From research to storytelling: St. Peter’s in the Vatican before and after the Holy Door (8th-17th centuries)

Why does the Holy Door titulus of the new St. Peter’s dating from the time of Paul V (1612) bear an inscription dating to the time of Gregory XIII (1575)? If every monument is a document, there must be a reason that can be investigated with the tools of historical and historical-artistic research. Tracing the history of a place in the Vatican basilica that is rich with ritual meanings, these lectures are aimed at: recomposing the phases and transformations of a place in the ancient basilica that has left memories and evidences of itself in the new one; experimenting different kinds of investigative strategies; questioning about the narrative of what we discover, because only «the story reveals the meaning of what would otherwise remain an intolerable sequence of events».

PRELIMINAY BIBLIOGRAPHY (The complete bibliography will be updated at the end of the course)

Ch. Thoenes, Persistenze, ricorrenze e innovazioni nella storia della Basilica Vaticana, in Quaderni dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura
N.S. 57/59.2011/12, pp. 85-92.

P. Liverani, San Pietro in Vaticano, in La visita alle ‘Sette chiese’, a cura di L. Pani Ermini, Roma 2000, pp. 21-45.

H. Brandenburg, A. Ballardini, Ch. Thoenes, S. Pietro. Storia di un monumento, Milano 2015; in part. A.Ballardini, La Basilica di San Pietro nel Medioevo, pp. 34-75 e le note alle pp. 325-330.

A.Ballardini, Un oratorio per la Theotokos: Giovanni VII (705-707) committente a San Pietro, in Medioevo: i committenti, XIII Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 21-26 settembre 2010, a cura di A.C. Quintavalle, Milano-Parma 2011, pp. 98-116.

A.Ballardini, Piccola ma aurea: la Porta Santa nell'antico San Pietro, in Quando la Fabbrica costruì San Pietro. Un cantiere di lavoro, di pietà cristiana e di umanità (XVI-XIX secolo), a cura di Assunta Di Sante e Simona Turriziani, Foligno 2016, pp. 19-41.

A. Ballardini, Von Iohannes VII. zu den Renaissancepäpsten. Die Öffnung der Heiligen Pforte in Alt-St.Peter, in Die Päpste und Rom zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter. Formen der Päpstlichen Machtentfaltung (17. - 19. März 2016), Hrg. Norbert Zimmermann, Tanja Michalsky, Alfried Wieczorek, Stefan Weinfurter, Schnell & Steiner 2017, pp. 29-53. (disponibile anche in italiano).


For Erasmus Students: (at the Library L. Grassi, Piazza della Repubblica, 10):

Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, edited by Rosamond McKitterich, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson and Johanna Story, Cambridge University Press 2013.


To consult at the Library L.Grassi, Piazza della Repubblica, 10:

Tiberii Alpharani De Basilicae Vaticanae antiquissima et nova structura, a cura di M. Cerrati (Studi e testi, XXVI), Roma 1914.

G. Grimaldi, Descrizione della basilica antica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Codice Barberini latino 2733, a cura di R. Niggl, (Codices e Vaticanis selecti, XXXII), Città del Vaticano 1972.

CINQUECENTO VILLAS IN LATIUM: FUNCTION, DECORATION, AND PATRONAGE.

The course will concern the typology of the Cinquecento villa and its features, especially related with function, patronage, and pictorial decoration. Different typologies of the villa will be compared, starting from its Quattrocento origin, inspired to the ancient and classical models, to the most magnificent examples of late Cinquecento, built thank to the lavish patronage of popes and cardinals. Classes will be integrated, when possible, with visits to the monuments described during the course, with the active participation of the students, through seminars and oral papers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Introduction:
D. R. Coffin, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome, Princeton 1979, pp. 63-110.
J. S. Ackerman, The Belvedere as a Classical Villa, in “Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes”, 14, 1951, pp. 70-91.

Villa Farnesina Chigi:
La Farnesina, in I luoghi di Raffaello a Roma, Roma 1983, pp. 35-41; 45-73.
F. Cappelletti, “Sentirsi ospite di un umanista dei giorni sereni di Raffaello”: Agostino Chigi e la decorazione della Farnesina, 1505-1520, in R. Varoli Piazza (ed.), Raffaello. La loggia di Amore e Psiche alla Farnesina, Milano 2002, pp. 31-53.
R. Varoli Piazza, Un esempio di “Concinnitas”, in R. Varoli Piazza (ed.), Raffaello. La loggia di Amore e Psiche alla Farnesina, Milano 2002, pp. 57-69.

Villa Lante:
Henrik Lilius, Gli affreschi di Villa Lante, in Villa Lante al Gianicolo, T. Carunchio, S. Örmä (eds.), Roma 2005, pp. 77-131.

Villa Madama:
Ch. L. Frommel, Villa Madama in Raffaello architetto, Ch. L. Frommel, M. Tafuri, S. Ray (eds.), Milano 1984, pp. 311-337.
C. Cieri Via, Il mito solare nelle decorazioni romane, in Le favole antiche. Produzione e committenza a Roma nel Cinquecento, pp. 47-73.

Villa Giulia:
Villa Giulia in Oltre Raffaello. Aspetti della cultura figurativa del Cinquecento romano, Roma 1984, pp. 174-208.
C. Acidini Luchinat, Taddeo e Federico Zuccari fratelli pittori, Milano 1998, I, pp. 31-43.

Casino di Pio IV:
M. Fagiolo, M. L. Madonna, La Casina di Pio IV. Pirro Ligorio e l’architettura come geroglifico, in “Storia dell’arte”, 1972, pp. 237-281.

Villa d’Este a Tivoli:
D. R. Coffin, Villa d’Este at Tivoli, Princeton 1960, pp. 41-68.
P. Tosini, Girolamo Muziano e la nascita del paesaggio alla veneta nella Villa d’Este a Tivoli: con alcune osservazioni su Federico Zuccari, Livio Agresti, Cesare Nebbia, Giovanni de’ Vecchi e altri, in “Rivista dell’Istituto di Archeologia e Storia dell’arte”, 22, 1999(2000), pp. 189-231.
P. Tosini, Presenze e compresenze tra Villa d’Este e il Gonfalone, in “Bollettino d’arte”, 2005, 132, pp. 43-59.

Villa Medici:
Villa Medici: il sogno di un cardinale. Collezioni e artisti di Ferdinando de’ Medici (exhib. catalogue, Rome 1999-2000), M. Hochmann (ed.), pp. 15-46; 67-73; 75-87; 105-122.

Palazzo Farnese di Caprarola:
I. Faldi, Il palazzo Farnese di Caprarola, Torino 1981, pp. 15-72; 93-96; 136-137; 177-178; 209-210; 241-242; 261-263; 283-284; 305-307.
P. Tosini, Entry with updates on Caprarola.

Villa Peretti Montalto a Termini:
P. Tosini, Immagini ritrovate. Decorazione a Villa Peretti Montalto tra Cinque e Seicento, Roma 2015, pp. 41-49; 55-76; 105-111.

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

https://uniroma3-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/ptosini_os_uniroma3_it/EkuTEBiNP_1BsloYnqW58l4Bd3by4SvMGxgQfzEFQ-hBhA?e=rrE3mP

Spazio: a journal in post-war Italy
The course will focus on the journal "Spazio", founded by Luigi Moretti in 1950 in Rome and published for about three years. The journal, recently digitized by the Biblioteca delle Arti at Roma Tre University, has been a place of formal experimentation and unconditional support for modern art and architecture. Along with some interesting investigation into history of art and architecture, “Spazio” deals with some crucial and controversial aspects of the Italian post-war period, related to the legacy of the fascist regime.

Spazio: http://arti.sba.uniroma3.it/rivistaspazio/

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, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• 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.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels. The basic level will focus on the following topics: the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

In Module I, the following topics will be analysed: The Republic, the “Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque” (The Common Man’s Movement), The mass-parties, the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties. T34he crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the League.


Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics: changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement, the strategy of tension and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right, the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

Module 2 furthers the reflections already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years. Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) and “Berlusconismo”.


BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

Umberto Gentiloni, “Storia dell’Italia Contemporanea”, Il Mulino

Marco Tarchi, “L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo”, Il Mulino


This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.
Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

In Module 1, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the strategy of tension
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose one of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

From research to storytelling: St. Peter’s in the Vatican before and after the Holy Door (8th-17th centuries)

Why does the Holy Door titulus of the new St. Peter’s dating from the time of Paul V (1612) bear an inscription dating to the time of Gregory XIII (1575)? If every monument is a document, there must be a reason that can be investigated with the tools of historical and historical-artistic research. Tracing the history of a place in the Vatican basilica that is rich with ritual meanings, these lectures are aimed at: recomposing the phases and transformations of a place in the ancient basilica that has left memories and evidences of itself in the new one; experimenting different kinds of investigative strategies; questioning about the narrative of what we discover, because only «the story reveals the meaning of what would otherwise remain an intolerable sequence of events».

PRELIMINAY BIBLIOGRAPHY (The complete bibliography will be updated at the end of the course)

Ch. Thoenes, Persistenze, ricorrenze e innovazioni nella storia della Basilica Vaticana, in Quaderni dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura
N.S. 57/59.2011/12, pp. 85-92.

P. Liverani, San Pietro in Vaticano, in La visita alle ‘Sette chiese’, a cura di L. Pani Ermini, Roma 2000, pp. 21-45.

H. Brandenburg, A. Ballardini, Ch. Thoenes, S. Pietro. Storia di un monumento, Milano 2015; in part. A.Ballardini, La Basilica di San Pietro nel Medioevo, pp. 34-75 e le note alle pp. 325-330.

A.Ballardini, Un oratorio per la Theotokos: Giovanni VII (705-707) committente a San Pietro, in Medioevo: i committenti, XIII Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 21-26 settembre 2010, a cura di A.C. Quintavalle, Milano-Parma 2011, pp. 98-116.

A.Ballardini, Piccola ma aurea: la Porta Santa nell'antico San Pietro, in Quando la Fabbrica costruì San Pietro. Un cantiere di lavoro, di pietà cristiana e di umanità (XVI-XIX secolo), a cura di Assunta Di Sante e Simona Turriziani, Foligno 2016, pp. 19-41.

A. Ballardini, Von Iohannes VII. zu den Renaissancepäpsten. Die Öffnung der Heiligen Pforte in Alt-St.Peter, in Die Päpste und Rom zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter. Formen der Päpstlichen Machtentfaltung (17. - 19. März 2016), Hrg. Norbert Zimmermann, Tanja Michalsky, Alfried Wieczorek, Stefan Weinfurter, Schnell & Steiner 2017, pp. 29-53. (disponibile anche in italiano).


For Erasmus Students: (at the Library L. Grassi, Piazza della Repubblica, 10):

Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, edited by Rosamond McKitterich, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson and Johanna Story, Cambridge University Press 2013.


To consult at the Library L.Grassi, Piazza della Repubblica, 10:

Tiberii Alpharani De Basilicae Vaticanae antiquissima et nova structura, a cura di M. Cerrati (Studi e testi, XXVI), Roma 1914.

G. Grimaldi, Descrizione della basilica antica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Codice Barberini latino 2733, a cura di R. Niggl, (Codices e Vaticanis selecti, XXXII), Città del Vaticano 1972.

CINQUECENTO VILLAS IN LATIUM: FUNCTION, DECORATION, AND PATRONAGE.

The course will concern the typology of the Cinquecento villa and its features, especially related with function, patronage, and pictorial decoration. Different typologies of the villa will be compared, starting from its Quattrocento origin, inspired to the ancient and classical models, to the most magnificent examples of late Cinquecento, built thank to the lavish patronage of popes and cardinals. Classes will be integrated, when possible, with visits to the monuments described during the course, with the active participation of the students, through seminars and oral papers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Introduction:
D. R. Coffin, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome, Princeton 1979, pp. 63-110.
J. S. Ackerman, The Belvedere as a Classical Villa, in “Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes”, 14, 1951, pp. 70-91.

Villa Farnesina Chigi:
La Farnesina, in I luoghi di Raffaello a Roma, Roma 1983, pp. 35-41; 45-73.
F. Cappelletti, “Sentirsi ospite di un umanista dei giorni sereni di Raffaello”: Agostino Chigi e la decorazione della Farnesina, 1505-1520, in R. Varoli Piazza (ed.), Raffaello. La loggia di Amore e Psiche alla Farnesina, Milano 2002, pp. 31-53.
R. Varoli Piazza, Un esempio di “Concinnitas”, in R. Varoli Piazza (ed.), Raffaello. La loggia di Amore e Psiche alla Farnesina, Milano 2002, pp. 57-69.

Villa Lante:
Henrik Lilius, Gli affreschi di Villa Lante, in Villa Lante al Gianicolo, T. Carunchio, S. Örmä (eds.), Roma 2005, pp. 77-131.

Villa Madama:
Ch. L. Frommel, Villa Madama in Raffaello architetto, Ch. L. Frommel, M. Tafuri, S. Ray (eds.), Milano 1984, pp. 311-337.
C. Cieri Via, Il mito solare nelle decorazioni romane, in Le favole antiche. Produzione e committenza a Roma nel Cinquecento, pp. 47-73.

Villa Giulia:
Villa Giulia in Oltre Raffaello. Aspetti della cultura figurativa del Cinquecento romano, Roma 1984, pp. 174-208.
C. Acidini Luchinat, Taddeo e Federico Zuccari fratelli pittori, Milano 1998, I, pp. 31-43.

Casino di Pio IV:
M. Fagiolo, M. L. Madonna, La Casina di Pio IV. Pirro Ligorio e l’architettura come geroglifico, in “Storia dell’arte”, 1972, pp. 237-281.

Villa d’Este a Tivoli:
D. R. Coffin, Villa d’Este at Tivoli, Princeton 1960, pp. 41-68.
P. Tosini, Girolamo Muziano e la nascita del paesaggio alla veneta nella Villa d’Este a Tivoli: con alcune osservazioni su Federico Zuccari, Livio Agresti, Cesare Nebbia, Giovanni de’ Vecchi e altri, in “Rivista dell’Istituto di Archeologia e Storia dell’arte”, 22, 1999(2000), pp. 189-231.
P. Tosini, Presenze e compresenze tra Villa d’Este e il Gonfalone, in “Bollettino d’arte”, 2005, 132, pp. 43-59.

Villa Medici:
Villa Medici: il sogno di un cardinale. Collezioni e artisti di Ferdinando de’ Medici (exhib. catalogue, Rome 1999-2000), M. Hochmann (ed.), pp. 15-46; 67-73; 75-87; 105-122.

Palazzo Farnese di Caprarola:
I. Faldi, Il palazzo Farnese di Caprarola, Torino 1981, pp. 15-72; 93-96; 136-137; 177-178; 209-210; 241-242; 261-263; 283-284; 305-307.
P. Tosini, Entry with updates on Caprarola.

Villa Peretti Montalto a Termini:
P. Tosini, Immagini ritrovate. Decorazione a Villa Peretti Montalto tra Cinque e Seicento, Roma 2015, pp. 41-49; 55-76; 105-111.

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

https://uniroma3-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/ptosini_os_uniroma3_it/EkuTEBiNP_1BsloYnqW58l4Bd3by4SvMGxgQfzEFQ-hBhA?e=rrE3mP

Spazio: a journal in post-war Italy
The course will focus on the journal "Spazio", founded by Luigi Moretti in 1950 in Rome and published for about three years. The journal, recently digitized by the Biblioteca delle Arti at Roma Tre University, has been a place of formal experimentation and unconditional support for modern art and architecture. Along with some interesting investigation into history of art and architecture, “Spazio” deals with some crucial and controversial aspects of the Italian post-war period, related to the legacy of the fascist regime.

Spazio: http://arti.sba.uniroma3.it/rivistaspazio/

The course aimes to introduce students to the reading of the whole Scienza nuova, focusing expecially on the relevance of the work for the aesthetic thought.

