Justice and the city: a reading of Plato, Republic I. After an introduction to the context and overall characteristic of Plato's Republic, the course will offer a full analysis of book I of this work.

Any edition of Plato’s Republic will do, provided that it includes the Greek text. Suggested reading: M. Vegetti, Guida alla lettura della Repubblica di Platone (Laterza: Rome-Bari 1999).

Course title 2019-2020: The apocryphal infancy gospels (1st-3rd century).

Traditions on the birth and childhood of Jesus are not only contained in works that have become canonical (the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke), but also, and to a much greater extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content, as from that of phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fate of texts without a status of authority. The module aims to deepen, from various perspectives of investigation (philological-critical, linguistic-literary, historical-doctrinal) some of the oldest works, such as the Nativity of Mary (Protoevangelium of James), Liber requiei, Stories of Childhood [paidiká] of the Lord Jesus.

Lesson materials (critical editions, translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

Etruscan Tombs: Selected Monuments of Etruscan tomb architecture (7th - 2nd cent. B.C.)

Basic Texts:

See under "Italiano" !

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

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

The course aims to reconstruct the diffusion and characteristics of early Christian mosaic production in Rome and Southern Italy, with particular regard to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and the baptistery of S. Giovanni in Fonte in Naples. The study will focus on archaeological, iconographic, stylistic and historical-artistic issues. Restoration techniques and systems will be considered.
The course includes site inspections

F. Bisconti, A. Nestori, I mosaici paleocristiani di Santa Maria Maggiore negli acquarelli della collezione Wilpert, Città del Vaticano 2000.
G. Ferri, I mosaici del battistero di San Giovanni in Fonte a Napoli, Todi 2003.
Per i non frequentanti: F. Bisconti, M. Braconi, M. Sgarlata (edd.), Arti minori e arti maggiori. Relazioni e interazioni tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo, Todi 2019: 10 articoli a scelta.

After a first part concerning the evolution of the city in Roman Italy (and its architectural, juridical, etc. aspects), the course aims to face aspects and themes of classical urbanism using the cities of Campania as sample cases ( with particular regard to Pompeii and Pozzuoli). Finally, the cases of Campania will be compared with other cities in Roman Italy.
Visits to Ostia are planned during the course.
Working students, or those who could not follow the course due to justified reasons, will have to bring an alternative program, agreed with the teacher.

General Topic:
* (Roman Italy):
- P. Sommella, Italia antica. L’urbanistica romana, Roma 1988, pp. 17-32; 55-67; 83-92; 109-123; 143-164; 227-250 (schede di Minturno: 40-41; Cosa: 71-72; Verona: 136-137; Puteoli: 217-219)

For the cases examined in detail in Pompeii and Pozzuoli, the reference texts consist of specific parts (which will be indicated during the course) of the archaeological guides suggested below, published in various editions:
Pompei:
M.P. Guidobaldi, F. Pesando, Pompei, Oplontis, Ercolano, Stabiae , Bari-Roma 2018
Puteoli:
- F. Zevi (a cura di), Puteoli, Napoli, 1993, pp. 9-30; 73-124.

Given the unavailability of some texts (out of print), they (or supplementary texts) will be made available in pdf-format.

Course title: "Civic Identity in Late Antique Italy"

Contents: Epigraphic sources in the cities of Italy from the 4th to the 6th century show that a global Italian identity did not develop even after the provincialisation of Italy, nor a provincial identity. The civic and local identity slowly weakened. The cities of Annonarian Italy adapted from the second half of the third century to the new fiscal and military needs consolidated by Diocletian and Constantine; the cities of Suburbicarian Italy remained in the orbit of the powerful and rich senatorial families, great landowners in southern Italy. Milan and Rome were the two different centres of this bipolarism. During the 4th century a "client-patron urban identity" was strong. This traditional relationship aroused deep emotions and inspired intense collective participation. The participation of citizens, their internal solidarity and affection for their homeland appear difficult to identify in the 5th-6th centuries. The survey of civic identity in Italy shows a 'negative' process of identity loss: both at the highest level of exhausted ecumenical imperialism, and at the local level of belonging to 'Romanity'.

