The course aims to offer by lectures an introduction to Greek history, from the Bronze Age to the early Hellenistic Age.
Chronological and geographical framework, political and social institutions, political and cultural history will be presented. Students will be also introduced to the problems and the methods of analysis of the different kinds of historical sources (literary, epigraphic, numismatic, archaeological ones).

RECOMMENDED TEXTS
A) M. BETTALLI – A.L. D’AGATA – A. MAGNETTO, Storia Greca, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2013 (entire book).
B) M. BETTALLI, Introduzione alla storiografia greca, Roma, Carocci, 2009, pp. 47-61; 67-91 (Herodotus and Thucydides).
C) Reading of a book at own choice of the “Histories” of Herodotus and of a book at own choice of “The Peloponnesian War” of Thucydides.
D) Well-detailed maps of the Greek world (Continental Greec, Asia Minor, Aegean Sea and Aegean islands, Straits area, Propontis, Black Sea, Magna Graecia, Sicily, and other hellenised areas of the Mediterranaean Sea). Such maps can be found in any historical Atlas (for instance Atlante Storico De Agostini, Novara 2003) or on the web.

Students unable to attend the course have to read furthermore:

E) M. Giangiulio, Democrazie greche. Atene, Sicilia, Magna Grecia, Roma 2015.

Roman History DISCIPLINARY FIELD: L-ANT/03 (Roman History)
The bachelor course in Roman History is divided into two modules (72 hours = 6+6 ECTS):
The module I: Prof. P. Porena, "Critical paths of Roman History" (36 hours, 6 ECTS).
Module II: Prof. Marcone (a monographic topic chosen by the teacher; 36 hours, 6 ECTS).

Preamble: with regard to the module of Roman History I - Bachelor, will be held in the first semester by prof. P. Porena, from OCTOBER 2020 to approx. half NOVEMBER 2020 (except unforeseen) [on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 13-15 hours, by Teams]. Then from half NOVEMBER 2020 to JANUARY 2021 follows seamlessly the module II of Roman History held by prof. A. Marcone.
Description of the First module of the course of ROMAN HISTORY (prof. P. Porena): "Critical paths of Roman History"
It is hardly possible to summarize Roman history, since it extends along a long time frame and involves different and wide geographical and cultural spaces. Moreover Roma egemony has produced a variety of experiences and transformations. The course is meant to underline, through the analysis of literary, epigraphic and artistics sources, the original characters of Roman history, in order also to neutralize some chichés and commonplaces about the ancient Rome, which depends on deeply rooted preconceptions.

▪ TEXTS for students who attend the course:
- G. GERACI, A. MARCONE, Storia romana, Le Monnier, (nuova edizione) Firenze 2011 ;
- G. GERACI, A. MARCONE, Fonti per la storia romana, Le Monnier, Firenze 2006 ;
- Atlante Storico, De Agostini, Novara 2003 or another edition;

▪ ADDITIONAL TEXTS for students who do not attend the course:
- A. Giardina (a cura di), L’uomo romano, Roma-Bari (Laterza) (1989) 2008.

It is possible to ask for bibliography in English, French and German and take the exam in one of these three languages

I TEACHING MODULE (6CFU)
Title: Modern History Institutions
The course will analyze the main meanings that identify the contents of the modern age from the fifteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century with a preliminary attention to historiographic categories, interpretative orientations, sources and tools specific to the discipline. The training objective is to offer students solid knowledge for acquiring a cognitive and critical familiarity with the "general history" of the modern age.
The lessons will focus mainly on the following topics: Europe and its interrelation with non-European worlds; Crisis and identity of modern Italy; Humanism and the Renaissance; Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation; The ancient regime society: élites and classes; Economic models: the land, work, finance and the market in the modern age; Political systems and their dynamics: empire, monarchies and republics; Family and demography; Literacy and culture; The birth of modern science; Enlightenment and reforms; The first industrial revolution; The American Revolution and the birth of the United States; French Revolution; the Napoleonic Age and the Europe of nations.


II TEACHING MODULE (6CFU)
Title: The age of the Renaissance between Italy and Europe
The course will examine the main historical events that have characterized the history of Italy and of the main European monarchies from the last thirty years of the fifteenth century to the first half of the sixteenth century. The lessons will also address the following topics: the intellectual and conceptual contents of the Renaissance, the discussion on Renaissance interpretations, the chronology and spaces of its diffusion, the use of the "Renaissance" historiographical category through the analysis of authoritative texts and appropriate sources.

I TEACHING MODULE (6CFU)
Exam texts (A+B):
A) A university textbook of modern history, chosen by the student from following list:

1) F. Benigno, L’età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell’America alla Restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza
2) C. Capra, Storia Moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier Università
3) G. Gullino-G. Muto-E.Stumpo, Il Mondo Moderno, Bologna, Monduzzi

B) P. Prodi, La storia moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino

II TEACHING MODULE (6 CFU)

Exam texts (A+B)

A.
1)P. Burke, Il Rinascimento europeo. Centri e periferie, Roma-Bari, Laterza (available in english éd.)
2) M. Pellegrini, Le guerre d’Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino

B. One text chosen by the student from this list:

1) L’uomo del Rinascimento, a cura di E. Garin, Roma-Bari, Laterza,
2) A. Tenenti, L’Italia del Quattrocento. Economia e società, Roma-Bari, Laterza
3) M. Pellegrini, Savonarola. Profezie e martirio nell'età delle guerre d'Italia, Roma, Salerno editrice
4) F. Chabod, Scritti sul Rinascimento, Torino, Einaudi (pp.1-239)
5) J. Burckhardt, La civiltà del Rinascimento in Italia, Firenze, Sansoni
6) E. Bonora, Aspettando l’imperatore. Principi italiani tra il papa e Carlo V, Torino, Einaudi
7) Niccolò Machiavelli, Il principe, Torino, Einaudi, (o Milano,Garzanti)
8) Francesco Guicciardini, Storia d’Italia (1490-1534), 3 voll.(un volume a scelta), Torino, Einaudi, (o Milano, Mondadori)
9) Baldassar Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Milano, Rizzoli

The course will illustrate the content of cartography as a document and testimony of different ages, cultures, people and technologies, with particular attention to territorial and environmental applications. Practical exercises, short theses, field lessons and educational excursions are planned. Lessons topics: general mapping elements; spatial and non-spatial representations: charts and diagrams; the map: subject, object and instrument; organization and content of national cartography; thematic cartography; presentation of GIS or SIT.

a. Attending students:
- slides, ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
b. Non-Attending Students:
-E. LAVAGNA e G. LOCARNO, Geocartografia. Guida alla lettura delle carte geotopografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007
- five examples of choice from: U. SAURO - M. MENEGHEL e ALTRI, Dalla carta topografica al paesaggio. Atlante ragionato, Vicenza, ZetaBeta, 2005.

Three section teaching.
1- Painting: nature of the supports, preparation of the supports, the pictorial film; colors and binders
2- Metal artifacts: the nature of metals and metal alloys, techniques for making artifacts and sculptures, surface decorations;
3- Artifacts in organic materials; artifacts in glassy materials.