Giambattista Vico, The New Science (Principi di Scienza nuova d'intorno alla comune natura delle nazioni (1744). Many italian editions are available.
Leonardo Amoroso Introduzione alla Scienza nuova di Vico, Pisa, ETS

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 as television programs, documentaries, commercials, posters. A good knowledge of the Italian contemporary history is preparatory to the course content.

Course program
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
A text of your choice between
- Paolo Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020
- Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Roberta Bracciale, La politica pop online, Il Mulino 2019

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:
- Paolo Mancini, Il PostPartito, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, solo parte seconda pag. 115-285.

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

Course title 2020-2021: Purity and pollution, guilt and sin, contamination and contagion in Ancient Christianity
Teaching articulation: 6 CFU
Semester: I

Course description:
Christians inherit from the Jewish world a corpus of Scriptures that they reinterpret in the light of Jesus' message: among them, a prescriptive book like Leviticus which, through a sophisticated classification system, regulates rites and behaviors. The detailed description of the sources of pollution (unclean animals, corpses of animals, blood, diseases such as leprosy, illicit sexual intercourse, etc.) and the rites necessary to restore the state of purity, acquires, in Christian reading, new and multiple meanings, expressions of different Christianities. These interpretations are rooted in specific conceptions of the relationships that must exist between God, the world and man and are often able to provide the faithful with answers to the questions raised by personal misfortune, natural disasters, illnesses; furthermore, they contribute to determine an alternative religious system to Judaism and the Greco-Roman religious world.
The course aims to focus attention on some texts - chosen as emblematic of different conceptions and practices - and to reconstruct their cultural assumptions through an appropriate historical contextualization.

Bibliography:
For attending students:
M.Douglas, Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, Routledge, London 1966 ( and further editions)
Sources provided during the course
The attending studendts are expected to write a short paper on a chosen topic
For non attending students:
M.Douglas, Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, Routledge, London 1966 (and further editions)
The non attending students are expected to read one of the following books:
P.Sacchi, Sacro/profano impuro/puro nella Bibbia e dintorni, Morcelliana, Brescia 2007.
A.Destro-M.Pesce, Antropologia delle origini cristiane, Laterza, Bari 1995.
F. Vecoli, Il sole e il fango. Puro e impuro tra i padri del deserto, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2007.
M.Poorthuis – J.Schwartz (eds.), Purity and Holiness. The Heritage of Leviticus, Brill,
Leiden 2000.

Christianity and secularization
Starting from the political and social transformations introduced by the French Revolution, the course intends to analyze the evolution of doctrinal debates and State legislation which during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries profoundly modified the relationship between society and Christian religion, and aims to verify the repercussions that the impact with the modernity and the secularization have had on the internal life of the Christian communities, in their various components.
The analysis will be conducted by reading the sources and comparing different historiographic interpretations of the topics covered.

1) Source dossier provided by the teacher through Moodle.
2) René RÉMOND, La secolarizzazione. Religione e società nell’Europa contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999
3) One book chosen from the following:
- Daniele MENOZZI, La Chiesa cattolica e la secolarizzazione, Torino, Einaudi, 1993
- Giovanni MICCOLI, Il mito della cristianità, a cura di Daniele Menozzi, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2017.

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

First semester (six weeks).
Monday and Wednesday, 12-14 hours, STREAMING LESSON.
Friday, 9-11 hours, Aula 15, LESSON IN PRESENCE
Beginning of the course: Monday, October 5th, 2020.

Course title 2020-2021: A Diogneto

The course aims to deepen, according to various perspectives of investigation (philological, linguistic, literary, historical, doctrinal) the discourse of the protrettic genre that an anonymous author, probably around the end of the second century, addressed to the pagan Diognetus. From its discovery onwards, this work, composed in a very elegant Greek and transmitted to us by a single manuscript, continues to arouse great interest for its message on the relationship between Christians and the "world", as well as numerous questions about its literary unity and many passages, problematic from the point of view of the critique of the text.

A Diogneto. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e note di commento a cura di F. RUGGIERO, Roma: Città Nuova, 2020.

General section.
For students who have never taken an exam in Ancient Christian Literature: M. SIMONETTI - E. PRINZIVALLI, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, Bologna: EDB, 2010.
For students who have already taken exams in Ancient Christian Literature: H.Y. GAMBLE, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Brescia: Paideia, 2006.

Course title:
Monastic traditions of the Latin West: the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville

Course description:
The monographic module intends in the first place to retrace the origins and typologies of the monastic phenomenon - notoriously one of the most characteristic expressions of religious and cultural history of the Middle Ages -, and then to analyze, with particular attention to the lexicon and the use of sources, the Regula monachorum by Isidore of Seville, a text that has not been studied so far, but due to one of the greatest auctoritates of medieval culture. - As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at guiding the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.

1. Isidorus Hispalensis, Regula monachorum, ed. J. Campos Ruiz, in: Santos Padres españoles, II : San Leandro, San Isidoro, San Fructuoso. Reglas monásticas de la España visigoda. Los tres libros de las ‘Sentencias’, Madrid 1971 (Bibl. de Auctores Cristianos, vol. 321), pp. 90-124.

2. M. Di Marco, Note sulla terminologia monastica di Isidoro di Siviglia:aspetti istituzionali strutturali e materiali della vita cenobitica, in Latinitas S.N. III/1 (2015), pp. 55-85.
Id., Dum ad dormiendum uadunt. Note sul lessico isidoriano relativo alle tentazioni notturne dei monaci (Isid. reg. monach. 13), in Paideia LXXIII (2018), pp. 1953-1967.
Id., ‘Psalmorum spiritalia sacramenta’ : note sul lessico liturgico-rituale nella ‘Regula monachorum’ di Isidoro di Siviglia, in Latinitas S.N. VII/1 (2019), pp. 65-83.

3. F. Trisoglio, Introduzione a Isidoro di Siviglia, Ed. Morcelliana, Brescia 2009.

4. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti:
- M. Pacaut, Monaci e religiosi nel Medioevo, trad.it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
- A. Rapetti, Storia del monachesimo medievale, Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.

Optional readings:

- G. M. Colombás, El monacato primitivo, Madrid 2004.
- M. Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2003.
- J. C. Martín Iglesias, Réflexions sur la tradition manuscrite de trois oeuvres d'Isidore de Séville: le De natura rerum, la Regula monachorum et le De origine Getarum, Vandalorum, Sueborum, in Filologia Mediolatina. Studies in Medieval Latin Texts and Transmission XI (2004), pp. 205-263.
- S. Pricoco, Il monachesimo, Ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003.

In light of the close interrelation between music and visual arts within the historical Avant-garde and the second Avant-garde, the module will analyze the shared aesthetic concepts, with particular regard to the reception of the poetics of Impressionism and Symbolism by Claude Debussy, and of Paul Klee's work by Pierre Boulez. A monographic analysis will be dedicated to the incidental music composed by Claude Debussy for Le martyre de Saint Sébastien (1911), a 'mystery play' written by Gabriele d'Annunzio.

Reference text being defined.

Poesia e cultura dei trovatori: alle origini della letteratura romanza
Il corso presenterà, a partire dalla lettura analitica di alcuni brani rappresentativi dei principali generi della letteratura delle origini, l’emergere e il consolidarsi, nel Medioevo romanzo, dei valori insieme etici, estetici e letterari della cortesia. Sarà messa in luce la fondamentale importanza di questa stagione culturale per l'evoluzione della letteratura nell'Europa romanza del Due- e Trecento, seguendo la ripresa e la rielaborazione di alcuni motivi, topoi e ideali cortesi, dalla lirica siciliana fino ai capolavori di Dante e Petrarca.

Testi:
- Jaufre Rudel, L’amore di lontano, a cura di G. Chiarini, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Bernart de Ventadorn, Canzoni, a cura di M. Mancini, Roma, Carocci, 2003;
- Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova, a cura di S. Carrai, BUR, 2009;
- Giovanni Boccaccio – Francesco Petrarca, Griselda, a cura di L.C. Rossi, Palermo, Sellerio, 1990.
Ulteriori testi saranno messi a disposizione durante le lezioni.

