Prose poetry.

First part: history of the prose poetry in France;
Second part: Baudelaire;
Third part: Ponge and Quintane.

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.
- Christophe Tarkos, I soldi, Roma, Tic Edizioni, 2018.

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/

3. For further Readings.
- La poesia francese 1814-1914, a cura di Luca Pietromarchi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012.
- Storia europea della letteratura francese. Dal Settecento all'età contemporanea, a cura di Lionello Sozzi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013, pp. 237-270, 305-310, 345-347, 352-354.
- Nuovi poeti francesi, a cura di Fabio Scotto, Torino, Einaudi, 2011.
- Nathalie Quintane, Stand up, Roma, Tic Edizioni, 2020.

Spanish Literature I (for students of LMLC and Others Courses of Study)
Course leader: Sara Pezzini
Credits: 6
Semester I

Description

The course intends to explore the origin, characteristics and evolution of the literary myth of Don Juan. Beginning with a close reading of the play attributed to Tirso de Molina, we will then proceed to a critical analysis of some canonic texts of the Spanish literature where the figure of Don Juan emerges as main topic. Texts of diverse literary genders and epochs will be studied.

1) TEXTS:

• [Tirso de Molina], L’ingannatore di Siviglia e il convitato di pietra, Torino, Einaudi, 1998 (no other edition should be used);
• Extracts from José Esproceda’s, El estudiante de Salamanca (available online at: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/el-estudiante-de-salamanca--0/html/fedd8060-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064.html);
• Benito Pérez Galdós, Tristana, translated by A. Guarino, bilingual edition, Marsilio, 2007 (no other edition should be used);
• Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Sonata di primavera, edited by G. Battista De Cesare, bilingual edition, Marsilio, 2001 (no other edition should be used);

2) CRITICS AND NOTIONS OF LITERARY HISTORY:

• Carlos Alvar, José Carlos Mainer, Rosa Navarro, Storia della letteratura spagnola. Vol. 1, Torino, Einaudi (Extracts indicated by the professor);
• L. Chines, C. Varotti, Che cos’è un testo letterario, Roma, Carrocci (Extracts indicated by the professor);
• The introductions of the indicated editions;
• Other bibliographic materials (provided by the teachers).

This course explores the theme of the master-servant relationship in two canonical English texts, William's Shakespeare "The Tempest" and Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", and the metamorphoses of this theme across two contemporary rewritings, J.M. Coetzee's "Foe" and Margaret Atwood's "Hag-seed".

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" (1611) (recommended edition: Arden, Penguin or Garzanti con testo a fronte);
Daniel Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719) (recommended edition: Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics);
J.M. Coetzee, "Foe" (1986) (any edition in English);
Margaret Atwood, "Hag-seed. The Tempest retold", Hogarth Shakespeare, 2016.

Film:
"The Tempest", BBC, dir. John Gorrie (1980).
"The Tempest", dir. Julie Taymor
"Man Friday", dir. Jack Gold, screenplay by Adrian Mitchell (1975) (full movie on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rPXjCy83zg)

This course provides an overview of English literature through the study of a variety of texts by some of the most representative authors writing in English. Highlighting the topos of the impossible/forbidden love, students will explore a series of texts belonging to different literary genres and different historical and literary contexts with a view to isolating and analyzing typologies of norm and otherness (from a gender, cultural, ethnical, national, social point of view) explicitly or implicitly dealt with in the texts studied.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet [play]
John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Bright Star [poems]
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights [novel]
Rudyard Kipling, Lispeth, Beyond the Pale [short stories]
James Joyce, The Dead [novella]

Lessons will be held in Italian but the texts used will be in English; you are nevertheless free to use Italian translations. You can find the above texts online at: Project Gutenberg and Poetry Foundation's websites.

Voyages and shipwrecks
This first-year course will provide a historical and cultural overview of English literature through contextualization and analysis of some canonical texts of travel literature. Starting from Shakespeare’s The Tempest to Conrad’s sea voyages, the course means to focus on the polisemy of travelling as a mark of epistemological changes by exploring the contexts, contents and formal strategies of the texts.

PRIMARY SOURCES

All the volumes and articles indicated below (primary and secondary sources) are compulsory reading for all students and will be discussed during the final exam.
Students should buy the suggested editions of the texts when indicated and are expected to read the primary sources before the beginning of the course.

- William Shakespeare, The Tempest/La tempesta, introduzione e traduzione di Alessandro Serpieri, note di Clara Mucci, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia, 2006.
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels/I viaggi di Gulliver, a cura di Masolino d’Amico, con uno scritto di Walter Scott, Mondadori, Milano, 2015 [English version: any Wordsworth Classics o Penguin].
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner/La ballata del vecchio marinaio, a cura di Rocco Coronato, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia, 2018.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesà/La spiaggia di Falesá, a cura di Richard Ambrosini, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia, 2011.
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer/Il compagno segreto, a cura di Francesco Giacobelli, con introduzione di Andrea Zanzotto, con testo a fronte, BUR, Milano, 1975.

Voyages and shipwrecks
This first-year course will provide a historical and cultural overview of English literature through contextualization and analysis of some canonical texts of travel literature. Starting from Shakespeare’s The Tempest to Conrad’s sea voyages, the course means to focus on the polisemy of travelling as a mark of epistemological changes by exploring the contexts, contents and formal strategies of the texts.

PRIMARY SOURCES

All the volumes and articles indicated below (primary and secondary sources) are compulsory reading for all students and will be discussed during the final exam.
Students should buy the suggested editions of the texts when indicated and are expected to read the primary sources before the beginning of the course.

- William Shakespeare, The Tempest/La tempesta, introduzione e traduzione di Alessandro Serpieri, note di Clara Mucci, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia, 2006.
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels/I viaggi di Gulliver, a cura di Masolino d’Amico, con uno scritto di Walter Scott, Mondadori, Milano, 2015 [English version: any Wordsworth Classics o Penguin].
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner/La ballata del vecchio marinaio, a cura di Rocco Coronato, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia, 2018.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesà/La spiaggia di Falesá, a cura di Richard Ambrosini, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia, 2011.
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer/Il compagno segreto, a cura di Francesco Giacobelli, con introduzione di Andrea Zanzotto, con testo a fronte, BUR, Milano, 1975.

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)
G. Büchner, Woyzeck (Marsilio)
R. Musil. I turbamenti del giovane Törless (Garzanti)
F. Kafka, Il processo (Einaudi).
B. Brecht, L’opera da tre soldi (Einaudi)

The course offers an introduction to the study of language as social behavior. The topics covered will be: short history of the discipline, the study of variation, qualitative sociolinguistic research, field research methods, the study of social interaction. The principles and methods of conversation analysis. Particular attention will be given to field surveys and empirical studies carried out in different fields of application - for example school, language and cultural contact situations, communication in institutional settings.