Texts adopted:
- Course notes (downloadable in pdf, at the end of the course, in the teaching forum)
- "Technique" item, Universal Encyclopedia of Art, (downloadable in pdf in the teaching forum)

Art and new media in the 20th century

During the 20th century the artistic movements challenged the centrality of traditional media (painting, sculpture, etc.). From Dada to Pop Art, from Cubism to Surrealism and up to the Sixties, avant-garde art redefined the nature of the work of art, of its theoretical and material characters, and the artistic use of new media (photography, film, video) became integral to the creative practices.

The course addresses the key moments of this process during the period 1900-1970, through a close examination of key works and figures and guided readings of essential texts on the subject.

Classes are all available on Stream. Accessible from this page: https://www.uniroma3.it/en/persone/cFpYMElOZE1jSTNiTjFtQ1p0NlhaSTJqSkFpU2VJMEc0cFpHamZ1LzFoRT0=/ricevimento/

• Philippe Dubois, L’atto fotografico, Urbino 2009, pp. 25-108 [PDF]
• Claudio Marra, Fotografia e pittura nel Novecento, Milano 2012
• Denis Riout, L’arte del ventesimo secolo. Protagonisti, temi, correnti, Einaudi, Torino 2002.

Textbook

• Hal Foster et al., Art since 1900, Thames & Hudson [PDF]

Some of these texts are available on the course channel repository on Teams.

In the second half of the XXth Century, artistic movements definitively dismantled the notion of the “specificity” of the medium (painting, sculpture etc.), one of the pillars of the modernist aesthetic. From new dada to pop art, from Fluxus to the movements born in the second half of the 1960s, to postmodernist practiced based on appropriation, distinctions between media were abolished and replaced by creative practices in which conceptual, allegorical and performative elements imposed a radical redefinition of the work of art through the annexation of new media (photography, film, video, digital images).
The course deals with key moments of this process from the1850s to the 1970s through close examination of key works from the period, and readings of critical essays on the subject.

1)
S. Bordini (a cura di), Arte contemporanea e tecniche. Materiali, procedimenti, sperimentazioni, Carocci, Roma 2007

F. Poli (a cura di), Arte moderna. Dal Postimpressionismo all’Informale, Electa, Milano 2007 (i seguenti saggi: C. Zambianchi, Le ricerche postimpressioniste, pp. 10-29; M. Lorandi, Simbolismo, pp. 30-53)[PDF download area, professor's website]

V.I. Stoichita, Dello sguardo ostacolato. Per una storia dell’Impressionismo, in “Annali della Fondazione Europea del Disegno”, Il Melangolo, Genova 2009, pp. 65-87 [PDF download area, professor's website]

V.I. Stoichita, La pittura impressionista vista da e con Schapiro: Caillebotte e l’intreccio visivo, in Meyer Schapiro e i metodi della storia dell’arte, a cura di L. Bortolotti, C. Cieri Via, M.G. Di Monte, M. Di Monte, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano – Udine 2010, pp. 105-113 [PDF download area, professor's website]

W. Benjamin, L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, prima stesura dattiloscritta (1935-1936) [PDF download area, professor's website]

2)
Selection of images available for attending and non-attending students [PDF download area, professor's website].

Ettore and Dino: the ultimate blacksmiths of minotaurs.
The course considers itself as an imaginary exhibition for the artworks of the artists Ettore Colla and Dino Basaldella, developing, therefore, a laboratory part as well. We will analyze the evolution of the Italian sculpture between the Fifties and Sixties of the Twentieth century, following the cases of Colla and Basaldella. They have been models to escape from the impasse of the Italian sculpture, according to Arturo Martini who had defined it as a "dead language". Specifically, we will study the technique of welded sculpture intended as a parallel practice to non-figurative painting. That concerns both the historical-critical definition of informal art and the aesthetics of the machine. Both artists, displayed in two adjoining rooms at the 1964 Venice Biennale, represent different plastic researches in the visual panorama of the so-called civilization of machines. Starting from that occasion, we will finally proceed to set up an ideal exhibition itinerary, where theoretical and practical skills complement each other.

The professor will provide relative bibliography during the lessons.

This lecture class offers an introduction to the history of photographic languages, practices, and cultures from the origins to the end of the 19th century. Lectures will focus on the "close reading" of different types of photographic texts (including individual images, series, photo-texts, books, and exhibitions) and will discuss case studies associated with the crucial moments in the medium's affirmation as an intellectual and artistic field.

Study texts:
- A. Gunthert, M. Poivert, Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Electa, Milano 2009 (or. ed. 2007), pp. 10-355;
- M. Mozzo, Note sulla documentazione fotografica in Italia nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento, tra tutela, restauro e catalogazione, in Arti e storia nel Medioevo, vol. IV, E. Castelnuovo, G. Sergi (eds), Il Medioevo al passato e al presente (Turin: Einaudi, 2004), pp. 847-870.

Regular attendance is warmly suggested. A basic knowledge of Modern History and Modern Art History is required.

Attendance policy
In the exceptional circumstances of the Covid pandemic, students who cannot attend on a regular basis will have the opportunity to watch the recorded lectures at a later moment. Please contact the instructor as soon as possible in order to be registered as a “non attending student” and get access to the study materials.

UPDATE 06/2021
Beginning June 1, 2021 recorded lectures will no longer be available online. Students who are planning to take the final but could not attend the course are requested to contact the instructor in order to receive ad hoc instructions.

This lecture class offers an introduction to the history of photographic languages, practices, and cultures during the 20th century. Lectures will focus on the "close reading" of different types of photographic texts (including individual images, series, photo-texts, books, and exhibitions) and will discuss case studies associated with the crucial moments in the medium's affirmation as an intellectual and artistic field.
Regular attendance is warmly suggested. A basic knowledge of Modern History and Modern Art History is required.

Study texts:
- A. Gunthert, M. Poivert, Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Electa, Milano 2009 (or. ed. 2007), pp. 10-355;
- G. Ginex, “Contro la fotografia”. La fotografia nella vita, nell’opera e nel pensiero critico di Boccioni, in L’uomo nero, IX/9 (December 2012), pp. 62-85.

Regular attendance is warmly suggested. A basic knowledge of Modern History and Modern Art History is required.

Attendance policy
In the exceptional circumstances of the Covid pandemic, students who cannot attend on a regular basis will have the opportunity to watch the recorded lectures at a later moment. Please contact the instructor as soon as possible in order to be registered as a “non attending student” and get access to the study materials.

UPDATE 06/2021
Beginning June 1, 2021 recorded lectures will no longer be available online. Students who are planning to take the final but could not attend the course are requested to contact the instructor in order to receive ad hoc instructions.

Course title and contents

History of Byzantine art from the foundation of Constantinople to its fall (1453)
The course is devised to provide the students with basic, general knowledge of Byzantine Art from the 4th to the 14th century, analysing artworks different techniques and types (painting, sculpture, architecture, as well as miniatures, ivories, silverware), with special attention to the trends in commissioning and to works and building which can be seen as paradigmatic of the Eastern Roman Empire.
A list of study visits led by the teacher will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Attendance

Attendance to the course is highly recommended. Those who, due to serious circumstances, are unable to attend the lectures, should supplement the programme (see above) with additional readings to be agreed with the teacher.

