universal guiding principles to export and, if necessary, to impose on the rest of the globe. But can we really coincide the advent of European modernity with the beginnings of the process of secularization? What was the relationship between Christian churches and modernity? What was the relationship between Catholic Church and human rights since the Lumières century?

F. Chabod, Storia dell’idea di Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
P. Prodi, Homo Europaeus, Bologna, Il Mulino
V. Ferrone, Lo strano Illuminismo di Joseph Ratzinger. Chiesa, modernità e diritti dell’uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

Objectives

Module 1
Introducing the analysis of the social construction of space. Provide tools and concepts useful to the interpretation of collaborative and competitive dynamics in the use of space.


Programme Module 1 (6 CFU)

Basic definitions, especially with special reference to the concepts of space and territory, the processes of territorialization and its effects, the basis of the concept of limit/boundary and its applications. Main disciplinary and transdisciplinary methods of investigation used in geographical research.

Texts for the module 1 (6 CFU)

1) - C. CERRETI, I. DUMONT, M. TABUSI (a cura di), Geografia sociale e democrazia. La sfida della comunicazione, Roma, Aracne, 2012 (alternatively either all the texts in Italian or all the texts in French - communicating it to the teacher before the exam)

2) I. DUMONT (a cura di), Per una geografia sociale. Proposte da un confronto italo-francese, fascicolo monografico del «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», 2009, 1

Genealogy of Debt: Nietzsche and Benjamin

Module A: F. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic.
Recommended Text:
E. Stimilli, The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism, SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy, 2017.

Module B: W. Benjamin, La Politica e altri scritti, Mimesis, Milano 2016.
Recommended Text:
D. Gentili, M. Ponzi, E. Stimilli (edited by), Il culto del capitale. Walter Benjamin: capitalismo e religione, Quodlibet, Macerata 2014.

Testi per studenti non frequentanti:
Stefano De Matteis, Le false libertà. Verso la postglobalizzazione, Milano, Meltemi 2017;
David Freedberg, Il potere delle immagini. Il mondo delle figure: reazioni e emozioni del pubblico, trad. it. di Giovanna Perini, Torino, Einaudi 2009.

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Texts:

Two articles from the issue Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Ilaria Luzzana Caraci (a cura di), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche (The magazine is difficult to find, ask the teacher):
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, pp. 3-12;
- Claudio Cerreti, Breve ragionamento intorno ai sette paradossi principali del viaggio, pp. 52-59.

Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, Introduzione, pp. 9-15 and Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.

L’ITALIA DALL'AVVENTO DELLA DEMOCRAZIA E DALLA "GRANDE TRASFORMAZIONE" ALL'ALBA DEL XXI SECOLO.
NUOVE FONTI E NUOVI METODI. MASS MEDIA, TELEVISIONE E CINEMA

Il corso intende affrontare la storia d'Italia dall'avvento della democrazia e dalla "Grande Trasformazione" degli anni '50 e '60 fino alla vigilia dei giorni nostri.
In ciascuno dei periodi analizzati verranno individuati dei nuclei tematici sui quali saranno sviluppati degli approfondimenti. L'analisi sarà svolta con una particolare attenzione alle nuove metodologie e alle nuove fonti audiovisive e digitali

IN MODO PARTICOLARE SARANNO TRATTATI I SEGUENTI TEMI:

PRIMO MODULO: 30 ORE, 6 CFU
I NODI DELLO SVILUPPO; LA NASCITA E L'EVOLUZIONE DEL WELFARE STATE; IL MIRACOLO ECONOMICO E LA TRASFORMAZIONE DEI COSTUMI; LE CONTRADDIZIONI DEGLI ANNI SETTANTA; I DIRITTI CIVILI; LA STRAGE DI PIAZZA FONTANA E LA "STRATEGIA DELLA TENSIONE"; LA LOTTA ARMATA E LE "BRIGATE ROSSE"; IL SEQUESTRO DI ALDO MORO; LA SVOLTA DEGLI ANNI OTTANTA; NEO-LIBERISMO E NUOVI CONSUMI; L’AVVENTO DELLA TELEVISIONE COMMERCIALE E LA “POLITICA SPETTACOLO”; IL WELFARE STATE TRA SICUREZZA SOCIALE E SPESA PUBBLICA; TANGENTOPOLI E IL CROLLO DEL SISTEMA POLITICO