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet. (Selected chapters)
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Roma: Carocci.

Program for students who do not attend the classes:

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet.
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Potere e interazione. Roma: Carocci.

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.

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.

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 Okasha’s text), in the second, longer part we will read and comment three and classics authors of 20th century philosophy of science, namely Karl Popper, Hans Reichenbach, Carl Hempel and Rudolf Carnap. The fundamental problem raised in the course is the objectivity of scientific knowledge in its relationship with the human sciences

Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason,
Karl .R. Popper, Scienza e Filosofia, Einaudi, Torino, 2000.
S. Okasha Philosophy of Science. A very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2002
Carl G. Hempel, Philosophy of natural sciences Prentice Hall, 1966 (chapters available on the teacher's personal website)
Rudolf Carnap, Philosophical foundations of physics, 1966 (chapters available on the teacher's personal website)
Michael Friedman, Dynamics of reason,Stanford University Press.

PROGRAM 12 CFU:
The course aims to examine the concepts of world and consciousness in the philosophies of Leibniz and Hegel, considering some guiding notions declined differently in the two philosophies: body/mind/virtuality, mechanism/teleology, dialectic/ration, consciousness/self-consciousness.

MODULE A 6 CFU:

Module A has an introductory value to classical German philosophy between the XVIII and XIX century and will focus in particular on the vision of reason in Leibniz.
It will illustrate the concepts of matter, substance, memory, virtuality and inborn ideas, emphasizing the Leibniz polemic against Lockian sensualism.

MODULE B 6 CFU:
Module B intends to examine the concepts of reason in Hegel starting from the dialectics of reason and the antinomies of pure reason in Kant and then addressing the notion of dialectics in Hegel's phenomenology. Analyzing Hegelian philosophy, particular attention will be drawn to the concept of the negative and the different meanings that the negative takes on for the intellect for speculative reason.

C) A reading seminar will be an integral part of the course.
In order to develop skills in analysis and textual criticism the course includes a seminar on textual reading of Hegelian anthropology.

The reading seminar is addressed to all students both to those who must achieve 6 cfu and those who must achieve 12 cfu.

Leibniz, New Essays on the Human Understanding, Book One, Bompiani, Milan
G.F.W. Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit, Bompiani, Milan

This course will investigate how the major philosophical conceptions have dealt with the main moral problems. Such conceptions will be analyzed from both the historical and the theoretical points of view, also considering their metaphysical substratum.

The classic that will be studied in the course will be J.S. Mill's "Utilitarianism".

1. J.S. Mill, Utilitarismo (any edition)
2. M. De Caro, Realtà, Bollati Boringhieri
3. A. Da Re, Filosofia morale. Storia, teoria, argomenti, Pearson (third edition, 2018)

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

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

The course is aimed at providing a more complete domain of the Latin language, also for a better understanding of the Italian language. A prose text (Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum) and a part of a poem (Lucan’s Bellum civile) will be read in original and explicated as regards both the language and the contents. For this purpose the course consists of:
(1) A number of lessons minded in particular to offer an overview of the main aspects of phonetics, morphology and syntax of the Latin language, with notions of prosody and metrics;
(2) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of:
- (a) Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum (full text)
- (b) Lucan’s Bellum civile (I 98-182; IX 734-838).

As for (1):
- R. Oniga, Latin: A Linguistic Introduction, edited and translated by N. Schifano, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014.
- S. Timpanaro, Nozioni elementari di prosodia e metrica latina, Firenze, 1953 [a .pdf copy of this book, currently not in print, will be made available on line at the url of the course].
- Further bibliography and tools about the texts in the syllabus will be given during the course, and made available on line at the url of the course.

As for (2):
- (a) Sallustio, La guerra contro Giugurta, traduzione e note di L. Piazzi, introduzione di G. Brescia, Milano, Rusconi, 2016 (or G. Crispo Sallustio, La guerra di Giugurta; prefazione, traduzione e note di L. Storoni Mazzolani, Milano, BUR 1976 and various reprints);
- (b) A. Luceri, Il ritorno dell’epos storico: il Bellum civile di Lucano, in A. Fusi - A. Luceri - P. Parroni - G. Piras (a cura di), Lo Spazio Letterario di Roma antica, vol. VI (I Testi. 1 – Poesia), Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2009, pp. 98-117.


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 https://sites.google.com/view/intro-info-rm3/home

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

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

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

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

The student will be introduced to the knowledge of the basic elements of Syriac grammar.

The course will examine history of "ottava rima", eight-line stanza, between the XIV and XVII Century, focusing on birth and development of the mock-heroic poem.

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, and 4):
1. Primary Works: Course lecture notes, provided by the professor
2. Textbook of italian literature: G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018
3. Criticism: L’eroicomico, a cura di G. Crimi e M. Malavasi, Roma, Carocci, 2020;
4. Criticism: A. Limentani, Struttura e storia dell’ottava rima, in «Lettere Italiane», XIII, 1961, pp. 20-77;

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

a) A. Casadei, La fine degli incanti. Vicende del poema epico-cavalleresco nel Rinascimento, Milano, Angeli, 1997;
b) M.C. Cabani, Le forme del cantare epico-cavalleresco, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 1988;
c) M.C. Cabani, La pianella di Scarpinello. Tassoni e la nascita dell’eroicomico, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 1999;
d) M.C. Cabani, Eroi comici. Saggi su un genere seicentesco, Lecce, Pensa multimedia, 2010;
e) F. Calitti, Fra lirica e narrativa. Storia dell'ottava rima nel Rinascimento, Firenze, Le Càriti, 2004;
f) L’eroicomico dall’Italia all’Europa. Atti del Convegno, Università di Losanna, 9-10 settembre 2011, a cura di G. Bucchi, Pisa, ETS, 2013;
g) Nuove prospettive sull’ottava rima, a cura di L. Facini, Lecce, Pensa multimedia, 2018;
h) M. Villoresi, La letteratura cavalleresca. Dai cicli medievali all’Ariosto, Roma, Carocci, 2000.

The course offers an introduction to the study of language as social behavior. The topics covered will be: short history of the discipline, the study of variation, qualitative sociolinguistic research, field research methods, the study of social interaction. The principles and methods of conversation analysis. Particular attention will be given to field surveys and empirical studies carried out in different fields of application - for example school, language and cultural contact situations, communication in institutional settings.

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet. (Selected chapters)
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Roma: Carocci.

Program for students who do not attend the classes:

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet.
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Potere e interazione. Roma: Carocci.

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. FIORAVANATI, 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.

- *F. BRAMBILLA AGENO, L’edizione critica dei testi volgari, Padova, Antenore, 1984, pp. 53-72.
- *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.
- *T. BAROLINI, Autocitazione e autobiografia, in EAD., Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della ‘Commedia’, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993, pp. 15-76.
- *S. BELLOMO, Convivio, in ID., Filologia e critica dantesca, Brescia, La Scuola, 2009, pp. 9-20, 70-90 e 250-58.
- *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, Lettura dell’VIII canto del ‘Paradiso’, in «Filologia e critica», XLIV, 2019, fasc. 1, pp. 3-31.
- *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.