Attending Students: Handouts (xerocopies and PDFs) and materials provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course and during the lessons.

Non-attending Students:
- A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Rome (Carocci) 2009 [mandatory];
- Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica, edited by R. Friggeri, M.G. Granino Cecere, G. Gregori, Milan (Electa) 2012 [757 pp. - € 49,00]: mandatory study of Room I + 4 Rooms of your choice.
Exercises: Visit to the 'Epigraphic Collection' of the National Roman Museum at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

Priest and king: priestly models from the origins of the movement of Jesus up to the time of Constantine

The hinge between the second and third centuries represents a crucial moment in which the figure of the single bishop at the head of a community (Mono-Episcopate) is affirmed everywhere in Christian ecumenism. To the bishop has been attributed, at the level of symbolic construction, prerogatives proper to the divine world or royalty (monarchical Episcopate): he is the absolute head, clearly superior to the rest of the clergy. At that time, on the other hand, there is a general adoption of priestly terminology to indicate the ministers of Christian worship, a phenomenon which criticism has attempted to explain, proposing different types of response but agreeing in pointing out how such a figure should be understood in the light of the categories of power and divine authority of the Roman political world . The course aims to investigate, analyzing sources of various nature- with ample space to iconographic ones- the possible cultural matrix from which Christian authors of the first centuries draw sap to create their priestly model; it also aims to follow its main developments up to the Constantine turning point, tracing continuity lines up to medieval times.

For students who attend lessons :

E.Cattaneo (ed.), I ministeri nella Chiesa antica. Testi patristici dei primi tre secoli, Milano, Paoline Editoriale Libri, 1997: historical Introduction
Sources provided during the course
They are expected to write a short paper on a chosen topic

For students who are not able to attend lessons:
E.Cattaneo (ed.), I ministeri nella Chiesa antica. Testi patristici dei primi tre secoli, Milano, Paoline Editoriale Libri, 1997: historical Introduction

They are expected to read one of the following books:
Un libro a scelta tra i seguenti:

G.Filoramo, (ed.), Teologie politiche. Modelli a confronto, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2005.
M. Maritano-M. Sajovic (edd.), Sacerdozio pagano e sacerdozio cristiano : atti del Convegno della Facoltà di Lettere cristiane e classiche della Pontificia Università Salesiana, Roma, 19-20 marzo 2010, Roma, Las, 2011.
Sabine G. MacCormack , Arte e cerimoniale nell'antichità Torino, Einaudi, 1995
Paul Zanker, La maschera di Socrate. La rappresentazione dell'intellettuale nell'arte antica, Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
A.Brent, The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order. Concepts and Images of Authority in Paganism and Early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian, Leiden, Brill, 1999.
A.Faivre, Ordonner la fraternité: pouvoir de innover et retour à l’ordre dans l’église ancienne, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1992.
G.Schöllgen, Die Anfänge der Professionalisierung des Klerus und das Kirchliche Amt in der syrischen Didaskalie, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 26, Münster, Aschendorff 1998.
A.Vilela, La condition collegiale des prêtres au IIIe siècle, Paris, Beauchesne, 1971.

