The course aims to describe the phenomena that characterized the transition from vernacular Latin to Italian in the fields of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon, so as to allow students to achieve a good knowledge of the concepts and tools of analysis offered by historical grammar. The analysis of the birth and evolution of the vernacular will be accompanied by a historical-cultural and social contextualization: the salient moments of the history of Italian from the Origins to the contemporary age will be addressed, with particular attention to the progressive emergence of supra-local varieties and of a common Italian. The second part of the course will be dedicated to textual linguistics: students will acquire the skills and tools necessary to analyze texts belonging to different eras and textual genres.

Cella, Roberta (2015), Storia dell’italiano, Bologna, il Mulino.
D’Achille, Paolo (2019), Breve grammatica storica dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci (terza edizione).
Giovanardi, Claudio / De Roberto, Elisa (2018), L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi, Milano, Bruno Mondadori / Pearson

Writing in the perspective of text analysis.
The exam will focus on the texts in the program and on the topics presented during the lessons.
The exam consists of an interview on the topics of the program in order to verify:
1) the depth and breadth of the knowledge acquired;
2) the property of language;
3) the ability to critically link issues and problems addressed.

Students of Literature must have already taken the exam of "Institutions of Italian Linguistics" and obtained the relevant 12 CFU.

The course will examine the factors of communication and will analyze different types of written texts considering the linguistic and textual aspects characterizing. Each text will allow us to analyze one or more linguistic phenomena. Literary, journalistic and scientific texts will be analyzed.

- M. Dardano - C. Giovanardi, The strategies of written Italian, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2001 (excluding chapter 8);

- F. Rossi - F. Ruggiano, Written Italian: uses, rules and doubts, Rome, Carocci, 2019 (only the first two chapters, pp. 15-79).

1. Poetry.
- Charles Baudelaire, Lo spleen di Parigi. Piccoli poemi in prosa, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2015.
- Francis Ponge, Il partito preso delle cose, Torino, Einaudi, 1979.
- Nathalie Quintane, Osservazioni / Remarques, Colorno, Tiellecì, Benway series, 2015.

2. Critical essays.
- Paolo Giovannetti, "Al ritmo delll'ossimoro. Note sulla poesia in prosa", in Id., Dalla poesia in prosa al rap, Novara, Interlinea edizioni, 2008, pp. 19-45.
- Paolo Zublena, "Esiste (ancora) la poesia in prosa?", in "L'Ulisse", n° 13, 2010, pp. 43-47.
- Andrea Inglese, "Poesia in prosa e arti poetiche. Una ricognizione in terra di Francia", https://www.nazioneindiana.com/2010/03/31/poesia-in-prosa-e-arti-poetiche-una-ricognizione-in-terra-di-francia/

This course provides a detailed analysis of some of the historical and cultural knots in English literature through the study of texts by some of the authors belonging to its canon. The course will focus on topics, contexts and textual strategies with a view to underlining the literary representation of the modern antihero as it develops from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet / Amleto (English/Italian edition with It. translation by A. Lombardo);
Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses / Ulisse [online]
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations / Grandi speranze (any unabridged edition)
James Joyce, Dubliners / Gente di Dublino (any unabridged edition)

The battle of the sexes

Il corso intende avviare alla conoscenza e comprensione della cultura letteraria inglese con particolare attenzione alle dinamiche interculturali e transculturali. Si propone di far acquisire competenze di base nella lettura di testi esemplari dei tre principali macrogeneri (narrativa poesia e teatro), la cui scelta è stata effettuata seguendo un percorso tematico: la battaglia dei sessi.

Testi primari

W. Shakespeare, La bisbetica domata con testo a fronte, traduzione a cura di Iolanda Plescia, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019.
Jane Austen, Orgoglio e pregiudizio, traduzione di Giulio Caprin, Milano, Mondadori, 2010.
Robert Browning, Poesie con testo a fronte, a cura di Angelo Righetti, Milano, Mursia, 1990.
T. S. Eliot, Frammento di un agone con testo a fronte, traduzione a cura di Roberto Sanesi, in Opere, a cura di Roberto Sanesi, Milano, Bompiani, 2001.

Testi secondari
Brioschi F., Di Girolamo C., Fusillo M., Introduzione alla letteratura. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci, 2017.

A general introduction to English literature, focusing on diachronic and synchronic interculturalism

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: General Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale
Shakespeare, Midsummer night's dream
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Eliot, The Waste Land

Introductions must be read in all books

The module introduces to the problems and genres characterizing German literature in its two most intense periods - the second half of eighteenth century and the early twentieth century - through the reading of some classical texts and their historical-cultural contextualization.

G. E. Lessing, Emilia Galotti (Einaudi).
J. W. Goethe, Werther (Einaudi).
F. Schiller, I masnadieri (Mondadori)
H. von Kleist, La brocca rotta (Garzanti)
E.T.A. Hoffmann, L’uomo della sabbia (Mondadori)
G. Büchner, Lenz (Adelphi). (Marsilio).
R. M. Rilke, Nuove poesie. Requiem (Einaudi).
F. Kafka, Il processo (Einaudi).
F. Glauser, Il regno di Matto (Sellerio).
B. Brecht, L’opera da tre soldi (Einaudi).

V. Zmegac et al., Breve storia della letteratura tedesca, Einaudi.
L. Mittner, Storia della letteratura tedesca, voll. II e III, Torino 1971 ss. (le introduzioni a periodi ed autori trattati).
I non frequentanti dovranno inoltre preparare i seguenti testi:
Ulrike Kindl, Storia della letteratura tedesca, vol. 2: Dal Settecento alla prima guerra mondiale, Laterza.
Michael Dallapiazza, Claudio Santi, Storia della letteratura tedesca, vol. 3: Il Novecento, Laterza.

The course is focused on authors, works and basic literary movements of the second Italian twentieth century to the present. Starting from the great socio-cultural changes of the sixties to the present, we will analyse the literary history on both the lyrical and narrative side, by some examples of reading and textual analysis of masterpiece. The course will have a seminary structure and the lessons will be organized so as to facilitate the discussion. The course requires a written elaboration. This draft will have to be sent fifteen days before the exam.

Narrative:
Italo Calvino, Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore, o Palomar
Anna Maria Ortese, L’Iguana o Il porto di Toledo
Elsa Morante, La Storia o Aracoeli
Stefano D’Arrigo, Horcynus Orca
Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa o Il Pendolo di Foucault
Leonardo Sciascia, Todo Modo
Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Altri libertini
Antonio Tabucchi, Sostiene Pereira o Piazza d’Italia
Andrea Camilleri, Conversazioni su Tiresia
Melania Mazzucco, Vita o Storia di Brigitte
Roberto Saviano, Gomorra
Elena Ferrante, L’amica geniale

Poetry:
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Le ceneri di Gramsci o Poesia in forma di rosa
Amelia Rosselli: Variazioni belliche o Documento
Jolanda Insana: La stortura o La tagliola del disamore
Patrizia Cavalli: Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo o Datura
Vivian Lamarque: una raccolta a scelta
Patrizia Valduga: una raccolta a scelta
Valentino Zeichen: Poesie
Biancamaria Frabotta: La pianta del pane
Valerio Magrelli: Ora serrata retinae o Poesie (1980-1992)
Bibliography:
The general part has to be prepared on a manual of Italian literature (we recommend: Giulio Ferroni, Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Mondadori Università).
Costanza Melani-Monica Venturini, Ecce Video. Tv e letteratura dagli anni Ottanta ad oggi. Firenze, Cesati, 2018.

A good knowledge of the following authors, is required: Paolo Volponi, Luigi Malerba, Alberto Arbasino, Vincenzo Consolo, Gesualdo Bufalino, Francesca Sanvitale, Fabrizia Ramondino, Dacia Maraini, Umberto Eco, Stefano D’Arrigo, Gianni Celati, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Franco Cordelli, Daniele Del Giudice, Sebastiano Vassalli, Antonio Tabucchi, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Aldo Busi, Franco Fortini, Andrea Zanzotto, Edoardo Sanguineti, Giovanni Giudici, Giovanni Raboni, Alda Merini, Amelia Rosselli, Franco Loi, Dario Bellezza, Valentino Zeichen, Jolanda Insana, Patrizia Cavalli, Maurizio Cucchi, Cesare Viviani, Vivian Lamarque, Milo De Angelis, Patrizia Valduga, Giuseppe Conte, Eugenio De Signoribus, Valerio Magrelli.

The course is articulated in two main sections: the first will deal with problems and methodological aspects of philological-critical work on Medieval and Humanistic texts in Latin and vernacular; the second will focus on a specific textual typology, the critical edition of marginal notes on Latin classics, starting from the analysis of the glosses added by Giovanni Boccaccio in the margins of his codex with Terence's comedies (Ms. Firenze, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 38 17). Various typologies of annotations will be examined: traditional glosses, some interesting remarks of Boccaccio's own, such as a fairly substantial system of marginalia and some purely philological notes, sometimes of controversial interpretation (reflections on the correctness of the text, identification of errors, reporting of textual variations or proposals for conjectures). In the light of the examined annotations, it will be analyzed at the same time the notable use of sententiae and other Terentian expressions observable in Boccaccio's works.

- M. Berté-M. Petoletti, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
- *S. Finazzi-M. Marchiaro, scheda del ms. Firenze, BML Plut. 38.17. Il codice di Terenzio di mano del Boccaccio e da lui firmato, in Boccaccio autore e copista. Catalogo della mostra (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 11 ottobre 2013-11 gennaio 2014), a cura di T. De Robertis, C.M. Monti, M. Petoletti, G. Tanturli e S. Zamponi, Firenze, Mandragora, 2013, pp. 339-341, num. 60.
- *S. Finazzi, Le postille di Boccaccio a Terenzio, in «Italia Medioevale e Umanistica», LIV, 2013, pp. 81-133.

The bibliographic entries distinguished here by asterisks will be provided to the students in photocopy inside the course lecture notes, together with the following materials: passages of Boccaccio's works, reproductions of manuscripts, pages of critical editions and other essays, catalogue items, additional notes elaborated by the lecturer.

Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer to make adequate arrangements well ahead of their exam date.

The course aims at introducing the key questions of the philosophy and methodology of science, among these the competing theories of scientific explanation, the nature of scientific method, the relation between hypotheses and evidence and the cognitive content of scientific theories in light of their historical change. While the first part of the course will consist in an introduction to these general topics (by using Dorato’s and Okasha’s text), in the second, longer part we will read and comment three of the classics authors of 20th century philosophy of science, namely Karl Popper, Carl Hempel and Rudolf Carnap.

