First semester.
Time: 6 hours/week: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 12 to 2 p.m. Location: Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico. Beginning: Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

Course title 2024-2025: Roman Traditions and Apostolic Legends: Nereus and Achilleus, Processus and Martinianus and their passiones.

Some of the Roman passiones (5th-7th centuries) dedicated to martyred saints venerated in the Urbs intersect the events narrated in them with legends about Peter and Paul and the final part of their lives. The Passion of Saints Nereus and Achilleus and the Passion of Saints Processus and Martinianus will be explored in the course, according to various perspectives of investigation and with the active involvement of students.
The course is seminar-based in nature and involves the active participation of students.

Lecture materials (including critical editions of texts read in class) will be provided by the teacher.

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, 2022.
For students who have already taken exams in Ancient Christian Literature: H.Y. GAMBLE, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Brescia: Paideia, 2006.

First semester
Timetable: Thursday, 4-6 pm (Aula 1 ex Italianistica); Friday, 1-4 pm (Aula 1 ex Italianistica)
Start date: October 3, 2024

Title of the class: Between Antiquity and Byzantium: Synesius of Cyrene, Neoplatonic Philosopher and Christian Bishop (“Eppure quale realtà è più reale in sé/ che nella sua trasformazione in altro – potrei quasi ripetere a memoria./ E non è altro, è la sua profondità medesima – anche questo non devo impararlo”, Mario Luzi)

The class shall deal with an emblematic figure of Late Antiquity: Synesius of Cyrene. After being a student of the pagan philosopher Hypatia at her school in Alexandria in the 390s, Synesius was consecrated bishop of Ptolemais by the intransigent patriarch Theophilus in 411 AD. With the exception of a few introductory lectures, each meeting shall be devoted to the analysis of a specific aspect of the author’s cultural legacy – which ranges from parenetics to literary criticism, from the philosophy of history to sacred poetry – with a particular focus on his work On Dreams.

MANDATORY TEXTS:
- Neil, B., “Synesius of Cyrene on Dreams as a Pathway to the Divine”, Phronema 30/2 (2015), pp. 19-36.
- Viltanioti, I.-F., “Synesius of Cyrene: Philosophy and Poetry ʻSharing the Same Templeʼ”, in Edwards, M. J. (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy, Routledge, Abingdon-New York 2020, pp. 528-548.

This course is devoted to the earliest epigraphic evidence in Latin, from the earliest 8th-century attestations up to the finds of the early Republican age. These inscriptions convey invaluable information about many aspects related to language, private life and political culture in the early centuries of Rome, enabling us to grasp fragments of otherwise obscure processes and phenomena. Only rarely and with much effort is it possible to compare the information conveyed by archaic epigraphy with clues handed down by sources of a different nature: for this reason, the study of the oldest Latin inscriptions confronts the historian with the need to make every minute detail worth it in order to gather clues useful for reconstructing the sociocultural context within which the inscriptions were produced. This means that although the techniques and methodologies are the same as those used in the study of more recent inscriptions, archaic epigraphy requires a different and specific application of them - greater weight is given, for example, to linguistic aspects - to which students will be introduced in the course of the lectures.

Synthetic reasoning between sense and concept

The course aims to investigate the theory of gesture understood as a dynamic and continuous process of synthesis between sense and concept. In particular, starting from an analysis of the notion of synthetic judgment, the theory of transcendental schematism and mathematical and geometrical synthesis in Kant, we will then move on to analyze the metaphysical and mathematical question of the infinite and continuum in Georg Cantor and Charles S. Peirce. Finally, a proposal of mathematical gesture as a cognitive process will be explored.

The program syllabus will unfold as follows:
- Analysis of the Kantian distinction between synthetic and analytic judgments
- Analysis of Transcendental Schematism and the Kantian idea of the construction of mathematical and geometrical synthesis
- Proposal of an interpretative hypothesis of transcendental schematism as an active and dynamic synthesis of sense and concept through gesture
- Examination of Peirce's proposal of a logic of continuity
- Examination of Poincaré's conception of mathematics
- Proposal of a hypothesis on the mathematical gesture as a cognitive process starting with Giuseppe Longo

- I. Kant, “Introduction” and “On the schematism of pure concepts of understanding”, in Critique of the Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press 1998.
- C. S. Peirce, “Detached Ideas continued and the Dispute between Nominalists and Realists", in The New Elements of Mathematics (NEM), edited by C. Eisele, Mouton Publishers 1976, 4: 331-346.
- Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, Introduction, first and second part
- G. Maddalena, The Philosophy of Gesture, McGill Queens Univ 2015.
- G. Longo, "Gestualità umana nelle prove e l'incompletezza del formalismo", in Matematica e senso, Mimesis 2021, pp. 127-163.
- G. Baggio, Transcendental schematism and Quasi-transcendental semiotics. A working hypothesi. In S.P.̈. Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski (a cura di), Kant and Pragmatism, Nordic Pragmatism Network, 2019, pp. 77-97.

Recommended Texts

- G. Cantor, “Comunicazioni per la dottrina del transfinito (§§ 1-7)”, in La filosofia dell’infinito. Scritti scelti (1884-1888), Mimesis 2021, pp. 45-82.
- F. Zalamea, Peirce’s Continuum. A Methodological and Mathematical Approach.
- G. Maddalena, Metafisica per assurdo. Peirce e i problemi dell’epistemologia contemporanea, Rubbettino 2009, pp.127-223.
- F. La Mantia, C. Alunni, F. Zalamea (eds.), Diagrams and Gestures. Mathematics, Philosophy, and Linguistics, Springer 2023
- D.F. Wallace, Everything and More. A Compact History of Infinity, W. W. Norton & Company 2003

This course aims to give the students the basic concepts of applied ethics (with a specific interest in ethics of artificial intelligence) and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.

1. M. De Caro, M.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica (capp. 11-18)
2. M. De Caro, E. Terrone, I valori al cinema, Mondadori
3. M. Spitzer, Intelligenza artificiale, Corbaccio 2024.

The students taking the pre-exam at the end of the course will have to study a reduced program (which will be explained during the course), and write a short paper. All the other students will have to study the whole program above.

The course intends to present some central aspects of the 19th and 20th century debate on the philosophies of habit with a particular focus on the French debate between philosophy, psychology and literature through the analysis of the thought of Ravaisson and Proust.
The course is divided into a brief general overview of the history of the concept of habit, a focus on 19th- and 20th-century theories of habit, with specific insights into the theories of Ravaisson and Proust, and is completed by a survey of the main developments in the philosophical investigation of habit in contemporary philosophy.

For Erasmus Students:
Clare Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014
A. Elsner, T. Stern (eds. by), The Proustian Mind . London, Routledge, 2023 (Only: Chapters 9-10-11)
Mark Sinclair, Being Inclined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019

The origins of modern science: from Copernicus to Newton. Astronomy, astrology, mechanics and religion in Europe, 1500-1750 .Social and institutional settings of science in early modern Europe.

Copernico, De revolutionibus (Book I), Einaudi, Torino ;
Galileo Galilei, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, Einaudi, Torino (selections from the work);
Isaac Newton, Principia mathematica philosophiae naturalis, Tr it. Utet (selections from the work);
Didactic material circulated by the teacher

Bruno Latour, Riassemblare il sociale. Actor-Network theory, Meltemi 2022, cap. 4 ***
Donna Haraway, Chthulucene. Sopravvivere su un pianeta infetto, Nero 2019 ***
Günther Teubner, Ibridi ed attanti. Attori collettivi ed enti non umani nella società e nel diritto, Mimesis 2015, cap. 1 ***
S. Barca, Forze di riproduzione, Edizioni ambiente 2024

Letture introduttive:
F. Giardini, Assemblaggio. Una mappatura
https://rivistapolitics.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/01_giardini_politics7_01-13.pdf
- Cosmopolitiche. Ripensare la politica a partire dal Chosmos
https://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cosmopolitiche.-Ripensare-la-politica-a-partire-dal-%E2%80%9CKosmos%E2%80%9D.pdf
A. Ghelfi, Terrestre, Chthulucene, Cosmopolitica ***
- Ecologia e politica in mondi più che umani ***
G. Pierazzuoli, Una Cosmo-politica per Gaia***

*** Testi disponibili a questo link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DYtv3RxbJ0fswqyM-QDKqk7pUM-dUNW9?usp=sharing

The course will present and discuss basic notions of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research fields at the interplay between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the course will focus on the topic of moral cognition, investigating the basis of moral reasoning, motivation, choice, and judgment.

Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze texts
- Capacity to navigate the contemporary debate on the bases and mechanisms of moral cognition
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (selected parts);
2 – A. Mele (2009), Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will

Sources, tools and methods for teaching geography. The Didactics of Geography course, through the study of the main issues related to the processes of learning/teaching geography, highlights the relationships that exist between research and the didactics of the discipline, and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of the lexicon and interpretive categories of the discipline in order to understand and contextualise the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
As an in-depth study, the course will focus on the sources, tools and methods for the study and teaching of different themes such as the sea, island territories and inland areas.
Course topics: Geographical knowledge in teaching and research; development of geographical skills; geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; geography in schools and universities; national references and textbooks; geotechnologies and didactics.

THERE ARE NO SYLLABUS DISTINCTIONS FOR ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Predrag Matvejević, Breviario mediterraneo, Garzanti
• Sabatini F., Geografia delle aree interne. Discorsi e pratiche turistiche nella Sicilia fredda, Guerini, 2024.
• Materiali distribuiti dal docente.

Suggested readings:
Giovanni Verga, I malavoglia
Vito Teti, Il senso dei luoghi
Marilena Maffei, Donne di Mare
Ernesto Franco, Storie fantastiche di isole vere

THERE ARE NO SYLLABUS DISTINCTIONS FOR ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

The course is divided into four parts.
The first part aims to clarify the boundaries of the discipline, the semantic system underlying it, and the theories about the ways and times of the adoption of alphabetic writing in ancient Greece.
The second part, entitled “From Psephos to Psephisma”, examines the role of writing in the judicial, normative and legislative procedures. It considers a number of different types of inscriptions which illustrate the evolution of this process, from the simple inscriptions of the instrumentum publicum to the more elaborate epigraphic representation of assembly decrees.
The third part, “Greeks and non-Greeks in Magna Graecia”, is dedicated to an in-depth examination of a distinctive historical context. It employs the epigraphic approach to investigate the interactions between the Greek people of Magna Graecia and the indigenous populations. A particular emphasis will be placed on the relationship between the Tarentines and the Messapians.
The fourth and final part of the course will be devoted to workshop activities.