This course provides the students with experiences and skills concerning the basic elements of composition in performing arts: Movement, Space, Expression, Rhythm.
The course will treat some definitions and experiences of the expressive movement, of his formal, dynamic and symbolic values, in practices and reflections on the physical action during the first decades of the twentieth century, searching in a field shared by theatre, dance, gymnastics, visual cultures and anthropology.

Foreign students can study Eisenstein, Mauss and Warburg's texts in their native language versions or translations

This course will address the growing, from about mid-thirteenth-century, of a new kind of poetry, focused on the analytical description of passion and of the physiological and psichological effects of love on the lover, on the praise of the beloved woman and of his ennobling power, and on man as a rational being. The beginnings and the various outcomes of this poetic manner, traditionally labelled as ‘stil novo’, will be investigated through a close reading of the oeuvre of the three main poets of Italian Duecento: Guido Guinizelli, Guido Cavalcanti, the young Dante Alighieri. Special attention will be paid: (1) to the philosophical knowledge that substantiates their poetry and to the intellectualistic character of their works; (2) to the dialogue that they established among themselves, with other poets (such as Guittone d’Arezzo and Bonagiunta da Lucca) and intellectuals.

Students will read in depth the following texts:

- texts by Guinizelli in "Poesie dello Stilnovo", a cura di Marco Berisso (Milano: Bur-Rizzoli, 2006), pp. 69-87.
- Guido Cavalcanti, "Rime", a cura di Roberto Rea e Giorgio Inglese (Roma: Carocci editore, 2011 and reprints).
- Dante Alighieri, "Vita nova", a cura di Stefano Carrai (Milano: BUR, 2009 and reprints).
- Enrico Fenzi, "La canzone d’amore di Guido Cavalcanti e i suoi antichi commenti" (Milano: Ledizioni, 2015, pp. 1-174; first Edition: Genova, Il melangolo, 1999).

On Moodle students will find some other texts discussed during lectures and the Power Point presentations that highlight some key-points.
Lessons of the 12 and 19 November, devoted to Cavalcanti and to the medical literature on the pathology of love, have been recorded and are available on Stream.

Further readings:

- R. Antonelli, «Cavalcanti o dell’interiorità», in «Critica del Testo» IV, 2001, 1. «Alle origini dell'io lirico. Cavalcanti o dell'interiorità» (2001), pp. 1–21 (available through Discovery).
- F. Bruni, «Semantica della sottigliezza» (1978), in Id., «Testi e chierici del medioevo» (Genova: Marietti, 1991), pp. 91–134.
- G. Gorni, «La Beatrice di Dante, dal tempo all’eterno», in D. Alighieri, «Vita Nova», a cura di L. C. Rossi (Milano: Mondadori, 1999), pp. V-LX.
- E. Pasquini, «Il “dolce stil novo”», in «Storia della letteratura italiana», a c. di Enrico Malato, vol. I. t. 2. «Prosa e poesia del Duecento. Dante» (Milano: Il Sole 24 ore, 2005), 649–721.

Students not attending lectures will also read:
- P. Borsa, «La nuova poesia di Guido Guinizelli» (Firenze: Cadmo, 2007).
They are strongly encouraged to get in touch with the teacher, in order to discuss the preparation of the exam.

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

Bibliografia

• P. ROMANELLI, Le Province e la loro amministrazione, in Guida allo studio 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.
• E. 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(ristampa 2010)
• G. BEJOR, M.T. GRASSI, S. MAGGI, F. SLAVAZZI, Arte e Archeologia delle Province romane, Mondadori Università, Milano, 2011.

Private forms of Early Christian cult

Assignment:

C. Sfameni, Residenze e culti in età tardoantica, Scienze e lettere, Roma 2014.

Not attending students must add to the Assignment:

C. Sfameni, Ville residenziali in età tardoantica, Edipuglia, Bari 2006.

Christian and Medieval Iconography (I Semester - 6 CFU)

Sarcophagi in Late Antiquity

The course will give the students a method which is necessary to read the themes depicted in the plastic funerary production of Rome, Arles, Ravenna and Constantinople, observing similarities and differences, both stylistic and chronological. Lessons will retrace the itinerary of roman and mediterranean ateliers, which carved specially sarcophagi, in marble or local stone, with neutral, christian or symbolic scenes. Will be analyzed the main centers of production, such as Rome, Ostia, Arles, Ravenna, Milan and Constantinople.

Assignment:
F. Bisconti, H. Brandenburg (edd.), Sarcofagi tardoantichi, paleocristiani ed altomedievali, Città del Vaticano 2004.
Handouts provided during lessons.

Not attending students must add to the Assignment:
F. Bisconti, Temi di Iconografia Paleocristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000: Introduction and a choice of 20 iconographical entries.

Topic and Scope of the Course
This course provides an introduction to the history of modern and contemporary architecture in Eu-rope and North America, from the 15th century up to now. Lectures will explore the relationships be-tween historical developments in architecture and wider changes in the social, technological and aesthet-ic realms. In this sense, the study of architecture will serve as a window into broader aspects of art histo-ry. Simultaneously, however, the course will examine architecture as a unique medium, with its own visual codes, spatial forms and material structures. Emphasis will be placed on learning to look at build-ings and architectural representations in a deeper way. Textbook readings will help to introduce some of the basic issues while primary texts will supplement textbook readings.
Enjoying Rome, the class will focus on the Urbe’s development, through some guided tours around the city center. Specifically, the course will consider the following themes: Leon Battista Alberti and Fil-ippo Brunelleschi (XV century); Bramante, Raphael, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Michelangelo and their pupils (early modern); Counter Reformist architecture (Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Giacomo Della Porta, Palladio); Baroque architecture (Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini and Pietro Cortona) and late baroque architecture in Rome (Carlo Fontana and Carlo Rainaldi) as well as in the rest of Italy (Filippo Juvarra, Bernardo Antonio Vittone, Nicola Salvi, Luigi Vanvitelli and Ferdinando Fu-ga). Finally, last lectures will discuss contemporary architecture: from the Industrial Revolution to Post Modern, including Art Noveau, the avant-garde, the Viennese Secession, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hugo Häring, Hans Scharoun, Alvar Aalto, Italian Rationalism and Fascism archi-tecture.

Just for foreign students:

1. Lotz, Wolfgang. 1995. "Architecture in Italy 1500-1600". New Haven: Yale University Press.
2. Wittkower, Rudolf. 1999. "Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750", 3 volumes, revised by J. Connors and J. Montagu. New Haven: Yale University Press.
3. Curtis, William. 1982. "Modern architecture since 1900". Oxford: Phaidon.

Caravaggio 1598-1606: public-private commissions and patrons

The course focuses on Caravaggio’s crucial roman years, from the Contarelli Chapel to the escape from Rome. The cours will stress the most important chronological and thematic problems in the lombard painter’s roman career, mostly based on the last ten years studies. Fundamental will be the knowledge of Caravaggio’s patrons and the spread of his style in the roman artistic milieu. If the pandemic situation allows, during the course we will visit churches and museums where Caravaggio’s works are preserved.

Selected bibliography (more specific bibliography will be indicated during the course)

R. Longhi, Ultimi studi su Caravaggio e la sua cerchia, in Il Caravaggio di Roberto Longhi, collana di Proporzioni 2005 (ma 1ed in “Proporzioni”, 1943).

Roma al tempo di Caravaggio, catalogo della mostra, a cura di R. Vodret, Milano 2011, saggi e schede indicate durante il corso.

Caravage à Rome, catalogo della mostra, a cura di F. Cappelletti, M. Cristina Terzaghi, Parigi 2019.

The course (first semester) is a reading, discussion and research seminar. The topic will be announced in class at the beginning of the course.