SECONDO MODULO: 30 ORE 6 CFU
GLI ANNI NOVANTA; BERLUSCONI E IL “BERLUSCONISMO”; L’EURO; TRA LIBERALISMO E POPULISMO: LA PARABOLA DEL GOVERNO BERLUSCONI. LA CRISI ECONOMICO-FINANZIARIA DEL 2007-2008; LA CADUTA DEL GOVERNO BERLUSCONI; LA NASCITA DEL MOVIMENTO "CINQUE STELLE"; NUOVI ESPERIMENTI DI GOVERNO.

TESTI
MODULO I:
- A. Lepre, Storia della prima repubblica, Il Mulino
- Antonio Varori, "La Cenerentola d'Europa? L'Italia e l'integrazione europea", dal cap. 6 in poi.

All'interno del modulo 1 è possibile scegliere fra tre approfondimenti. Ne va scelto solo uno, tra i seguenti:

a) Condizione femminile e movimento femminile
- Perry Wilson, "Italiane", Laterza, dal cap. 7 fino alla fine, e Fiamma Lussana, "Il movimento femminista in Italia", Carocci (per intero)

b) La destra e la strategia della tensione
- Davide Conti "L'anima nera della Repubblica", Laterza

c) Il caso Moro
- A. Giovagnoli, Il caso Moro, Il Mulino.

MODULO II:
- G. Orsina, Il berlusconismo, Marsilio
- R. Biorcio, Il Populismo nella politica italiana, Mimesis

Teorethical-historical presentation of the relationship between philosophy and psychology; critical analysis of representative texts of the theoretical-methodological matters pertaining to the status of philosophy in relation to psychology. 

J. Dewey, Logica, teoria dell’indagine. Einaudi 1949: parti scelte (saranno disponibili in fotocopia).
E. Husserl, Filosofia e psicologia, Filema 2003.
R. M. Calcaterra, R. Dreon (a cura di), Pragmatism and Psychologism, “European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy”, IX, 1, 2017: due saggi a scelta degli studenti
R. Calcaterra, Filosofia della contingenza. Le sfide di Richard Rorty, Marietti 2016.

Recommended texts:
R. Martinelli, Misurare l’anima. Filosofia e psicofisica da Kant a Carnap, Quodlibet 1999
A. Ales Bello, Il senso dell’umano. Tra fenomenologia, psicologia e psicopatologia, Castelvecchi 2016
V. Costa, Husserl, Carocci 2009
R. M. Calcaterra, Idee concrete. Percorsi nella filosofia di John Dewey, Marietti 2011.
R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (a cura di), Il Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei (a cura di), Carocci, 2017.

I. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: relations between canon law, theology, morality and history.

II. FOUNDATION AND HISTORICITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM

III. THEORY OF SOURCES OF CANON LAW

IV. THE REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH

V. THE TYPICALITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE NORM

VI. THE CHURCH AS INSTITUTION, GOD’S PEOPLE, SOCIETY

VII. ACTIVITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

For attending students only: The examination will focus only on lesson notes and handouts provided by the Professor.

Will be considered as attending only the students who have attended the 2/3 of classes and seminars.