N.B. Apart from whole books, which can be either found at public libraries or bought, and additional readings for non-attending students, any other materials will be available as PDF, for properly enrolled students (attending and non-attending), on the Team channel of Storia dell’arte bizantina LT a.a. 2020-2021 prof.ssa Maria Luigia Fobelli, under the heading File, in the folder Materiale del corso

Bibliography

Attending students
• s. v. Costantinopoli, in Enciclopedia dell’Arte Antica, II, Roma 1985, pp. 880-919.
• R. Krautheimer, Costantinopoli, in Tre capitali cristiane. Topografia e politica Torino, Einaudi 1987, pp. 61-105.
• C. Mango, Architettura bizantina, trad. it., Milano, Electa 1978, pp. 5-138.
• R. Krautheimer, Santa Sofia e gli edifici annessi, in Architettura paleocristiana e bizantina, Torino, Einaudi 1986, pp. 239-267 e figg. 105-124.
• V. Lazarev, Storia della pittura bizantina, trad. it., Torino, Einaudi 1967, pp. 125-136;
pp. 142-154 e figg. 149-181; pp. 195-198 e figg. 275-295; pp. 357-363 e figg. 449-466.
• E. Kitzinger, Alle origini dell’arte bizantina. Correnti stilistiche nel mondo mediterraneo dal III al VII secolo, trad. it., Milano, Jaca Book 2004, pp. 49-150 e figg. 81-231.
• M. Della Valle, Costantinopoli e il suo impero. Arte, architettura, urbanistica nel millennio bizantino, Milano, Jaca Book 2007, pp. 77-143 e figg. 74-147.
• M. L. Fobelli, Un tempio per Giustiniano. Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli e la Descrizione di Paolo Silenziario, Roma, Viella 2005, pp. 1-31, 181-207, figg. 1-142.
• M. L. Fobelli, Fonti e cronologia dei piatti argentei di Cipro con le storie di Davide, “Rivista dell’Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte”, s. III, anni VI-VII (1983-1984), pp. 191-219.

Non-attending students

Must add to the above texts:
• E. Kitzinger, Alle origini dell’arte bizantina. Correnti stilistiche nel mondo mediterraneo dal III al VII secolo, trad. it., Milano, Jaca Book 2005 (whole book).
• R. Krautheimer, Tre capitali cristiane. Topografia e politica Torino, Einaudi 1987(whole book).

Attendance
Attendance to the course is highly recommended. Those who, due to serious circumstances, are unable to attend the lectures, should supplement the programme (see above) with additional readings to be agreed with the teacher.

The course focuses on one of the essential tools of art history, the analysis of style: alongside collective exercises in the analysis of the works, attention will be paid to the importance of reflection on style in the history of European art from the 15th to the 18th century. If possible, a large part of the course will be dedicated to visits to churches and museums.

- R. Longhi, Precisioni nelle Gallerie italiane, [1926-1927], in Opere complete di Roberto Longhi. Saggi e ricerche, 1925-1928, Firenze 1967, pp. 265-354

- F. Zeri, Rivedendo Piero di Cosimo, [1959], in F. Zeri, Giorno per giorno nella pittura. Scritti sull’arte toscana dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento, Torino Allemandi 1991, pp. 175-182


- L. Bellosi, Buffalmacco e il Trionfo della morte, [1974], Milano 5 Continents 2003 or Milano Abscondita 2016

- G. Previtali, Attribuzione, in Arte/2, Enciclopedia Feltrinelli Fischer, Milano 1971, 1, pp. 56-60:
https://www.storiedellarte.com/2012/07/sullattribuzione-il-messaggio-di-previtali.html


- E. Castelnuovo, Attribution, in Encyclopaedia universalis, II, Paris 1980 (ed. or. Paris 1968), pp. 780-783:
https://www.storiedellarte.com/2012/08/sullattribuzione-la-storia-di-castelnuovo.html




Knowledge is required for the period from 1401 to 1789 of a manual of your choice:

- P. De Vecchi-E. Cerchiari, Arte nel tempo, Milano Bompiani
- C. Bertelli-G. Briganti, Storia dell’arte, Milano Electa o Milano Bruno Mondadori
- S. Settis-T. Montanari, Arte. Una storia naturale e civile, Milano Arnoldo Mondadori

During the lessons students will be asked to draw up analysis of two works of their choice in the following museums: Galleria Borghese; Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini; Galleria Spada. The model to follow for these notices, which will be illustrated during the lesson, is that of Federico Zeri's catalogue, La Galleria Spada di Roma, Rome 1952 (and subsequent reprints). They will be taken into account in the examination evaluation.

Introduction to Early Christian Archaeology: sources, methods and investigations areas

Assignment:
P. Testini, Archeologia Cristiana, Edipuglia Seconda Edizione, Bari 1980, pp. 1-72.
V. Fiocchi Nicolai, Strutture funerarie ed edifici di culto paleocristiani di Roma dal IV al VI secolo, Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, Città del Vaticano 2001.

Not attending students must add to Assignment:
F. Bisconti, O. Brandt (a cura di), Lezioni di Archeologia Cristiana, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Città del Vaticano 2014.

Landscape archeology studies the landscape not only as a surrounding environment for a particular archaeological site, but as a broad geographical and cultural context, a synergy between culture and nature, a complex reality characterized by an interaction of different phenomena, an organism alive over time and in continuous transformation. The dynamism and changes in the landscape, in the territory, the relationship between man and the environment and the organization of the human settlement, the perception, use and representation of space, are investigated through the different historical periods to date, with the awareness that the landscape is constantly changing. During the course the characteristics, theories and methods of landscape archeology will be illustrated and various case studies and practical applications will be presented, in different geographical and temporal realities. Furthermore, methodologies and techniques used in landscape research will be illustrated (non-invasive methods, archaeological surface reconnaissance, geoarchaeology and paleoenvironmental research) and the first rudiments will be provided for understanding the applications of GIS systems (Geographical Information Systems - IT tools for spatial data management and analysis) in the field of landscape archeology.

The aim of the course is to provide the student with a basic knowledge of the theories and methods of landscape archeology and a theoretical-methodological basis for the interpretation of the history of human settlements and the transformations of the cultural and environmental landscape in a diachronic perspective, through illustrations of case studies, in particular from the Mediterranean area.

BIBLIOGRAFIA ‘Archeologia dei Paesaggi’ A.A. 2020-2021 (prof. Emeri Farinetti) Laurea Triennale

Letture obbligatorie:

Cambi, F. (2015). Manuale di Archeologia dei Paesaggi. Carocci, Roma: capitolo 4, 5, 6 e 7 Renfrew, C. –Bahn, P. (1995). Archeologia. Zanichelli, Bologna: capitolo 3 (pp. 57-86) e capitolo 6 Francovich, R.-Manacorda, D. Dizionario di archeologia. Laterza. Voci: Ambientale, archeologia, Archeozoologia, Geoarcheologia. Cambi, F. (2003). Archeologia dei Paesaggi Antichi: fonti e diagnostica. Carocci, Roma. Farinetti, E. (2012) I paesaggi in archeologia: analisi e interpretazione. Carocci, Roma. Funiciello, R. et al. (2006). I sette colli. Guida geologica a una Roma mai vista. Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano: capitolo 1 e capitolo 5 (‘La piana del Tevere. L’evoluzione del fiume e le alluvioni’).

A titolo esemplificativo si veda anche: https://mefra.revues.org/1310 Ville e vici della valle del Carapelle (Puglia settentrionale). Approcci integrati allo studio dei paesaggi di età romana.