Gillian Rose, Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework, in «Space and Culture, India», vol. 2, n. 3, December 2014, pp. 5-13.
Giovanni Fanelli, Della composizione in fotografia, in «Critica d’Arte», 
a. LXX, n. 37-38, gennaio-giugno 2009, pp. 35-60.
Peter Hamilton, The Street and Everyday Life, in T. Bennett / D. Watson (a cura di), Understanding Everyday Life, Open University and Blackwell, Oxford 2002, pp. 91-138.
Antonello Frongia, Il luogo e la scena: la città come testo fotografico, in R. Valtorta (a cura di), Luogo e identità nella fotografia italiana contemporanea, Einaudi, Torino 2013, pp. 109-192.
Lewis Baltz, Limiti della città (ma è già stata usata questa definizione?) [1992], in Id., Scritti, Johan & Levi, Milano 2014, pp. 70-73.

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.

Art and Counter-Reformation in Rome between 20th and 21st Centuries. Itineraries in Contemporary Historiography

Focusing on the Roman historiographical situation, the course aims to provide the critical tools necessary to approach the theme regarding the relationship between art and Counter-Reformation in twentieth-century and early 2000s literature. The lessons are structured according to a seminar criterion. In other words, the students will be involved with an active role: they will prepare specific papers agreed with the teacher.

Bibliography:
H. Voss, Die Malerei der Spätrenaissance in Rom und Florenz, Leipzig 1920, ed. italiana, La pittura del tardo Rinascimento a Roma e a Firenze, Roma 1994, pp. 219-277;

F. Zeri, Pittura e controriforma. L’arte senza tempo di Scipione Pulzone da Gaeta, Torino 1957 (o edizioni successive);

C. Ginzburg, Prefazione, in Il formaggio e i vermi. Il cosmo di un mugnaio nel ’500, Torino 1976 (o edizioni successive), pp. XI-XXV;

G. Spezzaferro, Il recupero del Rinascimento, in Storia dell'arte Italiana, VI. Dal Cinquecento all'Ottocento, 1, Cinquecento e Seicento, Torino 1981, pp. 183-274;

C. Robertson, Il Gran Cardinale. Alessandro Farnese Patron of the Arts, Yale-New Haven 1992, pp. 149-207;

A. Pinelli, La bella maniera, Torino 1993, pp. 166-200;

S. Ostrow, L’Arte dei papi. La politica delle immagini nella Roma della Controriforma, Roma 2002;

G. Fragnito, Istituzioni ecclesiastiche tra Riforma e Controriforma, in Cinquecento italiano. Religione, cultura e potere dal Rinascimento alla Controriforma, Bologna 2011, pp. 17-66;

P. Prodi, Ricerche sulla teorica delle arti figurative nella riforma cattolica, in Arte e pietà nella Chiesa tridentina, Bologna 2014, pp. 53-158;

M. Firpo, F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Bari-Roma 2016, pp. 3-108, 156-230;

M.V. Fontana, Nella Roma aldobrandiniana. Melius docet pictura, in Itinera tridentina. Giovanni Balducci, Alfonso Gesualdo e la riforma delle arti a Napoli, Roma 2019, pp. 103-145.


For for an in-depth analysis about the historical context, are recommended:
A. Prosperi, Il Concilio di Trento. Una introduzione storica, Torino 2001;

E. Bonora, La Controriforma, Bari-Roma 2001.

For NON-ATTENDING students, is necessary ONE MORE TEXT to chose among the following :
J. Freiberg, The Lateran in 1600: Christian concord in Counter-Reformation Rome, Cambridge 1995;

Baronio e le sue fonti, atti del convegno (Sora 2007), a cura di L. Gulia, pp. LI-LVIII, 3-50, 133-150, 301-325, 549-578, 791-932;

M. Firpo, Tra politica e religione. Nuovi studi su immagini e storia nel ’500, Pisa 2016;

Re-thinking, re-making, re-living Christian origins, a cura di I. Foletti, M. Gianandrea, S. Romano, E. Scirocco, Roma 2018, pp. 9-146, 209-234, 333-346, 407-452;

Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome, a cura di C. Franceschini, S. Ostrow, P. Tosini, Milano 2020.

Course title: The Museum in the contemporary debate: traditions and contradictions

Never as intensely as today, and at any latitude in the World, the museum institution is at the center of a debate that constantly questions its traditional status as a place of conservation, study and protection of collections. This course aims to offer a broad overview of the museum and of the Museum Studies (definition, statute, structure, services, spaces, professions) and to analyze some themes dear to Critical Museology, such as decolonization, delocalization, the development of museums of memory and human rights, the relationship with social and economic sciences, etc. The second part of the course will take place in the form of seminars conducted in class by students based on individual research. Numerous inspections are planned in the Roman museums, Covid 19 permitting.

To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he/she has studied in depth:

a) at least one of the following texts:
A Companion to Museum Studies, a cura di S. Macdonald, Malden, Mass., Blackwell, 2006
L. Cataldo, M. Paraventi, Il Museo oggi, linee guida per una museologia contemporanea, Milano Hoepli 2007
P.C. Marani, R. Pavoni, Musei, Trasformazioni di un'istituzione dall'età moderna al contemporaneo, Venezia, Marsilio, 2006
M.V. Marini Clarelli, Che cos’è un Museo, Carocci, Roma 2005
D. Poulot, Musei e museologia, Jaka book, 2008
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:
The Curation and Care of Museum Collection, a cura di B.A. Campbell, Ch. Baars, London ; New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
The contemporary Museum: shaping Museums for the Global Now, a cura di S. J. Knell, London, New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
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
M. Ferretti e A.Buzzoni, Musei, in Capire l'Italia. Il Patrimonio storico-artistico, TCI, Milano 1979, pp. 112-131.
S. Verde, Le belle arti e i selvaggi, la scoperta dell’altro, la storia dell’arte e l’invenzione del patrimonio culturale, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019

c) the dossier of articles that will be made available during the course and published on the teacher's bulletin board;

d) he or she must also have visited and analyzed spaces and services of the following Roman museums:
- Musei Capitolini
- Musei Vaticani
- Galleria Nazionale d’arte antica di Palazzo Barberini
- Galleria Nazionale d’arte antica di Palazzo Corsini
- Galleria Spada
- Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia
- Museo di Roma
- Museo Napoleonico
- Museo Mario Praz
- Museo della Centrale Montemartini
- Museo Nazionale Romano
- Museo delle Civiltà
- Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
- MAXXI
- MACRO
- Palazzo Merulana

In addition to what is indicated here, the non-attending student will have to choose and study two further texts from points a) and / or b).

The course examines the following topics:
- the concept of the archive: the archival bond and the relationship between creator and archive;
- archives and other cultural heritage complexes: libraries, museums, collections;
- phases of archive life: current records and semi-current records: characteristics and management tools;
- records appraisal for preservation and disposal;
- elements of the history of the archives;
- elements of archival legislation.

General texts

1) Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2015;

2) Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Gli archivi tra passato e presente, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005.


Articles on specific topics

- Giorgio Cencetti, Scritti archivistici (in particolare, Il fondamento teorico della dottrina archivistica; Sull'archivio come "universitas rerum"; Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico), Roma 1970, pp. 38-69;
- Claudio Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l'archivio rispecchi l'istituto?, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", 1970, pp. 145-149;
- Arnaldo D'Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell'archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in "Archivio storico italiano", 1990, pp. 3-35;
- Stefano Vitali, Memorie, genealogie, identità, in Il potere degli archivi. Usi del passato e difesa dei diritti nella società contemporanea, a cura di Linda Giuva, Stefano Vitali, Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Milano, Mondadori, 2007, pp. 67-134.

Women and faith in Middle Ages: feminine protagonism or social compulsion?
The lessons want to analyse the link between women’s experience and religious life in Middle Ages. Specifically, they question the objectives, the forms and ways of this participation. Is it a form of social compulsion in which women are submitted to men’s predominance – as in social dimension of family happens – or they are able to find a personal fulfilment thanks to religious dimension, also because they escape familiar contest? Which link is established with men, which are still present in religious and ecclesiastical contest like spiritual counsellors, religious Order’s founders or popes? We will try to ask these questions and others through the study of some of the most representative figures of the medieval period like Clare of Assisi, Frances of Rome, Catherine of Siena, Angela of Foligno and others. The lessons will be seminars in which we will dialogue and discuss different ideas.