For students who do not attend classes to choose the program No. 1 or the program No 2:

PROGRAM No. 1

P. MONETA, Introduzione al diritto canonico, IV edition, Torino, Giappichelli, 2016, pp. 200;

E. VITALI – S. BERLINGO’, Il matrimonio canonico, IV edition, Milano, Giuffré, 2012, pp. 1-145;

In place of the two volumes: G. DALLA TORRE, Lezioni di diritto canonico, 4 edizione, Torino, Giappichelli 2014


P. GROSSI, Diritto canonico e cultura giuridica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 32 (2003), pp. 373-389, viewed and downloaded online at the following link: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/32/0374.pdf


P. GROSSI, Æquitas canonica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 27 (1998), pp. 379-396, viewed and downloaded online at the following link: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/27/0380.pdf


PROGRAM No. 2

C. FANTAPPIE’, Storia del diritto e delle istituzioni della Chiesa, Bologna, Il Mulino 2011, pp. 326;

P. GROSSI, Diritto canonico e cultura giuridica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 32 (2003), pp. 373-389, viewed and downloaded online at the following link: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/32/0374.pdf

P. GROSSI, Æquitas canonica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 27 (1998), pp. 379-396, viewed and downloaded online at the following link: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/27/0380.pdf


FOR MORE INFORMATIONS, REFER TO THE FACULTY WEBSITE WHERE THERE IS THE PAGE RESERVED TO PROFESSOR’S DIDACTIS.

Iconografia cristiana e medievale Laurea magistrale :
Il corso vuole ricostruire la diffusione e le caratteristiche della produzione musiva paleocristiana nel territorio italiano , escludendo Roma.
Verranno considerati i complessi dell'Italia meridionale , con particolare riguardo per il battistero di S. Giovanni in Fonte a Napoli ; di Ravenna;
di Milano. Lo studio verterà sulle questioni archeologiche, iconografiche, stilistiche e storico-artistiche. Si considereranno le tecniche e i sistemi di restauro.
Il corso prevede sopralluoghi.

Bibliografia Magistrale:

"Mosaici paleocristiani d'Italia"


- G. Ferri, I mosaici del battistero di San Giovanni in Fonte a Napoli, Tau Editrice, Todi 2013.

- C. Rizzardi, Il mosaico a Ravenna. Ideologia e Arte, AnteQuem, Bologna 2012.

- F. Bisconti, Imprese musive paleocristiane negli edifici di culto dell'Italia Meridionale. Documenti e monumenti dell'area campana", in AISCOM IV, 1996, pp. 733-746.


Gli studenti non frequentanti devono aggiungere l'Introduzione e 20 temi a scelta da:

-F. Bisconti, Temi di Iconografia Paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000.


Per il programma di Epigrafia del secondo semestre vi aggiornerò più avanti.

Please check http://umanistici.lms.uniroma3.it/dsu-afferenti/ggervasio

Please check http://umanistici.lms.uniroma3.it/dsu-afferenti/ggervasio

The organization and workings of Imperial Rome. The central administration and those of the Provinces. The army’s role.

The course is designed for students enrolled in Laurea Magistrale in Archeology science and methodology of historical and archaeological research (D.M. 270/2004), Laurea Magistrale in Religions Sciences (D.M. 270/2004), Laurea Magistrale in Philology, literature and history of Antiquity (D.M. 270/2004), which already have specific notions of Greek history, Roman history, Greek language and literature, Latin language and literature.

The course consists of 36 hours of lectures that will aim to deepen peculiar and significant issues of the Roman Provinces. The type of bibliography will allow the student to acquire the knowledge of the formation of the provinces, their administration, their relationship with the central power, the army's role. This knowledge will be enriched by the texts of classical authors, transcripts of inscriptions and images that will be provided during the lessons.

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida allostudio della civiltà romana antica, edd. V. Ussani, F. Arnaldi, I, 1964, pp. 331-377.
• F. JACQUES, J. SCHEID, Roma e il suo impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1992.
• E. LO CASCIO, Le tecniche dell'amministrazione, in Storia di Roma, II. L'impero mediterraneo, 2. I principi e il mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, pp. 119-191.
• L. CRACCO RUGGINI, La città imperiale, in Storia di Roma, IV. Caratteri e morfologie, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, pp. 201-266.
• MEYER-ZWIFFELHOFFER, Storia delle Province romane, Universale Paperbacks il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.
• P. GROS, M. TORELLI, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il mondo romano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1988, pp. 237-426. (reprint 2010).
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.


Further bibliographic references and other didactic materials (in particular texts by classical authors, transcriptions of inscriptions, images) will be provided during the lectures.