Students are asked to study M. Guarducci, L’epigrafia greca dalle origini al tardo impero (IPZS, Rome 1987) and the handouts provided during the course

Thomas De Vio Cajetan's interpretation of Thomas Aquinas.

Tommaso d’Aquino, La conoscenza di Dio, Fabbri Editori-RCS, Milano, 2001.
Tommaso d'Aquino, L'ente e l'essenza, Bompiani, Milano, 2017.
A. V., L'analogia dell'essere, Testi antichi e medievali, a cura di G. Catapano, C. Maurelli, E. Moro, Padova University Press, Padova, 2020.
A. Cappiello, Un tomista dissidente. Tommaso De Vio Gaetano, Edizioni di Pagina, Bari, 2020.

This course focuses on practice of teaching Latin language in the schools with reference to morphology, metrical analysis and prose text translation

Didactic handouts available on the teacher's online page

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

Why in the new St. Peter's of Paul V (1612) does the titulus of the Holy Door bear an inscription from the time of Gregory XIII (1575)? If it is true that every monument is a document, there must be a reason that can be investigated with the tools of historical and art-historical research. By retracing the vicissitudes of a place in the Vatican basilica charged with ritual significance, the course aims to recompose the phases and transformations of a space in the ancient basilica that has left memories and traces of itself in the new one; to experiment with different investigative strategies and to question the narration of what we discover, because only the narrative "reveals the meaning of what would otherwise remain an intolerable sequence of events".

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.

A. Ballardini, La Basilica di San Pietro nel Medioevo, in H. Brandenburg, A. Ballardini, Ch. Thoenes, S. Pietro. Storia di un monumento, Milano 2015; 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, Il perduto Oratorio di Giovanni VII nella Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. Architettura e scultura, in Santa Maria Antiqua, tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 220-233 (e relative schede)

P.Pogliani, Il perduto Oratorio di Giovanni VII nella Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. I mosaici, in Santa Maria Antiqua, tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 240-259 (e relative schede)

A.Ballardini, Ugo da Carpi, Veronica mostra il Volto Santo tra gli Apostoli Pietro e Paolo, scheda di catalogo, in I Santi d’Italia. La pittura devota tra Tiziano, Guercino e Carlo Maratta a cura di Daniela Porra e A. D’Amico, (Milano, Palazzo Reale, 24 marzo-4 giugno 2017), Cinisello Balsamo-Milano 2017, pp. 78-80 [nelle pagine seguenti: Considerazioni sulla tecnica di esecuzione dell’opera a cura di G. Capriotti e L. D’Alessandro, facoltativo]


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 (a disposizione anche in italiano).

V. Lucherini, Alfarano, Tiberio / Tiberius Alpharanus, Historiker, ad vocem in Personenlexicon zur Christlichen Archäologie, 2012, I, pp. 62-63 (a disposizione anche in italiano).

M. Ceresa, Grimaldi, Giacomo, ad vocem in Dizionario Biografico degli italiani (vol. 59, 2002) http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-grimaldi_(Dizionario-Biografico)

Short collection of notes on Giacomo Grimaldi (1568-523) ed. by Antonella Ballardini

Consultation of the main manuscripts under study on the BAV website (Digitised Manuscripts Fund) is required
https://opac.vatlib.it/mss/



Arch.Cap.S.Pietro G.5

Arch.Cap.S.Pietro A.64ter

Barb.lat. 2732

Barb.lat. 2733

Arch.Cap.S.Pietro H.3



Consultazione on line:

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

https://archive.org/details/debasilicaevatic00alfa/page/n6/mode/2up

Michael Sweerts (1618-1656) and the Rome of the Bamboccianti

Born in Brussels and died in Goa, India, living in Rome for at least a decade, Michael Sweerts is a very interesting figure in seventeenth-century European figurative culture. The course will examine his artistic production, the context within which he works. It will take place largely in churches, museums, public and private collections in the city of Rome, comparing his work with that of his contemporaries, active during the pontificate of Innocent X Pamphili.

Preparation for the exam requires in-depth, critical and informed study of.

(a) at least one of two texts of your choice: G. Kieft, I Paesi Bassi settentrionali: arte, mestiere e
committenza nel secolo d'oro, in La pittura nei Paesi Bassi, a cura di B.W.Meijer, Milano, Electa,
1997, tomo II, pp. 409-522 (disponibile su Teams) or Mariette Westermann, The Art of the
Dutch Republic. 1585-1718, New York, Harry Abrams, 1996 (available for purchase online for a
very modest amount).

(b) at least one of the following texts of your choice (or all of them):

Svetlana Alpers, Art of Description. Science and Painting in the Dutch Seventeenth Century; Simon Shama, The Embarrassment of Riches; Svetlana Alpers, Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market, 1995; Daniel Arasse, L' Ambition de Vermeer, 1993; Marco Mascolo, Rembrandt. Un artista nell'Europa del Seicento, Rome, Carocci, 2021; Les bas-fonds du baroque: la Rome du vice et de la misere, cataloge dirigée par F. Cappelletti et A. Lemoine, 2014.

(c) texts related to Michael Sweerts that will be made available in the file on Teams(the advice of course is always to read them all); including 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, Rome 1983, pp. 1-36; G. Capitelli, Bambocciate in L'Arte. Protagonists, Themes, Masterpieces, Paths, edited by G.C.Sciolla, 6 vols., Turin 2003; Eadem, Una testimonianza documentaria per il primo nucleo della raccolta del principe Camillo Pamphilj, in I capolavori della collezione Doria Pamphilj. Da Tiziano a Velázquez, exhibition catalog (Milan, Fondazione Arte e Civiltà, September 28-December 8, 1996), Skira, Milan 1996, pp. 57-80.

(d) Teaching materials, consisting of the ppts of the slides projected in class and available on Teams.

Non-attending students should add to this syllabus (with the exception of items d and e which
are precluded from them) the in-depth study of at least two other texts from those listed in (b).

Translation Course
Translation Module
Acquisition of theoretical tools and the ability to apply appropriate translation strategies depending on the type of text and the problems involved. Development of linguistic reflection and translation strategies by practising reading, analysing and translating different types of texts.

Bruno Osimo, Propedeutica della traduzione, Hoepli, 2002
-Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
- Reading texts uploaded on Teams

Recommended texts:
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022

The course focuses on Arabic computational lexicography.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general corpus building issues;
- linguistic specific features of Arabic lexicography;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language;
- variation management in Arabic lexicography;
- are unified or mixed dictionaries possible?
- systems for the electronic coding of Arabic dictionaries.

Baalbaki, Ramzi. The Arabic lexicographical tradition: from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, volume 107. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Lancioni, Giuliano. «Sull’ordinamento dei dizionari arabi classici». In In memoria di Francesco Gabrieli, suppl. no. 2 to Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71, 113–27. Roma: Bardi, 1997.

The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of Latin and Greek manuscripts, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, both the external characteristics of manuscripts will be examined (material techniques for the preparation of the book as a physical object, methods and tools for its preparation, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), and the cultural panorama of the times and places of origin of manuscript books. Therefore, each aspect will be illustrated by choosing a reference manuscript witness.
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.

Il corso intende analizzare nel dettaglio la vita culturale di uno dei centri principali del Rinascimento italiani: la corte dei Montefeltro a Urbino, sotto il governo di Guidubaldo (1482-1508) e di suo figlio adottivo Francesco Maria della Rovere (1508-1516), quando vi soggiornarono figure di primo piano quali Raffaello Sanzio, Polidoro Virgili, Pietro Bembo, Baldassarre Castiglione e Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena. La prima metà delle lezioni si soffermerà sul contesto e la relazione tra le diverse arti (letterature, teatro, pittura, musica, architettura), mentre la seconda si focalizzerà sul Cortegiano, dove quella grande esperienza viene messa in scena da uno dei suoi protagonisti, per l’appunto Castiglione, diffondendo per l’Europa il duraturo mito di Urbino.

TESTI (comprese introduzioni e commenti):
--Pietro Bembo, Stanze (1507), a cura di Amelia Juri, Salerno, Roma 2020
--Baldassar Castiglione e Cesare Gonzaga, Rime e Tirsi (1508), a cura di Giacomo Vagni, Libri di Emil, Città di Castello, 2015
--Baldassar Castiglione, Vita di Guidubaldo duca di Urbino (1508), a cura di Uberto Motta, Salerno, Roma 2006
--Baldassar Castiglione, Il Cortegiano (1528), a cura di Walter Barberis, Einaudi, Torino 2017
--Altri materiali saranno forniti in pdf

STUDI CRITICI:
--Amedeo Quondam, Baldassarre Castiglione, Viella, Roma 2024.
--Altri saggi saranno forniti in pdf

FILM:
--Kenneth Branagh, Molto rumore per nulla
--Ermanno Olmi, Il mestiere delle armi
--Roberto Rossellini, La presa di potere da parte di Luigi XIV

LETTURE IN PIU’ PER I NON FREQUENTANTI
--Pietro Bembo, De Urbini ducibus (1510), a cura di Valentina Marchesi, Libri di Emil, Città di Castello, 2011
--Altri materiali saranno forniti in pdf

Dante from Vita Nova to Paradise. The course is dedicated to Dante's poetry and the development of his style. The first part includes reading, contextualization and commentary of Vita nova and part of the Rime. The second part will be occupied by the complete reading with commentary of Paradise. In addition to in-depth studies on Dante's literary language, the main hermeneutical junctions of the third canticle will be examined, also in relation to Dante's self-exegesis expressed in the Epistle to Cangrande. The course includes lectures dedicated to the reading and commentary of the proposed works, with critical insights. The final part of the course will be dedicated to the creation of critical and didactic paths on the basis of the two works considered.
The course includes frontal teaching dedicated to reading and commenting on the works considered, with critical insights. The final part of the course will be dedicated to the creation of critical and educational paths based on the two works considered.

Texts:
Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, introduzione, revisione del testo e commento di Stefano Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli, 2009.
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, a cura di G. Inglese, Roma, Carocci, 2016.
Dante Alighieri, Epistola a Cangrande, a cura di L. Azzetta, Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2024.
Bibliography:
Stefano Carrai, Il primo libro di Dante. Un'idea della "Vita Nova", Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2020.
Roberto Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
Luca Marcozzi, Dante e la povertà, Roma, Carocci, 2024.
One volume to be chosen among the two of the Lectura Dantis Romana, Cento canti per cento anni, III. Paradiso, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2014 (1. Canti I-XVII, or 2. Canti XVIII-XXXIII).
Non-attending students will add: Roberto Antonelli, Dante poeta-giudice del mondo terreno, Roma, Viella, 2021..
Any further bibliography will be indicated on the Teams channel of the course

Title: Fascism, Resistance and Liberation.
From the post-war novel to contemporary narration

The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.