N.B. Gli studenti non frequentanti devono aggiungere al programma le voci: Diagnostica archeologica, Ricognizione archeologica, Telerilevamento dal Dizionario di archeologia a cura di Francovich-Manacorda. Sono pregati anche di leggere per intero il testo di F. Cambi, Manuale di Archeologia dei Paesaggi. Si consiglia la lettura degli appunti di chi ha seguito il corso in quanto può facilitare la comprensione dei testi in programma.

Course title 2020-2021: An introduction to the History of Christianity: from Jesus to the early Middle Ages.

Teaching articulation: 6 CFU

Semester: I

P
Course description:

The course aims to introduce students to the History of Christianity, starting from the figure of Jesus, framed in the cultural context of Second Temple Judaism, up to the 8th century: the presentation is not limited to the horizon of the Roman Catholic Church, but considers also the different manifestations and the multiple developments of Christianity within the first eight centuries. Specific purpose of the course is to start the student to a critical reading of the sources, with particular attention to methodological questions and scholarly debate.
During the course, we will visit – if it will be possible – some significant places of ancient and early medieval Christianity (churches, catacombs, museums) while during the lessons the students will have also the opportunity to work in small working groups.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
For attending students (even in case of distance learning):

Sources provided by the teacher and handouts. The handouts include parts authored by the teacher, by Dr. Federica Candido and by Dr. Giandomenico Ferrazza as well as articles and various contributions covering all the topics of the course.

For non-attending students:
Non-attending students can choose, alternatively, one of the three book proposals listed below, designated by letters a) and b). Since the books or book chapters are combined in such a way as to complement each other, the so-called "proposals" should not be disjointed but kept as two separate blocks:

Proposal a)
1)R.Penna, (ed.), Le origini del cristianesimo. Una guida, Carocci, Roma 2018: capitoli 1 (P.Sacchi) e 3 (G.Ibba)
2)E. Prinzivalli (ed.), Storia del cristianesimo I. L'Età antica, Carocci, Roma 2015: capitoli 1 -14
3)O.Brandt-F.Bisconti (eds.), Lezioni di archeologia cristiana, Roma, PIAC, 2014: contributi di F.Bisconti, e Ph.Pergola.

Proposal b)
1) G.Filoramo, Storia della Chiesa 1. L’età antica. EDB, Bologna 2019.
2) R.Rusconi, Storia del cristianesimo e delle Chiese. Dalle origini ai giorni nostri. Morcelliana, Brescia 2019, capp. 4 e 5.
3)O.Brandt-F.Bisconti (eds.), Lezioni di archeologia cristiana, Roma, PIAC, 2014: contributi di F.Bisconti, e Ph.Pergola.

Proposal c)

Ch. Freeman, A New History of Early Christianity, Yale University Press, New Haven-London 2009.

Teacher's email contact
carla.noce@uniroma3.it

Outlines of the Church history in modern age (XIX-XXI century)

In this year the course will focus on the main events and problems of the Catholic Church in the modern age, in particular from the French revolution until today, studied comparatively in parallel with the other Christian religious confessions. Particular attention will be paid to methodological aspects, privileging the reading of documentary sources and making use of maps, graphs and iconographic sources. The main historiographical debates, the general historical context of the themes dealt with, the terminology proper to the discipline, the interactions of religious institutions with society and culture. will be taken into consideration.

- Source dossier provided by the teacher through the online bulletin board.
- G. MARTINA, Storia della Chiesa da Lutero ai nostri giorni. 3. L'età del liberalismo, Brescia 1995,
- G. MARTINA, Storia della Chiesa da Lutero ai nostri giorni. 4. L'età contemporanea, Brescia 1995, pp. 13-80; 129-398.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

In the first unit, students will be given an introduction to the vocabulary and problems of aesthetics. In particular, we will follow the historical path of the terms: Aesthetics, Imitation, Art, Beauty.
The unit will be divided into three parts:
1) Introduction to the term aesthetics, as experience and as a philosophical discipline. Concerning the birth of the term: reading and commentary by Baumgarten, Aesthetica, Introduction.
2) Art and mimesis, from antiquity to the eighteenth century: (partial) reading and commentary of Plato, Republic X; Aristotle, Poetica; Batteux, Le belle arti
3) The beautiful: reading and commentary of Kant, Analitica del bello.
N.B. All the texts are collected in the anthology Estetica, edited by P. D'Angelo, E. Franzini, G. Scaramuzza Raffaello Cortina, Milan.

The second part will explore the concept of sublime from Kant to some of interpretations of the twentieth century.
It will then be articulated in the following way:
1) Reading and commentary of Kant, Analitica del Sublime.
2) Explanation of the interpretation of Lyotard, with reading and commentary of selected passages of the text in the program.

P. D’Angelo, Estetica, Laterza, Roma-Bari.
Estetica, a cura di P. D’Angelo, E. Franzini, G. Scaramuzza, Raffaello Cortina, Milano.
I. Kant, Analitica del sublime, in Critica della facoltà di giudizio (a cura di E. Garroni, H. Hohenegger, Einaudi, Torino, o altra edizione).
J.-F. Lyotard, Anima Minima, Pratiche, Parma (testo fuori commercio, fotocopie fornite dalla docente).
J.-F. Lyotard, Il sublime e l'avanguardia, in J.-F. Lyotard, L'inumano, Lanfranchi, MIlano, 2001, pp. 123-143 (testo fuori commercio, fotocopie fornite dalla docente).

The course aims to present the main characteristics of documents in the Western legal tradition, with particular regard to their value for historical studies. In this regard, the external and internal characteristics of the document will be examined, as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of production of the main types of documents, linking them to the legal and cultural traditions of Western history. In this way diplomacy is understood as a historical science capable of acting as a fundamental critical support to historical disciplines, which find in manuscript documentation an important part of their primary sources of study. In particular, attention will be paid to the illustration of documentation of medieval Latin origin, which is particularly complex in its evaluation as a historical document; there will also be an in-depth study of the medieval documentary system of the city of Rome.
The course will include both the examination of reproductions of documents and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during the course. Students are required to add the study ofthe following texts:
- Alessandro Pratesi, Genesi e forme del documento medievale, III edizione, Roma, Jouvence, 1999 (Guide, 3);
- Two essays among those distributed during the course

Programme
The course aims to provide students with the critical and theoretical tools to orient themselves in the modern society of communication and to understand the interaction between historical and technological components on the one hand and cultural and social on the other.
The course is divided into two parts: a theoretical-general and a monographic part.
The first part analyzes the main theories and the most important interpretative models developed within the research on mass communications with particular regard to the sociological field. Particular attention will be dedicated to the modern "network society", to its theories and its impact on society and social relations.
In the secon part of the course, we analyze the impact of television on Italian society and culture from the 50s to the present day. This part of the course, on the one hand, deepens the knowledge of Italian television in the different phases and seasons of the country. On the other hand, it analyses the effects of television on the individual and collective Italian identity, trough the analysis of some of the most famous Italian political talk-shows.

Exam program:
– L. Paccagnella, Sociologia della comunicazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, New Edizione 2020, solo i capitoli 3, 4,5. (New edition 2020, cover book light blue)
– E. Novelli, La democrazia del talk-show. Storia di un genere cha ha cambiato, la televisione, la politica, l’Italia, Roma, Carocci 2016.