M. Dorato, Cosa c’entra l’anima con gli atomi, seconda edizione rivista e ampliata, Laterza, Bari, 2017.
K.R. Popper, Scienza e Filosofia, Einaudi, Torino, 2000. Science and Philosophy
S. Okasha Il mio primo libro di filosofia della scienza, Einaudi, Torino (cap.1, 2, 3, 5, 7), My first book in the philosophy of science
Carl G. Hempel, Filosofia delle scienze naturali, Il Mulino (chapters available on the teacher’s web site), Philosophy of the Natural sciences, 1966
Rudolf Carnap, I fondamenti filosofici della fisica (chapters available on the teacher’s web site), Il Saggiatore, Milano, Philosophical Foundations of Physics, 1971, Basics Books

PROGRAM MODULE A:
The course aims to analyze the concepts of nature and subject in the philosophies of Leibniz and Kant keeping in mind some guiding notions declined in different ways in the two philosophies: body/mind, sensitivity/intellect, quantity/quality, discrete/continuous, mechanism/teleology.
PROGRAM MODULE B:
The course aims to examine the concepts of nature and subject in the philosophies of Kant and Husserl, comparing the notions of nature and natural attitude, transcendental deduction and "epoché", pure form, eidos and variation.

G. W. Leibniz, Monadology, Saggiatore, Milan.
I. Kant, Critic of Pure Reason, Bompiani, Milan (in particular Transcendental Aesthetics and Transcendental Analytics up to § 27).
E. Husserl, The fundamental problems of phenomenology. Lessons on the natural concept of the world, Quodlibet, Macerata.
Massimo Mugnai, Introduction to the philosophy of Leibniz, Einaudi, Turin.
Luigi Scaravelli, Kantian Studies, La Nuova Italia, Florence (in particular chapters I-II-III of Kant and Modern Physics+Lectures on the "Critique of Pure Reason").
Vincenzo Costa, Husserl, Carocci, Rome.

Reading and commenting on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Practical Reason.
The course aims to introduce the students to the study of the Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), contextualizing the text and indicating the main themes (the moral law, freedom, postulates, the Supreme Good) but also addressing the whole text in its letter and in its complexity, indicating some paths of criticism.

Immanuel Kant, Critica della ragion pratica, introd. by Sergio Landucci, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1997, with a parallel text (everything, including the Introduction by Sergio Landucci).
Sergio Landucci, La Critica della ragion pratica by Kant. Introduction to reading, Carocci publisher, Milan 2010.

Through the knowledge of the main notions of phonetics, morphology and syntax, the course aims to provide students with a more complete domain of the Latin language, also for a better understanding of the Italian language and word formation mechanisms. Reading and analyzing a prose and a poem text intends to provide the tools to grasp the specificities of these languages ​​and go back to their linguistic, cultural and anthropological models.

To this end it includes:

(1) A cycle of lessons aimed at offering an overview of the main aspects of phonetics, morphology and syntax of the Latin language, with notions of prosody and metrics;
(2) Framework, reading, translation and commentary on the following two works of Latin literature:
- (a) Cicero, Laelius seu de amicitia.
- (b) Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae.

For point 1 of the Course:

- R. Oniga, Il latino: breve introduzione linguistica, 2a edizione, Milano, ed. Franco Angeli, 2007.
- S. Timpanaro, Nozioni elementari di prosodia e metrica latina, Firenze, 1953 [a copy will be provided from the reprint at the bottom of the anthology for the biennium “Primordia et incrementa Latinitatis” edited by Antonio La Penna (Torino, 1966, pp. 353-376)].
- Further teaching materials (notes on Latin language and textbooks on metric reading) will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.

For point 2 of the Course:

- (a) Cicerone, L’amicizia; saggio introduttivo di I. Vilardi; nuova traduzione e note di F. Biddau, Milano, Rusconi, 2017 (alternatively, any of the various reprints of the text in the BUR or Garzanti edition);
- (b) P. Ovidio Nasone, I cosmetici delle donne, a cura di G. Rosati, Venezia, Marsilio, 1995.


Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario (preferably, 6th ed. revised and updated by C. Marangoni, Bologna, Pàtron, 2007).

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

slides and handouts available on the course webpage

UNIT TITLE (number of hours; number of ECTS)
Euripides’ Medea. The Tragedy of eros. 36 hours, 6 ECTS

EXAMINATION TYPE (oral / written)
The type of examination is oral and evaluates:
1) the mastery of the subject
2) the ability in translating ancient Greek texts
3) the critical capacities and the skills in identifying and formulating problems

PRELIMINARY KNOWLEDGE
It is important that students attend as many classes as possible.
Preliminary knowledgle of Ancient Greek language is required.

SEMESTER
First semester

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will focus on Euripides’ Medea, one of the most important tragedies in classical antiquity, considering both the characteristics of Euripides’ revolutionary staging in the context of 5th century Athenian tragedy and the role of this drama within the Euripidean corpus. The aim of this course is to provide a deep understanding of Medea, including its dramaturgical value and literary meaning.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
1) The student can choose one of the two following introductory works:
M. Di Marco, La tragedia greca, Carocci 2000
V. Di Benedetto- E. Medda, La tragedia sulla scena, Torino 1997

2) Medea nella Letteratura e nell’arte a c. di B. Gentili e F. Perusino, Venezia 2000

E-MAIL
adeleteresa.cozzoli@uniroma3.it

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1) The student can choose one of the two following introductory works:
M. Di Marco, La tragedia greca, Carocci 2000
V. Di Benedetto- E. Medda, La tragedia sulla scena, Torino 1997

2) Medea nella Letteratura e nell’arte a c. di B. Gentili e F. Perusino, Venezia 2000

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 Deleuze, with reading of selected passages of the text in the program.
3) Explanation of the interpretation of Lyotard, with reading 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).
G. Deleuze, Lezioni su Kant, Mimesis, Milano.
J.-F. Lyotard, Anima Minima, Pratiche, Parma (testo fuori commercio, fotocopie fornite dalla docente).

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

Course Title: Manzoni and the realism of representation: “I Promessi Sposi” and the choice of the novel.


The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the path through which in the nineteenth century the novel is becoming established in Italy. In addition, a reading of the "Promessi Sposi" will be offered which, looking at the Caravaggio experience, captures the figurative tendency of an imagination that has as its objective the realism of representation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014

2. Criticism:

- D. Brogi, Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo, Carocci, 2018

- S. S. Nigro, la funesta docilità, Palermo, Sellerio, 2018

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students.
Students will choose two of the following books:
- F. Suitner, Un’idea di romanzo, Roma, Carocci, 2012.
- A. Frare, Leggere i promessi Sposi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
- D. Brogi, Il genere proscritto. Manzoni e la scelta del romanzo, Pisa, Giardini, 2005.

The course will examine relations between Leopardi’s "Moral Essays" ("Operette morali") and other satirical texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Moral Essays will be analysed also in relation with Leopardi’s "Songs" ("Canti").

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- G. Leopardi, Operette morali (recommended editions: ed. by M.A. Bazzocchi, Milan, Mondadori, 1991; ed. by Laura Melosi, Milan, Rizzoli, 2008; ed. by A. Prete, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2014);



2. Criticism:

- L. Blasucci, I titoli dei ‘Canti’ e altri studi leopardiani, Venice, Marsilio, 2011;
- E. Russo, Ridere del mondo. La lezione di Leopardi, Bologna, Il mulino, 2017.

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students. Students will choose two of the following books:

- G. Benvenuti, Un cervello fuori moda. Saggio sul comico nelle ‘Operette morali’, Bologna, Pendragon, 2001;
- L. Blasucci, I tempi dei ‘Canti’. Nuovi studi leopardiani, Turin, Einaudi, 1996;
- L. Blasucci, Leopardi e i segnali dell’infinito, Bologna, Il mulino, 2001;
- A. Ferraris, L’ultimo Leopardi. Pensiero e poetica 1830-1837, Turin, Einaudi, 1987;
- Leopardi, ed. by F. D’Intino and M. Natale, Rome, Carocci, 2018
- P.V. Mengaldo, Leopardi antiromantico e altri saggi sui ‘Canti’, Bologna, Il mulino, 2012;
- Sulle ‘Operette morali’: sette studi, ed. by A. Prete, Lecce, Manni, 2008;
- G. Tellini, Leopardi, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2001.

Contemporary Italian: structures and use.

The exam will focus on the texts in the program and on the topics presented during the lessons.
The exam consists of an interview on the topics of the program in order to verify:
1) the depth and breadth of the knowledge acquired;
2) the property of language;
3) the ability to critically link issues and problems addressed.

The course analyzes the structures of contemporary Italian (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary). There will be references to the linguistic norm and dialects. Some literary and other texts will be commented on.

C. Giovanardi - E. De Roberto, The Italian. Structures, communication, texts, Milan, Pearson, 2018.

The course aims to illustrate the structures and trends of contemporary Italian at all levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon). It will further consider variational aspects (standard language versus dialects, and regional and popular varieties; differences between written, spoken and media usage; main textual typologies; evolution of the standard norm etc.). At the end of the course the student will be in the position to evaluate in its context and comment on from a linguistic perspective a non-literary text (written or spoken) of contemporary Italian.

- Paolo D’Achille, L’italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.

- Francesco Sabatini, Analisi del linguaggio giuridico. Il testo normativo in una tipologia generale dei testi, in Corso di studi superiori legislativi 1988-89, ed. Mario D’Antonio, Padova, Cedam, 1990, pp. 675-724 (also available in Francesco Sabatini, L’italiano nel mondo moderno, vol. II, Tra grammatica e testi, Napoli, Liguori, 2012, pp. 273-320; photocopies are available in the print-shop opposite the main entrance of the Faculty).

At the origins of European narrative: the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio

The course will thoroughly explore the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, a text which is at the very basis of modern European fictional narrative. Issues concerning its composition and spreading, its structure and main themes will be tackled. Many passages will be read and commented during lectures. Attention will be devoted to the event of the Black Death, from which the "Decameron" sparkles, and to its links with the iconographic tradition of the Triumph of Death. The final lectures will be devoted to the European afterlife of this work.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli, 2013.
Must-reads are: Proemio, introductions and conclusions of each day, and the “Conclusione dell’autore”; the following novelle:

- Giornata prima: 1, 7, 10
- Giornata seconda: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Giornata terza: 1, 8, 10
- Giornata quarta: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8
- Giornata quinta: 1, 8, 9, 10
- Giornata sesta: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10
- Giornata settima: 1, 2, 3
- Giornata ottava: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9
- Giornata nona: 3, 4, 8, 9
- Giornata decima: 2, 3, 5, 9, 10

Students will also read:
- Vittore Branca, "Boccaccio medievale", Milano: BUR-Rizzoli, 2010 (ma anche edizioni precedenti andranno bene), i capitoli "Coerenza ideale e funzione unitaria dell'Introduzione" (pp. 56-70) e "L'epopea dei mercatanti" (pp. 172-206)
- Francesco BAUSI, "Leggere il 'Decameron'", Bologna: il Mulino, 2017

Students who will not attend lectures will complete their preparation reading the following essays:
- L. BATTAGLIA RICCI, "'Una novella per esempio'. Novellistica, omiletica e trattatistica nel primo Trecento", in "'Favole parabole istorie'. Le forme della scrittura novellistica dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno di Pisa, 26-28 ottobre 1998, a cura di Gabriella Albanese, Lucia Battaglia Ricci e Rossella Bessi, Roma: Salerno editrice, 2000, pp. 31-54
- Anna PEGORETTI, "'Di che paese se’ tu di ponente?’ Cartografie boccacciane", in "Studi sul Boccaccio", XXXIX (2011), pp. 83-113
- Michelangelo PICONE, "La novella-cornice di Madonna Oretta (VI. 1)", in "'Favole parabole istorie'. Le forme della scrittura novellistica dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno di Pisa, 26-28 ottobre 1998, a cura di Gabriella Albanese, Lucia Battaglia Ricci e Rossella Bessi, Roma: Salerno editrice, 2000, pp. 67-84 (ripubblicato anche in M. PICONE, "Boccaccio e la codificazione della novella: letture del 'Decameron'", Ravenna: Longo, 2008, pp. 257-268)

Except for the volume by Bausi, essays will be available at the shop Copyando.