Bibliography:
the bibliography indicated constitutes a broad proposal of readings from which attending students, in agreement with the teacher, will have to choose at least one novel for each group (between those of the 20th and 21st centuries). The course includes "exercises", including group exercises, in which each student will report on one of the chosen texts.

XX secolo

Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
Mario Tobino, Il clandestino
Alfredo orecchio, ll sospetto

XXI secolo

Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2023),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Michela Marzano, Stirpe e Vergogna (2023)
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021),
Scrittura industriale collettiva, In territorio nemico (2013)
Ascanio Celestini, Storia di uno scemo di guerra (2013)
Paola Soriga, Dove finisce Roma (2012)

During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Helena Janacek, Le rondini di Montecassino (2010)
Filippo Tuena, Tutti i sognatori (1999)

The course intends to present some central aspects of the 19th and 20th century debate on the philosophies of habit with a particular focus on the French debate between philosophy, psychology and literature through the analysis of the thought of Ravaisson and Proust.
The course is divided into a brief general overview of the history of the concept of habit, a focus on 19th- and 20th-century theories of habit, with specific insights into the theories of Ravaisson and Proust, and is completed by a survey of the main developments in the philosophical investigation of habit in contemporary philosophy.

For Erasmus Students:
Clare Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014
A. Elsner, T. Stern (eds. by), The Proustian Mind . London, Routledge, 2023 (Only: Chapters 9-10-11)
Mark Sinclair, Being Inclined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019

Papyrus in the Middle Ages: A Mediterranean History (4th-11th Centuries).

This course aims to address, through seminar-style approaches, the history of papyrus in the Middle Ages. It is a classic topic that, starting from Henri Pirenne's research, has been consistently investigated by scholars of written culture, who have viewed papyrus as a writing material, as well as by historians of economics, who have regarded papyrus as an indicator of trade relations across the Mediterranean.

Taking into account interpretations and debates surrounding this topic or related themes, the lessons aim to discuss studies (books, essays), and especially sources (translated into Italian) based on a specific questionnaire: in which areas of the Mediterranean was papyrus produced, and how? What were the logics, dynamics, and economic actors of its circulation across the Mediterranean after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476)? Did circulation encounter obstacles after the 7th century due to religious differences between Islam and Christianity? What were its areas of usage? How did these areas of usage vary depending on the cultural, geographical, economic, and political contexts? What impact did the economic logic of papyrus have on European cultural dynamics? When did the history of papyrus end, and why? How does the history of papyrus interact with our understanding of the cultural and economic history of the medieval Mediterranean?

Note well: In addition to participating in the discussions during the lessons, in the final section of the course students will be required to prepare and discuss, individually or in groups, a brief written text.

For attending students, the exam is essentially based on the materials provided by the professor and discussed in class. For reference reading, one can consider D. Internullo, Il papiro, la pergamena e le origini della memoria archivistica dell’Europa occidentale (secoli VI-XI), in Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall’Egitto tardoantico all’Europa carolingia, ed. by A. Ghignoli, M. Boccuzzi, A. Monte, N. Sietis, Roma 2023, pp. 119-162 (it will be available in the proper Teams channel)

For non-attending students, the examination is based on the comprehensive study of:
H. Pirenne, Maometto e Carlomagno, any of the many editions available
- C. Picard, Il mare dei califfi. Storia del Mediterraneo musulmano (secoli VII-XII), Roma, Carocci, 2017
- D. Internullo, Il papiro, la pergamena e le origini della memoria archivistica dell’Europa occidentale (secoli VI-XI), in Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall’Egitto tardoantico all’Europa carolingia, ed. by A. Ghignoli, M. Boccuzzi, A. Monte, N. Sietis, Roma 2023, pp. 119-162
Note well: in addition to an integral study, non-attending students are also asked to make the three readings interact with each other, trying in particular to understand: a) how our knowledge of Mediterranean history has changed since Pirenne's book publication - thus paying attention to Picard's book in this regard; b) how the data on papyrus circulation (cf. Internullo's essay) interacts with our knowledge of the Mediterranean.

Note well 2: A remedial programme must be agreed with the lecturer for those who have never taken a basic Medieval History examination (M-STO/01).

The course will present and discuss basic notions of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research fields at the interplay between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the course will focus on the topic of moral cognition, investigating the basis of moral reasoning, motivation, choice, and judgment.

Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze texts
- Capacity to navigate the contemporary debate on the bases and mechanisms of moral cognition
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (selected parts);
2 – A. Mele (2009), Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will

The course is devoted to the history and evolution of a particular genre of literary criticism: the Lectura Dantis. After a first part of lectures dedicated to focusing on the particular genre of criticism, some examples of Lectura Dantis will be presented and analysed. During the course, in addition to a series of seminar activities, students will be asked to produce their own Lectura Dantis.

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio

The course is organized into two main sections:
Section A - Introduction to digital publishing: reading devices; mark-up and file formats; software and reading interfaces; models of content organization; multimedia, hypertexts, interactive books; digital and on-line encyclopedias; enhanced e-books; generative AI and publishing; digital book market.
Section B - The readers' point of view: reading habits in the digital ecosystem; social reading; augmented reading; online reading.

Section A
- Gino Roncaglia, La quarta rivoluzione, Laterza 2010
- Gino Roncaglia, L'architetto e l'oracolo. Forme del sapere, da Wikipedia a ChatGPT, Laterza 2023

Section B
- Maurizio Vivarelli, La lettura, Editrice bibliografica 2018

Non-attending students and students not participating in project work will add
- Francesca Tomasi, Organizzare la conoscenza: Digital Humanities e web semantico, Bibliografica 2022
or
- Fabio Ciotti, Digital Humanities - Metodi, strumenti, saperi, Carocci 2023

A list of alternative textbooks in English is available upon request.

A historical perspective on religions must grasp the stratification of their presence on the territory and reconstruct their dynamics and strategies: since 2007, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources and capital concerning religion. Innovations and trends concerning religious beliefs and practices are created in cities. Theoretical knowledge will be provided on the concept of religious space/place, the results of empirical research on the presence of religious places in increasingly plural spaces also due to migration movements and diaspora processes.

The main case study will be that of shared religious places. In particular, places where religions coexist in public spaces and in urban and suburban contexts will be analysed. In particular, studies on the relationship between space and religion: from the geography of religion to the geographies of religions.

Theories, concepts, terminology, methods related to the study of religious places and the location of the sacred in space through materiality and planning relations will be exposed and discussed.

Attending Students

1. Course notes and readings indicated in the course (see online teaching materials and additional material to be distributed by the lecturer during lectures)

2. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 or
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
or D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
or M. Giorda, La Chiesa romena in Italia, Viella 2023

3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not attending students:
1. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 and
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).

2. D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.

3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (ed B. Nuti)

The aim of the course is to provide an in-depth knowledge of the history of certain disciplines and approaches related to the field of religion and religions through a multidisciplinary and methodological history of studies.
In particular, we will explore:

History
Anthropology
Sociology
Juridical apporaches
Geography
Cognitive sciences

Comparison is also one of the themes addressed in the construction of studies and research on religion
The course deals with the stages through which religion and religions have gained independent ground in academia and become an object of study: through the creation of the 'religion' model and through a process of retro-projection into the past of what is considered a religion at a given historical moment, we deal with how different prototypes found in the contemporary and subsequently in the past, in a plurality of forms, have been assumed.

Attending Students

1. Notes and readings indicated in the course (see online teaching materials and additional material to be distributed by the lecturer during lectures)

2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020
OR
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022
OR
Brent Nongbri, Prima della religione. Storia di una categoria moderna, traduzione di Alessia Piana, Claudiana 2022.

Not attending students will replace point number 1 with:

G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

The course aims to convey a solid knowledge of written Italian, addressing, with a practical approach, various topics related to the structure of the text and the different textual typologies. It will also address topics useful for the acquisition of a correct writing method and the creation of texts, with particular attention to the typologies necessary for one's course of study.

Introduction to Biblical Hebrew

In this workshop students will learn the first elements of Hebrew grammar, and how to translate narrative texts of Hebrew Bible.

G. Deiana – A. Spreafico, Guida allo studio dell'ebraico biblico, Roma 1997 (e ristampe).
Exercises and texts distributed during course sessions.

Il corso intende analizzare nel dettaglio la vita culturale di uno dei centri principali del Rinascimento italiani: la corte dei Montefeltro a Urbino, sotto il governo di Guidubaldo (1482-1508) e di suo figlio adottivo Francesco Maria della Rovere (1508-1516), quando vi soggiornarono figure di primo piano quali Raffaello Sanzio, Polidoro Virgili, Pietro Bembo, Baldassarre Castiglione e Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena. La prima metà delle lezioni si soffermerà sul contesto e la relazione tra le diverse arti (letterature, teatro, pittura, musica, architettura), mentre la seconda si focalizzerà sul Cortegiano, dove quella grande esperienza viene messa in scena da uno dei suoi protagonisti, per l’appunto Castiglione, diffondendo per l’Europa il duraturo mito di Urbino.

TESTI (comprese introduzioni e commenti):
--Pietro Bembo, Stanze (1507), a cura di Amelia Juri, Salerno, Roma 2020
--Baldassar Castiglione e Cesare Gonzaga, Rime e Tirsi (1508), a cura di Giacomo Vagni, Libri di Emil, Città di Castello, 2015
--Baldassar Castiglione, Vita di Guidubaldo duca di Urbino (1508), a cura di Uberto Motta, Salerno, Roma 2006
--Baldassar Castiglione, Il Cortegiano (1528), a cura di Walter Barberis, Einaudi, Torino 2017
--Altri materiali saranno forniti in pdf

STUDI CRITICI:
--Amedeo Quondam, Baldassarre Castiglione, Viella, Roma 2024.
--Altri saggi saranno forniti in pdf

FILM:
--Kenneth Branagh, Molto rumore per nulla
--Ermanno Olmi, Il mestiere delle armi
--Roberto Rossellini, La presa di potere da parte di Luigi XIV

LETTURE IN PIU’ PER I NON FREQUENTANTI
--Pietro Bembo, De Urbini ducibus (1510), a cura di Valentina Marchesi, Libri di Emil, Città di Castello, 2011
--Altri materiali saranno forniti in pdf

Dante from Vita Nova to Paradise. The course is dedicated to Dante's poetry and the development of his style. The first part includes reading, contextualization and commentary of Vita nova and part of the Rime. The second part will be occupied by the complete reading with commentary of Paradise. In addition to in-depth studies on Dante's literary language, the main hermeneutical junctions of the third canticle will be examined, also in relation to Dante's self-exegesis expressed in the Epistle to Cangrande. The course includes lectures dedicated to the reading and commentary of the proposed works, with critical insights. The final part of the course will be dedicated to the creation of critical and didactic paths on the basis of the two works considered.
The course includes frontal teaching dedicated to reading and commenting on the works considered, with critical insights. The final part of the course will be dedicated to the creation of critical and educational paths based on the two works considered.