– Recommended for integration of the program, but not part of the exam program: A. Miconi, Teoria e pratica del Web, Bologna, Il Mulino 2018, (Nuova Edizione)

For Erasmus students the program replaces the volume "The Democracy of the Talk-Show" with the part related to the Italian history from 1945 to the present of a high school manual. We recommend: Valerio Castronovo, "A World in the plural, volume 3 from 1945 to today", La Nuova Italia, chapters 24, 29, 35.

The course aims to offer: a) a general introduction to the discipline (origins and development of the alphabetical writing in Greece, characteristics of the local alphabets, different kinds of inscriptions and supports, specific literature, specific IT tools); b) practice on inscriptions, in order to gain the knowledge of basic technics and conventions for classifying, recording, filing and editing epigraphical texts; c) reading and historical- critical examination of epigraphical texts of different kind.

A) M. Guarducci, L'Epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero, Roma, Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1987.
B) M. Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, I, Roma 2005, pp. 391-487.
C) Material which will be provided by the teacher during classes

The course classes (in videoconference) and visits, during which space will be given for practical exercise, take highly into consideration the specialized nature of the laboratory and the heterogeneity of its participants.
The archaeo-lab course focuses on the study and on the handling of the archaeological materials.
Within the frame of a long chronological timespan and of a large geographical horizon, several types of materials, together with their production processes, will be examined (from the pre-historic phase to the more recent and modern ones). A further analysis on the decoration of selected productions (in ceramic, metal or vitreous materials) will be then carried out.
The issues related to the cataloguing and classification of the archaeological findings and the compilation of the data records entry will be preliminary discussed.
Nevertheless, aspects related to the acquisition of scientific information (for the purpose of study or restoration of the materials) will be explored and a few notions about technical drawing and data digitization will be provided.
During the course, the students will be trained in the field of the pottery studies, of the architectonic decoration (in terracotta or marble). Furthermore, they will be also introduced, thanks to the use of optical instrumentation and digital tools, to the study of the different types of materials (clay, vitreous, metal and stone).

Specific bibliography will be provided during the lessons; one to one meetings during the teacher’s office hours are recommended.

The first module (6 cfu) will provide an introduction to the knowledge of those physical environmental characteristics of our planet that constitute the natural component of the landscape. Top topics to be covered during the I Module: Basic Concepts of Astronomical Geography; The planet Earth; The representation of the Earth's surface; The lithosphere: minerals and rocks; Stratigraphy and Tectonics; Volcanic phenomena; Seismic phenomena; The Plaque Tettonica and the Evolution of the Earth; Marine hydrography; Continental hydrography; The terrestrial atmosphere; Elements and factors of the climate; Modeling the Earth's surface.

Attending students:
- a good high school manual, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
-E. Lupia Palmieri, M. Parotto, Il Globo terrestre e la sua evoluzione,Edizione blu-Seconda edizione,testo unico, Milano, Zanichelli,2019 (ISBN: 978-88-08-32899-1).

THE MAIN STEPS OF THE HISTORICAL PROCESS OF THE RESTORATION/CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION, FROM GREEK-ROMAN WORLD UNTIL THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. THE THEORIES OF THE RESTORATION OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY. THE THEORY OF THE RESTORATION OF CESARE BRANDI AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR RESTORATION/CONSERVATION OF WORKS OF ART (PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE). CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES THAT CHARACTERIZE THE COURSE OF STUDY: ART HISTORY, HISTORY OF CRITICISM OF ART, MUSEOLOGY, HISTORY OF ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES.

L. Vlad, Conservazione e restauro delle antichità. Profilo storico, Roma, 2010. Volume integrale.

C. Brandi, Teoria del Restauro, Milano, Milano (qualsiasi edizione). Volume integrale.

A. Conti, Storia del restauro e della conservazione delle opere d'arte, Milano, 2002, pp. 154-328.

Museology, collectionism and the birth of museums in Rome during the early modern age (15th-18th centuries).

The course will provide the basic knowledge about museology, starting from the birth of museums in the early modern age, until their functioning in contemporary era. Furthermore, it will focus on the birth of main museums in Rome, between 15th and the end of 18th century. Most important collections of antiquities and paintings in the Urbe will be considered, that nowadays have become major museums of the Capital.

Introduction:

- M. T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo studiolo alla raccolta pubblica, 2° ed., Milano-Torino 2018.
- C. De Benedictis, Per la storia del collezionismo italiano. Fonti e documenti, 2° ed., Firenze 1998, pp. 1-144.
- M. V. Marini Clarelli, Il museo nel mondo contemporaneo. La teoria e la prassi, Roma 2011, pp. 1-67.
- F. Haskell, La dispersione e la conservazione del patrimonio artistico, in Storia dell’arte italiana, X (parte III, vol. III, a cura di F. Zeri), Torino 1981, pp. 5-35.
- A. Mottola Molfino, Museologia vs. Museografia, in Il libro dei Musei, Torino 1991, pp. 129-146.

Collectionism of antiquities in Rome in 15th and 16th centuries:

- C. Franzoni, Le collezioni rinascimentali di antichità, in Memoria dell’antico nell’arte italiana. I. L’uso dei classici, pp. 299-360.
- A. Cavallaro (a cura di), Collezioni di antichità a Roma fra ‘400 e ‘500, Roma 2007, Introduzione e capitoli relativi alle raccolte Galli, Della Valle, Sassi, Cesi.
- F. Arata, Il Campidoglio come luogo espositivo di antichità, in Idem, Il secolo d’oro del Museo Capitolino 1733-1838, Roma 2016, pp. 11-69.

Roman museums between Cinquecento and Settecento:

- A. Coliva, La Galleria Borghese: la storia, le opere, in Galleria Borghese, a cura di A. Coliva, Roma 1994, pp. 28-238.
- F. Cappelletti, A. G. De Marchi, Il palazzo Doria Pamphilj al corso e le sue collezioni, Firenze 1999, pp. 7-81.

One of the following books (free choice by the student):

- P. Wescher, I furti d’arte. Napoleone e la nascita del Louvre, rist. italiana, Torino 1988.
- J. Von Schlosser, Raccolte d’arte e di meraviglie del tardo Rinascimento, rist. italiana, Firenze 2000.
- F. Haskell, Mecenati e pittori, ed. Torino 2000.
- W. Liebenwein, Studiolo. Storia e funzione di uno spazio culturale, a cura di C. Cieri Via, Modena 2005.
- V. Conticelli, Guardaroba di cose rare e preziose: Lo studiolo di Francesco I de’ Medici. Arte, storia e significati, Lugano 2007, pp. 1-177.
- La Tribuna del Principe: storia, contesto, restauro, a cura di A. Natali, A. Nova, M. Rossi, Firenze 2014, saggi di F. de Luca, D. Pegazzano, V. Conticelli, E. Passignat, F. Paolucci, F. Jonietz, A. Massinelli, V. Saladino, K. Pomian, M. Rossi.