UPDATE (11 MARCH 2020): due to the current emergency situation, the listed essays usually available at the shop Copyando have been uploaded online (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0QoeTiA5n8NN0lESkZpaUt6OEk?usp=sharing) in pdf format. As regards the essay by Picone, students will find a link to the University Bibliographic Catalogue, from where the whole volume, in which the essay is published, is accessible.
For any enquiry, please send me an email.

READING THE CONVIVIO: INTERPRETATION AND TEXTUAL HISTORY OF AN UNFINISHED WORK
During the course we will read Dante's 'Convivio' and we will consider some of the main issues arising in the interpretation and textual criticism of the work, beginning with an analysis of the manuscript tradition. We will examine in particular the motives that induced Dante to leave the 'Convivio' unfinished and three songs which Dante comments upon in the 'Convivio', considering them against the background of the development of Dante's autobiography and thought, development which will be charted comparing passages of the 'Convivio' with extracts from the 'Vita nova' and the 'Commedia'.

- DANTE, Convivio, a cura di G. FIORAVANTI, canzoni a cura d C. GIUNTA, Milano, Mondadori, 2019: a selection of passages from the four treatises which will be read and analyzed during the course

- *S. BELLOMO, Convivio, in Id., Filologia e critica dantesca, Brescia, La Scuola, 2009, pp. 9-20, 70-90 e 250-58.
- *L. AZZETTA, La tradizione del ‘Convivio’ negli antichi commenti alla ‘Commedia’: Andrea Lancia, l' ‘Ottimo commento’ e Pietro Alighieri, in «Rivista di Studi Danteschi», a. V, 2005, fasc. 1, pp. 3-34.
- *F. BRAMBILLA AGENO, L’edizione critica dei testi volgari, Padova, Antenore, 1984, pp. 53-72.
- *B. NARDI, Le rime filosofiche e il ‘Convivio’ nello sviluppo dell’arte e del pensiero di Dante, in Id., Dal ‘Convivio’ alla ‘Commedia’, Roma, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 1992, pp. 1-36.
- *T. BAROLINI, Autocitazione e autobiografia, in Ead., Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della ‘Commedia’, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993, pp. 15-76.
- *M. FIORILLA, ‘Amor che nella mente mi ragiona’ tra ricezione antica e interpretazione moderna, in «Rivista di Studi Danteschi», a. V, 2005, fasc. 1, pp. 141-54.
- *M. FIORILLA, «et descendunt in infernum viventes»: 'Inf.' XXXIII, 109-157 e il 'salmo' 54, in «L'Alighieri», n. s., XXVII, 2006, fasc. 1, pp. 133-39.
- *M. FIORILLA, Da Apollonio Rodio a Lucano, da Lucano a Dante: ripresa e variatio di una similitudine, in «Tutto il lume de la spera nostra». Studi per Marco Ariani, a cura di G. Crimi e L. Marcozzi, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2018, pp. 75-81.
- *M. FIORILLA, Lettura dell’VIII canto del ‘Paradiso’, in «Filologia e critica», i.c.s.

The articles marked by an asterisk will be included in the DISPENSE DEL CORSO (course materials assembled by the lecturer), together with samples of critical editions of the 'Convivio', extracts from the 'Rime' (98), 'Vita nova' (XIX, XXXV, XLII), 'De vulgari eloquentia' (II 6), 'Epistole' (XII), 'Commedia' (Inf., II, XXVII 60-136, XXXIII 91-157; Purg., II 55-133, VII 88-136, XIX 1-33, XXIV 49-57, XXX, XXXI 1-75; Par., VI 112-142, VIII 1-57, XVII 46-78, XXV 1-9, XXX 19-33), as well as of the early commentaries (Ottimo commento, Andrea Lancia, Benvenuto da Imola, Matteo Chironomo),. Notes by the lecturer and other materials will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page.

The divine comedies of punishment: write from prison, from mental hospitals, from concentration camps

The course we will be examined anthological parts of Benvenuto Cellini, Giacomo Casanova, Tommaso Campanella, Torquato Tasso; then the works of Silvio Pellico e Anna Banti, Antonio Gramsci, Primo Levi, Luce D’Eramo, Goliarda Sapienza, Fabrizia Ramondino, and Galera ed esilio di Toni Negri.

Michel Foucault Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione (1975), Torino, Einaudi, 1976, in qualsiasi edizione purchè integrale; e così per le seguenti opere: Silvio Pellico, Le mie prigioni 1832; Antonio Gramsci, Lettere dal carcere, 1947; Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo, 1947; Anna Banti, Noi credevamo, 1967; Luce D’Eramo, Deviazione, 1979; Goliarda Sapienza, L’università di Rebibbia, 1983; Fabrizia Ramondino, Passaggio a Trieste, 2000.
Further material will be available online on the teacher's page (http://studiumanistici.uniroma3.it/lfortini/bacheca/) and provided when possible in pdf or similar formats during the course.

Foreword
Sound abilities in reading (conceived as a set of literacies: functional, multimedia, information…) are required to any citizen in order to understand the phenomena of our complex, transitional, “liquid” society, and to be able to self-orienteering and learning in such a globalised and interconnected context.

Libraries, archives, documentation and information centers (and museums as well) are vital learning environments that enable their users to acquire, reinforce, improve Information Literacy and therefore a competent use of information. Furthermore, they contribute to meet the 2030 SDGs.

Objectives
o Becoming aware of the strategic relevance of information literacy and of the role played in it by libraries, especially the school library, in the learning process in a complex society.
o Knowing the theoretical basic fundamentals and acquiring the techniques of Bibliography, Librarianship and Documentation, in particularly concerning:
 Information and documentation as an instructional and educational resource
 web 2.0 in media and information literacy education and as a means of communication and outreach of library services addressed to children and pupils
 planning, organization and management of public libraries, school libraries, children’s libraries as a learning environment
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of the following fields is appreciated: History, Education, Adult Education, Computer Science (PC, Internet, e-mail), English language

Course Description
The course is divided in three modules:
1) Introduction (on Info-complexity, Media and Information Literacy, Bibliographic research and Academic Writing)
2) Bibliography
3) Librarianship

The course
o Presents and analyzes the definitions of Information Literacy, and, more recently, MIL – Media and Information Literacy, starting from UNESCO and library associations documents;
o Suggests and analyzes approaches and methods of information seeking, taking into account the information overload and digital divide phenomena;
o Reflects on the role of libraries and librarians in contrasting such exclusion phenomena through customized services such as the Reference Library, users’ education, tank to new web 2.0 tools.

Content
Basic concepts of:
1. Bibliography: definition; history in brief; types, reference citation and styles; compilation; tools; ISO standards.
2. Librarianship: definition; history in brief; types of libraries; standards, IFLA guidelines and manifestos, automation;
3. Documentation: types of documents, the documentation chain etc.
Cataloging, Indexing (Dewey, CDU, subject and thesauri), OPAC. Collection development and space designing and planning. User education Library services assessment and evaluation.

1. MARCO SANTORO, Lezioni di bibliografia, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2012. ISBN 9788870757224.
2. GIOVANNA GRANATA, Introduzione alla biblioteconomia, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013.
3. one of the volumes of “Conoscere la biblioteca” series (Milano: Editrice Bibliografica) OR: MARTINA MARSANO, Serious game e lifelong learning, Roma: Aemme Publishing, 2017.
4. the booklet on Information Literacy by the teacher (available in Edmodo platform).

The Professor’s teaching resources, handouts etc. will be available on the Moodle platform accessible in Edmodo online platform.

Suggested further reading (very useful for writing the final paper): JOSÉ M. PRELLEZO – JESUS M. GARCIA, Invito alla ricerca. Metodologia e tecniche del lavoro scientifico, Roma: LAS, 2007.

Title of the course: Elements of history of tradition and critics of the text
Description of the course: The course aims to provide students with elements of Classical Philology and a basic knowledge of history of tradition and textual criticism of Greek and Latin authors. The program involves practices of composition, publication and divulgation of the ancient book, as well as transmission processes and critical editing procedures of Classics. The acquired abilities concerning manuscript tradition, constitutio textus and critical apparatus will be measured on critical editions of Greek and Latin authors. The knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages is necessary.

- Tommaso Braccini, La scienze dei testi antichi: Introduzione alla filologia classica, Milano, Le Monnier, 2017 (ISBN 9788800746540);
- Paul Maas, La critica del testo, Translated by Giorgio Ziffer, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2017 ("Opere Varie", ISBN 9788893590495);
- Vitae Vergilianae antiquae, G. Brugnoli et F. Stok recensuerunt, Romae 1997 (ISBN 88-240-3785-2), in partic. pp. 11-41 (Vita Donatiana 1-46);
- photocopies provided by the teacher.

Second semester. Hours: Thursday, 11am-1pm; Friday, 11am-1pm, Meeting Room of the Area di Mondo Antico.
Course start: Thursday, March 12, 2020.
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.

The texts examined in the classroom will be provided by the teacher.

Title of the course: Transformations of culture in the early Middle Ages

Description of the course: The course has institutional character, and aims to outline the main linguistic features, the personalities and the most significant literary forms which mark the passage between Late Antiquity and Middle Ages in the Latin West. The course involves practic exercises meant to verify the knowledge and the usage of the main bibliographical and informatic tools for the study of Latin authors, with a special attention to lexicography.

Bibliography:

1. D. NORBERG, Manuale di latino medievale, a cura di M. Oldoni. Bibliografia aggiornata a cura di P. Garbini, Avagliano Ed., Cava de’ Tirreni 1999. - In alternative to the second part of the handbook (“Testi scelti”), students attending the course can choose to study the textes provided and analysed during the course.

2. One of the following books:
- P. STOTZ, Il latino nel Medioevo. Guida allo studio di un'identità linguistica europea, a cura di Luigi G. G. Ricci, Ed. SISMEL, Firenze 2013.
- A. DE PRISCO, Il latino tardoantico e altomedievale, Ed. Jouvence, Roma 1991.
- E. AUERBACH, Lingua letteraria e pubblico nella tarda antichità latina e nel Medioevo, trad. it., Ed. Feltrinelli, Milano 2007.