STUDENTS 509/99 – Bibliographic references and didactic materials should be discussed with the Supervisor.

Codicology

The course is intented for students who have already had an exam in the field of paleography (M-STO/09) and aims to present the features of Greeks and Latin manuscripts, especially those of some relevance for the philological, historical and cultural studies. We will take into consideration external characteristics of manuscripts (such as techniques, means and tools used for arranging a book and the professional figures involved in the process of production) and the cultural background (that is places and times of origin) of manuscript books.
The course includes an examination of reproducted manuscripts (on paper and on electronic supports) and the examination of manuscripts and other materials in archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Archeologia del manoscritto. Metodi, problemi, bibliografia recente, Roma, Viella, 2003;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

This course - destinated only to regularly participating students - will be organized during the first semester as a seminar.
Title: The Etruscan Dodekapolis - History, Topography, Monuments and Artistic Production in the main Etruscan centers.
Some excursions will be organized to a number of Etruscan cities.
The contributions of the students will be part of the preparation of a photographical and documentary exhibition on the Etruscan Dodekapolis at Villa Palagione near Volterra too.

Basic publications:
See under "Italiano" !

The course is intended to provide the knowledge about the history of Greek painting. We will try to analyze the forms and contents of painting in the context of the social and political use of painting - painting, theatrical painting, funerary painting. Some relevant topics will be considered in the light of ancient sources and modern studies.

Main reference texts:

S. Miller Grobel, Hellenistic Painting in the Eastern Mediterranean, Mid-Fourth to Mid-First Century B.C.in The Cambridge history of painting in the classical world, edited by J.J. Pollitt, History of painting in the classical world, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. . 170-237
Riferimenti bibliografici:
M. Stansbury-O’Donnell, Reflections of Monumental Painting in Greek Vase Painting in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C., The Cambridge history of painting in the classical world, edited by J.J. Pollitt, History of painting in the classical world, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 143-169.
J.J. Pollitt, J. J., Painting in Greek and Graeco-Roman Art Criticism, in The Cambridge history of painting in the classical world, edited by J.J. Pollitt, History of painting in the classical world, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 288-301
J. Hurwit, The Lost Art : Early Greek Wall and Panel. Painting, 760-480 B.C., The Cambridge history of painting in the classical world, edited by J.J. Pollitt, History of painting in the classical world, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 66-93
E. M. Moormann, Divine interiors: mural paintings in Greek and Roman sanctuaries, Amsterdem : Amsterdam University Press, 2011, pp. 7-16, 27-29, 39-46.
R. Posamentir, Richard, The polychrome grave stelai from the early Hellenistic necropolis, Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2011.

Additional material, provided during the course, will be available at the students
Students not attending should contact the lecturer during the consultation times or by e-mail.

Substance and Predication in Aristotle

The course will focus on Aristotle's theories of substance and predication. The discussion will cover passages from Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics VII.

[a] Aristotle, Categories and De Interpretatione, Translated with Notes by J.L. Ackrill, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1963 (rist. 2002), pp. 3-12 (Cat. 1-5); pp. 71-91 (notes);
Aristotle, Metaphysics Books Z and H, Translated with a Commentary by D. Bostock, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994 (rist. 2003), pp, 1-4; 23-25; 29-31 (Met., VII, 1-3; 13; 17); pp. 45-85; 185-207; 237-247 (Commentary)

[b] R. Dancy, On Some of Aristotle’s First Thoughts About Substances, «Philosophical Review» 84 (1975), pp. 338-373;
R. Dancy, On Some of Aristotle’s Second Thoughts About Substances: Matter, «Philosophical Review»,
87 (1978), pp. 372-413.

Students are allowed to write an essay, in Italian or in English, regarding some of Aristotle’s texts listed in [a]. The preparation of this essay can replace the study of R. Dancy’s articles listed in [b]. For further information please contact Prof. R. Chiaradonna.