Texts:
Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, introduzione, revisione del testo e commento di Stefano Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli, 2009.
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, a cura di G. Inglese, Roma, Carocci, 2016.
Dante Alighieri, Epistola a Cangrande, a cura di L. Azzetta, Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2024.
Bibliography:
Stefano Carrai, Il primo libro di Dante. Un'idea della "Vita Nova", Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2020.
Roberto Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
Luca Marcozzi, Dante e la povertà, Roma, Carocci, 2024.
One volume to be chosen among the two of the Lectura Dantis Romana, Cento canti per cento anni, III. Paradiso, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2014 (1. Canti I-XVII, or 2. Canti XVIII-XXXIII).
Non-attending students will add: Roberto Antonelli, Dante poeta-giudice del mondo terreno, Roma, Viella, 2021..
Any further bibliography will be indicated on the Teams channel of the course

Dante's «Purgatory»

The course aims to offer a comprehensive and in-depth reading of Dante's "Purgatorio." Defined by the historian Jacques Le Goff as the "poetic triumph" of the purgatorial realm, the second cantica of the "Commedia" represents the first and most significant artistic elaboration of this afterlife zone, the existence of which had been definitively recognized by the Church only a few years earlier (1274). Special attention will be given to the ways in which the poet constructs an extremely detailed and profoundly coherent space from multiple perspectives (cosmological, theological, penitential). Its various sources will be examined, with special attention to the religious practices and the theological speculation of the time. Furthermore, the course will delve deeply into Dante's reflection on poetry in this cantica: from his encounters with Casella, the troubadour Sordello, and the classical poet Statius; to his investigation of fame and artistic progress in Canto 11, and the pivotal Cantos 24 and 26 where Dante engages with various predecessors, fully defining his own poetics and a tradition of reference.

Texts:
- Dante, "Divina Commedia. Purgatorio", a cura di Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi, Milano, Mondadori, 1994 [and further editions]
NB: the "Purgatorio" must be read in its entirety.

Critical bibliography (on Moodle):
- E. Auerbach, "Sacrae scripturae sermo humilis", in Id., "Studi su Dante", Milano, Feltrinelli, 2002, pp. 167-175 [1941];
- G. Contini, "Dante come personaggio poeta", in Id., "Un’idea di Dante. Saggi danteschi", Torino, Einaudi, 20013, pp. 33-62;
- A. Pegoretti, "Dal «lito diserto» al giardino. La costruzione del paesaggio nel «Purgatorio» di Dante", Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2007.

Students not attending lectures will integrate their preparation reading the following essays (on Moodle):
- C. Delcorno, "Exemplum e letteratura tra Medioevo e Rinascimento", Bologna, il Mulino, 1989, Introduzione e pp. 195-227;
- E. Pasquini, "Il dominio metaforico", in Id., "Dante e le figure del vero. La fabbrica della «Commedia»", Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2001, pp. 179-217
- E. Raimondi, "Rito e storia nel primo canto del «Purgatorio»", in Id., "Metafora e storia. Studi su Dante e Petrarca", Torino: Einaudi, 1977 [1970], pp. 65-94.

Renaissance is the season of the long narrative, the epic-chivalric poem (Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso), in many ways the direct ancestor of the modern novel; but it is also an incredibly prolific season for the short story, which, starting from Boccaccio's model, acquires different forms, in verse and prose (including many antecedents and sources of Shakespeare). The course will follow the evolution and interaction between these two narrative genres and examine related issues, from the question of the open narrative (the novel, which also originated as a serial story) or closed narrative (novella incorniciata) to the success with the general public.

Attendig students:
Handouts supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams
A book of your chice from among:
- R. Bruscagli, Studi cavallereschi, Firenze, Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2003
- G. Mazzacurati, All’ombra di Dioneo: tipologie e percorsi della novella da Boccaccio a Bandello, a cura di Matteo Palumbo, Scandicci, La Nuova Italia, 1996 (in fotocopie)
- M. Roggero, Le carte piene di sogni. Testi e lettori in età moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006

Non-attending students:
Supplementary handouts
S. Carapezza, La novella nel Cinquecento, Milano, Unicopli, 2013

The course has a monographic character dedicated to the language of twentieth-century theatre, with particular reference to Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo and Dario Fo.

For a reference framework on twentieth-century theater and the work of the three authors, refer to the volume:
- C. Giovanardi - P. Trifone, La lingua del teatro, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015.

The course is structured in two parts. The first part deals with the syntax of contemporary Italian, with particular reference to the complex sentence and its constituent parts. Through the observation of the functioning of the structures of Italian, students will acquire full awareness of syntactic mechanisms, improve their grammatical and linguistic knowledge and identify the most appropriate methodologies for the treatment of the sentence in L1 and L2 teaching. The second part is devoted to formulating language in the teaching of Italian L1 and L2, with particular reference to proverbs, collocations, idiomatic phrases and pragmatic routines. After defining the notion of formulating language and showing its pervasiveness in the language, its various realisations are reviewed and its implications in the teaching of Italian to native and non-native speakers.

Theatre in Northern Italy and Ariosto’s experience

This course will investigate the main characteristics of italian theatre, between XVth and XVIth centuries; special attention will be addressed to Ariosto’s comedies: Cassaria (in verse), Suppositi (in verse), and Negromante (II redacton).

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7)


1) Primary Works: L. Ariosto, Cassaria, in verse (any edition; also available online: Microsoft Teams);
2) Primary Works: L. Ariosto, Suppositi, in verse) (any edition; also available online: Microsoft Teams);
3) Primary Works: L. Ariosto, Negromante (II redaction) (any edition; also available online: Microsoft Teams);


4) Criticism: *S. Ferrone, Sulle commedie in prosa dell’Ariosto, in Ludovico Ariosto. Lingua, stile e tradizione. Atti del congresso organizzato dai comuni di Reggio Emilia e Ferrara, 12-16 ottobre 1974, ed. by C. Segre, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1976, pp. 391-425;
5) Criticism: *G. Ferroni, Ariosto, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2008, pp. 47-84;
6) Criticism: *M. Baratto, La fondazione di un genere (per un’analisi drammaturgica della commedia del Cinquecento) (1980), in Id., Da Ruzante a Pirandello. Scritti sul teatro, Napoli, Liguori, 1990. pp. 11-32;
7) Ariosto commediografo, a cura di F. Arato, P. Cosentino, P. Pellizzari, Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2024.

Additional readings for non-attending students (one of the following books):

1. G. Coluccia, L’esperienza teatrale di Ludovico Ariosto, Lecce, Manni, 2001;
2. A. De Luca, Il teatro di Ludovico Ariosto, Rome, Bulzoni, 1981;
3. C. Falletti Cruciani, Il Teatro in Italia. II. Il Cinquecento e Seicento, Rome, Edizioni Studium, 1999 e 2003, pp. 13-190;
4. A. Stäuble, La commedia umanistica del Quattrocento, Florence, Olschki, 1968


Items 1, 2, 3 4, 5, and 6 will be provided by the teacher.

The course is organized into two main sections:
Section A - Introduction to digital publishing: reading devices; mark-up and file formats; software and reading interfaces; models of content organization; multimedia, hypertexts, interactive books; digital and on-line encyclopedias; enhanced e-books; generative AI and publishing; digital book market.
Section B - The readers' point of view: reading habits in the digital ecosystem; social reading; augmented reading; online reading.

Section A
- Gino Roncaglia, La quarta rivoluzione, Laterza 2010
- Gino Roncaglia, L'architetto e l'oracolo. Forme del sapere, da Wikipedia a ChatGPT, Laterza 2023

Section B
- Maurizio Vivarelli, La lettura, Editrice bibliografica 2018

Non-attending students and students not participating in project work will add
- Francesca Tomasi, Organizzare la conoscenza: Digital Humanities e web semantico, Bibliografica 2022
or
- Fabio Ciotti, Digital Humanities - Metodi, strumenti, saperi, Carocci 2023

A list of alternative textbooks in English is available upon request.

1) Paola Carucci - Maria Guercio, Manuale di Archivistica. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci 2021 (in particolare i capitoli 1-2, 5-10, 12-13) alternatively Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Bibliografica, 2023.

2) Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Gli Archivi nella società contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.

3) Raffaele Pittella, “Hence that sense of new air”. Archival debate and historiographical developments in Italy between the early and late 20th century, in “JLIS.it”, vol. 15, no. 2 (May 2024), pp.1-15.

4) G. Cencetti, Sull’archivio come «universitas rerum», in «Archivi», vol. IV, fasc. I (1937), pp. 3-13; G. Cencetti, Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico, in «L'archiginnasio», n. XXXIV, 1-3 (1939), pp. 106-117.

5) C. Pavone, Intorno agli archivi e alle istituzioni, Roma 2004, pp. 71-75 (Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l'archivio rispecchi l’istituto? [1970]).

1) Arnaldo D’Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell’archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in «Archivio storico italiano», 148/1 (1990), pp. 3-35.

2) Elio Lodolini, Storia dell'archivistica italiana. Dal mondo antico alla metà del secolo XX, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013 (sono da escludere dallo studio i capitoli che si riferiscono al Mondo Antico).

3) Raffaele Pittella, «A guisa di un civile arsenale». Carte giudiziarie e archivi notarili a Roma nel Settecento, in La documentazione degli organi giudiziari nell’Italia tardo/medievale e moderna, atti del convegno di studi (Siena, 15/17 settembre 208), a cura di A. Giorgi, S. Moscadelli, C. Zarrilli, Roma, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali, 2012, pp. 669-767.

4) Raffaele Pittella, «Le carte di questo tabulario non presentano quel grande interesse che sarebbe ragionevole il supporre». Mito e anti/mito di Roma nella fondazione dell’Archivio storico capitolino (1870/1914), in Erudizione cittadina e fonti documentarie. Archivi e ricerca storica nell’Ottocento italiano (1840/1880), a cura di A. Giorgi, S. Moscadelli, G. M. Varanini, S. Vitali, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2019, pp. 779-815.

Starting from the role of emotions in the orientation in the world and in the education process, as thought by Martha C. Nussbaum, the programme wants to examine the laycal and social meaning the abovesaid assigns to compassion. To that concept is contrasted the critical interpretation of Hannah Arendt (who considers Rousseau's compassion as a prereflessive and presocial feeling proper of the «humanity in dark times», to be replaced by the political category of friendship as conceived by Lessing). Following the contemporary interpretation of french and german enlightment, the course will examine Derrida's concept of lie, showing its coincidences with Rousseau's thought.

Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication Paperback –
Hannah Arendt, On Humanity in the darks Times, Paperback
Martha C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Cambridge University Press
Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship Paperback

Seneca and the power: the two faces of an intellectual between commitment and compromise.
The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Seneca's "Apokokokyntosis" and "Consolatio ad Polybium", and will proceed with the integral reading, interpretation and commentary of both works, paying particular attention to the formal aspects of style and, where present, of metric.

- For "Apokolokyntosis":
an edition chosen among: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokolokyntosis, a cura di G. Vannini, Milano (Mondadori), Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di R. Mugellesi, Milani (Rizzoli) e Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, a cura di G. Focardi, Firenze (Giunti).

- For "Consolatio ad Polybium":
Lucio Anneo Seneca, Le consolazioni: a Marcia, alla madre Helvia, a Polibio, introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Traina, Milano (Rizzoli).

Course title:
Cassiodorus' De anima

Course description:
The module, of a monographic nature, intends first of all to retrace, in broad terms, the developments of a theme - that of the soul - dear to the tradition of Western thought since its beginnings, and capable, as well as incessantly nourishing philosophical and religious reflection, so to speak, of a high level, also having a singular impact on mentalities, on the imagination, on life behaviors, on the self-perception and representation of the human being in Western culture, particularly in the Latin Middle Ages. A work will then be analyzed - Cassiodorus' De anima - which enjoyed widespread success for a long time, and which, due to its eclectic character but not without traits of originality, lends itself well to providing an articulated and problematic status quaestionis on the theme , as it took shape in the early medieval centuries, before the more complete elaborations of Scholasticism. – As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at orienting towards the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.

- MAGNI AURELII CASSIODORI De anima, cura et studio J. W. Halporn, Brepols, Turnholti 1973 (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 96, 533-575).
- M. DI MARCO, Scelta e utilizzazione delle fonti nel "De anima" di Cassiodoro, in Studi e Materiali di Storia delle religioni, n.s. IX,1 (1985) 93-117;
- M. DI MARCO, Note sulla simbologia dei numeri nel "De anima" di Cassiodoro, in Cassiodoro dalla Corte di Ravenna al Vivarium di Squillace. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Squillace 25-27 ottobre 1990, a cura di S. Leanza, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli-Messina 1993, 199-212.
- M. DI MARCO, Virtus adunationis. Alcuni esempi di innovazione lessicale nel De anima di Cassiodoro, in Varietate delectamur. Multifarious Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Latin. Selected Papers from the 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Ghent, 2022), Brepols, Turnhout 2024 (in corso di stampa).
- Anima e corpo nella cultura medievale, a cura di C. Casagrande e S. Vecchio, Ed. SISMEL, Firenze 1999 (Millennio medievale, 15).

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. P. Caridi, Hamas. Dalla resistenza al regime. Nuova edizione, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2023.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

The course “Greek Literature I LM” (“Materials for a cognitive criticism of literary texts in ancient Greece”) is intended for students who wish to combine deepening their knowledge of Ancient Greek with acquiring valid critical tools for interpreting literary texts. The course includes:
(A) a series of lectures aimed at illustrating the assumptions and methods of a cognitive-based literary criticism calibrated on the forms of ancient Greek literature;
(B) reading, translation, and commentary in class on a selection of texts (both in poetry and prose). Part of the texts to be worked on in class will be assigned to students so that they can be the subject of personal elaboration and presentation in class.
Attendance at the course is optional. Attending students must ensure attendance at at least two-thirds of the classes (24 out of 36 hours). For attending students, a reduction of the program is provided (see section C in Bibliography).

(A) An essential bibliography will be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course; it is strongly recommended to study T. Cave, Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2016); (B) The selection of texts to be examined in the course will be distributed by the teacher through e-learning channels (Teams); (C) M. Fantuzzi - R. L. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (CUP: Cambridge 2004). Attending students are not required to prepare on this volume.

The course aims to provide essential tools for critically and consciously addressing the contents and the challenges posed by the teaching of Ancient Greek in secondary schools today. The lessons will follow two main thematic strands:
(A) The regulatory framework governing the teaching of Greek language and literature in secondary schools;
(B) Methodologies and tools, especially digital ones, useful for developing educational pathways (for themes, literary genres, and historical-cultural contexts); in this context, the reference texts will be Plato's Protagoras and Phaedrus.
Attendance at the course is optional. Attending students must ensure attendance at at least two-thirds of the classes (24 out of 36 hours). For attending students, a reduction of the program is provided (see section C in Bibliography).

For sections A and B, the bibliographic material will be provided to students by the teacher at the beginning of the lessons; (C) a choice of one volume among: F. Carta Piras, Didattica della lingua e della letteratura greca. Materiali per la didattica del greco e per la funzione docente (Sandhi: Ortacesus 2011); L. Canfora – U. Cardinale (eds.), Disegnare il futuro con intelligenza antica. L’insegnamento del latino e del greco antico in Italia e nel mondo (Il Mulino: Bologna 2012); R. Oniga – U. Cardinale (eds.), Lingue antiche e moderne dai licei alle università (Il Mulino: Bologna 2012). Attending students are not required to prepare this part of the bibliography

- Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.

- "Cruel Venus”: Seneca's "Phaedra". The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Latin tragedy, and will proceed to philological reading, interpretation and commentary of the entire text of the senecan drama, paying particular attention to aspects of manuscript tradition and ecdotics, as well as poetic form (relationship with the models , with particular attention to Euripides' "Hippolytus", metre, style).

- - P. Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini. Storia e metodo critico, Roma (Carocci);
- M. De Nonno, Transmission and Textual Criticism, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, edd. A. Barchiesi & W. Scheidel, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-48 [photocopies of this work will be made available on line ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).

- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, ed. Carocci

1453: The 55 Days that Changed the World (“Ci sono luoghi in cui la storia è inevitabile come un incidente automobilistico — luoghi in cui la geografia provoca la storia. Uno è Istanbul, alias Costantinopoli, alias Bisanzio”. Iosif Brodskij)
Byzantine History and Civilisation LM module, which primarily targets Art History; Archaeology; Religions, Cultures, History; History and Society; Philology, Literatures and History of Antiquity students, examines the fall of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453, following fifty-five days of siege led by the young and ambitious Sultan Mehmet II Fatih.
A topographical survey of the Byzantine capital will be provided in the course: Using maps, a faithful reconstruction of the city on the eve of its fall will be presented, highlighting the defensive structures, including the great Theodosian walls, the sea walls around the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn, and the walls surrounding the imperial palace of the Blacherne.; finally, the harbour, which was barred to enemy ships in the event of an attack by stretching a long chain from Constantinople to Pera/Galata in front). After that, the course will clearly reconstruct the various phases of the siege and the final battle, illustrating the findings of the research conducted by the chair of Byzantinistics at Roma Tre and corroborated by articles published and presentations given in national and international scientific contexts. These findings contradict the widely held view that the victory of the Turks was inevitable, due to superior numerical strength and armament, or even due to the "will to fall" (Braudel) of an exhausted Byzantium on a political level.
For the conclusion of the course, students will have the opportunity to attend an educational trip to the Peloponnese, in particular to the archaeological site of Mystras (Unesco heritage site since 1989), organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lakonia. The main purpose of the event will be to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the course of the lectures.

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

The bucolic epos. The Theocritus’ bucolic Idylls
M. M:.Palumbo con note di L. Bettarini, Teocrito. Idilli e Epigrammi, Milano 2021, BUR.
Adele Teresa Cozzoli, Poeta e Filologo. Studi di poesia ellenistica, Roma 2012 (Herder edizioni)
G. Serrao, La poesia bucolica: realtà campeste e stilizzazione letteraria in L. Moretti, G. Serrao, M. Torelli, L. Franchi dell’Orto, Storia e Civiltà dei Greci, La Cultura ellenistica, 9, Bompiani, Milano 2000, pp. 180-199
Per la metrica si consiglia: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storie delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Mondadori Università 2003, 3-95; Maria Chiara Martinelli, Gli Strumenti del Poeta, Cappelli editore 1995

M. M: Palumbo con note di L. Bettarini, Teocrito. Idilli e Epigrammi, Milano 2021, BUR.
Adele Teresa Cozzoli, Poeta e Filologo. Studi di poesia ellenistica, Roma 2012 (Herder edizioni)
G. Serrao, La poesia bucolica: realtà campeste e stilizzazione letteraria in L. Moretti, G. Serrao, M. Torelli, L. Franchi dell’Orto, Storia e Civiltà dei Greci, La Cultura ellenistica, 9, Bompiani, Milano 2000, pp. 180-199
Per la metrica si consiglia: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storie delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Mondadori Università 2003, 3-95; Maria Chiara Martinelli, Gli Strumenti del Poeta, Cappelli editore 1995

THE FIGURE AND WORKS OF DANTE BETWEEN BOCCACCIO AND PETRARCH
The course aims to focus on the reception of Dante’s figure and works in Boccaccio and Petrarch, a crucial issue that also deeply involves the cultural projects of the two writers. Great space will be devoted to the ‘Trattatello in laude di Dante’ on the Boccaccio side, to the ‘Familiare’ XXI 15 and the ‘Senile’ V 2 on the Petrarchan side. Particular attention will be paid to the Dante manuscripts in the libraries of Boccaccio and Petrarch and to the takes on the ‘Comedy’ in their great vernacular masterpieces, ‘Decameron’ and ‘Canzoniere’. Other texts, as "Carmina' and 'Esposizioni sopra la Commedia' by Boccaccio, 'Rerum memorandarum libri and 'Triumphi' by Petrarch, will be taken in account.

- * G. BOCCACCIO, Trattatello in laude di Dante, in Le vite di Dante tra XIV e XVI secolo, a cura di M. BERTÉ e M. FIORILLA, Iconografia dantesca, a cura di S. CHIODO e I. VALENTE, Roma, Salerno Editrice 2017, pp. 11-154: scelta di passi che saranno letti e commentati durante le lezioni.
- * F. PETRARCA, Fam., XXI 15, in ID., Prose, a cura di G. Martellotti, P.G. Ricci, E. Carrara, E. Bianchi, Milano, Napoli, Ricciardi, 1955, pp. 1002-1014.
- * F. PETRARCA, Sen. V 2, in ID., Res seniles (LIbri V-VIII), a cura di S. RIZZO con la collaborazione di M. BERTE', Firenze, Le Lettere, 2009, pp. 31-51.