3. An handbook of literary history chosen between the following:
- M. SIMONETTI, Romani e Barbari. Le lettere latine alle origini dell’Europa (secoli V-VIII), Ed. Carocci, Roma 2006.
- G. POLARA, Letteratura latina tardoantica e altomedievale, Jouvence Ed., Roma 1987.

Saussure, Wittgenstein, Chomsky: three perspectives in comparison.

F. de Saussure, Corso di linguistica generale, Laterza. Limited to the following parts:
Introduction, chap. II-V; Part One. General principles, chapters I-III (of chapter III only paragraphs 1 and 4); Part two. Synchronous Linguistics, chapters I-VI; Part Three. Diachronic linguistics, chap. IV-V.

L. Wittgenstein, Ricerche filosofiche, Einaudi. Limited to the following parts:
Preface by the author; §§ 1-32, 65-98, 198-207, 243-265. For students who do not attend, it is advisable to consult the book by Marco Mazzeo, Le onde del linguaggio. A guide to philosophical research by Wittgenstein, Carocci.

N. Chomsky, Linguaggio e problemi della conoscenza, il Mulino. imited to the following parts: first, second (up to page 45), fifth and sixth chapters.

Books, documents and writings of everyday life

The course aims to address the study of Latin and Greek writings of ancient, late antique, medieval and protomodern ages, with particular regard to their value for historical and philological studies. In this regard, both book and document writings will be examined, illustrating the genesis and historical events of all the main Greek and Latin writings (including their use for manuscripts in the vernacular). The module aims to provide an advanced preparation in the analysis of the writings, accompanied by historical and cultural knowledge useful for the correct interpretation of manuscript evidence.
This course includes both the examination of reproductions of codes and documents, and the direct examination of manuscripts, through visits to archives and libraries. Knowledge of classical languages is recommended, but not compulsory. For any particular case, an interview with the teacher is necessary.

The examination will include knowledge of the materials distributed during the lessons (in paper and electronic format) and exercises.
It is also required the study of:

• E. Crisci-P. Degni (a c. di), La scrittura greca dall’antichità all’epoca della stampa, Roma, Carocci, 2011 (due capitoli: I oppure II + III oppure IV);
• A. Petrucci, Breve storia della scrittura latina, seconda edizione, Roma, Bagatto, 1992;
• A. Petrucci, Prima lezione di paleografia, Roma – Bari, Laterza, 2002 (Universale, 811)

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, the contents of which 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.

Module A - Subjective, objective, intersubjective: Kantian declinations and pragmatic developments.
The program of Module A will focus on the following topics:
- Presentation of the historical-theoretical meaning of the conceptual triad on which the course focuses
- The transcendental structure of subjectivity and the construction of objectivity.
- The criterion of intersubjectivity in the logical-semiotic pragmatism of Ch. S. Peirce.

Module B - Subjective, objective, intersubjective: The a priori in C.I. Lewis' 'conceptual pragmatism'
The program of Module B will focus on the following topics:
- Experience, concepts and the intersubjective world
- The relativity of knowledge and the objectivity of the real
- The knowledge of objects and the pragmatic nature of the a priori.

Module A:
1) I. Kant, "Introduction" to the Critique of Pure Reason, edition of your choice.
2) Ch. S. Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief"; Idem, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear", in Ch. S. Pierce, Selected Writings (photocopies available).
3) R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (ed.), Il Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci, 2017: pp.13-249.
Suggested texts:
A. Guerra, Introduzione a Kant, Laterza, 2017
G. Maddalena, Peirce, La Scuola 2015

Module B:
1) 1) C. I. Lewis, Mind and the World Order, Dover Books on Western Philosophy 1991.
2) R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (ed.), Il Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci, 2017: pp.13-249.

Suggested texts:
M. Ferrarri, Lewis and Schlick. Verificationism between Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism, in "European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy", n. 1, 2019.
G. Zanet, La radice pragmatista: la linea genealogica Kant-Peirce- C. I. Lewis-Quine, in Idem, Le radici del naturalismo, Quodlibet 2007, pp. 83-117.
S.B. Rosenthal, C.I. Lewis in Focus. The Pulse of Pragmatism, Indiana University Press, 2007.

On the basis of linguistic documents and contemporary testimonies to the different linguistic phenomena, the course will illustrate some aspects of linguistic communication in Latin, considered in its diachronic development (from protohistory to the Romance) and in its various registers (standard and informal). The reading and analysis of two comedies - one of archaic age (Plautus' Aulularia), the other of late antiquity (the Querolus by an unknown author) - intends to provide the tools to grasp the specificities of the historical evolution of the language Latin and to identify its morphosyntactic and stylistic peculiarities.

To this end, the course includes:

(1) A cycle of lessons aimed at offering an overview of the history of the Latin language from its origins up to the 6th century. d.C., through the reconstruction of the fundamental stages of its evolution in the dimension of language of use and literary language;
(2) Framework, reading, translation and commentary on the following two works:
- (a) Plautus, Aulularia.
- (b) Anonymous, Querolus sive Aulularia (extracts).

For point 1 of the Course:
- F. Stolz - A. Debrunner - W.P. Schmid, Storia della lingua latina (con introduzione di A. Traina, appendice di J.M. Tronsky), Bologna, Pàtron, IV ed., 1993 (or further editions).
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.

For point 2 of the Course:
- (a) Plauto, La pentola dell’oro, commento a cura di C. Questa, Torino, Loescher, 1978;
- (b) Querolus (Aulularia); comédie latine anonyme, èd. par C. Jacquemard, Paris, Les belles lettres, 2003.
Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- Elena Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata con la collaborazione di Ermanno Malaspina, Alessandria, Ediz. dell’Orso, 2014.

The course aims at providing basic knowledge of Greek grammar and language to those students who never studied Greek in the prior experience. The thorough study of nominal and verbal morphology is designed to make students able to translate medium-difficulty authors, such as Lysias or Xenophon.

Reference manual: Agazzi-Villardo, Hellenisti (manuale + eserciziario in 2 volumi), Zanichelli 2018 (ebook Version purchasable online).
Additional material (e.g. PDF/PowerPoint lessons and exercises) will be provided via Moodle.

For Bachelor and Master's degree students.
Second semester. Hours: Wednesday, 2-5 pm, Laboratorio Informatico of the Area di Mondo Antico (LISA).
Course start: Wednesday, March 4, 2020.

The Laboratory introduces to the knowledge of the main informatic resources for the historical and philological studies related to Antiquity, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

- Introduction. Creation of a scientific bibliography; methods of citation. Tools for bibliographic research: bibliographic repertories; on-line consultation of catalogues (OPAC); on-line consultation of books and periodicals (open access and by subscription); on-line reviews.

- Analysis of literary texts: text databases; electronic dictionaries; software for text analysis and lexical research on Greek and Latin texts.

- Research of epigraphic and papyraceous sources; research and consultation of manuscripts.

The teacher provides the didactic materials necessary for the carrying out of the Laboratory.

The student, through examples and practical exercises on traditions (mono and pluritestimoniali) of texts of Italian literature, will deepen the knowledge of ecdotic tools aimed at the constitution of a critical edition, both in the field of reconstructive philology and in that of philology of author. The theoretical and practical character of the Laboratory, with the active participation of each student, requires a programmed number of 25 students.

Applications for enrollment (both for bachelor's and master's / master's students) can be sent by e-mail

At the beginning of the lessons, the materials needed to carry out the practical exercises and any additional bibliography will be indicated and provided to the students.

Course Title: Manzoni and the realism of representation: “I Promessi Sposi” and the choice of the novel.


The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the path through which in the nineteenth century the novel is becoming established in Italy. In addition, a reading of the "Promessi Sposi" will be offered which, looking at the Caravaggio experience, captures the figurative tendency of an imagination that has as its objective the realism of representation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014

2. Criticism:

- D. Brogi, Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo, Carocci, 2018

- S. S. Nigro, la funesta docilità, Palermo, Sellerio, 2018

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students.
Students will choose two of the following books:
- F. Suitner, Un’idea di romanzo, Roma, Carocci, 2012.
- A. Frare, Leggere i promessi Sposi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
- D. Brogi, Il genere proscritto. Manzoni e la scelta del romanzo, Pisa, Giardini, 2005.

The course will examine relations between Leopardi’s "Moral Essays" ("Operette morali") and other satirical texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Moral Essays will be analysed also in relation with Leopardi’s "Songs" ("Canti").

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- G. Leopardi, Operette morali (recommended editions: ed. by M.A. Bazzocchi, Milan, Mondadori, 1991; ed. by Laura Melosi, Milan, Rizzoli, 2008; ed. by A. Prete, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2014);



2. Criticism:

- L. Blasucci, I titoli dei ‘Canti’ e altri studi leopardiani, Venice, Marsilio, 2011;
- E. Russo, Ridere del mondo. La lezione di Leopardi, Bologna, Il mulino, 2017.

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students. Students will choose two of the following books:

- G. Benvenuti, Un cervello fuori moda. Saggio sul comico nelle ‘Operette morali’, Bologna, Pendragon, 2001;
- L. Blasucci, I tempi dei ‘Canti’. Nuovi studi leopardiani, Turin, Einaudi, 1996;
- L. Blasucci, Leopardi e i segnali dell’infinito, Bologna, Il mulino, 2001;
- A. Ferraris, L’ultimo Leopardi. Pensiero e poetica 1830-1837, Turin, Einaudi, 1987;
- Leopardi, ed. by F. D’Intino and M. Natale, Rome, Carocci, 2018
- P.V. Mengaldo, Leopardi antiromantico e altri saggi sui ‘Canti’, Bologna, Il mulino, 2012;
- Sulle ‘Operette morali’: sette studi, ed. by A. Prete, Lecce, Manni, 2008;
- G. Tellini, Leopardi, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2001.

The course consists of an introduction to Papyrology. The aim of the course is to give a comprehensive picture of: the most important archaeological findings; the characteristics of the papyrus paper and other ancient materials used for writing (parchment, pottery, wood, etc.); the different kinds of documents and books found on papyrus, their forms and writings; the administrative history of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. The course also teaches how to decypher, transcribe, and make an edition of a Greek or Latin text found on papyrus.

O. Montevecchi, La papirologia, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 19882 (e ristampe)

or

M. Capasso, Introduzione alla Papirologia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2005 (e ristampe)

Plus, one of the following:

R. Bagnall, Papiri e storia antica, Bardi, Roma 2007
H. Blanck, Il libro nel mondo antico, Dedalo, Bari 2008
A. K. Bowman, L’Egitto dopo i Faraoni, Giunti, Firenze 1997
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri. Una introduzione, Serra, Pisa-Roma 2008
G. Cavallo, Scrivere e leggere nella città antica, Carocci, 2019
E. G. Turner, Papiri greci, Carocci, Roma 2002 (e ristampe)

This course deals with a chronological survey of Latin literature from its origins through the II century AD. Selections of Latin prose and poetry from the works of all major authors will be read in translation and commented within historical and literary contexts.