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, Vita nova, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistole, Commedia'as well as of the early commentaries .Notes by the lecturer and other materials will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page.

Students are strongly advised to attend classes regularly. Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer.

Write and think revolution: the epistemological vault of the Seventies

The course we will be examined the work of Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alba de Céspedes, Alice Ceresa, Carla Lonzi, Nanni Balestrini.

Nanni Balestrini, Vogliamo tutto, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1971; Roma, Deriveapprodi, 2013
Alice Ceresa, Piccolo dizionario dell’inuguaglianza, a cura di Tatiana Crivelli, Milano, nottetempo, 2007, nuova edizione 2020.
Alba de Céspedes, Le ragazze di maggio, Milano, Mondadori, 1970
Carla Lonzi, Vai pure. Dialogo con Pietro Consagra, Milano, Scritti di Rivolta femminile, 1980
Elsa Morante, Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini e altri poemi, Torino, Einaudi, 1968
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Le ceneri di Gramsci, Milano, Garzanti, 1957
Abbecedario della differenza. Omaggio ad Alice Ceresa, a cura di Laura Fortini e Alessandra Pigliaru, Milano, nottetempo, 2020

Poems from modern and contemporary Italian literature will be read in depth during the course. The materials will be available in the Teams channel of the course.

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

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

Attending students will prepare one of the two "Units" (n° 1. literary text + n° 2. book of criticism) of their choice. Non-attending students will prepare both literary texts, and will choose one of the two books of criticism.

The course will be on italian poetry from Stilnovo to Francesco Petrarca. During the lessons the metrical forms (sonets, ballads, ecc.) will be analysed in relationship with the new style of Petrarca.

1. Anthology of poetry (available on Teams).
2. An edition of 'Vita nova' di Dante Alighieri (it is recommended: Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007
3. An edition of 'Canzoniere' di Francesco Petrarca (it is recommended: Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, a cura di Sabrina Stroppa, Torino, Einaudi, 2011)

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 (I), as well as transmission processes and critical editing procedures of Classics (II). The acquired abilities concerning manuscript tradition, constitutio textus and critical apparatus will be measured on critical editions of Greek and Latin authors (III).
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);
- A. Persii Flacci et D. Iuni Iuvenalis saturae, edidit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. V. Clausen, Oxonii 1959, in partic. pp. 96-105;
- photocopies provided by the teacher.
Students unable to attend the lessons will replace the lessons with:
- Leighton D. Reynolds e Nigel G. Wilson, Copisti e filologi: La tradizione dei classici dall’Antichità ai tempi moderni, Traduzione di Mirella Ferrari con una premessa di Giuseppe Billanovich, Quarta edizione riveduta e ampliata, Roma-Padova, Editrice Antenore, 2016 (ISBN 9788884556967).
- A. Stramaglia,Giovenale, Satire 1, 7, 12, 16. Storia di un poeta, Bologna 2008 (sat. 1 and 7)

Second semester. Hours: Thursday, 11am-1pm; Friday, 11am-1pm, Meeting Room of the Area di Mondo Antico.
Course start: to be determinated.
The course examines the main data of ancient Christian literary production, from the first to the fifth century, of which will be highlighted both the peculiarities, as well as the relationship with Jewish, Greek and Latin literature. Main topics: Proto-Christian literature (letters, evangelical literature, apocalypses), formation of the New Testament canon, writings from the sub-apostolic period, Greek apologists, "heretical" and heresiological literature, martyrial literature, Tertullian, Cyprian, exegetical literature, Origen, historiography, authors from Cappadocia, ancient literature, Hilarius, Ambrose, Jerome, Rufin, hagiographic literature, Augustine.

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

Title of the course: Between late antiquity and 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.

In our society religion and religious issues have an important space, which can be recognized in different forms of belief.
This class offers an introduction to the principle themes and theories which emerge in the history of the studies about religion/religions. We will try to tackle the difficult question "What is religion? What are religions?". In particular, we will discuss different theories about religion, its essence, its function in the society, up to the last approaches which underline the imbrication of religion with cultures, politics and societies.
Key words and topics (body, gender, violence, space) will be discussed in a comparative and historical approach.
The history of religious studies is taught through a multidisciplinary perspective, which allows students to focus on different approaches such as history, anthropology, sociology, cognitive sciences. The historical study of tools and approaches in religious studies are as follows:
Religious diversity in Italy
The beginning of Religious Studies and the History of religions: from the modern period to new paradigms
Chronological development of some histories of religions
A glance from, a glance on the East

1. Notes, readings, materials (see on line-one drive and moodle platform)

2. One of the following books:
N. Spineto, La festa, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2015 oppure
B. Salvarani, Dopo. Le religioni e l’al di là, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2020
C. Ghidini, P. Scarpi, La Scelta Vegetariana, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze 2019.
or students can discuss a book with Professor Giorda

Nonno attending students will replace point 1 with G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005.

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.

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; their contents are illustrated in class and which must be studied for the exam.

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

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

Passions and Emotions
The course focuses on the topic of emotions from a historical-theoretical perspective. More specifically, the transition from a philosophy of passions to a science of emotions is explored by analysing some texts of the philosophical and scientific literature on the subject.

Module A - Passions and emotions: Descartes and Peirce
The program of Module A will focus on the following topics:
- Introduction to the historical-theoretical meanings of the notions of passion and emotion
- Cartesian theory of passions
- Ch. S. Peirce's anti-Cartesianism.

Module B - Passions and emotions: Hume, pragmatism, and the social theory of emotions.
The program of Module B will focus on the following topics:
- The Humean treatment of passions.
- Introduction to the birth of a science of emotions: Darwin's evolutionism and his theory of emotion expression
- James, Dewey and Mead's theories of emotions and their revival in the contemporary debate within the cognitive sciences.

Module A

R. Cartesio, Le passioni dell’anima, Bompiani 2003
C. S. Peirce, Alcune conseguenze di quattro incapacità, in Id. Scritti scelti, UTET 2005, pp. 107-143.
R.M. Calcaterra, Emozioni e sensazioni nella semiotica di Ch. S. Peirce, in Ead., Pragmatismo: i valori dell’esperienza. Letture di Peirce, James e Mead, Carocci 2003, pp. 17-41.
R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (a cura di), Il pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci 2015.

Recommended texts

G. Mori, Cartesio, Carocci 2010
G. Maddalena, Peirce, La Scuola 2015


Module B

D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza 2008, pp. 289-476.
G. Baggio, F. Caruana, A. Parravicini, M. Viola (a cura di), Emozioni. Da Darwin al pragmatismo, Rosenberg & Sellier 2019.
F. Caruana, M. Viola, Come funzionano le emozioni, il Mulino 2018.