Historical definition of Quaternary: paleontological and climatic criteria. Causes of the Quaternary climatic changes. Gelasian and Pleistocene glaciations. Historical palaeoclimatology during Holocene (6h).
Historic excursus on the Plio-Quaternary chronostratigraphy. The Plio-Quaternary boundary. Ages and Stages of the marine Quaternary. GSSP and the most relevant Quaternary marine Italian successions. The Holocene and the ice cores. The Anthropocene (10h).
Quaternary isotopic stratigraphy. Quaternary magnetostratigraphy. Quaternary dating methods (2h). Sea-level oscillations during Quaternary: geomorphological and palaeobiological sea-level indicators. The eustatic curves (2h).
Plio-Quaternary marine biostratigraphy: planktonic and benthonic foraminifers, calcareous nannofossils, marine molluscs and ostracods (concept of “northern” and “senegalese” guests) (8h). Historical chronology of Plio-Quaternary glaciations. Illustration of the most relevant glacial deposits on Alps and Apennines (2h).
History of the continental Plio-Quaternary stratigraphy (2h).
Plio-Quaternary biochronology based on large and small mammals, freshwater molluscs and non-marine ostracods. Pollen stratigraphy and climatic stratigraphy (8h).
Examples of relevant continental quaternary records in central Italy: the Plio-Quaternary deposits of the Roman Campaign; the intermontane basins in central Italy (Valdarno, Tiberino and l’Aquila basins) (8h).

Pdf and copies of updated specialistic scientific publications given by the teacher

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the public memory of controversial events, arena where gender identities, ethnicity and social classes are socially constructed.
The first part of the course will aim at studying artistic production and politics of cultural consumption. It will focus on the following topics: theories of the author's death, theories of reception, art as social practice, the institutional definition of artistic value, cases of " non-recognition " and plagiarism, politics of genius, canonization and practices of social exclusion, theories of cultural capital, relationship between art and advertising, the role of social media in the production of artistic reputations and in relation to the "arts worlds".
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: art and the public sphere, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the cinema in shaping the public memory of very contested pasts, sociology of museums and politics of museum exhibition, representation of ethnic identities in museums, museums as technology of gender, multimedia art.

1) Anna Lisa Tota e Antonietta De Feo (2019), La comunicazione artistica, Carocci, Roma (in publication).
2) Anna Lisa Tota, Lia Luchetti e Trever Hagen (2018) (eds.) Sociologie della memoria. Verso un’ecologia del passato, Carocci, Roma.

“I will made of it, istead of a tragedy, a comic play”: Plautus’ Amphitruo. In the course a literary setting of the comedy will be offered, toghether with a close reading of the latin text, with italian interpretation and a full commentary, paying particular attention to the aspects of staging and poetical shape (models, metrics, style).

- Tito Maccio Plauto, Anfitrione, a cura di R. Oniga. Introduzione di M. Bettini, ed. Marsilio; or: Plautus, Amphitruo, ed. by D. M. Christenson, Cambridge University Press.
- Plauto, Molière, Kleist, Giraudoux, Anfitrione. Variazioni sul mito, a cura di L. Pasetti, ed. Marsilio.

TITLE OF THE COURSE: The Bible in the culture of the Middle Ages: the De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris by Ugo di san Vittore.

DESCRIPTION: Although having as its object the reading and analysis of the De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris by Hugh of St. Victor (1096 ca.-1141), the course intends to widen the view on the multiple and complex problems - of a historical, philological, literary and doctrinal nature - concerning the use and interpretation of biblical texts in the development of culture, and in a certain way also of the mentality of the medieval West. – The course involves practical exercises meant to introduce the knowledge and the usage of the main bibliographical and informatic tools for the study and research on Medieval Latin authors.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hugo de S. Victore, De scripturis et sciptoribus sacris, PL CLXXV, coll. 9-28.
2. One of the following books:
- D. Poirel, Ugo di San Vittore. Storia, scienza, contemplazione, trad. it., Ed. Jaca Book, Milano 1997.
- P. Rorem, Hugh of Saint Victor, Oxford University Press, New York 2009.
3. One of the following books:
- La Bibbia nel Medioevo, a cura di G. Cremascoli e C. Leonardi, Ed. Dehoniane, Bologna 1996.
- B. Smalley, Lo studio della Bibbia nel Medioevo, trad. it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 1972.
4. (optional) R. M. W. Stammberger, “Diligens scrutator sacri eloquii”: an introduction to scriptural exegesis by Hugh of St Victor preserved at Admont library (ms 672), in Manuscripts and monastic culture. Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany, ed. by A. I. Beach, Brepols, Turnhout 2007, pp. 241-283.