Anthology of Latin texts downloadable at the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2XF4R7QU6IPb1N2bHpFcGhsQ1E

The course aims to describe the phenomena that characterized the transition from vernacular Latin to Italian in the fields of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon, so as to allow students to achieve a good knowledge of the concepts and tools of analysis offered by historical grammar. The analysis of the birth and evolution of the vernacular will be accompanied by a historical-cultural and social contextualization: the salient moments of the history of Italian from the Origins to the contemporary age will be addressed, with particular attention to the progressive emergence of supra-local varieties and of a common Italian. The second part of the course will be dedicated to textual linguistics: students will acquire the skills and tools necessary to analyze texts belonging to different eras and textual genres.

Cella, Roberta (2015), Storia dell’italiano, Bologna, il Mulino.
D’Achille, Paolo (2019), Breve grammatica storica dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci (terza edizione).
Giovanardi, Claudio / De Roberto, Elisa (2018), L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi, Milano, Bruno Mondadori / Pearson

The Renaissance theory on the good manners and its crisis

The course aims to analyze the most famous ethical-political texts of the Italian Renaissance (Machiavelli, Castiglione, Della Casa) and the attack on their precepts by two great twentieth-century classics (Svevo and Gadda).

TESTI:
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, a cura di Gabriele Pedullà, Donzelli, 2013
--Baldassar Castiglione, Il Cortegiano, a cura di Walter Barberis, Einaudi, 2015
--Giovanni Della Casa, Il Galateo, a cura di Stefano Prandi, Einaudi, 2016
--Italo Svevo, “La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla”, in Italo Svevo, Racconti, a cura di Gabriella Contini, prefazione di Claudio Magris, Garzanti
--Carlo Emilio Gadda, “San Giorgio in casa Brocchi”, in Carlo Emilio Gadda, Gli accoppiamenti giudiziosi, Adelphi

I testi vanno letti nella totalità dei loro apparati e in queste edizioni: note al testo, note a piè di pagina, introduzioni, prefazioni, ecc.

STUDI:
--Amedeo Quondam, La conversazione. Un modello italiano, Donzelli, 2007

FOTOCOPIE:
--Gabriele Pedullà, “Giovanni della Casa e il bon ton dell’umanista” (IN FOTOCOPIA)
--Gabriele Pedullà, “Poeti e mecenati: il dovere del dono” (IN FOTOCOPIA)
--Gabriele Pedullà, “Sulle tracce degli antichi?” (IN FOTOCOPIA)
--Marco Folin, “Roma e Urbino: due corti rinascimentali a confronto” (IN FOTOCOPIA)
--Lorenzo Bocca e Jean-Louis Fournel, “La biblioteca di Castiglione” (IN FOTOCOPIA)
--Paolo Procaccioli, “La diffusione della Poetica di Aristotele nel Cinquecento” (IN FOTOCOPIA)
--Federico Barbierato, “Letteratura e Controriforma” (IN FOTOCOPIA)

Le fotocopie saranno disponibili presso la copisteria su via Ostiense, di fronte alla sede di “Studi Umanistici”

TEXTS:
--Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, ed. Gabriele Pedullà, Donzelli, 2013
--Baldassar Castiglione, Il Cortegiano, ed. Walter Barberis, Einaudi, 2015
--Giovanni Della Casa, Il Galateo, ed. Stefano Prandi, Einaudi, 2016
--Italo Svevo, “La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla”, in Italo Svevo, Racconti, ed.Gabriella Contini, introduction by Claudio Magris, Garzanti, 2004 e successive ristampe
--Carlo Emilio Gadda, “San Giorgio in casa Brocchi”, in Carlo Emilio Gadda, Gli accoppiamenti giudiziosi, Adelphi, 2015

SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
--Amedeo Quondam, La conversazione. Un modello italiano, Donzelli, 2007

PHOTOCOPIES:
--Gabriele Pedullà, “Giovanni della Casa e il bon ton dell’umanista”
--Gabriele Pedullà, “Poeti e mecenati: il dovere del dono”
--Gabriele Pedullà, “Sulle tracce degli antichi?”
--Marco Folin, “Roma e Urbino: due corti rinascimentali a confronto”

ADDITIONALS READINGS FOR THE STUDENTS WHO CANNOT ATTEND TO THE LESSONS:
--Amedeo Quondam, Forma del vivere, il Mulino, 2010

Italian twentieth century essayists: Gadda and Moravia

Essays and excerpts from:
A. Moravia, L'uomo come fine, Milano, Bompiani
C.E. Gadda, Scritti vari e postumi, a cura di A. Silvestri, C. Vela, D. Isella e altri, Milano, Garzanti
C.E. Gadda, Divagazioni e garbuglio, a cura di L. Orlando, Milano, Adelphi 2019, excerpts from other works by the author, as indicated in the lessons.
M. BERSANI, Gadda, Torino, Einaudi
Further information on the texts to be prepared will be provided during the lessons.
Non-attending students will contact the teacher for instructions and additions to the program.

The course is articulated in two main sections: the first will deal with problems and methodological aspects of philological-critical work on Medieval and Humanistic texts in Latin and vernacular; the second will focus on a specific textual typology, the critical edition of marginal notes on Latin classics, starting from the analysis of the glosses added by Giovanni Boccaccio in the margins of his codex with Terence's comedies (Ms. Firenze, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 38 17). Various typologies of annotations will be examined: traditional glosses, some interesting remarks of Boccaccio's own, such as a fairly substantial system of marginalia and some purely philological notes, sometimes of controversial interpretation (reflections on the correctness of the text, identification of errors, reporting of textual variations or proposals for conjectures). In the light of the examined annotations, it will be analyzed at the same time the notable use of sententiae and other Terentian expressions observable in Boccaccio's works.

- M. Berté-M. Petoletti, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
- *S. Finazzi-M. Marchiaro, scheda del ms. Firenze, BML Plut. 38.17. Il codice di Terenzio di mano del Boccaccio e da lui firmato, in Boccaccio autore e copista. Catalogo della mostra (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 11 ottobre 2013-11 gennaio 2014), a cura di T. De Robertis, C.M. Monti, M. Petoletti, G. Tanturli e S. Zamponi, Firenze, Mandragora, 2013, pp. 339-341, num. 60.
- *S. Finazzi, Le postille di Boccaccio a Terenzio, in «Italia Medioevale e Umanistica», LIV, 2013, pp. 81-133.

The bibliographic entries distinguished here by asterisks will be provided to the students in photocopy inside the course lecture notes, together with the following materials: passages of Boccaccio's works, reproductions of manuscripts, pages of critical editions and other essays, catalogue items, additional notes elaborated by the lecturer.

Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer to make adequate arrangements well ahead of their exam date.

WHAT IS BYZANTIUM AND WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY IT?

The 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?

A) Mandatory texts:

— 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 course aims to offer by lectures an introduction to Greek history, from the Bronze Age to the consolidation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms.
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.

Jesus, ancient and medieval Christianities.

The course aims to introduce the students to the history of Christianisms in Ancient and Early Medieval Times. The use of the plural form "Christianisms" immediately intends to clarify that it doesn't deal with the history of the Roman Catholic Church, but with the variegated 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, facing methodological matters and giving ample space to the scholarly debate.
During the course we will visit significant Christian sites.

For students who attend lessons_

Dossier of sources provided during the course and lecture notes. The lecture notes include parts written by Prof. Carla Noce and Dr. Federica Candido and Giandomenico Ferrazza as well as articles and contributions by different authors and cover all the topics of the course. As a reference manual we recommend anyway:
E. Prinzivalli (ed.), Storia del Cristianesimo I. L'Età antica, Carocci, Rome 2015.

For students who are not able to attend lessons:
R.Penna, (ed.), Le origini del Cristianesimo. Una guida, Carocci, Roma 2018: capitoli 1 (P.Sacchi) e 3 (G.Ibba)
E. Prinzivalli (ed.), Storia del cristianesimo I. L'Età antica, Carocci, Rome 2015: chapters 1 -14
O.Brandt-F.Bisconti (eds.), Lezioni di archeologia cristiana, Rome, PIAC, 2014: contributions of Bisconti, and Pergola.

A Course Module:
Republic 1-2: The debates on justice and the crisis of Socratism.
The A Course Module will be held during the first part the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
The debates on justice in 5th and 4th BC and the background of Plato's Republic.
Socrates' stance in Republic 1 and the discussion with Thrasymachus on justice.
Republic 2: justice and the city

B Course Module:
Republic 3-4: The justice in the city
The B Course Module will be held during the second part of the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
Education in the city and the role of poetry.
The soul's tripartition and the structure of the city.
The definition of justice and the theory of the soul.

A Course Module

[a] B. Centrone, Prima lezione di filosofia antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015
R.Chiaradonna e P. Pecere, Filosofia – La ricerca della conoscenza, Mondadori Education, Milano, 2018, vol. 1A per intero; vol. 1B pp. 1-107 (fino al capitolo Neoplatonismo e filosofia tardo-antica incluso)
R. Chiaradonna, Platonismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017

[b] Platone, La Repubblica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di M. Vegetti, Testo greco e fronte, Rizzoli, Milano, 2006, pp. 7-249 (introduzione), 253-433 (libri I-II)
M. Bonazzi, Atene, la città inquieta, Einaudi, Torino, 2017

[c] Students are required to prepare a written paper in Italian (2.500 words) about the texts listed at point [a].

B Course Module:
Modulo B:
a] B. Centrone, Prima lezione di filosofia antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015
R.Chiaradonna e P. Pecere, Filosofia – La ricerca della conoscenza, Mondadori Education, Milano, 2018, vol. 1A per intero; vol. 1B pp. 1-107 (fino al capitolo Neoplatonismo e filosofia tardo-antica incluso)
R. Chiaradonna, Platonismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017

[b] Platone, La Repubblica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di M. Vegetti, Testo greco e fronte, Rizzoli, Milano, 2006, pp. 7-249 (introduzione), 435-629 (libri III-IV)
M. Vegetti, Il potere della verità. Saggi platonici, Carocci, Roma, 2018.

[c] Students are required to prepare a written paper in Italian (2.500 words) about the texts listed at point [a].

Philosophy students earn 12 ECTS by studying the A + B Course Modules.

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

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: 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 01st OCTOBER 2019 to approx. 12/14th NOVEMBER 2019 (except unforeseen), on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 13-15 hours, classroom to be determined (in recent years classroom 18). Then from 12/14th NOVEMBER 2019 to JANUARY 2020 follows seamlessly the module II of Roman History held by prof. A. Marcone, in the same classroom and at the same times.
First part 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

This module will provide an interpretation of the crisis of the Roman Republic. Students will read some of the major ancient sources related to this period. They will be introduced to the figure of Mario and to the way in which he came into conflict with Lucio Cornelio Silla, another lord of the Roman war, who after victories in the East eventually marched on Rome in 82 and assumed the position of dictator.
A central theme of the course will cover this ancient Roman post designated to provide a leading politician with full powers for a limited period of time. Silla detained her for two years during which he had a large number of his opponents put to death.