Five centuries from the Protestant Reform: sources and historiographical studies

In the Christianity history the Lutheran reform was an event that divides the Occidental Europe. About its motivations and its incidence on the religious, political and social future history the historians have built many interpretations, studying the abundant sources about the first period of Luther’s rebellion, but also the reactions of the Roman ecclesiastical authorities. The course will analyse several sources produced in Lutheran entourage, in the civil entourage and in the catholic ecclesiastical entourage and understand them in the light of various historiographical lectures elaborated during the centuries.
We will try to give students the ability to read and interpret critically historical essays and deepen its historiographical debates, in order to provide them with methodological expertise to independently develop their own research paths, analyzing scientifically the sources and its historiography. held methodological lessons and practical exercises of research, of discussion of the historiography and of use of tools and aids.
For attending students the teacher'll do another bibliographical notices during the lessons. It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the early modern history of Christianity to provide themselves with a manual.
In the academic year 2018-2019 the course will be about the History of Christianity in Modern Age.

Texts

- Dossier of documents provided from the teacher;
- GUIDO DALL’OLIO, Martin Lutero, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (Frecce, 167);
- Sola grazia. I testi essenziali della Riforma protestante, a cura di GIUSEPPE ALBERIGO, nuova edizione a cura di DOMENICO SEGNA, Milano, Garzanti, 2017 (I grandi libri dello spirito), pp. 79-204; 259-272.

Starting from the role of emotions in the orientation in the world and in the education process, as thought by Martha C. Nussbaum, the programme wants to examine the laycal and social meaning the abovesaid assigns to compassion. To that concept is contrasted the critical interpretation of Hannah Arendt (who considers Rousseau's compassion as a prereflessive and presocial feeling proper of the «humanity in dark times», to be replaced by the political category of friendship as conceived by Lessing). Following the contemporary interpretation of french and german enlightment, the course will examine Derrida's concept of lie, showing its coincidences with Rousseau's thought.

Martha C. Nussbaum, The intelligence of emotions, Mulino, Bologna
Hannah Arendt, humanity in dark times. Reflections on Lessing. Raffaello Cortina Publisher, Milan
Jacques Derrida, History of lies, Castelvecchi, Rome

The public of archeology: from private collecting to the birth of the museum

1. F. Antinucci, Comunicare il museo, Laterza 2004 (o ed. successive)
2. M.C. Ruggeri Tricoli, M.D. Vacirca, L'idea di museo. Archetipi della comunicazione museale nel mondo antico, Lybra 1998
3. M.V. Marini Clarelli, Che cos'è un museo, Carocci 2005 (o ed. successiva)
4. G. Volpe, Patrimonio al futuro. Un manifesto per i beni culturali e il paesaggio, Electa 2015

The course will revolve around verb nouns in Standard and Spoken Arabic in their most relevant aspects, morphological (patterns, derivational formulas), syntactical (government, degree of verbness) and historical-linguistic ones (analyses within the Arab grammatical tradition). The analysis will be exemplified by a series of relevant excerpts in texts representative of different diachronic and diatopic areas.

Cantarino, Vicente. Syntax of modern Arabic prose. Bloomington: Indiana University Press for the International Affairs Center, 1974.
Dickins, J., e Janet C. E. Watson. Standard Arabic: An Advanced Course. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Grimshaw, Jane Barbara. Argument structure. 6. Aufl. Linguistic inquiry monographs 18. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002.
Larcher, Pierre. Le système verbal de l’arabe classique. 2e édition revue et augmentée. Collection Manuels. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2012.

The course will consist of two moments: the presentation of the meaning and the characters of the philosophy of enlightenment through the reading of texts of authors involved in the debate on the definition of enlightenment, with particular attention to the issue of tolerance and religious freedom ; The deepening of the relationship of the Enlightenment with the historical, theological and political reality of the Jewish people, through the reading of texts by authors of the time, from Voltaire to Moses Mendelssohn.