The course will be dedicated to the reign of Claudius and its assessments in the current historical debate
During the course, there will be seminaries devoted to the comparison between the Roman Empire and the Chinese Empire

Svetonio- Life of Augustus and Tiberius

The course is for students that got the laurea triennale, trying to give them tools and methods to afford prehistory research projects in the framework of prehistory and protohistory of Rome and Latium.
A first set of lessons will be dedicated to a general introduction to chronology, material culture, ways of living and burying, spiritual manifestations and the first art examples in Latial prehistory and protohistory.
After this first part, I’ll organize a research seminar on Lakes, swamps and coastal lagoons in the Latial prehistory and protohistory.
We’ll try to examine the evolution of these peculiar landscapes, the settlement patterns, their importance in each chronological phase, asking to scholars who dealt with this problem to speak about their case-studies and at the same time, if possible, going into the field

Bibliography (texts for exam)

About pre- and protohistoric Latium;:
M.Pacciarelli, Dal villaggio alla città. La svolta protourbana del 1000 a.C. nell’Italia tirrenica, Firenze 2000, pp. 19-69.
A.Guidi, La presenza dell'uomo: dall'economia di sopravvivenza alla nascita dello Stato, in P.Sommella (a cura di), Atlante del Lazio antico. Un approfondimento critico delle conoscenze archeologiche, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, Roma 2003, pp. 27-55.

On the relevance of lakes, swamps and lagoons in the settlement patterns of prehistoric and protohistoric Latium :

A.Guidi, Gli insediamenti perilacustri di riva d'età protostorica nel Lazio centro-meridionale, in Quaderni di Protostoria 1, 1986, pp. 239-247.
M. Pacciarelli, Considerazioni sugli insediamenti perilacustri dell'Italia centrale, in Quaderni di Protostoria, 1 1986, pp.248-299.
N. Negroni Catacchio - M. Cardosa, Dalle sorgenti al mare.Rapporti tra l'area interna e le lagune costiere tra Fiora e Albegna, in N. Negroni Catacchio (a cura di), Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria V, Milano 2002, pp. 157-177.
G.L. Carancini - R.P. Guerzoni - T. Mattioli, Il popolamento della conca velina in età protostorica, in A. De Santis (a cura di), Reate e l'Ager Reatinus. Vespasiano e la Sabina: dalle origini all'impero (catalogo della mostra), Roma 2009, pp. 25-29.
C. Persiani, Il lago di Bolsena nella preistoria, in P. Petitti (a cura di), Sul filo della corrente. La navigazione nelle acque interne in Italia centrale dalla preistoria all'età moderna, Montefiascone 2009, pp. 39-82.
P.Petitti, F.Rossi eds., Preistoria di un paesaggio. La Caldera di Latera e il territorio circostante, Bolsena 2012, pp. 15-39
L.Alessandri, La ricostruzione del paesaggio antico, in L.Alessandri, Il Latium vetus nell’età del bronzo e nella prima età del ferro, British Archaeological Reports I.S. 2565, Oxford 2013, pp. 95-128.
A.Guidi, Gli abitati perilacustri e perilagunari di riva nell'ambito del popolamento protostorico del territorio laziale, in M.Marazzi, G.Pecoraro, S,Tusa (a cura di), Maria, lacus et flumina. Studi di storia, archeologia e antropologia “in acqua” dedicati a Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano, Roma 2016, pp. 209-222.

Not attending students (please contact by mail prof. Guidi before the exam)

These students must study also chapters on protohistory of central Italy (specially Latium) in the following handbook:
A.M.Bietti Sestieri, L’Italia nell’età del bronzo e nell’età del ferro, Roma 2010.