Plutarco- Vita di Silla (qualsiasi edizione)

P. Brunt- La caduta della repubblica romana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004

G. Geraci- A. Marcone- Storia romana. Editio maior, Mondadori Education, Milano 2017

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

Course Title: Manzoni and the realism of representation: “I Promessi Sposi” and the choice of the novel.


The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the path through which in the nineteenth century the novel is becoming established in Italy. In addition, a reading of the "Promessi Sposi" will be offered which, looking at the Caravaggio experience, captures the figurative tendency of an imagination that has as its objective the realism of representation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014

2. Criticism:

- D. Brogi, Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo, Carocci, 2018

- S. S. Nigro, la funesta docilità, Palermo, Sellerio, 2018

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students.
Students will choose two of the following books:
- F. Suitner, Un’idea di romanzo, Roma, Carocci, 2012.
- A. Frare, Leggere i promessi Sposi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
- D. Brogi, Il genere proscritto. Manzoni e la scelta del romanzo, Pisa, Giardini, 2005.

The course will examine relations between Leopardi’s "Moral Essays" ("Operette morali") and other satirical texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Moral Essays will be analysed also in relation with Leopardi’s "Songs" ("Canti").

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- G. Leopardi, Operette morali (recommended editions: ed. by M.A. Bazzocchi, Milan, Mondadori, 1991; ed. by Laura Melosi, Milan, Rizzoli, 2008; ed. by A. Prete, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2014);



2. Criticism:

- L. Blasucci, I titoli dei ‘Canti’ e altri studi leopardiani, Venice, Marsilio, 2011;
- E. Russo, Ridere del mondo. La lezione di Leopardi, Bologna, Il mulino, 2017.

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students. Students will choose two of the following books:

- G. Benvenuti, Un cervello fuori moda. Saggio sul comico nelle ‘Operette morali’, Bologna, Pendragon, 2001;
- L. Blasucci, I tempi dei ‘Canti’. Nuovi studi leopardiani, Turin, Einaudi, 1996;
- L. Blasucci, Leopardi e i segnali dell’infinito, Bologna, Il mulino, 2001;
- A. Ferraris, L’ultimo Leopardi. Pensiero e poetica 1830-1837, Turin, Einaudi, 1987;
- Leopardi, ed. by F. D’Intino and M. Natale, Rome, Carocci, 2018
- P.V. Mengaldo, Leopardi antiromantico e altri saggi sui ‘Canti’, Bologna, Il mulino, 2012;
- Sulle ‘Operette morali’: sette studi, ed. by A. Prete, Lecce, Manni, 2008;
- G. Tellini, Leopardi, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2001.

Contemporary Italian: structures and use.

The exam will focus on the texts in the program and on the topics presented during the lessons.
The exam consists of an interview on the topics of the program in order to verify:
1) the depth and breadth of the knowledge acquired;
2) the property of language;
3) the ability to critically link issues and problems addressed.

The course analyzes the structures of contemporary Italian (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary). There will be references to the linguistic norm and dialects. Some literary and other texts will be commented on.

C. Giovanardi - E. De Roberto, The Italian. Structures, communication, texts, Milan, Pearson, 2018.

The course aims to illustrate the structures and trends of contemporary Italian at all levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon). It will further consider variational aspects (standard language versus dialects, and regional and popular varieties; differences between written, spoken and media usage; main textual typologies; evolution of the standard norm etc.). At the end of the course the student will be in the position to evaluate in its context and comment on from a linguistic perspective a non-literary text (written or spoken) of contemporary Italian.

- Paolo D’Achille, L’italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.

- Francesco Sabatini, Analisi del linguaggio giuridico. Il testo normativo in una tipologia generale dei testi, in Corso di studi superiori legislativi 1988-89, ed. Mario D’Antonio, Padova, Cedam, 1990, pp. 675-724 (also available in Francesco Sabatini, L’italiano nel mondo moderno, vol. II, Tra grammatica e testi, Napoli, Liguori, 2012, pp. 273-320; photocopies are available in the print-shop opposite the main entrance of the Faculty).

This course deals with a chronological survey of Latin literature from its origins through the II century AD. Selections of Latin prose and poetry from the works of all major authors will be read in translation and commented within historical and literary contexts.

Anthology of Latin texts downloadable at the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2XF4R7QU6IPb1N2bHpFcGhsQ1E

At the origins of European narrative: the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio

The course will thoroughly explore the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, a text which is at the very basis of modern European fictional narrative. Issues concerning its composition and spreading, its structure and main themes will be tackled. Many passages will be read and commented during lectures. Attention will be devoted to the event of the Black Death, from which the "Decameron" sparkles, and to its links with the iconographic tradition of the Triumph of Death. The final lectures will be devoted to the European afterlife of this work.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli, 2013.
Must-reads are: Proemio, introductions and conclusions of each day, and the “Conclusione dell’autore”; the following novelle:

- Giornata prima: 1, 7, 10
- Giornata seconda: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Giornata terza: 1, 8, 10
- Giornata quarta: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8
- Giornata quinta: 1, 8, 9, 10
- Giornata sesta: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10
- Giornata settima: 1, 2, 3
- Giornata ottava: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9
- Giornata nona: 3, 4, 8, 9
- Giornata decima: 2, 3, 5, 9, 10

Students will also read:
- Vittore Branca, "Boccaccio medievale", Milano: BUR-Rizzoli, 2010 (ma anche edizioni precedenti andranno bene), i capitoli "Coerenza ideale e funzione unitaria dell'Introduzione" (pp. 56-70) e "L'epopea dei mercatanti" (pp. 172-206)
- Francesco BAUSI, "Leggere il 'Decameron'", Bologna: il Mulino, 2017

Students who will not attend lectures will complete their preparation reading the following essays:
- L. BATTAGLIA RICCI, "'Una novella per esempio'. Novellistica, omiletica e trattatistica nel primo Trecento", in "'Favole parabole istorie'. Le forme della scrittura novellistica dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno di Pisa, 26-28 ottobre 1998, a cura di Gabriella Albanese, Lucia Battaglia Ricci e Rossella Bessi, Roma: Salerno editrice, 2000, pp. 31-54
- Anna PEGORETTI, "'Di che paese se’ tu di ponente?’ Cartografie boccacciane", in "Studi sul Boccaccio", XXXIX (2011), pp. 83-113
- Michelangelo PICONE, "La novella-cornice di Madonna Oretta (VI. 1)", in "'Favole parabole istorie'. Le forme della scrittura novellistica dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno di Pisa, 26-28 ottobre 1998, a cura di Gabriella Albanese, Lucia Battaglia Ricci e Rossella Bessi, Roma: Salerno editrice, 2000, pp. 67-84 (ripubblicato anche in M. PICONE, "Boccaccio e la codificazione della novella: letture del 'Decameron'", Ravenna: Longo, 2008, pp. 257-268)

Except for the volume by Bausi, essays will be available at the shop Copyando.

UPDATE (11 MARCH 2020): due to the current emergency situation, the listed essays usually available at the shop Copyando have been uploaded online (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0QoeTiA5n8NN0lESkZpaUt6OEk?usp=sharing) in pdf format. As regards the essay by Picone, students will find a link to the University Bibliographic Catalogue, from where the whole volume, in which the essay is published, is accessible.
For any enquiry, please send me an email.

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. Although chronologically structured, the course does not offer a decontextualized analysis of the various artistic expressions, that will be placed in 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.

From Gilgamesh to Qumran: Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures in Context

According to Church's Fathers the Bible can be read with the help of the Bible: it is like a house full of closed doors (i.e. difficult passages or words), each door with the key of another room hanging on one side. Modern critics learned that the keys for the comprehension of a biblical book or passage can be found, in a manner of speaking, also in other houses (the literatures of the eastern civilizations) or in the basement of the house (all those works that did not find place in the canon of the Scriptures). The course will illustrate the story and problems of the Scripture in the larger context of religious and wisdom text of Ancient Near East and the Apocripha and Pseudoepigrapha, transmitted by Christian tradition or found by archeology in the XX century, like the letters from Elephantine or the scrolls from Qumran.

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 also in the second semester (Ebraico LM). Students not attending Hebrew lessons will study an additional part of program.

The course will begin on october 2 at 10:00 am: during this lesson students and teacher will discuss course's schedule to meet students' needs.

For students attending course:

G. Deiana – A. Spreafico, Guida allo studio dell'ebraico biblico, Roma 1997 (e ristampe).
Notes and texts suggested/distributed during course sessions.
Students attending the course "From Gilgamesh to Qumran" without attending Hebrew grammar lessons must contact Prof. Moro for more texts.

For students not attending course:

Please contact Prof. Moro (caterina.moro@uniroma3.it).

Classical tradition and textual criticism: Latin poets and Greek models.
The course concerns a philological reading of Classics (Greek lyric poets, Latin poets of Caesarian and Augustan Age), as practical application of abilities acquired in Classical Philology I.

- Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, edidit M.L. West, I. Archilochus, Hipponax, Theognidea, Editio altera aucta et emendata, Oxonii 1989 (selection);
- Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta, ediderunt E. Lobel et D. Page, Oxford 1955 (selection);
- Poetae melici Graeci, edidit D.L. Page, Oxford 1962 (selection);
- Catullo. Le poesie, a cura di F. Della Corte, Milano 2010 (selection);
- Horatius. Opera, edidit S. Borzsák, Leipzig 1984 (selection).
All texts read, translated and commented during the lessons will also be provided in photocopies and made available on the teacher's internet page.

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, the contents of which 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.

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. Although chronologically structured, the course does not offer a decontextualized analysis of the various artistic expressions, that will be placed in 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 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 panorama of the times and places of production of the main types of documents, placing them in relation with the legal and cultural traditions of the history of the West. In this way, diplomatics is understood as a historical science capable of acting as a fundamental critical support to the 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.
This course includes 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

On the basis of linguistic documents and contemporary testimonies to the different linguistic phenomena, the course will illustrate some aspects of linguistic communication in Latin, considered in its diachronic development (from protohistory to the Romance) and in its various registers (standard and informal). The reading and analysis of two comedies - one of archaic age (Plautus' Aulularia), the other of late antiquity (the Querolus by an unknown author) - intends to provide the tools to grasp the specificities of the historical evolution of the language Latin and to identify its morphosyntactic and stylistic peculiarities.

To this end, the course includes:

(1) A cycle of lessons aimed at offering an overview of the history of the Latin language from its origins up to the 6th century. d.C., through the reconstruction of the fundamental stages of its evolution in the dimension of language of use and literary language;
(2) Framework, reading, translation and commentary on the following two works:
- (a) Plautus, Aulularia.
- (b) Anonymous, Querolus sive Aulularia (extracts).

For point 1 of the Course:
- F. Stolz - A. Debrunner - W.P. Schmid, Storia della lingua latina (con introduzione di A. Traina, appendice di J.M. Tronsky), Bologna, Pàtron, IV ed., 1993 (or further editions).
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.