A.
E. Tortarolo, L’illuminismo: ragioni e dubbi della modernità, Roma, Carocci, 1999 (and further reprints)
Voltaire, Trattato sulla tolleranza, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1995 (and further reprints; in place of: M. Mendelssohn, Jerusalem, Napoli, Guida, 1990, because this text is not available)


B. One book at your choice:
A. Tagliapietra (a cura di), Che cos’è l’illuminismo? I testi e la genealogia del concetto, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2000 (new edition: Pearson, 2010)
G. Paganini, E. Tortarolo (a cura di), Illuminismo. Un vademecum, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2008
J. Israel, Una rivoluzione della mente. L’illuminismo radicale e le origini della democrazia moderna, Torino, Einaudi, 2011
Z. Sternhell, Contro l’illuminismo. Dal secolo XVIII alla guerra fredda, Milano, Baldini & Castoldi, 2007

C.
Materials made available by the teacher in the download area of his digital board (website FILCOSPE), in particular the entry "Ebrei" in the Voltaire "Dizionario filosofico".

Title of the course: Claudius' principate in the opinion of his contemporary and in modern historiography

The course aims to present and discuss the opinions expressed on Emperor Claudius' personality by his contemporary, in particular Seneca and the historian and biographers who lived few years later, such as Suetonius and Tacitus. Moreover, the course will analyse Claudius' figure in modern historiography. The course includes lessons on the polictical Roman lexicon and a seminar, in which scholars who have recently studied the Julio-Claudian age, will take part.

Bibliography:

- Suetonius, Claudius' life (any edition)
- Seneca, De Clementia (any edition)
- Seneca, Consolation to Polybius (any edition)
- A. Momigliano, L'opera dell'imperatore Claudio (edited by D. Faoro), Jouvence, Napoli 2016
- G. Geraci – A. Marcone, Storia romana, Editio Maior, Roma-Bari 2017.


Additional books for students who d attend the course:
- J. Scheid – Fr. Jacques, Roma e il suo Impero. Istituzioni, economia, religione, Laterza, Roma-Bari 20155
- F. Guidetti, L’Impero romano in 100 date, Dalla Porta, Pisa 2016

Title of the course: "The old poet teaches": critics and didactics in Horace's poetry
The course will offer an introduction of the historical and literary context of Horace's Epistula ad Augustum (Epist. II 1) and Ars poetica; both woks will be read entirely, interpreted actcommented, paying particular attention to the formal aspects of the exegesis and to the fortune of Horatian poetics.


Possible propedeutics: The course is mostly intended to students who have already accomplished 12 CFU in the field L-FIL-LET/04.

Bibliography:
- Horace, Epistles Book II and ‘Epistle to Pisones (‘Ars poetica’), ed. by N. Rudd (Cambridge University Press 2010).
In the lecturer's online page students will find also: Orazio, Arte poetica, a cura di A. Rostagni (Loescher – fuori commercio) and further material. A complete edition of Horace's Epistles is recommended (e. g. Orazio, Le Lettere, a cura di M. Ramous, Garzanti).
Additional texts will be indicated during the course.

Title of the course: History of linguistic communication in Latin

Description of the course: The course will present some aspect of the linguistic communication in Latin, considering its diacron (from the early history to Romance Latin) and its differents levels (standard and informal), on the bases of linguistic documents and evidences of the same historical period of the analysed linguistic phaenomena.

Possible propedeutics: The knowlege of Latin grammar is required.

Bibliography:

- E. Malaspina – E. Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Ed. Dell’Orso, 2014.

Moses, an hero between exaltation and defeat.

Since antiquity the history of Moses and the exodus from Egypt has been narrated in many ways by authors from different nationalities and religions: besides the biblical portrait of Moses there was Moses as seen by classical writers, Jewish-Hellenistic historians, Pseudoepigrapha, Samaritan authors, Rabbinical exegesis and Aggadah. The course will be an exploration of Moses' tradition, searching for hints about its formation and functions. Every step will lend the opportunity to discuss some critical question in the study of biblical text, such as the relationship between canonical texts and parallel traditions, biblical narrative and history, Bible and myth, Hebrews and their near eastern neighbors.

The course offers the opportunity to learn Biblical Hebrew (1/3 out of the teaching hours): to complete the study of Hebrew grammar students are recommended to attend the course since the first semester (Ebraico).