- * M. ARIANI, «Quid incognitum»: Petrarca versus Dante?, in «L’Ellisse», XVII/1-2, 2022, pp. 9-1, pp. 77-91.
-* L. AZZETTA, Il culto di Dante, in Boccaccio, a cura di M. FIORILLA e I. IOCCA, Roma Carocci, 2021, pp. 313-333.
- * M. BERTE', I marginalia petrarcheschi alla 'Commedia', in «RIvista di Studi Danteschi» , XXIII/1, 2032, pp. 102-141.
- * S. FINAZZI, Boccaccio riflette sul latino di Dante: 'Par.' XV 28-30, in Il Dante di Boccaccio, Atti del Convegno (Certaldo Alta, 9-10 dicembre 2021), a cura di N. TONELLI, Firenze, Olschki, 2024, pp.
- * M. FIORILLA, Tracce petrarchesche nella biografia dantesca di Giovanni Boccaccio, in «L’Ellisse», XII/1, 2017, pp. 41-60.
- *M. FIORILLA, Carlo Martello tra storia e geografia: un possibile dialogo con Petrarca, in ID., Lettura del canto VIII del ‘Paradiso’, in «Filologia e critica», a. XLIX, 2019, pp. 18-24.
- * M. FIORILLA, Giovanni Boccaccio biografo e copista di Dante: un grande progetto culturale, in «Onorevole e antico cittadino di Firenze». Il Bargello per Dante, a cura di L. AZZETTA, S. CHIODO, T. DE ROBERTIS, Firenze, Mandragora, 2021, pp. 300-303.
- * M. FIORILLA, La figura e le opere di Dante nel progetto intellettuale di Giovanni Boccaccio, in «L’Ellisse», XVII/1-2, 2022, pp. 17-30
- * M. SANTAGATA, Presenze di Dante "comico” nel 'Canzoniere' del Petrarca, in «Giornale storico della letteratura italiana», CXLVI, 1969, 163-211;

Texts and Articles (marked by an asterisk) will be included in the Dispense del corso (course materials assembled by the lecturer), together with a selection of passages from 'Commedia', 'Decameron' and 'Canzoniere'. Passages of the works by Boccacccio and Petrarca examinated, an anthology of sources, copies of manuscripts will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page (MOODLE and TEAMS).

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

Caravaggio 2024 news and issues
The course will focus on the critical update of the master's career, in connection with the monographic exhibition to be held at the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica in Rome, Palazzo Barberini from March 2025.

The bibliography will be based on the catalogue of the Palazzo Barberini exhibition and will be provided in detail at the beginning of the course.

Moses the Egyptian. Texts and images of a myth.

This course aims to explore the narrative traditions about Moses against the background of Egyptian history and culture as perceived in antiquity and as revealed by modern research.

Notes and texts distributed during lessons.

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
A. Shatz, "Israel's Descent", London Review of Books, June 2024, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2VDYTvkWvPI5eh_YeF-a_EywKtSNhn0KHJhfYTe0l5VV1K8CHB8-mtvB0_aem_Aa4fZ_8aPf0b9SoRz2UWYOlU2s2YSBLMq3rjTlcSqT0WFHyHnyteanJHgNbuqvSooe_CT-hzW2Uk-unayRal5ZRO(available as a pdf file on the course website)

One of the following:

G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: The Arab uprisings: A decade of struggles - Longreads
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
Corrao FM - Redaelli R (eds), States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region, PalgraveMacMillan, 2021.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
Sune Haugbolle and Mark LeVine (eds.), Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World, London, Routledge, 2022.
Marc Owen Jones, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media, Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2022.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
Mark LeVine, We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World, University of California Press, 2022.
Shamiran Mako and Valentine M. Moghadam, After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

Translation Course
Translation Module
Acquisition of theoretical tools and the ability to apply appropriate translation strategies depending on the type of text and the problems involved. Development of linguistic reflection and translation strategies by practising reading, analysing and translating different types of texts.

Bruno Osimo, Propedeutica della traduzione, Hoepli, 2002
-Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
- Reading texts uploaded on Teams

Recommended texts:
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022

The course focuses on Arabic computational lexicography.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general corpus building issues;
- linguistic specific features of Arabic lexicography;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language;
- variation management in Arabic lexicography;
- are unified or mixed dictionaries possible?
- systems for the electronic coding of Arabic dictionaries.

Baalbaki, Ramzi. The Arabic lexicographical tradition: from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, volume 107. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Lancioni, Giuliano. «Sull’ordinamento dei dizionari arabi classici». In In memoria di Francesco Gabrieli, suppl. no. 2 to Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71, 113–27. Roma: Bardi, 1997.

During the course we will focus on the most significant developments involving the civilization that flourished in the area now occupied by the city of Rome from the 8th century BCE onward. In particular, the course aims to examine the main aspects concerning its cultural and socioeconomic history, cross-referencing the evidence preserved through the historical-antiquarian tradition with archaeological data: under the lens will be in particular the dynamics of conflict, exchanges with other communities, the formation of the Roman community and its institutions, the role of religion. The reconstruction of the earliest history of Roman civilization poses numerous problems in terms of methodology and interpretation of the sources, which over the centuries have fueled very heated debates that are still alive today: the main discussions and the different positions that have emerged within them will be the subject of specific examination, in order to introduce students to the dynamics of scientific confrontation in the field of antiquarian historiography

War, Violence and Society: Narratives of the American Civil War and Constructions of National Identity

The course aims to show how cinema can be a source for historical knowledge, a tool for narrating the past and an agent of history.
It is a source for historical knowledge of the present in which the film was filmed and processed: it provides us with information about the ideas and values of the society that produced it.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The audience has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.
On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.

Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on the film and television portrayal of ‘War, Violence and Society’, contextualising it in the period of the American Civil War (1861-1865)' and exploring aspects of the different identity narratives related to the warring parties and the overcoming of the war in a newly reunified national scene.

To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.

The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

• Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind, 1939
• John Ford, The Horse Soldiers, 1959
• Edward Zwick, Glory, 1989
• Sergio Leone, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, 1966
• Steven Spielberg, Lincoln, 2012
• Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976
• Martin Scorsese, The gangs of New York, 2002
• Anthony Minghella, Cold Mountain, 2003
• Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight, 2015
• Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, 2016
• Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled, 2017
• Antoine Fuqua, Emancipation, 2022
• John Amiel, Sommersby, 1993
• Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves, 1990
• D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, 1915

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:
• Leander Stillwell, La Guerra Civile americana nelle memorie di un soldato comune, Liberty Bell, 2017
• Luraghi R., La guerra civile americana. Le ragioni e i protagonisti del primo conflitto industriale, Milano, BUR, 2013
• Levine B., La guerra civile americana. Una nuova storia, Torino, Einaudi, 2023
• Foner E., Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017
• Hobsbawm E. J., Nazioni e nazionalismi. Programma, mito, realtà, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
• Bhabha H. K., (a cura di), Nazione e narrazione, Milano, Meltemi, 2020
• Renan E., Che cos'è una nazione?, Roma, Donzelli, 2004
• Balibar E., Wallerstein I., Razza, nazione, classe. Le identità ambigue, Trieste, Asterios, 2020
• Anderson B., Comunità immaginate. Origini e diffusione dei nazionalismi, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2018
• Chabod F., L’idea di nazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2021
• Rosso S. (a cura di), Le frontiere del far west. Forme di rappresentazione del grande mito americano, Milano, Shake edizioni, 2008
• Cartosio B., Verso Ovest. Storia e mitologia del Far West, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2020


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

The course will present and discuss some fundamental questions of contemporary moral philosophy. The course is divided into four parts, respectively focusing on themes in (1) moral psychology (investigating how people make moral decisions and judgments); (2) ethics (investigating what ought to be done from a moral point of view); applied ethics (investigating how general moral principles ought to be applied to specific areas of practical life); (4) metaethics (investigating the nature and meaning of moral belies and values).
Among the themes that will be discussed: free will and moral responsibility, moral luck, objectivism and relativism of morals, normativity, end of life issues. The goal of the course is that students learn to easily navigate the contemporary debate in moral philosophy, gaining an in-depth knowledge of some of its most important topics and methods.

Written exam, please check "Moodle-Annunci" for info and get in touch with the instructor in case of doubts
FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. J. Wolff (2020), An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, W. W. Norton & Company (only the parts indicated by the instructor)
2. H. Frankfurt (1969), "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 66, No. 23 (Dec. 4, 1969), pp. 829-839
https://doi.org/10.2307/2023833
3. T. Nagel (1979), "Moral luck", available in Nagel, Thomas, 1979, Mortal Questions, New York: Cambridge University Press
4. P. Foot, "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect" in Virtues and Vices (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978) (originally appeared in the Oxford Review, Number 5, 1967.)

Written exam, please check "Moodle-Annunci" for info and get in touch with the instructor in case of doubts
FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. J. Wolff (2020), An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, W. W. Norton & Company.
2. H. Frankfurt (1969), "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 66, No. 23 (Dec. 4, 1969), pp. 829-839
3. T. Nagel (1979), "Moral luck", available in Nagel, Thomas, 1979, Mortal Questions, New York: Cambridge University Press
4. P. Foot, "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect" in Virtues and Vices (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978) (originally appeared in the Oxford Review, Number 5, 1967.)

This course aims to give the students the basic concepts of applied ethics (with a specific interest in ethics of artificial intelligence) and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.

1. M. De Caro, M.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica (capp. 11-18)
2. M. De Caro, E. Terrone, I valori al cinema, Mondadori
3. M. Spitzer, Intelligenza artificiale, Corbaccio 2024.

The students taking the pre-exam at the end of the course will have to study a reduced program (which will be explained during the course), and write a short paper. All the other students will have to study the whole program above.

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

The exam program will be valid from the 2025 summer session.

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://www.labgeocaraci.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Caraci-Geotema-OCR.pdf).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Il viaggio prima del viaggio. Credenze, miti e desideri dalle esperienze odeporiche terrestri a quelle extraterrestri, in Annalisa D’Ascenzo (a cura di), I viaggi e la modernità. Dalle grandi esplorazioni geografiche ai mondi extraterrestri, Roma, CISGE, 2021, pp. 265-297 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/1092/1070).