For point 2 of the Course:
- (a) Plauto, La pentola dell’oro, commento a cura di C. Questa, Torino, Loescher, 1978;
- (b) Querolus (Aulularia); comédie latine anonyme, èd. par C. Jacquemard, Paris, Les belles lettres, 2003.
Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- Elena Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata con la collaborazione di Ermanno Malaspina, Alessandria, Ediz. dell’Orso, 2014.

The course aims at providing basic knowledge of Greek grammar and language to those students who never studied Greek in the prior experience. The thorough study of nominal and verbal morphology is designed to make students able to translate medium-difficulty authors, such as Lysias or Xenophon.

Reference manual: Agazzi-Villardo, Hellenisti (manuale + eserciziario in 2 volumi), Zanichelli 2018 (ebook Version purchasable online).
Additional material (e.g. PDF/PowerPoint lessons and exercises) will be provided via Moodle.

For Bachelor and Master's degree students.
Second semester. Hours: Wednesday, 2-5 pm, Laboratorio Informatico of the Area di Mondo Antico (LISA).
Course start: Wednesday, March 4, 2020.

The Laboratory introduces to the knowledge of the main informatic resources for the historical and philological studies related to Antiquity, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

- Introduction. Creation of a scientific bibliography; methods of citation. Tools for bibliographic research: bibliographic repertories; on-line consultation of catalogues (OPAC); on-line consultation of books and periodicals (open access and by subscription); on-line reviews.

- Analysis of literary texts: text databases; electronic dictionaries; software for text analysis and lexical research on Greek and Latin texts.

- Research of epigraphic and papyraceous sources; research and consultation of manuscripts.

The teacher provides the didactic materials necessary for the carrying out of the Laboratory.

The student, through examples and practical exercises on traditions (mono and pluritestimoniali) of texts of Italian literature, will deepen the knowledge of ecdotic tools aimed at the constitution of a critical edition, both in the field of reconstructive philology and in that of philology of author. The theoretical and practical character of the Laboratory, with the active participation of each student, requires a programmed number of 25 students.

Applications for enrollment (both for bachelor's and master's / master's students) can be sent by e-mail

At the beginning of the lessons, the materials needed to carry out the practical exercises and any additional bibliography will be indicated and provided to the students.

Course Title: Manzoni and the realism of representation: “I Promessi Sposi” and the choice of the novel.


The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the path through which in the nineteenth century the novel is becoming established in Italy. In addition, a reading of the "Promessi Sposi" will be offered which, looking at the Caravaggio experience, captures the figurative tendency of an imagination that has as its objective the realism of representation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014

2. Criticism:

- D. Brogi, Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo, Carocci, 2018

- S. S. Nigro, la funesta docilità, Palermo, Sellerio, 2018

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students.
Students will choose two of the following books:
- F. Suitner, Un’idea di romanzo, Roma, Carocci, 2012.
- A. Frare, Leggere i promessi Sposi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
- D. Brogi, Il genere proscritto. Manzoni e la scelta del romanzo, Pisa, Giardini, 2005.

The course will examine relations between Leopardi’s "Moral Essays" ("Operette morali") and other satirical texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Moral Essays will be analysed also in relation with Leopardi’s "Songs" ("Canti").

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- G. Leopardi, Operette morali (recommended editions: ed. by M.A. Bazzocchi, Milan, Mondadori, 1991; ed. by Laura Melosi, Milan, Rizzoli, 2008; ed. by A. Prete, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2014);



2. Criticism:

- L. Blasucci, I titoli dei ‘Canti’ e altri studi leopardiani, Venice, Marsilio, 2011;
- E. Russo, Ridere del mondo. La lezione di Leopardi, Bologna, Il mulino, 2017.

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students. Students will choose two of the following books:

- G. Benvenuti, Un cervello fuori moda. Saggio sul comico nelle ‘Operette morali’, Bologna, Pendragon, 2001;
- L. Blasucci, I tempi dei ‘Canti’. Nuovi studi leopardiani, Turin, Einaudi, 1996;
- L. Blasucci, Leopardi e i segnali dell’infinito, Bologna, Il mulino, 2001;
- A. Ferraris, L’ultimo Leopardi. Pensiero e poetica 1830-1837, Turin, Einaudi, 1987;
- Leopardi, ed. by F. D’Intino and M. Natale, Rome, Carocci, 2018
- P.V. Mengaldo, Leopardi antiromantico e altri saggi sui ‘Canti’, Bologna, Il mulino, 2012;
- Sulle ‘Operette morali’: sette studi, ed. by A. Prete, Lecce, Manni, 2008;
- G. Tellini, Leopardi, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2001.

The course consists of an introduction to Papyrology. The aim of the course is to give a comprehensive picture of: the most important archaeological findings; the characteristics of the papyrus paper and other ancient materials used for writing (parchment, pottery, wood, etc.); the different kinds of documents and books found on papyrus, their forms and writings; the administrative history of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. The course also teaches how to decypher, transcribe, and make an edition of a Greek or Latin text found on papyrus.

O. Montevecchi, La papirologia, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 19882 (e ristampe)

or

M. Capasso, Introduzione alla Papirologia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2005 (e ristampe)

Plus, one of the following:

R. Bagnall, Papiri e storia antica, Bardi, Roma 2007
H. Blanck, Il libro nel mondo antico, Dedalo, Bari 2008
A. K. Bowman, L’Egitto dopo i Faraoni, Giunti, Firenze 1997
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri. Una introduzione, Serra, Pisa-Roma 2008
G. Cavallo, Scrivere e leggere nella città antica, Carocci, 2019
E. G. Turner, Papiri greci, Carocci, Roma 2002 (e ristampe)

The course aims to describe the phenomena that characterized the transition from vernacular Latin to Italian in the fields of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon, so as to allow students to achieve a good knowledge of the concepts and tools of analysis offered by historical grammar. The analysis of the birth and evolution of the vernacular will be accompanied by a historical-cultural and social contextualization: the salient moments of the history of Italian from the Origins to the contemporary age will be addressed, with particular attention to the progressive emergence of supra-local varieties and of a common Italian. The second part of the course will be dedicated to textual linguistics: students will acquire the skills and tools necessary to analyze texts belonging to different eras and textual genres.

Cella, Roberta (2015), Storia dell’italiano, Bologna, il Mulino.
D’Achille, Paolo (2019), Breve grammatica storica dell’italiano, Roma, Carocci (terza edizione).
Giovanardi, Claudio / De Roberto, Elisa (2018), L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi, Milano, Bruno Mondadori / Pearson

WHAT IS BYZANTIUM AND WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY IT?

The 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?

A) Mandatory texts:

— 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 course aims to offer by lectures an introduction to Greek history, from the Bronze Age to the consolidation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms.
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.

PROGRAM MODULE A:
The course aims to analyze the concepts of nature and subject in the philosophies of Leibniz and Kant keeping in mind some guiding notions declined in different ways in the two philosophies: body/mind, sensitivity/intellect, quantity/quality, discrete/continuous, mechanism/teleology.
PROGRAM MODULE B:
The course aims to examine the concepts of nature and subject in the philosophies of Kant and Husserl, comparing the notions of nature and natural attitude, transcendental deduction and "epoché", pure form, eidos and variation.

G. W. Leibniz, Monadology, Saggiatore, Milan.
I. Kant, Critic of Pure Reason, Bompiani, Milan (in particular Transcendental Aesthetics and Transcendental Analytics up to § 27).
E. Husserl, The fundamental problems of phenomenology. Lessons on the natural concept of the world, Quodlibet, Macerata.
Massimo Mugnai, Introduction to the philosophy of Leibniz, Einaudi, Turin.
Luigi Scaravelli, Kantian Studies, La Nuova Italia, Florence (in particular chapters I-II-III of Kant and Modern Physics+Lectures on the "Critique of Pure Reason").
Vincenzo Costa, Husserl, Carocci, Rome.

A Course Module:
Republic 1-2: The debates on justice and the crisis of Socratism.
The A Course Module will be held during the first part the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
The debates on justice in 5th and 4th BC and the background of Plato's Republic.
Socrates' stance in Republic 1 and the discussion with Thrasymachus on justice.
Republic 2: justice and the city

B Course Module:
Republic 3-4: The justice in the city
The B Course Module will be held during the second part of the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
Education in the city and the role of poetry.
The soul's tripartition and the structure of the city.
The definition of justice and the theory of the soul.

A Course Module

[a] B. Centrone, Prima lezione di filosofia antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015
R.Chiaradonna e P. Pecere, Filosofia – La ricerca della conoscenza, Mondadori Education, Milano, 2018, vol. 1A per intero; vol. 1B pp. 1-107 (fino al capitolo Neoplatonismo e filosofia tardo-antica incluso)
R. Chiaradonna, Platonismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017

[b] Platone, La Repubblica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di M. Vegetti, Testo greco e fronte, Rizzoli, Milano, 2006, pp. 7-249 (introduzione), 253-433 (libri I-II)
M. Bonazzi, Atene, la città inquieta, Einaudi, Torino, 2017

[c] Students are required to prepare a written paper in Italian (2.500 words) about the texts listed at point [a].

B Course Module:
Modulo B:
a] B. Centrone, Prima lezione di filosofia antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015
R.Chiaradonna e P. Pecere, Filosofia – La ricerca della conoscenza, Mondadori Education, Milano, 2018, vol. 1A per intero; vol. 1B pp. 1-107 (fino al capitolo Neoplatonismo e filosofia tardo-antica incluso)
R. Chiaradonna, Platonismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017

[b] Platone, La Repubblica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di M. Vegetti, Testo greco e fronte, Rizzoli, Milano, 2006, pp. 7-249 (introduzione), 435-629 (libri III-IV)
M. Vegetti, Il potere della verità. Saggi platonici, Carocci, Roma, 2018.

[c] Students are required to prepare a written paper in Italian (2.500 words) about the texts listed at point [a].

Philosophy students earn 12 ECTS by studying the A + B Course Modules.

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

Course Title: Manzoni and the realism of representation: “I Promessi Sposi” and the choice of the novel.


The course aims to deepen the knowledge of the path through which in the nineteenth century the novel is becoming established in Italy. In addition, a reading of the "Promessi Sposi" will be offered which, looking at the Caravaggio experience, captures the figurative tendency of an imagination that has as its objective the realism of representation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014

2. Criticism:

- D. Brogi, Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo, Carocci, 2018

- S. S. Nigro, la funesta docilità, Palermo, Sellerio, 2018

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students.
Students will choose two of the following books:
- F. Suitner, Un’idea di romanzo, Roma, Carocci, 2012.
- A. Frare, Leggere i promessi Sposi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.
- D. Brogi, Il genere proscritto. Manzoni e la scelta del romanzo, Pisa, Giardini, 2005.

The course will examine relations between Leopardi’s "Moral Essays" ("Operette morali") and other satirical texts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Moral Essays will be analysed also in relation with Leopardi’s "Songs" ("Canti").