Recommended texts

P. Dumouchel, Emozioni. Saggio sul corpo e il sociale, Medusa 2008.
D. Evans, Emozioni. La scienza del sentimento, Laterza 2002
J. Plamper, Storia delle emozioni, il Mulino 2012

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

Testi d’esame:

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

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

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

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

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: to be determined.

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 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 (and reprints)

or

M. Capasso, Introduzione alla Papirologia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2005 (and reprints)

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 (and reprints)

The course presents the structures of the Italian language, first examining them according to the level of belonging (phonological, morphological, syntactical, lexical) and then highlighting their functioning within the texts. Particular attention will be paid to the linguistic analysis of the contemporary short story, of which the mechanisms of textual and macrotextual construction will be observed through particular linguistic expedients. At the end of the course the student will be familiar with basic concepts and categories of Italian linguistics and will have learnt to use them to achieve a deeper and more conscious understanding of the various types of text.

Giovanardi, Claudio / De Roberto, Elisa, L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi, Milano, Pearson, 2018.
Dispense messe a disposizione del docente.

The beginnings of Italian literature in the European context

This course will provide a wide-ranging introducation to the Italian literature of the thirteenth and fourteenth century, with a specific focus on the origins and development of poetic genres, from the so-called Sicilian school through to the experience of Francesco Petrarch, which stands out as foundational for all European lyric poetry. Both the historic context and the sociological profile of writers will be emphasized. The multiple linguistic, thematic and formal connections and overlappings with other European literatures will be investigated.

NB: This programme will be valid from the Summer Exam Session 2021. Students who did not attend lectures and willing to give the exam during the Winter Exam Session 2021 will prepare the course programme of the last academic year: https://www.uniroma3.it/insegnamento-erogato/dipartimento-di-studi-umanistici/l/2019-2020/Lettere-0580706201000002/03A82BD1-FEC9-487C-AC70-4EB5ECD5FD4F--20703169/ (the programme is the same for all the curricula).
(Students who attended lectures last year and still have to give the exam, can do it normally). Since the course will be delivered in the second semester, the Winter Exam Session 2021 WILL NOT BE OPEN TO FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.

To prepare the exam, students will read:

- G. Alfano, P. Italia, E. Russo, F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori, 2018, pp. 1-328 (Epoche 1 e 2)
- Franco Suitner, I poeti del medio evo. Italia ed Europa (secoli XII-XIV), Roma, Carocci, 2010 (o successive ristampe)
- Marco Santagata, L’amoroso pensiero. Petrarca e il romanzo di Laura, Milano, Mondadori, 2014

Texts and materials discussed during lectures, and not included in the volumes in Bibliography, will be available online.

The "birth" of the sonnet and its history in Italian literature

G. Contini, Letteratura italiana delle Origini, Milano, BUR Rizzoli
F. Suitner, I poeti del medio evo, Roma, Carocci
Inoltre:
F. Suitner, Il sonetto dialogato nella poesia delle origini, in Dante, Petrarca e altra poesia antica, Firenze, Cadmo, pp. 13-28
F. Magro-A. Soldani, Il sonetto italiano. Dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Carocci
M. Fubini, Il sonetto, in Metrica e poesia. Lezioni sulle forme metriche italiane, Milano, Feltrinelli, pp. 146-167
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.

Linguistic type. Typological corpus. Syntactic and morphological typology. Areal typology. Diachronic typology. Linguistic universals and tendencies. Implicational universals. Explaining language universals. Biological bases for language, brain localization, mirror neurons. Brain imaging techniques. Language in humans and non-humans. Origins (onto- and phylogenesis) of language. Linguistic innatism, functionalism, evolutionism.

- N. Grandi, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Carocci.
- E. Lombardi Vallauri, The Relation between Mind and Language. The Innateness Hypothesis and the Poverty of the Stimulus, in The Linguistic Review 21, 2004, pp. 345-387.
- M. Christiansen – N. Chater, Language as shaped by the brain, in “Behavioral and Brain Sciences” 31, 2008, pp. 489-509 (cioè senza gli interventi di discussione di altri autori).
- F. Di Vincenzo – G. Manzi, Alla ricerca delle origini. In (a cura di N. Grandi), Nuovi dialoghi sulle lingue e il linguaggio, Pàtron, pp. 71-88.

The course offers an introduction to the study of language as social behavior. The topics covered will be: short history of the discipline, the study of variation, qualitative sociolinguistic research, field research methods, the study of social interaction. The principles and methods of conversation analysis. Particular attention will be given to field surveys and empirical studies carried out in different fields of application - for example school, language and cultural contact situations, communication in institutional settings.

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet. (Selected chapters)
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Roma: Carocci.

Program for students who do not attend the classes:

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet.
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Potere e interazione. Roma: Carocci.

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

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

Students unable to attend the course have to read furthermore:

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

Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures in Context

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 5 at 4.00 PM.

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 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).

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

Teaching articulation: 6 CFU

Semester: I

P
Course description:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Proposal c)

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

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

A Course Module:
Aristotle’s Metaphysics I: The science of first causes; Aristotle’s criticism of early Greek philosophers.
The A Course Module will be held during the first part the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
Aristotle’s theory of science and the structure of Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
The theory of causes.
Aristotle’s account of early Greek naturalist philosophers.

B Course Module:
Aristotle’s Metaphysics I: Aristotle and Plato
The B Course Module will be held during the second part of the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s theory of Ideas.
Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s theory of Principles.
Plato’s so-called “unwritten doctrines”.

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] F. Ademollo e M. Vegetti, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino 2016
Aristotele, Metafisica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di E. Berti, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017,
pp. V-XXXIII; 3-41.

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

B 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] P. Donini, La Metafisica di Aristotele. Introduzione alla lettura, Carocci, Roma, 2015.
Aristotele, Metafisica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di E. Berti, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017,
pp. V-XXXIII; 41-53.

[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

Title of the course: Between late antiquity and 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This course will offer an interpretation of the crisis of the Roman Republic. Students will read some of the most important ancient sources concerning this period. They will be introduced to the figure of Marius and how he came into violent conflict with Lucius Cornelius Sulla, another “Roman warlord”, who after victories in the east actually marched on Rome in 82 BC and established himself 'dictator'.
A main point of the course will concern this peculiar Roman office designed to give a leading politician short terms powers in an emergency. Sulla held it for two years, in the course of which he had well over a thousand of his political opponents viciously put to death.

Plutarch Life of Sulla

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

The student will be introduced to the knowledge of the basic elements of Syriac grammar.

The course will examine history of "ottava rima", eight-line stanza, between the XIV and XVII Century, focusing on birth and development of the mock-heroic poem.