The course is intended to provide the knowledge about the Hellenistic painting in the Mediterranean through the acquisition of methodological instruments useful to understanding the pictorial experience in all its aspects (formal and stylistic, iconographic and technical). Within the course, the forms and contents of painting will be analyzed in their social and political use (painting, theatrical painting, funerary painting, etc.), embedded in the historical and cultural context. Very closely related artistic genres will also be explored, such as the figured floor mosaic and the painted stucco wall systems that developed in this period.

Main reference texts:
S. Miller Grobel, Hellenistic Painting in the Eastern Mediterranean, Mid-Fourth to Mid-First Century B.C.in The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World, edited by J.J. Pollitt, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014, 170-237.
Pittura ellenistica in Italia e in Sicilia. Linguaggi e tradizioni, a cura di G.F. la Torre, M. Torelli, Roma 2012.
Segni e colore. Dialoghi sulla pittura tardoclassica ed ellenistica, a cura di M. Harari, S. Paltineri, Roma 2012.
Ricerche di pittura ellenistica : lettura e interpretazione della produzione pittorica dal IV secolo A.C. all’ellenismo, Roma 1985.
H. Brecoulaki, La peinture funéraire de Macédoine. Emplois et fonctions de la couleur IVe-IIe s. av. J.-C. – Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity National Hellenic Research Foundation, Paris : De Boccard, 2006.
Additional material will be available during the course.
Students not attending should contact the lecturer during the consultation times or by e-mail.

General presentation of the characteristics, techniques and production contexts of artistic glass in Roman times. The evolution of this particular art form will be followed, from the late republican age to the late imperial age, through the illustration of works of art, both with power point presentations in the classroom, and with a visit to museums.

Lucia Saguì, Il vetro antico, Roma 2010

Donald B. Harden, Glass of the Caesars, London - New York 1990

A Look at the Archaeology and History of Fine Arts of the Ancient Near East-The Power of visual communication and its historical value

The bibliography on topics will be shown during the courses.
The preparation for the exam concerns both to attend lessons and to study the Bibliography shown during the lessons.

The didactic program, in the first part of the course, provides a deepening of the links between the aspects of the history of artistic techniques and those of the history of restoration, and a deepening of the literature of the restoration, produced in Italy and in the different european countries, since the beginning of the eighteenth century until the thirties of the twentieth century.

G. C, Argan, Introduzione, voce Tecnica in Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte, Novara, Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1983, vol.XIII, pp. 686-692.

P. Mora, L. Mora, P. Philippot, La conservazione delle pitture murali, Bologna, 1999, pp. 69-172.

B. Tosatti, Trattati tecnico-artistici, in "Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale", XI, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2000, pp. 316-319.

M. Ciatti, Appunti per un manuale di storia e di teoria del restauro. Dispense per gli studenti, Firenze, 2008, pp. 208-275.

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

P. Bensi, Scienziati e restauratori nell'Italia dell'Ottocento. una difficile convivenza, in Giovanni Secco Suardo La cultura del restauro tra tutela e conservazione dell'opera d'arte, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Bergamo 9-11 marzo 1995, Bollettino d’Arte, Supplemento al nr. 98, 1998, pp. 25-32.
J. Anderson, Sir Charles Eastlake e i suoi restauratori italiani: Giuseppe Molteni e Raffaele Pinti, in Giovanni Secco Suardo La cultura del restauro tra tutela e conservazione dell'opera d'arte, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Bergamo 9-11 marzo 1995, Bollettino d’Arte, Supplemento al nr. 98, 1998, pp. 57-62.
C. Giannini, Giovanni Secco Suardo: gli anni del collezionismo, in Giovanni Secco Suardo La cultura del restauro tra tutela e conservazione dell'opera d'arte, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Bergamo 9-11 marzo 1995, Bollettino d’Arte, Supplemento al nr. 98, 1998, pp. 63-72.