The course aims to provide a solid preparation about the themes and personalities that characterized the historical-artistic discipline between the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Bibliography
1. R. Longhi, Proposte per una critica d’arte, in “Paragone”, 1, 1950, pp. 5-19, ed. in Edizione delle opere complete di Roberto Longhi. XIII. Critica d’arte e buon governo, Firenze 1985, pp. 9-20;

2. R. Longhi, Editoriale. Il livello medio della nostra cultura artistica, in “Paragone”, 13, 1951, pp. 3-7, ed. in Edizione delle opere complete di Roberto Longhi. XIII. Critica d’arte e buon governo, Firenze 1985, pp. 21-25;

3. G. Romano, Storie dell’arte. Toesca, Longhi, Wittkower, Previtali, Roma 1998;

4. La storia delle storie dell’arte, a cura di Orietta Rossi Pinelli, Einaudi, Torino 2014, pp. 180-490;

5. A. Bacchi, Federico Zeri e “l’intelligenza delle maniere”, in Federico Zeri. Dietro l’immagine; opere d’arte e fotografia, a cura di A. Ottani Cavina, Torino 2009, pp. 17-23.

FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
Just ONE more text among the following books:

1. L’arte di scrivere sull’arte. Roberto Longhi nella cultura del nostro tempo, a cura di G. Previtali, Roma 1982;

2. The Art Historian. National Traditions and Istitutional Practices, a cura di M.F. Zimmerman, Williamstown 2003, pp. VII-XXVII, 3-24, 41-66, 147-199;

3. Bernard Berenson, Formation and Heritage, a cura di J. Connors, L.A. Waldmann, Cambridge 2014, pp. 33-68, 101-172, 269-282;

4. S. Garinei, Costruire nazioni: questioni identitarie nell’arte e nella critica italiana e tedesca (1895-1915), Roma 2018, pp. 11-213;

5. J. Anderson, La vita di Giovanni Morelli nell’Italia del Risorgimento, Milano 2019.

The frescoes of the Sistine Chapel under Sixtus IV: the work of art, the artists, the workshops.

The course will consider the artists active in the Sistine Chapel under Sixtus IV, focusing on their careers and the role in the Vatican work.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Sistine Chapel:

J. Shearman, La costruzione della cappella e la prima decorazione al tempo di Sisto IV, in La cappella Sistina. I primi restauri, la scoperta del colore, Novara 1986, pp. 22-87.

M. Calvesi, La cappella Sistina e la sua decorazione da Perugino a Michelangelo, Roma 1997, pp. 21-70.

A. Nesselrath, La cappella di Sisto IV, la decorazione del Quattrocento e la sua importanza nel contesto attuale, in La Sistina e Michelangelo, Milano 2003, pp. 25-29.

A. Nesselrath, The Painters of Lorenzo the Magnificent in the Chapel of Pope Sixtus IV in Rome, in The Fifteenth Century Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, Roma 2003, pp. 39-75.

P. N. Pagliara, The Sistine Chapel, Its Medieval Precedent, and Reconstructions, in The Fifteenth Century Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, Roma 2003, pp. 77-85.

U. Pfisterer, La cappella Sistina, Roma 2014 (parti scelte).

Perugino:

Perugino il divin pittore, catalogo della mostra (Perugia 2004), a cura di V. Garibaldi, F. F. Mancini, pp. 47-115.

Botticelli:

Alessandro Cecchi, Botticelli, Milano 2008, pp. 30-283.

Ghirlandaio:

R. Keks, Ghirlandaio, Firenze 1995.

Maestri e botteghe, catalogo della mostra (Firenze 1992-1993), a cura di C. Acidini Luchinat, M. Gregori, A. Paolucci, pp. 23-59.

Signorelli:

Cecilia Martelli, Luca Signorelli dalla cappella Sistina a Loreto, in Luca Signorelli, catalogo della mostra, Perugia 2012, pp. 59-71.

Tom Henry, La vita e l’arte di Luca Signorelli, Città di Castello 2014, pp. 37-65.

Pinturicchio:

P. Scarpellini, M. R. Silvestrelli, Pintoricchio, Milano 2003, pp. 57-205; 233-247


For downloading the bibliography in pdf and the slides of the course, please refer to this web page:

http://studiumanistici.uniroma3.it/persone/aUs3RUlNcmlmODJSVTRvUVpFbENSNTM1L29kOWJvMExYT1JOTDk4UCs3cz0=/

NEOREALIST CINEMA. THE FILMS OF FEDERICO FELLINI.
The first part is dedicated to the most emblematic theories, films, authors, figures and styles of post-war cinema. The major works of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Giuseppe De Santis, Pietro Germi are analyzed. Particular emphasis is given to the thought and practices of Cesare Zavattini. The second part is devoted to the films of Federico Fellini. Comparing with the vast existing bibliography and with the most diverse study methodologies, we analyze the dominant themes of the Fellini imaginary and the style of the films. Particular attention is paid to Fellini's reflection on cinema (from 8 ½ to Intervista), on entertainment and on the media (the humorous press, the photo novel, the vaudeville, the circus, television, advertising).

TEXTS: Gian Piero Brunetta, Guida alla storia del cinema italiano 1905-2003, Einaudi, Torino 2003 (in particular chapter III, pp. 127-204); Stefania Parigi, Neorealismo. Il nuovo cinema del dopoguerra, Marsilio, Venezia 2014; F. Fellini, Fare un film, Einaudi, Torino 2006 (I ed. 1980); Jean-Paul Manganaro, Federico Fellini. Romance, Il Saggiatore, Milano 2014; a compilation of texts on neorealism by the teacher (you can find it at the beginning of the course at the fotocopisteria in Via G. Rocco, n. 11). Non-attending students must also read P. Bondanella, Il cinema di Federico Fellini, Guaraldi, Parma 1994 (available also in ebook).

FILMOGRAPHY:
NEOREALISM: Ossessione (1943) by L. Visconti; Paisà (1946) by R. Rossellini; Germania anno zero (1948) by R. Rossellini; Ladri di biciclette (1948) by V. De Sica; La terra trema (1948) by L. Visconti; Riso amaro (1949) by G. De Santis; Miracolo a Milano (1950) di V. De Sica; Il cammino della speranza (1950) by P. Germi; Due soldi di speranza (1951) by R. Castellani; Pane, amore e fantasia (1953) by L. Comencini; Il grido (1957) by M. Antonioni.
FEDERICO FELLINI: Lo sceicco bianco (1952), La strada (1954), Le notti di Cabiria (1957), La dolce vita (1960), 8 1/2 (1963), Toby Dammit (1968, sketch from Tre passi nel delirio), I clowns (1970), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976), Ginger e Fred (1985), Intervista (1987).
Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.

The course examines the period from the post-war to the present, focusing in the first part on the main stages that have marked the history of Italian cinema in terms of films, authors and genres. In the second part, we will focus instead on a particular topos, that of the beach, which has always been central to the national imagination and of course also in our cinematographic tradition. We will therefore examine the aesthetic, narrative, productive and cultural peculiarities of some cinematographic works in which the "bathing condition" has become a privileged occasion to investigate the main historical, social and anthropological changes experienced by our country in more than half a century.