Never before in recent years has the idea of Europe been at the center of public debate: for some, it is the only lifeline against nationalism and war; for others, it is the ultimate cause of all our problems and woes, especially economic ones. The invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's Russia in February 2022 has not only revived the classic themes of war and peace in public discourse but also brought back into focus the issue of the eastern expansion of the concept of Europe, a question with extraordinary historical depth.
Only a profound understanding of the long-term history of European civilization and its interactions with other civilizations around the globe can allow us to decode issues that only superficially appear to be purely contemporary. In the first part of the course, we will focus on the evolution of the notion of Europe, the various thoughts about Europe, and the long-term development of European consciousness. In the second part, we will delve into the phenomenon of exodus and internal migrations within the continent for religious reasons: whether voluntary or forced, they are the dramatic outcome of the process of confessionalization and the construction of modern statehood, characterized by the pursuit of purity through the expulsion and marginalization of religious diversity

First section: 'History of Europe: ideas, perspectives, reflections' (6 ECTS)

Reference books:

Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Additional book for students who will not attend the lessons: Egidio Ivetic, Studiare la storia del Mediterraneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024


Second section: "The Europe of exoduses and migrations 'religionis causa'".

Reference books:

Nicholas Terpstra, Purezza e fede. Esuli religiosi nell’Europa moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Those who only need to take 6 ECTS are required to study the first teaching unit.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY STARTING FROM JUNE-JULY 2025, EXCLUSIVELY.

Bruno Latour, Riassemblare il sociale. Actor-Network theory, Meltemi 2022, cap. 4 ***
Donna Haraway, Chthulucene. Sopravvivere su un pianeta infetto, Nero 2019 ***
Günther Teubner, Ibridi ed attanti. Attori collettivi ed enti non umani nella società e nel diritto, Mimesis 2015, cap. 1 ***
S. Barca, Forze di riproduzione, Edizioni ambiente 2024

Letture introduttive:
F. Giardini, Assemblaggio. Una mappatura
https://rivistapolitics.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/01_giardini_politics7_01-13.pdf
- Cosmopolitiche. Ripensare la politica a partire dal Chosmos
https://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cosmopolitiche.-Ripensare-la-politica-a-partire-dal-%E2%80%9CKosmos%E2%80%9D.pdf
A. Ghelfi, Terrestre, Chthulucene, Cosmopolitica ***
- Ecologia e politica in mondi più che umani ***
G. Pierazzuoli, Una Cosmo-politica per Gaia***

*** Testi disponibili a questo link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DYtv3RxbJ0fswqyM-QDKqk7pUM-dUNW9?usp=sharing

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social transformation and contributing to the creation of new cultural meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the collective and public memories of controversial events, arenas 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 definitions 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", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: activism, art and the public sphere, cancel culture, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the arts 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 arts.

1) Vera L. Zolberg, (2011) Constructing a Sociology of the Arts, Cambridge University Press, New York.
2) Anna Lisa Tota, and Trever Hagen (2016), Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, (eds.), Routledge, London chapters n. 1, 2, 6, 19, 30, and 31.

The course is divided in two parts: the first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia;
- Il potere nella società in rete
- La comunicazione nell'età digitale
- Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

Starting from the role of emotions in the orientation in the world and in the education process, as thought by Martha C. Nussbaum, the programme wants to examine the laycal and social meaning the abovesaid assigns to compassion. To that concept is contrasted the critical interpretation of Hannah Arendt (who considers Rousseau's compassion as a prereflessive and presocial feeling proper of the «humanity in dark times», to be replaced by the political category of friendship as conceived by Lessing). Following the contemporary interpretation of french and german enlightment, the course will examine Derrida's concept of lie, showing its coincidences with Rousseau's thought.

Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication Paperback –
Hannah Arendt, On Humanity in the darks Times, Paperback
Martha C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Cambridge University Press
Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship Paperback

For Bachelor and Master's degree students.
Second semester. Hours: one meeting per week will be held, lasting three academic hours, Laboratorio Informatico of the Area di Mondo Antico (LISA).
Course start: March 2025.
The mode of the course delivery will depend on the University regulations in force at the time. In any case, since it is a laboratory, which requires direct teacher-student interaction, there is NO registration of meetings and attendance (in the possible modes) is mandatory.

The Laboratory introduces to the knowledge of the main informatic resources for the historical and philological studies related to Antiquity, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
- Introduction. Word-processor features. Multilingual keyboards; writing in ancient Greek.
- Creation of a scientific bibliography; methods of citation. Tools for bibliographic research: bibliographic repertories; on-line consultation of catalogues (OPAC); on-line consultation of books and periodicals (open access and by subscription); on-line reviews.
- Analysis of literary texts: text databases; electronic dictionaries; software for text analysis and lexical research on Greek and Latin texts.
- Research of epigraphic and papyraceous sources; research and consultation of manuscripts.

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

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

Applications for enrollment (both for bachelor's and master's degree students) can be sent by e-mail to silvia.finazzi@uniroma3.it, from 7th January to the last week of February 2025. For a better organization of enrollments and activities, students interested in participating are requested to indicate the following essential data in their e-mails: 1) matriculation number; 2) course of study; 3) philological exams already taken and/or philological courses already attended.

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

“Vuoti di memoria” (“Voids of Memory”) is a TV program conceived by Loredana Rotondo in the early 2000s to bring attention back to some figures either forgotten or slipped to the margins of public discourse. Over the course of several years, 20 episodes of about 35 minutes each were produced. These documentaries are built primarily on both visual and textual sources, and on interviews aiming to situate the protagonists within their network of relationships.
Ten episodes were selected for the workshop, dedicated to the following figures:
Carla Lonzi
Giuseppe De Santis
Paola Levi Montalcini
Amelia Rosselli
Goliarda Sapienza
Bruno Munari
Cristina Campo
Annibale Ruccello
Gino Martinoli
Danilo Dolci
The workshop is organized in a series of meetings centered on the screening of documentaries and their analysis. It intends to deepen practices related to the use of visual, textual and oral sources, fundamental to the work of historical reconstruction. The workshop is curated by Professors Laura Fortini, Laura Iamurri and Manfredi Merluzzi.

The ten documentaries of the series “Vuoti di memoria” will be available on the Teche Rai. Focused readings will be made available on the e-learning platform of the Department of Humanities.

Dominance has never been achieved solely through the recognition and display of superior technological or military might. Knowledge is power, and it exercises its influence, as Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci put it, in the field of cultural hegemony, establishing the boundaries of what knowledge is and is not. Information, education and cultural and scientific production form the deep level of geopolitical interaction. Now, for the first time in history, this complex set of ideologies, practices and interchange has converged into a unified medium of production, access and diffusion: the web and its tools. From Edward Snowden's revelations in 2013 to the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal in 2018, from the pandemic to the contemporary war on fake news, the web and its sister technologies have become the ground on which to exercise control over politics and health, train new generations, disseminate scientific results, influence economic choices and challenge social norms. The cultural, aesthetic, social, juridical, economic and other structures that characterized the history of humanity up to the early years of the 21st century have been swept away by a new subject-object: the empire of the platforms.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to these issues, trying to develop a critical awareness of the use of digital tools and to stimulate active participation in the revolutionary processes we are experiencing today.

Workshop assigments and discussions will be based on the volume authored by Mario Ricciardi, "Communico. Linguaggi, immagini, algoritmi" (Rome, TAB Edizioni, 2021). Students will have to write weekly responses on the assigned readings and engage in both online and offline discussions guided by the instructor.

The instructor will make available selected passages and/or chapters from the following list of texts (1 an 5 are also available in English):

1) Shoshana Zuboff (2019), Il capitalismo della sorveglianza. Il futuro dell'umanità nell'era dei nuovi poteri, Roma, LUISS.
2) Gabriele Balbi e Paolo Magaudda (2014), Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità. Roma-Bari, Laterza.
3) Sergio Bellucci (2019), L'industria dei sensi. Roma, Harpo.
4) Teresa Numerico (2021), Big data e algoritmi. Prospettive critiche. Roma, Carocci.
5) Guillame Pitron (2019), La guerra dei metalli rari. Il lato oscuro della transizione digitale. Roma, LUISS.

First semester.
Time: 6 hours/week: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 12 to 2 p.m. Location: Sala riunioni di Mondo Antico. Beginning: Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

Course title 2024-2025: Roman Traditions and Apostolic Legends: Nereus and Achilleus, Processus and Martinianus and their passiones.

Some of the Roman passiones (5th-7th centuries) dedicated to martyred saints venerated in the Urbs intersect the events narrated in them with legends about Peter and Paul and the final part of their lives. The Passion of Saints Nereus and Achilleus and the Passion of Saints Processus and Martinianus will be explored in the course, according to various perspectives of investigation and with the active involvement of students.
The course is seminar-based in nature and involves the active participation of students.

Lecture materials (including critical editions of texts read in class) will be provided by the teacher.

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, 2022.
For students who have already taken exams in Ancient Christian Literature: H.Y. GAMBLE, Libri e lettori nella chiesa antica, Brescia: Paideia, 2006.

This course is devoted to the earliest epigraphic evidence in Latin, from the earliest 8th-century attestations up to the finds of the early Republican age. These inscriptions convey invaluable information about many aspects related to language, private life and political culture in the early centuries of Rome, enabling us to grasp fragments of otherwise obscure processes and phenomena. Only rarely and with much effort is it possible to compare the information conveyed by archaic epigraphy with clues handed down by sources of a different nature: for this reason, the study of the oldest Latin inscriptions confronts the historian with the need to make every minute detail worth it in order to gather clues useful for reconstructing the sociocultural context within which the inscriptions were produced. This means that although the techniques and methodologies are the same as those used in the study of more recent inscriptions, archaic epigraphy requires a different and specific application of them - greater weight is given, for example, to linguistic aspects - to which students will be introduced in the course of the lectures.

War, Violence and Society: Narratives of the American Civil War and Constructions of National Identity

The course aims to show how cinema can be a source for historical knowledge, a tool for narrating the past and an agent of history.
It is a source for historical knowledge of the present in which the film was filmed and processed: it provides us with information about the ideas and values of the society that produced it.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The audience has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.
On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.

Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on the film and television portrayal of ‘War, Violence and Society’, contextualising it in the period of the American Civil War (1861-1865)' and exploring aspects of the different identity narratives related to the warring parties and the overcoming of the war in a newly reunified national scene.

To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.