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2 and 3):

1. Primary Works:

- G. Leopardi, Operette morali (recommended editions: ed. by M.A. Bazzocchi, Milan, Mondadori, 1991; ed. by Laura Melosi, Milan, Rizzoli, 2008; ed. by A. Prete, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2014);



2. Criticism:

- L. Blasucci, I titoli dei ‘Canti’ e altri studi leopardiani, Venice, Marsilio, 2011;
- E. Russo, Ridere del mondo. La lezione di Leopardi, Bologna, Il mulino, 2017.

3. Textbook of italian literature:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milan, Mondadori, 2018.

Additional readings for non-attending students. Students will choose two of the following books:

- G. Benvenuti, Un cervello fuori moda. Saggio sul comico nelle ‘Operette morali’, Bologna, Pendragon, 2001;
- L. Blasucci, I tempi dei ‘Canti’. Nuovi studi leopardiani, Turin, Einaudi, 1996;
- L. Blasucci, Leopardi e i segnali dell’infinito, Bologna, Il mulino, 2001;
- A. Ferraris, L’ultimo Leopardi. Pensiero e poetica 1830-1837, Turin, Einaudi, 1987;
- Leopardi, ed. by F. D’Intino and M. Natale, Rome, Carocci, 2018
- P.V. Mengaldo, Leopardi antiromantico e altri saggi sui ‘Canti’, Bologna, Il mulino, 2012;
- Sulle ‘Operette morali’: sette studi, ed. by A. Prete, Lecce, Manni, 2008;
- G. Tellini, Leopardi, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2001.

Contemporary Italian: structures and use.

The exam will focus on the texts in the program and on the topics presented during the lessons.
The exam consists of an interview on the topics of the program in order to verify:
1) the depth and breadth of the knowledge acquired;
2) the property of language;
3) the ability to critically link issues and problems addressed.

The course analyzes the structures of contemporary Italian (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary). There will be references to the linguistic norm and dialects. Some literary and other texts will be commented on.

C. Giovanardi - E. De Roberto, The Italian. Structures, communication, texts, Milan, Pearson, 2018.

The course aims to illustrate the structures and trends of contemporary Italian at all levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon). It will further consider variational aspects (standard language versus dialects, and regional and popular varieties; differences between written, spoken and media usage; main textual typologies; evolution of the standard norm etc.). At the end of the course the student will be in the position to evaluate in its context and comment on from a linguistic perspective a non-literary text (written or spoken) of contemporary Italian.

- Paolo D’Achille, L’italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.

- Francesco Sabatini, Analisi del linguaggio giuridico. Il testo normativo in una tipologia generale dei testi, in Corso di studi superiori legislativi 1988-89, ed. Mario D’Antonio, Padova, Cedam, 1990, pp. 675-724 (also available in Francesco Sabatini, L’italiano nel mondo moderno, vol. II, Tra grammatica e testi, Napoli, Liguori, 2012, pp. 273-320; photocopies are available in the print-shop opposite the main entrance of the Faculty).

This course deals with a chronological survey of Latin literature from its origins through the II century AD. Selections of Latin prose and poetry from the works of all major authors will be read in translation and commented within historical and literary contexts.

Anthology of Latin texts downloadable at the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2XF4R7QU6IPb1N2bHpFcGhsQ1E

At the origins of European narrative: the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio

The course will thoroughly explore the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, a text which is at the very basis of modern European fictional narrative. Issues concerning its composition and spreading, its structure and main themes will be tackled. Many passages will be read and commented during lectures. Attention will be devoted to the event of the Black Death, from which the "Decameron" sparkles, and to its links with the iconographic tradition of the Triumph of Death. The final lectures will be devoted to the European afterlife of this work.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, Milano, BUR-Rizzoli, 2013.
Must-reads are: Proemio, introductions and conclusions of each day, and the “Conclusione dell’autore”; the following novelle:

- Giornata prima: 1, 7, 10
- Giornata seconda: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Giornata terza: 1, 8, 10
- Giornata quarta: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8
- Giornata quinta: 1, 8, 9, 10
- Giornata sesta: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10
- Giornata settima: 1, 2, 3
- Giornata ottava: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9
- Giornata nona: 3, 4, 8, 9
- Giornata decima: 2, 3, 5, 9, 10

Students will also read:
- Vittore Branca, "Boccaccio medievale", Milano: BUR-Rizzoli, 2010 (ma anche edizioni precedenti andranno bene), i capitoli "Coerenza ideale e funzione unitaria dell'Introduzione" (pp. 56-70) e "L'epopea dei mercatanti" (pp. 172-206)
- Francesco BAUSI, "Leggere il 'Decameron'", Bologna: il Mulino, 2017

Students who will not attend lectures will complete their preparation reading the following essays:
- L. BATTAGLIA RICCI, "'Una novella per esempio'. Novellistica, omiletica e trattatistica nel primo Trecento", in "'Favole parabole istorie'. Le forme della scrittura novellistica dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno di Pisa, 26-28 ottobre 1998, a cura di Gabriella Albanese, Lucia Battaglia Ricci e Rossella Bessi, Roma: Salerno editrice, 2000, pp. 31-54
- Anna PEGORETTI, "'Di che paese se’ tu di ponente?’ Cartografie boccacciane", in "Studi sul Boccaccio", XXXIX (2011), pp. 83-113
- Michelangelo PICONE, "La novella-cornice di Madonna Oretta (VI. 1)", in "'Favole parabole istorie'. Le forme della scrittura novellistica dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno di Pisa, 26-28 ottobre 1998, a cura di Gabriella Albanese, Lucia Battaglia Ricci e Rossella Bessi, Roma: Salerno editrice, 2000, pp. 67-84 (ripubblicato anche in M. PICONE, "Boccaccio e la codificazione della novella: letture del 'Decameron'", Ravenna: Longo, 2008, pp. 257-268)

Except for the volume by Bausi, essays will be available at the shop Copyando.

UPDATE (11 MARCH 2020): due to the current emergency situation, the listed essays usually available at the shop Copyando have been uploaded online (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0QoeTiA5n8NN0lESkZpaUt6OEk?usp=sharing) in pdf format. As regards the essay by Picone, students will find a link to the University Bibliographic Catalogue, from where the whole volume, in which the essay is published, is accessible.
For any enquiry, please send me an email.

The course is articulated in two main sections: the first will deal with problems and methodological aspects of philological-critical work on Medieval and Humanistic texts in Latin and vernacular; the second will focus on a specific textual typology, the critical edition of marginal notes on Latin classics, starting from the analysis of the glosses added by Giovanni Boccaccio in the margins of his codex with Terence's comedies (Ms. Firenze, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 38 17). Various typologies of annotations will be examined: traditional glosses, some interesting remarks of Boccaccio's own, such as a fairly substantial system of marginalia and some purely philological notes, sometimes of controversial interpretation (reflections on the correctness of the text, identification of errors, reporting of textual variations or proposals for conjectures). In the light of the examined annotations, it will be analyzed at the same time the notable use of sententiae and other Terentian expressions observable in Boccaccio's works.

- M. Berté-M. Petoletti, La filologia medievale e umanistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
- *S. Finazzi-M. Marchiaro, scheda del ms. Firenze, BML Plut. 38.17. Il codice di Terenzio di mano del Boccaccio e da lui firmato, in Boccaccio autore e copista. Catalogo della mostra (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 11 ottobre 2013-11 gennaio 2014), a cura di T. De Robertis, C.M. Monti, M. Petoletti, G. Tanturli e S. Zamponi, Firenze, Mandragora, 2013, pp. 339-341, num. 60.
- *S. Finazzi, Le postille di Boccaccio a Terenzio, in «Italia Medioevale e Umanistica», LIV, 2013, pp. 81-133.

The bibliographic entries distinguished here by asterisks will be provided to the students in photocopy inside the course lecture notes, together with the following materials: passages of Boccaccio's works, reproductions of manuscripts, pages of critical editions and other essays, catalogue items, additional notes elaborated by the lecturer.

Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer to make adequate arrangements well ahead of their exam date.

Module A - Subjective, objective, intersubjective: Kantian declinations and pragmatic developments.
The program of Module A will focus on the following topics:
- Presentation of the historical-theoretical meaning of the conceptual triad on which the course focuses
- The transcendental structure of subjectivity and the construction of objectivity.
- The criterion of intersubjectivity in the logical-semiotic pragmatism of Ch. S. Peirce.

Module B - Subjective, objective, intersubjective: The a priori in C.I. Lewis' 'conceptual pragmatism'
The program of Module B will focus on the following topics:
- Experience, concepts and the intersubjective world
- The relativity of knowledge and the objectivity of the real
- The knowledge of objects and the pragmatic nature of the a priori.

Module A:
1) I. Kant, "Introduction" to the Critique of Pure Reason, edition of your choice.
2) Ch. S. Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief"; Idem, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear", in Ch. S. Pierce, Selected Writings (photocopies available).
3) R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (ed.), Il Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci, 2017: pp.13-249.
Suggested texts:
A. Guerra, Introduzione a Kant, Laterza, 2017
G. Maddalena, Peirce, La Scuola 2015

Module B:
1) 1) C. I. Lewis, Mind and the World Order, Dover Books on Western Philosophy 1991.
2) R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (ed.), Il Pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci, 2017: pp.13-249.

Suggested texts:
M. Ferrarri, Lewis and Schlick. Verificationism between Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism, in "European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy", n. 1, 2019.
G. Zanet, La radice pragmatista: la linea genealogica Kant-Peirce- C. I. Lewis-Quine, in Idem, Le radici del naturalismo, Quodlibet 2007, pp. 83-117.
S.B. Rosenthal, C.I. Lewis in Focus. The Pulse of Pragmatism, Indiana University Press, 2007.

COURSE
Greek Literature: the Modernity of Ancient Culture

PROFESSOR
Adele Teresa Cozzoli

SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR
L-FIL-LET/02

UNIT TITLE (number of hours; number of ECTS)
Euripides’ female characters: Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra

EXAMINATION TYPE (oral)
The type of examination is oral and evaluates:
1) the mastery of the subject
2) the ability in reading ancient Greek texts with translation
3) the critical capacities and the skills in identifying and formulating problems

PRELIMINARY KNOWLEDGE
It is important that students attend as many classes as possible.
Preliminary knowledge of Ancient Greek language is required.

SEMESTER
Second Semester

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course aims at reading and analyzing Euripides’ Alcestis, Medea and Hippolytus (but also other texts), considering their historical and cultural context, and, therefore, the poet’s reinterpretation of myth. It will also be examined how Euripides’ female characters (from Alcestis to Phaedra) exerted great influence on ancient and modern literary tradition. The aim of this course is to provide a deep understanding of these tragedies, including their dramaturgical value and their linguistic and literary meaning.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
It is highly recommended to read Euripides’ Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis in a modern language in a bilingual edition
D. Susanetti, Euripide. Fra Tragedia, mito, filosofia, Roma 2007, Carocci

E-MAIL
adeleteresa.cozzoli@uniroma3.it

BIBLIOGRAPHY
It is highly recommended to read Euripides’ Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis in a modern language in a bilingual edition
D. Susanetti, Euripide. Fra Tragedia, mito, filosofia, Roma 2007, Carocci