For Erasmus students:

G.P. Brunetta, Guida alla storia del cinema italiano 1905-2003, Einaudi, Torino 2003 (dal cap. III in poi);
C. Uva, L'ultima spiaggia. Rive e derive del cinema italiano, Marsilio, Venezia 2021;

FILMOGRAPHY
Ladri di biciclette (1948) di V. De Sica; Domenica d’agosto (1950) di L. Emmer; La spiaggia (1954) di A. Lattuada; Vacanze a Ischia (1957) di M. Camerini; La dolce vita (1960) di F. Fellini; L’avventura (1960) di M. Antonioni; Accattone (1961) di P. P. Pasolini; Il sorpasso (1962) di D. Risi; La voglia matta (1962) di L. Salce; Prima della rivoluzione (1964) di B. Bertolucci; Per un pugno di dollari (1964) di S. Leone; L’ombrellone (1965) di D. Risi; Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) di E. Petri; Ferie d’agosto (1996) di P. Virzì; Ospiti (1998) di M. Garrone, Estate romana (2000) di M. Garrone, L'imbalsamatore (2002) di M. Garrone, Reality (2012) di M. Garrone, Il racconto dei racconti - Tale of Tales (2015) di M. Garrone.

The course aims to offer a global vision of the historical development of European Theatre, through a series of close ups on themes and changes of its values and conditions, from Mediaeval culture to contemporary performance. The notion of cultural performance will be assumed as a key concept, in order to enlarge the horizon of the artistic and cultural values of theatre to other fields and practices of representation (Dance, ritual, celebration).
In its first part, the course deals with texts and contexts of books considered as groundbreaking sources for the theory and practice of the Western performer in 20th century (Artaud, Brecht, Grotowski).
In the second period, through the reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet, a focus will concern the dramatic tradition in European modern theatre.
In the final period, taking part in meeting and panels with operators, curators and performers, the students will share ongoing projects and current trends in Italian contemporary theatre

A. Artaud, Il teatro e il suo doppio, Einaudi, Torino; B. Brecht, Scritti teatrali, Einaudi, Torino; J. Grotowski, Testi. Volume II, Il teatro povero (1965-69),La casa Usher, Firenze;
W. Shakespeare, Amleto, edizione e traduzione a c. di A. Serpieri, Marsilio
2 testi a scelta tra i seguenti tre:
M. Schino, L’età dei maestri, Viella, Roma; E. Barba, La conquista della differenza, Bulzoni, Roma; F. Cruciani, Lo spazio del teatro, Laterza, Bari.
For non attending students: R. Guarino, Shakespeare. La scrittura nel teatro, Carocci, Roma; oppure il terzo dei testi a scelta.

Eleonora Duse. The course is focused on the situation of actresses in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the case of Eleonora Duse. In the theatre of this period, unlike what happens outside the theatre, unpredictably women have autonomy of movement, can run companies, can be heads of companies, can be successful and be points of reference for the world theater. The course explores this theatrical anomaly.

Mirella Schino, Il teatro di Eleonora Duse, Roma, Bulzoni, 2008
Francesca Simoncini, Eleonora Duse capocomica, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011 (https://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.el.uniroma3.it)
Mirella Schino, L’età dei maestri. Appia, Craig, Stanislavskij, Mejerchol’d, Copeau, Artaud e gli altri, Roma, Viella, 2017
Claudio Meldolesi, Pensare l’attore, Roma, Bulzoni, 2013
Gli studenti leggeranno inoltre almeno uno di questi tre drammi a scelta (più una introduzione o un approfondito profilo biografico sull’autore): 1) Gabriele d’Annunzio, La città morta, oppure 2) Alexandre Dumas, La signora dalle camelie, (il dramma e non il romanzo), oppure 3) Giuseppe Giacosa, Tristi amori.

After an introduction on the concept of urban archeology and its history, the course aims to present the system of sources, written, cartographic, iconographic and archaeological, for the reconstruction of the urban landscapes of the city of Rome and to outline the main phases of their transformations, from ancient to modern times. It will be articulated in particular in the following points:
Cartographic sources: characteristics of urban cartography; history of the cartography of the city of Rome from the Roman age to the modern age; repertoires of cartographic sources for the city of Rome.
Iconographic sources: the representation of the city in medieval, Renaissance and modern art.
Written and archival sources: function of written and archival sources for understanding the urban landscape; repertoires of written sources for the history of the city of Rome; introduction to archival research methods; Roman archives and archival funds useful for research on the urban landscape.
Archaeological sources: problems and methods of archaeological research on multi-layered urban sites, with examples taken from some sample cases.
Analysis of some building structures and types (urban walls, housing) that have most strongly marked the transformation of the urban landscape of the city, from antiquity to the modern age.
Analysis of a sample case, which simplifies, through the deepening of an area subject to an important urban archeology study, the methods and potential of this research approach: the area of ​​the Imperial Forums.

Per gli studenti frequentanti non sono previsti testi, ma l'esame verterà su quanto detto a lezione e sui materiali messi a disposizione sulla piattaforma Moodle.

Per gli studenti non frequentanti, saranno caricati sulla piattaforma Moodle dei testi (articoli e parti di libri fuori copyright).

The course aims to analyze the figurative art, monumental achievements and urban planning of the Greek world in the centuries from the twelfth to the first century. B.C. in their social, political, and cultural context.

Students can select one of the following books
Enzo Lippolis, Giorgio Rocco, Archeologia greca, Cultura, società, politica e produzione, Torino, Milano, Bruno Mondadori 2011.
Giorgio Bejor, Marina Castoldi, Claudia Lambrugo, Arte greca: dal decimo al primo secolo a. C., Milano, Mondadori Università, 2008.

The course 2020/2021 aims to present the main artistic and architectural events of Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau between the second half of the IV and the very first years of the II millennium BC. The study of the main cultural expressions of the single peoples who crossed the alluvial areas between Tigris and Euphrates, together with the contemporary Elamite productions known in Fars, Kerman and Sistan-va-Baluchistan, will be tackled both with a historical-artistic approach and with a purely archaeological methodology that can allow to define cultural horizons within specific stratigraphical sequences. With this perspective, the presentation of the individual cultural dynamics from the Uruk period (ca. 3500-3000 BC) to the Ur III period (ca. 2120-2004 BC), through the numerous regionalisation processes (ca. 3000-2800/2700 BC), the first dynastic formulations (ca. 2700-2350 BC) and the first imperial-type organisations (Akkad, ca. 2350-2200 BC), will be supported by an adequate historical introduction.
In addition to providing a basic knowledge of the cultures of Mesopotamia and Iran in the 3rd millennium BC, the course also aims to enable the student to develop a critical analysis of archaeological objects, helping to fully understand the meaning of the dynastic art of the pre-Achaemenid societies of the ancient Near East through a historical contextualization of archaeological data.

- J. Álvarez-Mon, The Art of Elam, ca. 4200-525 BC, Routledge, London - New York, 2020, pp. 34-179.
- E. Ascalone, L’Archeologia dell’Iran Antico. Interazioni, integrazioni e discontinuità nell’Iran del III millennio a.C., Si.Sc.A.M., Messina 2006, pp. 3-111.
- E. Ascalone, I Sumeri, in La Storia dell’Arte. Le prime civiltà, Mondadori Electa, 2006, pp. 83-127.
- M. Liverani, Antico Oriente. Storia, Società, Economia, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 1988, pp. 107-200; 232-291.
- H. Frankfort, Arte e architettura dell’Antico Oriente, Torino 1970, pp. 5-68.
Handouts and a selection of texts will be provided in PDF format by the teacher.