M. Cordaro, Metodologie e tecniche del restauro nell’opera e negli scritti di Giovanni Secco Suardo: eredità, fortuna critica, innovazioni, in Giovanni Secco Suardo La cultura del restauro tra tutela e conservazione dell'opera d'arte, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Bergamo 9-11 marzo 1995, Bollettino d’Arte, Supplemento al nr. 98, 1998, pp. 73-77.

G. Bonsanti, Giovanni Secco Suardo e Ulisse Forni: tecniche e tradizioni a confronto, in Giovanni Secco Suardo La cultura del restauro tra tutela e conservazione dell'opera d'arte, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Bergamo 9-11 marzo 1995, Bollettino d’Arte, Supplemento al nr. 98, 1998, pp. 79-82.

M. Marabelli, Le scienze chimiche per la conservazione dei dipinti nell'Italia dell'Ottocento Il trattato del conte Secco Suardo "Il Restauratore dei Dipinti", in Kermes, 2011, nr. 81, pp. 33-49.

M. Cardinali, M. B. De Ruggieri, C. Falcucci, Diagnostica artistica. Tracce materiali per la storia dell'arte e per la conservazione, Roma, 2007, pp. 13-57.

G. Perusini, Il dibattito sulla pulitura dei dipinti della National Gallery e del Louvre alla metà dell'Ottocento: alcune considerazioni generali, in La cultura del restauro. Modelli di ricezione
per la museologia e la storia dell’arte, M.B. Failla, S. A. Meyer, C. Piva, S. Ventra (a cura di), Roma, 2013, pp. 335-349.

The nation's museum.
Museum experiences and nation-building processes in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia in the long nineteenth century.

From the Musée Napoleon in Paris to the National Gallery di Washington, from the Estense Gallery of Adolfo Venturi to the Berlin museums of Wilhelm von Bode, from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the Munal in Mexico City, the course will examine the ways in which different nations capitalize their cultural assets and make them protagonists of a narrative.

Exam program

To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he has studied extensively:

a) at least one of the following texts:
M.V. Marini Clarelli, Che cos’è un Museo, Carocci, Roma 2005
D. Poulot, Musei e museologia, Jaka book, 2008.
L. Cataldo, M. Paraventi, Il Museo oggi, linee guida per una museologia contemporanea, Milano Hoepli 2007.
D. Jallà, Il museo contemporaneo, nuova edizione aggiornata, Torino Utet 2004.
A. Mottola Molfino, Il libro dei musei, Torino, Allemandi, 1998.

b) at least one of the following texts:
M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milano, Mondadori, 2011
F. Haskell, The ephemeral museum. Old master painting and the rise of the art exhibition, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000 (trad. it. La nascita delle mostre. I dipinti degli antichi maestri e l’origine delle esposizioni d’arte, Milano-Ginevra, Skira, 2008
S. Costa, D. Poulot, M. Volait ( a cura di), The period rooms : allestimenti storici tra arte, collezionismo e museologia, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2016

c) the dossier of articles that will be made available during the course at http://studiumanistici.uniroma3.it/gcapitelli/museologia/

d) he/she must also have visited and analyzed spaces and services of a group of Roman museums whose list will be made known in class and will be published here at the end of the course (June 2020).

In addition to what is indicated here, the non-attending student will have to choose two other texts from point a) or b).

An introduction to Data Mining and Data Journalism by means of the Python programming language.

course notes and slides

The course program is composed of three sections.
1) History of archaeological restoration culture, with specific focus on Rome (Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, Imperial Fora). The lectures aim to highlight the history of changes and re-use which have led to the loss of the original architectural identity up to the time of its intentional “re-creation”, starting from the second half of the Eighteenth Century. This new culture and its different outcomes developed during the last two centuries will be analyzed: excavations, restorations, reconstructions, anastylosis and enhancement projects.
2) Lectures on the restoration culture relating to its interdisciplinary point of view.
3) Small group activities (critical analysis on design projects strictly related to cultural heritage).