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, and 4):
1. Primary Works: Course lecture notes, provided by the professor
2. Textbook of italian literature: G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018
3. Criticism: L’eroicomico, a cura di G. Crimi e M. Malavasi, Roma, Carocci, 2020;
4. Criticism: A. Limentani, Struttura e storia dell’ottava rima, in «Lettere Italiane», XIII, 1961, pp. 20-77;

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

a) A. Casadei, La fine degli incanti. Vicende del poema epico-cavalleresco nel Rinascimento, Milano, Angeli, 1997;
b) M.C. Cabani, Le forme del cantare epico-cavalleresco, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 1988;
c) M.C. Cabani, La pianella di Scarpinello. Tassoni e la nascita dell’eroicomico, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 1999;
d) M.C. Cabani, Eroi comici. Saggi su un genere seicentesco, Lecce, Pensa multimedia, 2010;
e) F. Calitti, Fra lirica e narrativa. Storia dell'ottava rima nel Rinascimento, Firenze, Le Càriti, 2004;
f) L’eroicomico dall’Italia all’Europa. Atti del Convegno, Università di Losanna, 9-10 settembre 2011, a cura di G. Bucchi, Pisa, ETS, 2013;
g) Nuove prospettive sull’ottava rima, a cura di L. Facini, Lecce, Pensa multimedia, 2018;
h) M. Villoresi, La letteratura cavalleresca. Dai cicli medievali all’Ariosto, Roma, Carocci, 2000.

FOUNDATIONS OF ITALIAN PHILOLOGY
The course will illustrate the fundamental elements of textual criticism (manuscript census, collation, construction of the stemma, constitution of the text and of the apparatus) drawing examples from Italian Literature. The course will focus on the methodologies of different philological schools, primarily those developed by Lachmann and Bédier, as applied to the works of Italian Literature, from the the Origins to the contemporary age. The textual criticism of autographs will also be considered.

- P. STOPPELLI, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 1-179.

- *F. BRAMBILLA AGENO, L’edizione critica dei testi volgari, Padova, Antenore, 1984, pp. 31-44, 73-93, 197-209, 211-215, 218-231;
- *L. LEONARDI, Introduzione, in Il Canzoniere Laurenziano, Firenze, Sismel, 2000, pp. I-XII); ID., Introduzione, in Il Canzoniere Vaticano, Firenze, Sismel, 2000, pp. I-XX; ID., Introduzione, in Il Canzoniere Palatino, Firenze, Sismel, 2000, pp. I-XI.
- *S. BELLOMO, Filologia e critica dantesca, Brescia, La Scuola, 2009 (e successive ristampe): 213-35 e 274-283.
- *M. FIORILLA, Sul testo del ‘Decameron’: per una nuova edizione critica, in Boccaccio letterato, a cura di M. MARCHIARO e S. ZAMPONI, Firenze, Accademia della Crusca, 2015, pp. 211-237.

The articles marked by an asterisk will be included in the DISPENSE DEL CORSO (course materials assembled by the lecturer), together with further materials, essays, reproductions of manuscripts and printed texts, and samples of diplomatic and critical editions. Notes and other materials will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page.

Students are strongly advised to attend classes regularly. Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer.

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. FIORAVANATI, 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.

- *F. BRAMBILLA AGENO, L’edizione critica dei testi volgari, Padova, Antenore, 1984, pp. 53-72.
- *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.
- *T. BAROLINI, Autocitazione e autobiografia, in EAD., Il miglior fabbro. Dante e i poeti della ‘Commedia’, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1993, pp. 15-76.
- *S. BELLOMO, Convivio, in ID., Filologia e critica dantesca, Brescia, La Scuola, 2009, pp. 9-20, 70-90 e 250-58.
- *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, Lettura dell’VIII canto del ‘Paradiso’, in «Filologia e critica», XLIV, 2019, fasc. 1, pp. 3-31.
- *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.

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, Vita nova, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistole, Commedia'as well as of the early commentaries .Notes by the lecturer and other materials will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page.

Students are strongly advised to attend classes regularly. Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer.

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

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

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

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 (I), as well as transmission processes and critical editing procedures of Classics (II). The acquired abilities concerning manuscript tradition, constitutio textus and critical apparatus will be measured on critical editions of Greek and Latin authors (III).
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);
- A. Persii Flacci et D. Iuni Iuvenalis saturae, edidit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. V. Clausen, Oxonii 1959, in partic. pp. 96-105;
- photocopies provided by the teacher.
Students unable to attend the lessons will replace the lessons with:
- Leighton D. Reynolds e Nigel G. Wilson, Copisti e filologi: La tradizione dei classici dall’Antichità ai tempi moderni, Traduzione di Mirella Ferrari con una premessa di Giuseppe Billanovich, Quarta edizione riveduta e ampliata, Roma-Padova, Editrice Antenore, 2016 (ISBN 9788884556967).
- A. Stramaglia,Giovenale, Satire 1, 7, 12, 16. Storia di un poeta, Bologna 2008 (sat. 1 and 7)

Description of the course:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Paul Maas, La critica del testo, Traduzione a cura di Giorgio Ziffer, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e letteratura, 2017 (collana Opere Varie, ISBN 9788893590495);
- Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, edidit M.L. West, I. Archilochus, Hipponax, Theognidea, Editio altera aucta et emendata, Oxonii 1989 (selection);
- Sappho et Alcaeus, Fragmenta edidit E.-M. Voigt, Amsterdam 1971 (selection);
- Poetae melici Graeci, edidit D.L. Page, Oxford 1962 (selection);
- Catullo. Le poesie, a cura di F. Della Corte, Milano 2010 (selection);
- Q. Horatius Flaccus. Opera, edidit D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Berolini et Novi Eboraci 2007 (selection).
All Greek and Latin texts read, translated and commented during the lessons will also be provided in photocopies and made available on the teacher's internet page.
Students unable to attend the lessons will replace the lessons with:
- Paolo Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini: Storia e metodo critico, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (ISBN 9788843094455);
- reading, translation and philological commentary of: Archil. fr. 105 West, Hippon. frr. 115-117 West, Alc. frr. 6, 208 e 332 Voigt, Anacr. fr. 78 e 82 Gentili (ed. Anacreon, edidit B. Gentili, Romae 1958), Theog. 667-682 (ed. West); Hor. epod. 3, 4, 6, 10; carm. I 37 e 14; epist. I 19; Ps. Heraclit. All. hom. 5 (ed. Héraclite. Allégories d’Homère, texte établi et traduit par F. Buffière, Paris 1962); Quint. VIII, 6, 44-53 (ed. M. Fabi Quintiliani Institutiones oratorie libri duodecim, recognovit brevique adnotatione critcia instruxit M. Winterbottom, II, Oxonii 1970).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Second semester. Hours: Thursday, 11am-1pm; Friday, 11am-1pm, Meeting Room of the Area di Mondo Antico.
Course start: to be determinated.
The course examines the main data of ancient Christian literary production, from the first to the fifth century, of which will be highlighted both the peculiarities, as well as the relationship with Jewish, Greek and Latin literature. Main topics: Proto-Christian literature (letters, evangelical literature, apocalypses), formation of the New Testament canon, writings from the sub-apostolic period, Greek apologists, "heretical" and heresiological literature, martyrial literature, Tertullian, Cyprian, exegetical literature, Origen, historiography, authors from Cappadocia, ancient literature, Hilarius, Ambrose, Jerome, Rufin, hagiographic literature, Augustine.