The course builds knowledge and skills starting from the exegesis of sources for historical research: the impact of digitization on documentation originating in the pre-computer age and that of digital native documents on source critique is its focus.
A second argument will be related to the management of digital documentation from its origin to its becoming as a cultural food and as historical documentation.
The students will acquire knowledge to deal with historical research through the analysis of the document in the context of information systems, dissemination on the web, consultation and its limits. They will therefore be able to tackle a project of study, digitization and enhancement of documentary resources, within the framework of the critical issues related to the conservation and integrity of the digitized and digital document. They will access documentary sources also through the use of digital descriptive resources; will address the question of the interpretation of sources according to a methodology starting from their contextualization in the archives of origin. They will acquire the tools for their full interpretation in independent judgment. They will also know the reordering criteria of the documentation and therefore of their description, fundamental elements of a correct exegesis.
Finally, they will address the issues of historical and archival disclosure, refining communication skills through logical and lexical rigor.

Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino 2009, pp. 3-169.

One from: Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti: competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano 2015; Giorgetta Bonfiglio-Dosio, Primi passi nel mondo degli archivi. Temi e testi per la formazione archivistica di primo livello, Padova 2007.

One from: Maria Guercio, Archivistica informatica. I documenti in ambiente digitale, Roma 2021 (chapters 1-2-3: the student has to take chief and essential elements of these pages); Maria Guercio - Stefano Pigliapoco - Federico Valacchi, Archivi e informatica, introduzione di Antonio Romiti, Lucca 2010;Stefano Vitali, Passato digitale. Le fonti dello storico nell'era del computer, Milano 2004.

Aeschylus and the Democracy in Athens. The Tragic Conflict. Reading the Orestea

Descrizione del corso: Reading the Aeschylus’ Orestea the Students will be introduced to the study of the tragedy in the context of the democratic Athens in the fifth century B.C.

Eschilo, Orestea, a c. di V. Di Benedetto, Milano 1995, BUR; V. Di Benedetto, L’ideologia del potere e la tragedia greca. Ricerche su Eschilo. Torino 1978, EINAUDI; G.P. Vernant e P. Vidal Naquet, Mito e Tragedia nell’antica Grecia, Torino 1972, EINAUDI

Second semester. Hours: Thursday, 11am-1pm; Friday, 11am-1pm, Meeting Room of the Area di Mondo Antico.
Course start: to be determined.

The course examines the main data of ancient Christian literary production, from the first to the fifth century, of which will be highlighted both the peculiarities, as well as the relationship with Jewish, Greek and Latin literature. Main topics: Proto-Christian literature (letters, evangelical literature, apocalypses), formation of the New Testament canon, writings from the sub-apostolic period, Greek apologists, "heretical" and heresiological literature, martyrial literature, Tertullian, Cyprian, exegetical literature, Origen, historiography, authors from Cappadocia, ancient literature, Hilarius, Ambrose, Jerome, Rufin, hagiographic literature, Augustine.

M. Simonetti - E. Prinzivalli, Letteratura cristiana antica, PiemmeReligio, Casale Monferrato 2003 (selected textes).
The texts commented in the classroom not present in the anthology will be provided by the teacher.

Description of the course:

This first part of the Byzantine Civilization teaching, addressed to Classics, History and Art undergraduates, aims to answer to the following questions: what is Byzantium? What are the benefits of studying it and why do we need to study it? Why is the study of Byzantium important not only to those interested in the Byzantine studies themselves but also to those who are involved with classical philology, Christian studies, archeology, art history and history, in their classical, medieval and modern nature, as well as history of religions and philosophy?

During this teaching we shall give essential and precise diachronic and geographic coordinates, along with clear introductory elements of evenemential history; we will also, but not only, dwell on the long, coherent and manifold civil and cultural life of Byzantium, aiming to reach two primary goals:

(1) to let emerge its role in preserving literature, art and a way of studying and thinking, which are essentially what we would nowadays call western civilization and which are the foundation of every sort of humanism, and thus of the study of humanities itself.

(2) To cast some light on the millenial Byzantine experiment, not only on the political and religious history of the eleven years in which it developed, but also on the idea of ‘State’ and on the geopolitics’ parable, focusing on the places, in which civilizations met and cultures exchanged, the Byzantine Roman empire had directly or indirectly ruled on.

- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato Bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2002

- S. Ronchey, Bisanzio fino alla quarta crociata, in A. Barbero e S. Carocci (a cura di), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. VIII, Roma, Salerno, 2006, pp. 215-255

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology, starting from the different subjects of anthropological knowledge in a historical view. The basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method will be introduced.
The second part focuses on kinship and the diverse forms of family making, highlighting the multiple of practices and meanings involved through European and extra-European ethnographic studies. Issues addressed: the given dimension, the cultural costruction and the social practices of kinship and gender, the notions of motherhood and fatherhod, the construction of "race", the concepts related to reproduction and relatedness, genealogy, filiation and alliance, relevant changes in contemporary family making.

Testi d’esame:

Pompeo, Francesco, Elementi di Antropologia Critica, Meti Edizioni, 2018 (Quarta edizione riveduta e ampliata).
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di Antropologia Culturale, Mondadori, 2015, (disponibile anche in versione digitale), le seguenti pagine: parte prima (pp. 34-53), parte sesta: cap. 1: La parentela come relazione e come rappresentazione (pp. 213-243) e cap. 3: La parentela come pratica sociale (pp. 250-270).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Gribaldo, Alessandra, La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005.
Ribeiro Corossacz, Valeria, Il corpo della nazione. Classificazione razziale e gestione sociale della riproduzione in Brasile. CISU 2004.

Gli studenti non frequentati dovranno aggiungere:
Remotti, Francesco, Contro Natura. Una lettera al papa. Laterza, 2008 (da pag. 71 a p. 222)

Information theory and coding, elaboration and structuring. Introduction to programming languages, in particular the Python language

slides and handouts available on the course webpage https://sites.google.com/view/intro-info-rm3/home

Pierfrancesco PORENA, Latin Epigraphy (36 hours - 6 ECTS)
DISCIPLINARY FIELD: L-ANT/03
"Rome and the Roman world: an epigraphic civilization"
No human civilization has ever celebrated and exposed the written word more than the Greek-Roman one. The module proposes an introduction to the study of the epigraphic landscape in Latin in the Roman world, from the origins to the fall of the Western Empire. We proceed to the reading of original inscriptions, live, in xerocopia and in power point. The texts are examined and transcribed according to the criteria of the current scientific edition. The individual examples of the different categories of epigraphs (sepulchral, honorary, building, sacred, etc..) are analyzed with particular attention to their historical, social and topographical context. The course will then study the different categories of epigraphic sources in Latin, the criteria of their ancient editing, their history and their modern edition (paper and digital). In addition, the students will be sent to consult the collections and other tools of epigraphic and bibliographic research, and to consult the epigraphic databases.

TEXTS for attending students:
A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Rome (Carocci) 2009.
In addition to the manual, to be studied in its entirety, the students attending can download in PDF format from the teacher's website some handouts; their contents are illustrated in class and which must be studied for the exam.

Reference texts for non-frequent students: they must agree on a programme with the teacher.

Students can study texts in English, French, German and Spanish on the teacher's advice; it is possible to ask for taking the exam in one of these three languages.