1) Learning material - lecture notes and/or pdf depending on the evolution of the plague - will be elaborated during the lessons with attending students on the basis of: A. Bartolomei, Santità e mistica femminile nel medioevo, Spoleto 2013. Non-attending students must study all chapters of A. Bartolomei, Santità e mistica femminile nel medioevo, Spoleto 2013. For a deal with the publisher (CISAM) it is possible to buy the book online with a discount of 50%.

2) G. Vitolo, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un'età di transizione, Sansoni 2000: only for students who have never taken an exam of medieval history

3) All students must develop a subject of medieval history in an essay that must be arranged with the teacher during the class for the attendees, in the teacher’s office for non-attending students.

Public Estates in Early Medieval Europe.
Aim of this course is to analyse Public Estates in Medieval Europe, from 8th to 11th century. We will compare different Case Studies, from Lombard Kingdom to the North of Iberian peninsula.

V. Loré, Curtis regia e beni dei duchi. Il patrimonio pubblico nel regno longobardo, in Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto medioevo, ed. F. Bougard and V. Loré, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 31-78, and a choice of four others articles in the same volume (almost one necessarily in english, french or spanish); dossier of Medieval Sources or alternatively G. Vignodelli, Berta e Adelaide. La politica di consolidamento del potere regio di Ugo di Arles, "Reti medievali rivista", 13/2 (2012), pp. 247-294 (open access: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/rm/article/view/4794/5385) and T. Lazzari, La tutela del patrimonio fiscale: pratiche di salvaguardia del pubblico e autorità regia nel regno longobardo del secolo VIII, "Reti Medievali Rivista", 18/1 (2017), pp. 99-121 (open access: http://www.rmojs.unina.it/index.php/rm/article/view/5175/5773).

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Textbook:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", transl. by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (or. ed. Cambridge 2012)

Further bibliography (exercitations):
- A. Petrucci, C. Romeo, "«Scriptores in urbibus». Alfabetismo e cultura scritta nell’Italia altomedievale", Bologna, il Mulino, 1992
- Clémence Revest, "The Birth of the Humanist Movement at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century", «Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales» 68/3 (2013), pp. 665-696
- "Le culture del Regnum e le radici dell’umanesimo di Ronald G. Witt", ed. Amedeo de Vincentiis, «Storica» 59 (2014), pp. 89-130
- "The Italian Exception: A Debate on Ronald Witt’s «Two Latin Cultures of Medieval Italy»", ed. Giacomo Vignodelli, «Storicamente» 14 (2018)

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2) 2) Esperienza e diplomazia. Saperi, pratiche culturali e azione diplomatica nell’età moderna (XV-XVIII secc.)- Expérience et diplomatie. Savoirs, pratiques culturelles et action diplomatique à l’époque moderne (XV-XVIIIe siècle), a cura di S. Andretta, Lucien Bély, Alexander Koller, Géraud Poumarède (Introduction and 8 essays chosen by the student), Roma, Viella, 2020

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:
G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
or as an alternative the book:
E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

The origins of the Theatine order

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

Testi di riferimento:

1) E. Bonora, La controriforma, Bari-Roma, Laterza
2) A. Vanni, «Fare diligente inquisitione». Gian Pietro Carafa e le origini dei chierici regolari teatini, Roma, Viella

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
M. Firpo - F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
G. Romeo - M. Mancino, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
A. Prosperi, Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari, Torino, Einaudi

The Risorgimento seen by foreigners
Inside a general framework of events and debates related to the history of the Risorgimento,, the course intends to deepen the positions that foreigners took towards the events of the Risorgimento, conveyed both by journeys to Italy, and by diplomatic relations, and by the testimonies of the exiles who found hospitality in several European and American countries especially between 1820 and 1860. The aim is to understand also what influence foreigners' attitudes and their active participation had on Italian events.
Ample space will be given to reading and commenting on essays and documents, to start the students with a critical approach to literature and sources.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from website Moodle).
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) Il Risorgimento visto dagli altri, a cura di MATILDE DILLON - GIULIO FERRONI, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2013 (Temi e testi, 117), pp. 1-319.

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

Each student will deepen a historical text and will be guided in writing of a final paper. All the student's contributions will be presented and discussed at the end of the course.

Each student will receive a historic bibliographic source and a selected bibliography useful for the start of the individual research.

Course title: The Museum in the contemporary debate: traditions and contradictions

Never as intensely as today, and at any latitude in the World, the museum institution is at the center of a debate that constantly questions its traditional status as a place of conservation, study and protection of collections. This course aims to offer a broad overview of the museum and of the Museum Studies (definition, statute, structure, services, spaces, professions) and to analyze some themes dear to Critical Museology, such as decolonization, delocalization, the development of museums of memory and human rights, the relationship with social and economic sciences, etc. The second part of the course will take place in the form of seminars conducted in class by students based on individual research. Numerous inspections are planned in the Roman museums, Covid 19 permitting.

To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he/she has studied in depth:

a) at least one of the following texts:
A Companion to Museum Studies, a cura di S. Macdonald, Malden, Mass., Blackwell, 2006
L. Cataldo, M. Paraventi, Il Museo oggi, linee guida per una museologia contemporanea, Milano Hoepli 2007
P.C. Marani, R. Pavoni, Musei, Trasformazioni di un'istituzione dall'età moderna al contemporaneo, Venezia, Marsilio, 2006
M.V. Marini Clarelli, Che cos’è un Museo, Carocci, Roma 2005
D. Poulot, Musei e museologia, Jaka book, 2008
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:
The Curation and Care of Museum Collection, a cura di B.A. Campbell, Ch. Baars, London ; New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
The contemporary Museum: shaping Museums for the Global Now, a cura di S. J. Knell, London, New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
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
M. Ferretti e A.Buzzoni, Musei, in Capire l'Italia. Il Patrimonio storico-artistico, TCI, Milano 1979, pp. 112-131.
S. Verde, Le belle arti e i selvaggi, la scoperta dell’altro, la storia dell’arte e l’invenzione del patrimonio culturale, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019

c) the dossier of articles that will be made available during the course and published on the teacher's bulletin board;

d) he or she must also have visited and analyzed spaces and services of the following Roman museums:
- Musei Capitolini
- Musei Vaticani
- Galleria Nazionale d’arte antica di Palazzo Barberini
- Galleria Nazionale d’arte antica di Palazzo Corsini
- Galleria Spada
- Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia
- Museo di Roma
- Museo Napoleonico
- Museo Mario Praz
- Museo della Centrale Montemartini
- Museo Nazionale Romano
- Museo delle Civiltà
- Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
- MAXXI
- MACRO
- Palazzo Merulana

In addition to what is indicated here, the non-attending student will have to choose and study two further texts from points a) and / or b).

Caravaggio 1598-1606: public-private commissions and patrons

The course focuses on Caravaggio’s crucial roman years, from the Contarelli Chapel to the escape from Rome. The cours will stress the most important chronological and thematic problems in the lombard painter’s roman career, mostly based on the last ten years studies. Fundamental will be the knowledge of Caravaggio’s patrons and the spread of his style in the roman artistic milieu. If the pandemic situation allows, during the course we will visit churches and museums where Caravaggio’s works are preserved.

Selected bibliography (more specific bibliography will be indicated during the course)

R. Longhi, Ultimi studi su Caravaggio e la sua cerchia, in Il Caravaggio di Roberto Longhi, collana di Proporzioni 2005 (ma 1ed in “Proporzioni”, 1943).

Roma al tempo di Caravaggio, catalogo della mostra, a cura di R. Vodret, Milano 2011, saggi e schede indicate durante il corso.

Caravage à Rome, catalogo della mostra, a cura di F. Cappelletti, M. Cristina Terzaghi, Parigi 2019.