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

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

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

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 (I), as well as transmission processes and critical editing procedures of Classics (II). The acquired abilities concerning manuscript tradition, constitutio textus and critical apparatus will be measured on critical editions of Greek and Latin authors (III).
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);
- A. Persii Flacci et D. Iuni Iuvenalis saturae, edidit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. V. Clausen, Oxonii 1959, in partic. pp. 96-105;
- photocopies provided by the teacher.
Students unable to attend the lessons will replace the lessons with:
- Leighton D. Reynolds e Nigel G. Wilson, Copisti e filologi: La tradizione dei classici dall’Antichità ai tempi moderni, Traduzione di Mirella Ferrari con una premessa di Giuseppe Billanovich, Quarta edizione riveduta e ampliata, Roma-Padova, Editrice Antenore, 2016 (ISBN 9788884556967).
- A. Stramaglia,Giovenale, Satire 1, 7, 12, 16. Storia di un poeta, Bologna 2008 (sat. 1 and 7)

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: to be determined.

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 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 (and reprints)

or

M. Capasso, Introduzione alla Papirologia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2005 (and reprints)

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 (and reprints)

The course presents the structures of the Italian language, first examining them according to the level of belonging (phonological, morphological, syntactical, lexical) and then highlighting their functioning within the texts. Particular attention will be paid to the linguistic analysis of the contemporary short story, of which the mechanisms of textual and macrotextual construction will be observed through particular linguistic expedients. At the end of the course the student will be familiar with basic concepts and categories of Italian linguistics and will have learnt to use them to achieve a deeper and more conscious understanding of the various types of text.

Giovanardi, Claudio / De Roberto, Elisa, L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi, Milano, Pearson, 2018.
Dispense messe a disposizione del docente.

The beginnings of Italian literature in the European context

This course will provide a wide-ranging introducation to the Italian literature of the thirteenth and fourteenth century, with a specific focus on the origins and development of poetic genres, from the so-called Sicilian school through to the experience of Francesco Petrarch, which stands out as foundational for all European lyric poetry. Both the historic context and the sociological profile of writers will be emphasized. The multiple linguistic, thematic and formal connections and overlappings with other European literatures will be investigated.

NB: This programme will be valid from the Summer Exam Session 2021. Students who did not attend lectures and willing to give the exam during the Winter Exam Session 2021 will prepare the course programme of the last academic year: https://www.uniroma3.it/insegnamento-erogato/dipartimento-di-studi-umanistici/l/2019-2020/Lettere-0580706201000002/03A82BD1-FEC9-487C-AC70-4EB5ECD5FD4F--20703169/ (the programme is the same for all the curricula).
(Students who attended lectures last year and still have to give the exam, can do it normally). Since the course will be delivered in the second semester, the Winter Exam Session 2021 WILL NOT BE OPEN TO FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.

To prepare the exam, students will read:

- G. Alfano, P. Italia, E. Russo, F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori, 2018, pp. 1-328 (Epoche 1 e 2)
- Franco Suitner, I poeti del medio evo. Italia ed Europa (secoli XII-XIV), Roma, Carocci, 2010 (o successive ristampe)
- Marco Santagata, L’amoroso pensiero. Petrarca e il romanzo di Laura, Milano, Mondadori, 2014

Texts and materials discussed during lectures, and not included in the volumes in Bibliography, will be available online.

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

Teaching articulation: 6 CFU

Semester: I

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Course description:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Proposal c)

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

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

Linguistic type. Typological corpus. Syntactic and morphological typology. Areal typology. Diachronic typology. Linguistic universals and tendencies. Implicational universals. Explaining language universals. Biological bases for language, brain localization, mirror neurons. Brain imaging techniques. Language in humans and non-humans. Origins (onto- and phylogenesis) of language. Linguistic innatism, functionalism, evolutionism.

- N. Grandi, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Carocci.
- E. Lombardi Vallauri, The Relation between Mind and Language. The Innateness Hypothesis and the Poverty of the Stimulus, in The Linguistic Review 21, 2004, pp. 345-387.
- M. Christiansen – N. Chater, Language as shaped by the brain, in “Behavioral and Brain Sciences” 31, 2008, pp. 489-509 (cioè senza gli interventi di discussione di altri autori).
- F. Di Vincenzo – G. Manzi, Alla ricerca delle origini. In (a cura di N. Grandi), Nuovi dialoghi sulle lingue e il linguaggio, Pàtron, pp. 71-88.

The course offers an introduction to the study of language as social behavior. The topics covered will be: short history of the discipline, the study of variation, qualitative sociolinguistic research, field research methods, the study of social interaction. The principles and methods of conversation analysis. Particular attention will be given to field surveys and empirical studies carried out in different fields of application - for example school, language and cultural contact situations, communication in institutional settings.

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet. (Selected chapters)
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Roma: Carocci.

Program for students who do not attend the classes:

Berruto, G., Cerruti, M. (2019). Manuale di sociolinguistica. Torino: Utet.
Orletti, F. (2000). La conversazione diseguale. Potere e interazione. Roma: Carocci.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Students unable to attend the course have to read furthermore:

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

Introduction to Hebrew Scriptures in Context

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 5 at 4.00 PM.

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 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).

PROGRAM 12 CFU:
The course aims to examine the concepts of world and consciousness in the philosophies of Leibniz and Hegel, considering some guiding notions declined differently in the two philosophies: body/mind/virtuality, mechanism/teleology, dialectic/ration, consciousness/self-consciousness.

MODULE A 6 CFU:

Module A has an introductory value to classical German philosophy between the XVIII and XIX century and will focus in particular on the vision of reason in Leibniz.
It will illustrate the concepts of matter, substance, memory, virtuality and inborn ideas, emphasizing the Leibniz polemic against Lockian sensualism.

MODULE B 6 CFU:
Module B intends to examine the concepts of reason in Hegel starting from the dialectics of reason and the antinomies of pure reason in Kant and then addressing the notion of dialectics in Hegel's phenomenology. Analyzing Hegelian philosophy, particular attention will be drawn to the concept of the negative and the different meanings that the negative takes on for the intellect for speculative reason.

C) A reading seminar will be an integral part of the course.
In order to develop skills in analysis and textual criticism the course includes a seminar on textual reading of Hegelian anthropology.

The reading seminar is addressed to all students both to those who must achieve 6 cfu and those who must achieve 12 cfu.