Section 1
- I. Insolera, Roma moderna. Un secolo di storia urbanistica 1870-1970, Roma 1962.
- R. Krautheimer, Roma. Profilo di una città, 312-1308, Roma 1981 (1° ed. 1980).
- I. Insolera-F. Perego, Archeologia e città. Storia moderna dei Fori di Roma, Bari 1983.
- M. Jonsson, La cura dei monumenti alle origini. Restauro e scavo di monumenti antichi a Roma 1800-1830, Stockholm 1986.
- S. Settis, Continuità, distanza, conoscenza. Tre usi dell'antico, in S. Settis (a cura di), Memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana, vol. III, Dalla tradizione all'archeologia, Torino 1986, pp. 373-486.
- S. Casiello, Problemi di conservazione e restauro nei primi decenni dell’Ottocento, in Id. (a cura di), Restauro tra metamorfosi e teorie, Napoli 1992.
- E. Pallottino, Roma 1846-1878: restauro di monumenti antichi tra rappezzi mimetici e ricostruzioni semplificate, in Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, 52, 1994, pp.69-71.
- P. D'Orsi, Roma: Pantheon, Portico degli Dei Consenti, Colosseo. Tre monumenti antichi restaurati a metà Ottocento, in Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, 52, 1994, pp.72-77.
- E. Pallottino, Restauro e ricostruzione dell'antico, dopo le esperienze del Governatorato di Roma e i loro precedenti ottocenteschi, in L. Prisco (a cura), Architettura moderna a Roma e nel Lazio, 1920-1945. Conoscenza e tutela, Roma 1996, pp. 55-62.
- S. Casiello (ed.), Verso una storia del restauro. Dall'età classica al primo Ottocento, Firenze 2008.
- P. Porretta, Antonio Muñoz e via dei Fori Imperiali a Roma, in E. Pallottino (ed.), Architetti e archeologi costruttori d’identità, in Ricerche di Storia dell’arte, 95, 2008, pp. 30-43.

Sections 2 e 3
- A. Ricci, Attorno alla nuda pietra. Archeologia e città tra identità e progetto, Roma 2006.
- E. Pallottino (ed.), Architetti e archeologi costruttori d’identità, in Ricerche di Storia dell’arte, 95, 2008, pp. 30-43.
- D. Manacorda, R. Santangeli Valenzani, L. Franciosini, E. Pallottino, S. Picciola, A. Carlini, P. Porretta (eds.), Arch.it.arch, dialoghi di archeologia e architettura, seminari 2005|2006, Roma 2009.
- E. Pallottino (ed.), Roma, Torre dei Conti. Ricerca, formazione, progetto, in Ricerche di Storia dell'arte, n. 108, 2012.
- P. Porretta, L'invenzione moderna del paesaggio antico della Banditaccia. Raniero Mengarelli a Cerveteri, Roma 2019.

Slides will be available to all students.
Further bibliographical references will be suggested during the course.

The course is aimed at all students wishing to gain a solid understanding, in a historical-cultural perspective, of themes and forms of Latin literature ranging from the phases immediately preceding the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the threshold of the Carolingian Renaissance, with particular reference to the culture of the so-called Roman-barbarian kingdoms. To this end, it is divided into two parts.
1) An initial cycle of lessons will offer an organic picture of authors and tendencies of Latin literary production determined by the meeting of the barbarian civilizations with Romans and Christians, between the end of the 5th century and the end of the 7th century
2) In the second part, paying attention to the aspects of form, style and metric, the course will proceed with the complete reading, interpretation and commentary of the "Aenigmata", a collection of one hundred riddles - each consisting of three hexameters - attributed to the not otherwise known Symposius. Perhaps produced in the same African environment in which, towards the end of the Vandal kingdom (534 AD), the so-called Anthologia Latina was set up, unlike other compositions transmitted only by the ms. Parisinus Lat. 10318 (the Salmasianus), the work has known a wide manuscript tradition, becoming the forefather of a very successful literary genre, halfway between teaching and entertainment.