Course title: Flemish and Dutch artists in 17th-century Rome. Works and contexts from Rubens to Van Wittel

1. Rubens and the Flemish community in Rome
2. 'Painting from nature': "Teodoro, Enrico, Gherardo and others like them"
3. The Bentveughels
4. The Bamboccianti
5. The Italianate Landscape
6. Poussin’s Flemish Friends
7. The Portrait, the Still Life, the Veduta

For the preparation for the exam it is necessary the critical study of

a) A.Brejon de Lavergnèe, Pittori stranieri in Italia, in La pittura in Italia. Il Seicento, a cura di G.Briganti, Milano, Electa, 1989, tomo II, pp.531-558 (disponibile presso la BAU)

G. Sapori, La presenza degli artisti nordici a Roma (1530-1630). Alcune osservazioni su costanti e variabili, in Venire a Roma, restare a Roma. Forestieri e stranieri fra Quattro e Settecento, a cura di A. Serra e S. Cabibbo, Romatre-Press, 2018, pp. 179-196.

G. Sapori, Brill, Rubens, Elsheimer: integrazione, centralità, marginalità nella metropoli in Roma e gli artisti stranieri. integrazione, reti e identità (XVI-XX s.), a cura di A. Varela Braga e Th.-L. True, Roma, Artemide, 2018, pp.175-186.

L. Barroero, “Il se rendit en Italie”. Artisti stranieria Roma nel Seicento, in «Roma moderna e contemporanea», 1, 1993, pp. 13-34.

F. Cappelletti, Tempeste di mare, battaglie di navi, vedute di porti: nascita e specialisti di un genere fortunato fra l’Europa del Nord e Roma, in Agostino Tassi, catalogo della mostra (Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia), a cura di P.Cavazzini, Roma 2008, pp. 109-121.

G. J. Hoogeweerf, Il conflitto tra la insigne Accademia diSan Luca e la banda dei pittori neerlandesi, in «Archivio della R. Deputazione romana di Storia patria», 58, 1935, pp. 189-203.


G. J. Hoogewerf, Intorno al sepolcro di Bacco. Le festedegli artisti olandesi e fiamminghi a Roma nel Seicento, in «Roma. Rivista di studi e di vita romana», 2 1924, pp. 119-128.

b) i testi connessi ad almeno 2 fra le seguenti unità didattiche; ad almeno 4 unità didattiche (per chi non ha potuto frequentare regolarmente il corso).

c) i ppt delle lezioni, messi a disposizione alla fine del corso sul repository del docente.

Unità 1
RUBENS & CO. A ROMA

S. Bruno, Lo stile europeo di Peter Paul Rubens, in Rubens e la pittura fiamminga nel secolo d’oro, Firenze 2007, pp. 8-48.

Tra Fiandre e Italia: Rubens 1600-1608: regesto biografico-critico, a cura di Raffaella Morselli, Roma, Viella, 2018.

G. Capitelli, Fiamminghi e nederlandesi a scuola da Barocci, in Federico Barocci. 1535-1612. L'incanto del colore. Una lezione per due secoli, catalogo della mostra (Siena, ottobre 2009), a cura di Pizzorusso C., Giannotti A., Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana editoriale, 2009, pp. 213-232.

L. Wood Ruby, Landscape in Rome: Adam Elsheimer and Paul Bril, in Adam Elsheimer, a cura di A.Thielemann und S. Gronert, München, 2008, pp.51-70.


Unità 2
CARAVAGGIO E I CARAVAGGESCHI DI UTRECHT

A.Blankert, Caravaggio e i Paesi Bassi Settentrionali, in S.Danesi Squarzina, “fiamenghi che vanno e vengono non li puol dar regola”. Paesi Bassi e Italia fra Cinquecento e Seicento: pittura, storia e cultura degli emblemi, a cura di I.Baldriga, Sant’Oreste 1995, pp.122-158.

I. Baldriga, B.Treffers, “Una maniera meravigliosamente adatta da seguire”. Percorsi caravaggeschi tra Fiandre e Olanda, in I Caravaggeschi, a cura di A.Zuccari, Milano, Skira, 2010, tomo I, pp. 255-265.

Hendrick Terbrugghen, Gerrit van Honthorst, Jan van Bijlert, Dirck van Baburen, in I Caravaggeschi, a cura di A.Zuccari, Milano, Skira, 2010, tomo II, pp. 287-294, 325-334, 377-386; 461-472, 711-720.

G. Capitelli, Dutch Caravaggists in Rome, in Caravaggio and the Painters of the North, catalogo della mostra (Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza), a cura di G.J. van der Sman, Madrid 2016, pp. 32-41.

Unità 3
I BENTVEUGHELS

J. Verberne, TheBentvueghels (1620/1621-1720) in Rome, in Drawn to the warmth. 17th-century Dutch artists in Italy, catalogo della mostra a cura di P. Schatborn (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2001), Amsterdam 2001, pp. 22-32.

T. de Nile, Ascanius e compagni a Roma: la rappresentazione dei Bentvueghels nelle opere di Domenicus van Wijnen e nuove notizie su Francis van Bossuit e Bonaventura van Overbeek, in “Studi di storia dell’arte”, 27, 2016, pp. 211-224.

A. Lemoine, Sotto gli auspici di Bacco. La Roma dei bassifondi, da Caravaggio ai Bentvueghels, in I bassifondi del Barocco. La Roma del vizio e della miseria, catalogo della mostra (Roma, Accademia di Francia a Roma - Villa Medici (7 ottobre 2014 – 18 gennaio 2015) / Parigi, Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (24 febbraio – 24 maggio 2015), Officina libraria, Milano 2014, pp. 23-41.

G. J. van der Sman, scheda dei Ritratti dei membri della Schildersbent (anonimi disegnatori olandesi) e Adunanza per l’iniziazione di un nuovo membro nella Schildersbent (anonimo pittore nederlandese), ivi, catt. 9, 12, pp. 148-153, 166-167.

T. de Nile, scheda dei Riti di iniziazione dei Bentvueghels (M. Pool, da D. van Wijnen), ivi, cat. 12, pp. 160-165.


Unità 4
I BAMBOCCIANTI

G. Briganti, Il mito della «finestra aperta», in G. Briganti, L. Trezzani, L. Laureati, I Bamboccianti. Pittori della vita quotidiana a Roma nel Seicento, Bozzi, Roma 1983, pp. 1-36.

G. Capitelli, Bambocciate in L'Arte. Protagonisti, Temi, Capolavori, Percorsi, a cura di G.C.Sciolla, 6 voll., Torino

Unità 5
I PITTORI DI PAESAGGIO ITALIANIZZANTI

P.Schatborn, Dutch artists in Italy, in Drawn to Warmth. 17th-century Dutch artists in Italy, catalogo della mostra (Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet) a cura di P.Schatborn, Amsterdam-Zwolle, Waanders, 2001, pp.10-19.

G. Capitelli, Il paesaggio italianizzante, in La pittura di paesaggio in Italia. Il Seicento, a cura di L.Trezzani, Milano, Electa, 2004, pp. 213-232. con le voci biografiche degli artisti menzionati nel saggio.

Biografie di Cornelis van Poelenburch, Herman van Swanevelt, Bartholomeus Breensberg, Karel Dujardin, Jan Both.


Unità 6
GLI AMICI FIAMMINGHI DI POUSSIN
M. G. Barberini, François Du Quesnoy in L'idea del bello. Viaggio per Roma nel Seicento con Giovan Pietro Bellori, catalogo a cura di E. Borea e C. Gasparri con la collab. di L. Arcangeli, Roma, De Luca, 2000, pp. 394-405.
S. Danesi Squarzina, Il Sileno ebbro di Spierinck, dai baccanali alla storia sacra, in Roma. Luce ed ombra. Due dipinti tra terzo e quarto decennio del Seicento, Milano/Napoli, Galleria Silvano Lodi & Due, 2008, pp.43-85.
Giusto Fiammingo o Giovanni del Campo, Gerard Seghers, Theodoor van Loon, in I Caravaggeschi, a cura di A.Zuccari, Milano, Skira, 2010, tomo II, pp.435-440, 659-666, 743-750.

The course (first semester) is a reading, discussion and research seminar. The topic will be announced in class at the beginning of the course.