Leibniz, New Essays on the Human Understanding, Book One, Bompiani, Milan
G.F.W. Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit, Bompiani, Milan

A Course Module:
Aristotle’s Metaphysics I: The science of first causes; Aristotle’s criticism of early Greek philosophers.
The A Course Module will be held during the first part the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
Aristotle’s theory of science and the structure of Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
The theory of causes.
Aristotle’s account of early Greek naturalist philosophers.

B Course Module:
Aristotle’s Metaphysics I: Aristotle and Plato
The B Course Module will be held during the second part of the semester (6 weeks) and will focus on the following issues:
Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s theory of Ideas.
Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s theory of Principles.
Plato’s so-called “unwritten doctrines”.

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] F. Ademollo e M. Vegetti, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino 2016
Aristotele, Metafisica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di E. Berti, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017,
pp. V-XXXIII; 3-41.

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

B 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] P. Donini, La Metafisica di Aristotele. Introduzione alla lettura, Carocci, Roma, 2015.
Aristotele, Metafisica, Introduzione, traduzione e note di E. Berti, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017,
pp. V-XXXIII; 41-53.

[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.

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

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

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

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

Programme of the module 1 (for those who must acquire only 6 CFU/ECTS and for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Basic principles in geographical systemic reading, with particular reference to the concepts of environment, ecosystem, territory, region, landscape, with reference to the cultural organization of space - population, migration, settlement, languages, religions, economic exploitation, development, scale, trans-scalarity etc.
It is essential for all the systematic use of an updated school atlas.


Programme of the module 2 (+ 6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Application of the principles of geocultural analysis to the production and reading of literary, film and artistic representations in general, both educated and popular. Identification of geocultural elements in the forms of the anthropic landscape, in the symbolic valorisation of the territory, in the toponomastics etc.

In the absence of a basic knowledge in geography, the study of a school textbook of general geography and geography of the States of the world is strongly recommended.
The systematic use of an updated school atlas is essential for all students.

Texts for the module 1 (6 CFU/ECTS)
1) A.R. CANDURA, Geografia. Un’introduzione critica, Milano, Mondadori, 2018
2) T. BANINI, Geografie culturali, Milano, Angeli, 2019
3) M. d’ERAMO, Il selfie del mondo. Indagine sull’età del turismo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2017



Texts for the module 2 (+6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)
1) B. CHATWIN, Le vie dei canti, Milano, Adelphi, 1995 (o altra edizione)
2) I. CALVINO, Le città invisibili, Torino, Einaudi, 1972 (o altra edizione)
3) I. CALVINO, Palomar, Torino, Einaudi, 1983 (o altra edizione)

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

The student will be introduced to the knowledge of the basic elements of Syriac grammar.

The course will examine history of "ottava rima", eight-line stanza, between the XIV and XVII Century, focusing on birth and development of the mock-heroic poem.

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, and 4):
1. Primary Works: Course lecture notes, provided by the professor
2. Textbook of italian literature: G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018
3. Criticism: L’eroicomico, a cura di G. Crimi e M. Malavasi, Roma, Carocci, 2020;
4. Criticism: A. Limentani, Struttura e storia dell’ottava rima, in «Lettere Italiane», XIII, 1961, pp. 20-77;

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

a) A. Casadei, La fine degli incanti. Vicende del poema epico-cavalleresco nel Rinascimento, Milano, Angeli, 1997;
b) M.C. Cabani, Le forme del cantare epico-cavalleresco, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 1988;
c) M.C. Cabani, La pianella di Scarpinello. Tassoni e la nascita dell’eroicomico, Lucca, Pacini Fazzi, 1999;
d) M.C. Cabani, Eroi comici. Saggi su un genere seicentesco, Lecce, Pensa multimedia, 2010;
e) F. Calitti, Fra lirica e narrativa. Storia dell'ottava rima nel Rinascimento, Firenze, Le Càriti, 2004;
f) L’eroicomico dall’Italia all’Europa. Atti del Convegno, Università di Losanna, 9-10 settembre 2011, a cura di G. Bucchi, Pisa, ETS, 2013;
g) Nuove prospettive sull’ottava rima, a cura di L. Facini, Lecce, Pensa multimedia, 2018;
h) M. Villoresi, La letteratura cavalleresca. Dai cicli medievali all’Ariosto, Roma, Carocci, 2000.

In our society religion and religious issues have an important space, which can be recognized in different forms of belief.
This class offers an introduction to the principle themes and theories which emerge in the history of the studies about religion/religions. We will try to tackle the difficult question "What is religion? What are religions?". In particular, we will discuss different theories about religion, its essence, its function in the society, up to the last approaches which underline the imbrication of religion with cultures, politics and societies.
Key words and topics (body, gender, violence, space) will be discussed in a comparative and historical approach.
The history of religious studies is taught through a multidisciplinary perspective, which allows students to focus on different approaches such as history, anthropology, sociology, cognitive sciences. The historical study of tools and approaches in religious studies are as follows:
Religious diversity in Italy
The beginning of Religious Studies and the History of religions: from the modern period to new paradigms
Chronological development of some histories of religions
A glance from, a glance on the East

1. Notes, readings, materials (see on line-one drive and moodle platform)

2. One of the following books:
N. Spineto, La festa, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2015 oppure
B. Salvarani, Dopo. Le religioni e l’al di là, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2020
C. Ghidini, P. Scarpi, La Scelta Vegetariana, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze 2019.
or students can discuss a book with Professor Giorda

Nonno attending students will replace point 1 with G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005.

FOUNDATIONS OF ITALIAN PHILOLOGY
The course will illustrate the fundamental elements of textual criticism (manuscript census, collation, construction of the stemma, constitution of the text and of the apparatus) drawing examples from Italian Literature. The course will focus on the methodologies of different philological schools, primarily those developed by Lachmann and Bédier, as applied to the works of Italian Literature, from the the Origins to the contemporary age. The textual criticism of autographs will also be considered.

- P. STOPPELLI, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 1-179.

- *F. BRAMBILLA AGENO, L’edizione critica dei testi volgari, Padova, Antenore, 1984, pp. 31-44, 73-93, 197-209, 211-215, 218-231;
- *L. LEONARDI, Introduzione, in Il Canzoniere Laurenziano, Firenze, Sismel, 2000, pp. I-XII); ID., Introduzione, in Il Canzoniere Vaticano, Firenze, Sismel, 2000, pp. I-XX; ID., Introduzione, in Il Canzoniere Palatino, Firenze, Sismel, 2000, pp. I-XI.
- *S. BELLOMO, Filologia e critica dantesca, Brescia, La Scuola, 2009 (e successive ristampe): 213-35 e 274-283.
- *M. FIORILLA, Sul testo del ‘Decameron’: per una nuova edizione critica, in Boccaccio letterato, a cura di M. MARCHIARO e S. ZAMPONI, Firenze, Accademia della Crusca, 2015, pp. 211-237.