- Aenigmata Symposii. La fondazione dell’enigmistica come genere poetico. Edizione critica, traduzione e commento a cura di Manuela Bergamin, Firenze, SISMEL. Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005.
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.

Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- F. Gasti, Profilo storico della letteratura tardolatina, Pavia University Press, 2013
(only chapters: 1-4, 8-9, 11-12, 23-26, 28-29)

or

- F. Gasti, La letteratura tardolatina. Un profilo storico (secoli III-VII d.C.), Roma, Carocci, 2020 (same chapters)

29th MAY 1453. CONSTANTINOPLE AND ITS FALL

This section of the Byzantine civilization teaching, addressed to graduate students of Sciences of religions, History and Art, aims to investigate the reasons behind the fall of Constantinople and the way in which it fell in the hands of the Osman Turks, along with the direct and indirect consequences brought by this fall to the history of the Mediterranean civilization.

A) Mandatory texts:

S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976

Codicology
The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of manuscripts, Latin and Greek, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, the external characteristics of the manuscript will be examined (material techniques for preparing the book as a physical object, ways and means of production, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of origin of the manuscript books. An in-depth study will be devoted to the methods and problems of description of the late medieval codices. This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, 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 lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Archeologia del manoscritto. Metodi, problemi, bibliografia recente, Roma, Viella, 2003;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

The first part of the course is devoted to the changes taking place within the public and political scene and the most important theoretical contributions. In the second part will be considered the main areas of transformation of political communication in relation to the recent history of Italy. In the third part will analyze the role played by television and social media in the popularization of politics. The recent election campaign of the US Presidential Elections will be analyzed and studied.
The course includes the viewing and analysis of audiovisual materials propaganda such television programs, documentaries, commercials, posters. A good knowledge of the Italian contemporary history is preparatory to the course content.

Examination program
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- G. Mazzoleni, R. Bracciale, La politica pop online, Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, solo parte seconda pag. 115-285.

For students of the Master's Degree in International Relations of Political Science, for which the examination is worth eight credits, the program also includes one of the following texts:
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, pag. 11-112.
- Paolo Mancini, Il PostPartito, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, Laterza, Roma 2018.

The following audiovisual materials supplement the course and their vision is suggested to the students.
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: http://www.lagrandestoria.rai.it/dl/portali/site/puntata/ContentItem-39b8c91a-4ca4-4ad1-8429-00e11b21b042.html
– “I politici e la tv”, Correva l’anno, Rai Tre, http://www.raiplay.it/video/2016/09/Correva-lanno—I-politici-e-la-tv-del-19092016-bae0add3-4fb2-4730-ad11-fffea112e7de.html
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 1 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYA6nWs594
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 2 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__F8kF9ObFA

Bioindication: basic concepts. Main ecological characteristics of a Bioindicator. Two ways for bioindicating: react and bioaccumulate. The homeostasis of the Bioindicators. Time and ecological relationship of the bioindicators' responses to environmental variations (perturbations). What are a stress and a stressor.
Bioindication in different levels of biological organization. Integrity and funzionality of the Ecosystem. Status verification of the biocoenoses and evaluation of the environmental quality. Two different approaches: the theories of the Top-Down and of Buttom-Up.
Bioindication and environmental monitoring. Bioindication in aquatic, edaphic and atmospheric habitat. Examples of application of the bioindication techniques. Evaluation of the environmental quality by ecological and biotic indices. Standard and sperimental techniques for monitoring activities. The bioindication in Italy. Main European and Italian directives. International and national Agencies, Authorities, Institutions for environmental monitoring.

Pdfs of the lessons performed during the course and the book: Bioindicatori ambientali, 1998, edited by F. Sartori, Graphic Arts Juri Iodice, Sannazzaro (PV).
The teacher receives Mon, Wed, Fri from 9.00 to 10.00 by appointment via email: simona.ceschin@uniroma3.it