Gillian Rose, Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework, in «Space and Culture, India», vol. 2, n. 3, December 2014, pp. 5-13.
Giovanni Fanelli, Della composizione in fotografia, in «Critica d’Arte», 
a. LXX, n. 37-38, gennaio-giugno 2009, pp. 35-60.
Peter Hamilton, The Street and Everyday Life, in T. Bennett / D. Watson (a cura di), Understanding Everyday Life, Open University and Blackwell, Oxford 2002, pp. 91-138.
Antonello Frongia, Il luogo e la scena: la città come testo fotografico, in R. Valtorta (a cura di), Luogo e identità nella fotografia italiana contemporanea, Einaudi, Torino 2013, pp. 109-192.
Lewis Baltz, Limiti della città (ma è già stata usata questa definizione?) [1992], in Id., Scritti, Johan & Levi, Milano 2014, pp. 70-73.

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology: basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method, the different subjects of anthropological knowledge, and processes of globalization will be introduced in a historical view.
The second part will focus on magic and witchcraft, through the notion of history, power, body and relatedness. In particular lessons will address belief between spirituality and matter, rationalities and systems of belief, the role of historical and colonial aspects.

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

Gli studenti non frequentati dovranno aggiungere:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015, parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero): cap. 1. Sistemi chiusi e aperti, cap. 2. Pensiero metaforico e pensiero magico, cap. 3. Il pensiero mitico (pp. 141-166).

This section of the Byzantine Civilization teaching, addressed to graduate students of History and Art, Archaeology, and Religious Sciences, 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.

Firstly, this module shall deal with a topographical investigation of Constantinople, based on literary and figurative attestations that Byzantine writers and especially foreign travellers of the 14th and the 15th century offer on the city’s monuments, neighborhoods’ organizations and location and on the defensive structure, which includes but it is not limited to the great Theodosian walls.

Secondly, it shall reconstruct the final phases of the siege as well as the final battle.

Then, it shall unbiasedly analyse what was, contrary to popular belief, a not-so-predictable Turkish victory, which was the consequence of a superiority both numerical and of the military means or, with the words of Braudel, of the voluntary ‘will to fall’ of a politically exhausted Byzantium. On the contrary, the battle outcomes was unpredictable until the end, and what happened at last left speecheless and disoriented political observers from all around the world.

- 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

Through the study of the docent’s films (Zagarrio is also a filmmaker), the course will investigate the problems of film directing.

The students are required to follow the screenings and the Master classes of the Roma Tre Film Festival at the Palladium Theater.

V. Zagarrio, Eppure cinema, Roma, Sabinae edizioni, 2021

S. Scafidi, Gli strumenti della regia, voll 1-2, Roma, Dino Audino, 2020.

The epistolaries of humanists. The course intends to deepen the development of epistolary production, starting from the rebirth of the genre by Petrarch and from the new relationship established therewith correspondents, formed in a friendly and intellectual network, to continue with the epistolaries of humanism (Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini and others) until the sixteenth-century refoundation with the Letters of Pietro Aretino, the first example of a vulgar epistolary, and the letters of Bembo with their complex textual architecture.

F. Petrarca, Familiarum rerum libri, e Sine nomine, in any edition, also on line.
Selected passages from the letters of Coluccio Salutati, P. Aretino, P. Bembo and others, available on line, will be indicated during the course.

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, 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, pp. 170-237.
Pittura ellenistica in Italia e in Sicilia. Linguaggi e tradizioni, a cura di G.F. la Torre, M. Torelli, Roma 2012 (the pages will be indicated during the course).
Ricerche di pittura ellenistica : lettura e interpretazione della produzione pittorica dal IV secolo A.C. all’ellenismo, Roma 1985 (the pages will be indicated during the course).
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 (the pages will be indicated during the course).
Additional material will be available during the course,
Students not attending should contact the lecturer during the consultation times or by e-mail.

The actual methods of conducting the lessons, including the possibility of visits to museums and archaeological sites, will be communicated shortly before the start of the course (second semester)

1. lecture notes

2. exhibition catalog "Roma. La pittura di un impero", Stefano Tortorella, Serena Ensoli, Eugenio La Rocca (eds.), Skira

3. Stella Falzone, Ornata Aedificia. Pitture parietali delle case ostiensi, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato

LANDSCAPE ARCHEOLOGY: between collective MEMORY, COMMUNITY and PROJECT. Landscape archaeology approaches the communities and the history of their territories, and it contributes to the definition of criteria for sustainable development. Various case studies will be examined relating to more or less successful experiments of integration of archaeological and historical landscape studies with the design and planning of contemporary landscape contexts. The legislative stages of the regulations on the protection of territorial contexts will be retraced, up to the Faro Convention (2005), its implications and its recent implementation in Italy. Guidelines will be drawn up for the application of forms and initiatives of public archaeology, on the basis of solid 'participatory' and shared research paths. Particular attention will be given to the dynamics of perception of the historical memory of the territories, to forms of active protection of the contemporary landscape (as a product of diachronic interactions between man and environment), to the public dimension of research on the cultural values ​​of a landscape.

Reading in Italian:
-G. Volpe, Un patrimonio italiano. UTET 2016 (pp.29-180).
-G.Volpe, Archeologia Pubblica. Metodi, tecniche , esperienze. Carocci ed. 2020 (cap.1-4-5-6 + introduzione).
-F. Baratti, Ecomusei, paesaggi e comunità. Esperienze, progetti e ricerche nel Salento. Franco Angeli ed. 2012.

-C. Broodbank, Il Mediterraneo. Piccola biblioteca Einaudi, pp.44-53
-E. Zanini et al., Uomini e cose a Vignale: bilancio di un decennio di archeologia pubblica, condivisa e (forse) sostenibile, in L'archeologia pubblica prima e dopo l'archeologia pubblica, supplemento 09, 2019, pp.473-525
-E. Farinetti, I segni delle trasformazioni del paesaggio antico tra città e campagna, in C. Travaglini (a cura di) Ricerche sul patrimonio urbano tra età tardo antica e moderna tra
Testaccio e Ostiense, «Roma moderna e contemporanea», XX, 2012, 2, pp. 499-509
-E. Farinetti, I paesaggi in archeologia: analisi e interpretazione, Carocci ed. 2012, pp. 44-53 (è consigliata la lettura integrale del volumetto a chi non ha sostenuto l'esame di archeologia dei paesaggi LT)

Reading in English is available on the Moodle platform. Please contact emeri.farinetti@uniroma3.it

1. Introduction to environmental economics
1.1 The origins of the problem
1.2 Interdependency economy-environment
1.3 GDP growth and welfare measure
1.4 Sustainability
1.5 Pollution extension and types
1.6 Natural resources

2. Ethics and economics
2.1 Natural philosophy
2.2 Libertarian philosophy
2.3 Utilitarianism
2.4 Critique to utilitarianism

3. Social welfare and environmental sustainability
3.1 Pareto efficiency
3.2 Social welfare function
3.3 Kaldor- Hicks-Scitovsky compensation tests
3.4 Market failures
3.5 Second-best theorem

4. Environmental policy
4.1 Public goods
4.2 Externalities
4.3 Environmental pollution models
4.4 Flow and stock of polluting emissions
4.5 Emission efficiency in static models
4.6 Emission efficiency in dynamic models

5 Environmental policy: instruments
5.1 Tax and subsidy
5.2 Command-and-control
5.3 Permits

6 Monetary valuation
6.1 Contingent valuation method
6.2 Hedonic price method
6.3 Cost-Benefit analysis

Title: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. 4th Edition, 2011
Authors: Perman Roger, Ma Yue, Common Micheal, Maddison David, McGilvray James.
Editor: Pearson
Given the actual Covid-19 emergency lecture notes in substitution of the main text are available on Moodle.

The course will be set up in two different ways and moments: a first more theoretical part with distance lessons in which some preparatory notions of artistic technique will be addressed in relation to the degradation of works of art alongside examples of applied diagnostics; the second part will be in the presence and will include guided tours and exercises. For exercises we mean the direct viewing of some works and the live analysis of their technique and their degradation as well as their restoration.

Reference texts:
- voce "tecnica" in Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte
- Corrado Maltese, Le tecniche artistiche, Roma 1991
- Antonella Fuga, Tecniche e materiali delle arti, Milano 2004

Other texts will be communicated during the course.