The articles marked by an asterisk will be included in the DISPENSE DEL CORSO (course materials assembled by the lecturer), together with further materials, essays, reproductions of manuscripts and printed texts, and samples of diplomatic and critical editions. Notes and other materials will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page.

Students are strongly advised to attend classes regularly. Students unable to attend are required to contact the lecturer.

Description of the course:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (I), as well as transmission processes and critical editing procedures of Classics (II). The acquired abilities concerning manuscript tradition, constitutio textus and critical apparatus will be measured on critical editions of Greek and Latin authors (III).
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);
- A. Persii Flacci et D. Iuni Iuvenalis saturae, edidit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. V. Clausen, Oxonii 1959, in partic. pp. 96-105;
- photocopies provided by the teacher.
Students unable to attend the lessons will replace the lessons with:
- Leighton D. Reynolds e Nigel G. Wilson, Copisti e filologi: La tradizione dei classici dall’Antichità ai tempi moderni, Traduzione di Mirella Ferrari con una premessa di Giuseppe Billanovich, Quarta edizione riveduta e ampliata, Roma-Padova, Editrice Antenore, 2016 (ISBN 9788884556967).
- A. Stramaglia,Giovenale, Satire 1, 7, 12, 16. Storia di un poeta, Bologna 2008 (sat. 1 and 7)

Title of the course: Between late antiquity and 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.

Linguistic type. Typological corpus. Syntactic and morphological typology. Areal typology. Diachronic typology. Linguistic universals and tendencies. Implicational universals. Explaining language universals. Biological bases for language, brain localization, mirror neurons. Brain imaging techniques. Language in humans and non-humans. Origins (onto- and phylogenesis) of language. Linguistic innatism, functionalism, evolutionism.

- N. Grandi, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Carocci.
- E. Lombardi Vallauri, The Relation between Mind and Language. The Innateness Hypothesis and the Poverty of the Stimulus, in The Linguistic Review 21, 2004, pp. 345-387.
- M. Christiansen – N. Chater, Language as shaped by the brain, in “Behavioral and Brain Sciences” 31, 2008, pp. 489-509 (cioè senza gli interventi di discussione di altri autori).
- F. Di Vincenzo – G. Manzi, Alla ricerca delle origini. In (a cura di N. Grandi), Nuovi dialoghi sulle lingue e il linguaggio, Pàtron, pp. 71-88.

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.

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)

Passions and Emotions
The course focuses on the topic of emotions from a historical-theoretical perspective. More specifically, the transition from a philosophy of passions to a science of emotions is explored by analysing some texts of the philosophical and scientific literature on the subject.

Module A - Passions and emotions: Descartes and Peirce
The program of Module A will focus on the following topics:
- Introduction to the historical-theoretical meanings of the notions of passion and emotion
- Cartesian theory of passions
- Ch. S. Peirce's anti-Cartesianism.

Module B - Passions and emotions: Hume, pragmatism, and the social theory of emotions.
The program of Module B will focus on the following topics:
- The Humean treatment of passions.
- Introduction to the birth of a science of emotions: Darwin's evolutionism and his theory of emotion expression
- James, Dewey and Mead's theories of emotions and their revival in the contemporary debate within the cognitive sciences.

Module A

R. Cartesio, Le passioni dell’anima, Bompiani 2003
C. S. Peirce, Alcune conseguenze di quattro incapacità, in Id. Scritti scelti, UTET 2005, pp. 107-143.
R.M. Calcaterra, Emozioni e sensazioni nella semiotica di Ch. S. Peirce, in Ead., Pragmatismo: i valori dell’esperienza. Letture di Peirce, James e Mead, Carocci 2003, pp. 17-41.
R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti (a cura di), Il pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci 2015.

Recommended texts

G. Mori, Cartesio, Carocci 2010
G. Maddalena, Peirce, La Scuola 2015


Module B

D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza 2008, pp. 289-476.
G. Baggio, F. Caruana, A. Parravicini, M. Viola (a cura di), Emozioni. Da Darwin al pragmatismo, Rosenberg & Sellier 2019.
F. Caruana, M. Viola, Come funzionano le emozioni, il Mulino 2018.

Recommended texts

P. Dumouchel, Emozioni. Saggio sul corpo e il sociale, Medusa 2008.
D. Evans, Emozioni. La scienza del sentimento, Laterza 2002
J. Plamper, Storia delle emozioni, il Mulino 2012

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

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

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

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

Testi d’esame:

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

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

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

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

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: to be determined.

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 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 (and reprints)

or

M. Capasso, Introduzione alla Papirologia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2005 (and reprints)

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 (and reprints)

The course presents the structures of the Italian language, first examining them according to the level of belonging (phonological, morphological, syntactical, lexical) and then highlighting their functioning within the texts. Particular attention will be paid to the linguistic analysis of the contemporary short story, of which the mechanisms of textual and macrotextual construction will be observed through particular linguistic expedients. At the end of the course the student will be familiar with basic concepts and categories of Italian linguistics and will have learnt to use them to achieve a deeper and more conscious understanding of the various types of text.

Giovanardi, Claudio / De Roberto, Elisa, L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi, Milano, Pearson, 2018.
Dispense messe a disposizione del docente.

The beginnings of Italian literature in the European context

This course will provide a wide-ranging introducation to the Italian literature of the thirteenth and fourteenth century, with a specific focus on the origins and development of poetic genres, from the so-called Sicilian school through to the experience of Francesco Petrarch, which stands out as foundational for all European lyric poetry. Both the historic context and the sociological profile of writers will be emphasized. The multiple linguistic, thematic and formal connections and overlappings with other European literatures will be investigated.

NB: This programme will be valid from the Summer Exam Session 2021. Students who did not attend lectures and willing to give the exam during the Winter Exam Session 2021 will prepare the course programme of the last academic year: https://www.uniroma3.it/insegnamento-erogato/dipartimento-di-studi-umanistici/l/2019-2020/Lettere-0580706201000002/03A82BD1-FEC9-487C-AC70-4EB5ECD5FD4F--20703169/ (the programme is the same for all the curricula).
(Students who attended lectures last year and still have to give the exam, can do it normally). Since the course will be delivered in the second semester, the Winter Exam Session 2021 WILL NOT BE OPEN TO FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS.

To prepare the exam, students will read:

- G. Alfano, P. Italia, E. Russo, F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori, 2018, pp. 1-328 (Epoche 1 e 2)
- Franco Suitner, I poeti del medio evo. Italia ed Europa (secoli XII-XIV), Roma, Carocci, 2010 (o successive ristampe)
- Marco Santagata, L’amoroso pensiero. Petrarca e il romanzo di Laura, Milano, Mondadori, 2014

Texts and materials discussed during lectures, and not included in the volumes in Bibliography, will be available online.