The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

• Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind, 1939
• John Ford, The Horse Soldiers, 1959
• Edward Zwick, Glory, 1989
• Sergio Leone, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, 1966
• Steven Spielberg, Lincoln, 2012
• Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976
• Martin Scorsese, The gangs of New York, 2002
• Anthony Minghella, Cold Mountain, 2003
• Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight, 2015
• Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, 2016
• Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled, 2017
• Antoine Fuqua, Emancipation, 2022
• John Amiel, Sommersby, 1993
• Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves, 1990
• D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, 1915

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:
• Leander Stillwell, La Guerra Civile americana nelle memorie di un soldato comune, Liberty Bell, 2017
• Luraghi R., La guerra civile americana. Le ragioni e i protagonisti del primo conflitto industriale, Milano, BUR, 2013
• Levine B., La guerra civile americana. Una nuova storia, Torino, Einaudi, 2023
• Foner E., Storia degli Stati Uniti d'America. La «libertà americana» dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2017
• Hobsbawm E. J., Nazioni e nazionalismi. Programma, mito, realtà, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
• Bhabha H. K., (a cura di), Nazione e narrazione, Milano, Meltemi, 2020
• Renan E., Che cos'è una nazione?, Roma, Donzelli, 2004
• Balibar E., Wallerstein I., Razza, nazione, classe. Le identità ambigue, Trieste, Asterios, 2020
• Anderson B., Comunità immaginate. Origini e diffusione dei nazionalismi, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2018
• Chabod F., L’idea di nazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2021
• Rosso S. (a cura di), Le frontiere del far west. Forme di rappresentazione del grande mito americano, Milano, Shake edizioni, 2008
• Cartosio B., Verso Ovest. Storia e mitologia del Far West, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2020


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

This course aims to give the students the basic concepts of applied ethics (with a specific interest in ethics of artificial intelligence) and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).

The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.

1. M. De Caro, M.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica (capp. 11-18)
2. M. De Caro, E. Terrone, I valori al cinema, Mondadori
3. M. Spitzer, Intelligenza artificiale, Corbaccio 2024.

The students taking the pre-exam at the end of the course will have to study a reduced program (which will be explained during the course), and write a short paper. All the other students will have to study the whole program above.

The course intends to present some central aspects of the 19th and 20th century debate on the philosophies of habit with a particular focus on the French debate between philosophy, psychology and literature through the analysis of the thought of Ravaisson and Proust.
The course is divided into a brief general overview of the history of the concept of habit, a focus on 19th- and 20th-century theories of habit, with specific insights into the theories of Ravaisson and Proust, and is completed by a survey of the main developments in the philosophical investigation of habit in contemporary philosophy.

For Erasmus Students:
Clare Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014
A. Elsner, T. Stern (eds. by), The Proustian Mind . London, Routledge, 2023 (Only: Chapters 9-10-11)
Mark Sinclair, Being Inclined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019

Never before in recent years has the idea of Europe been at the center of public debate: for some, it is the only lifeline against nationalism and war; for others, it is the ultimate cause of all our problems and woes, especially economic ones. The invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's Russia in February 2022 has not only revived the classic themes of war and peace in public discourse but also brought back into focus the issue of the eastern expansion of the concept of Europe, a question with extraordinary historical depth.
Only a profound understanding of the long-term history of European civilization and its interactions with other civilizations around the globe can allow us to decode issues that only superficially appear to be purely contemporary. In the first part of the course, we will focus on the evolution of the notion of Europe, the various thoughts about Europe, and the long-term development of European consciousness. In the second part, we will delve into the phenomenon of exodus and internal migrations within the continent for religious reasons: whether voluntary or forced, they are the dramatic outcome of the process of confessionalization and the construction of modern statehood, characterized by the pursuit of purity through the expulsion and marginalization of religious diversity

First section: 'History of Europe: ideas, perspectives, reflections' (6 ECTS)

Reference books:

Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Additional book for students who will not attend the lessons: Egidio Ivetic, Studiare la storia del Mediterraneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2024


Second section: "The Europe of exoduses and migrations 'religionis causa'".

Reference books:

Nicholas Terpstra, Purezza e fede. Esuli religiosi nell’Europa moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Those who only need to take 6 ECTS are required to study the first teaching unit.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY STARTING FROM JUNE-JULY 2025, EXCLUSIVELY.

Bruno Latour, Riassemblare il sociale. Actor-Network theory, Meltemi 2022, cap. 4 ***
Donna Haraway, Chthulucene. Sopravvivere su un pianeta infetto, Nero 2019 ***
Günther Teubner, Ibridi ed attanti. Attori collettivi ed enti non umani nella società e nel diritto, Mimesis 2015, cap. 1 ***
S. Barca, Forze di riproduzione, Edizioni ambiente 2024

Letture introduttive:
F. Giardini, Assemblaggio. Una mappatura
https://rivistapolitics.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/01_giardini_politics7_01-13.pdf
- Cosmopolitiche. Ripensare la politica a partire dal Chosmos
https://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cosmopolitiche.-Ripensare-la-politica-a-partire-dal-%E2%80%9CKosmos%E2%80%9D.pdf
A. Ghelfi, Terrestre, Chthulucene, Cosmopolitica ***
- Ecologia e politica in mondi più che umani ***
G. Pierazzuoli, Una Cosmo-politica per Gaia***

*** Testi disponibili a questo link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DYtv3RxbJ0fswqyM-QDKqk7pUM-dUNW9?usp=sharing

Sources, tools and methods for teaching geography. The Didactics of Geography course, through the study of the main issues related to the processes of learning/teaching geography, highlights the relationships that exist between research and the didactics of the discipline, and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of the lexicon and interpretive categories of the discipline in order to understand and contextualise the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
As an in-depth study, the course will focus on the sources, tools and methods for the study and teaching of different themes such as the sea, island territories and inland areas.
Course topics: Geographical knowledge in teaching and research; development of geographical skills; geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; geography in schools and universities; national references and textbooks; geotechnologies and didactics.

THERE ARE NO SYLLABUS DISTINCTIONS FOR ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Predrag Matvejević, Breviario mediterraneo, Garzanti
• Sabatini F., Geografia delle aree interne. Discorsi e pratiche turistiche nella Sicilia fredda, Guerini, 2024.
• Materiali distribuiti dal docente.

Suggested readings:
Giovanni Verga, I malavoglia
Vito Teti, Il senso dei luoghi
Marilena Maffei, Donne di Mare
Ernesto Franco, Storie fantastiche di isole vere

THERE ARE NO SYLLABUS DISTINCTIONS FOR ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

In contemporary societies the arts affect the public discourse, becoming agency of social transformation and contributing to the creation of new cultural meanings, laboratory for the civil society, space and place for shaping the collective and public memories of controversial events, arenas 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 definitions 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", artistic intermediation processes and their social effects.
The second part will concern art institutions. It will address the following topics: activism, art and the public sphere, cancel culture, monuments in the urban space, art as memory technology, cultural consumption of the past and the role of the arts 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 arts.

1) Vera L. Zolberg, (2011) Constructing a Sociology of the Arts, Cambridge University Press, New York.
2) Anna Lisa Tota, and Trever Hagen (2016), Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, (eds.), Routledge, London chapters n. 1, 2, 6, 19, 30, and 31.

The course is divided in two parts: the first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia;
- Il potere nella società in rete
- La comunicazione nell'età digitale
- Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. P. Caridi, Hamas. Dalla resistenza al regime. Nuova edizione, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2023.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

This course focuses on practice of teaching Latin language in the schools with reference to morphology, metrical analysis and prose text translation

Didactic handouts available on the teacher's online page

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

Why in the new St. Peter's of Paul V (1612) does the titulus of the Holy Door bear an inscription from the time of Gregory XIII (1575)? If it is true that every monument is a document, there must be a reason that can be investigated with the tools of historical and art-historical research. By retracing the vicissitudes of a place in the Vatican basilica charged with ritual significance, the course aims to recompose the phases and transformations of a space in the ancient basilica that has left memories and traces of itself in the new one; to experiment with different investigative strategies and to question the narration of what we discover, because only the narrative "reveals the meaning of what would otherwise remain an intolerable sequence of events".

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.

A. Ballardini, La Basilica di San Pietro nel Medioevo, in H. Brandenburg, A. Ballardini, Ch. Thoenes, S. Pietro. Storia di un monumento, Milano 2015; 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, Il perduto Oratorio di Giovanni VII nella Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. Architettura e scultura, in Santa Maria Antiqua, tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 220-233 (e relative schede)

P.Pogliani, Il perduto Oratorio di Giovanni VII nella Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. I mosaici, in Santa Maria Antiqua, tra Roma e Bisanzio, Catalogo della mostra a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 240-259 (e relative schede)

A.Ballardini, Ugo da Carpi, Veronica mostra il Volto Santo tra gli Apostoli Pietro e Paolo, scheda di catalogo, in I Santi d’Italia. La pittura devota tra Tiziano, Guercino e Carlo Maratta a cura di Daniela Porra e A. D’Amico, (Milano, Palazzo Reale, 24 marzo-4 giugno 2017), Cinisello Balsamo-Milano 2017, pp. 78-80 [nelle pagine seguenti: Considerazioni sulla tecnica di esecuzione dell’opera a cura di G. Capriotti e L. D’Alessandro, facoltativo]


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 (a disposizione anche in italiano).

V. Lucherini, Alfarano, Tiberio / Tiberius Alpharanus, Historiker, ad vocem in Personenlexicon zur Christlichen Archäologie, 2012, I, pp. 62-63 (a disposizione anche in italiano).

M. Ceresa, Grimaldi, Giacomo, ad vocem in Dizionario Biografico degli italiani (vol. 59, 2002) http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-grimaldi_(Dizionario-Biografico)

Short collection of notes on Giacomo Grimaldi (1568-523) ed. by Antonella Ballardini

Consultation of the main manuscripts under study on the BAV website (Digitised Manuscripts Fund) is required
https://opac.vatlib.it/mss/



Arch.Cap.S.Pietro G.5

Arch.Cap.S.Pietro A.64ter

Barb.lat. 2732

Barb.lat. 2733

Arch.Cap.S.Pietro H.3



Consultazione on line:

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

https://archive.org/details/debasilicaevatic00alfa/page/n6/mode/2up

1453: The 55 Days that Changed the World (“Ci sono luoghi in cui la storia è inevitabile come un incidente automobilistico — luoghi in cui la geografia provoca la storia. Uno è Istanbul, alias Costantinopoli, alias Bisanzio”. Iosif Brodskij)
Byzantine History and Civilisation LM module, which primarily targets Art History; Archaeology; Religions, Cultures, History; History and Society; Philology, Literatures and History of Antiquity students, examines the fall of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453, following fifty-five days of siege led by the young and ambitious Sultan Mehmet II Fatih.
A topographical survey of the Byzantine capital will be provided in the course: Using maps, a faithful reconstruction of the city on the eve of its fall will be presented, highlighting the defensive structures, including the great Theodosian walls, the sea walls around the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn, and the walls surrounding the imperial palace of the Blacherne.; finally, the harbour, which was barred to enemy ships in the event of an attack by stretching a long chain from Constantinople to Pera/Galata in front). After that, the course will clearly reconstruct the various phases of the siege and the final battle, illustrating the findings of the research conducted by the chair of Byzantinistics at Roma Tre and corroborated by articles published and presentations given in national and international scientific contexts. These findings contradict the widely held view that the victory of the Turks was inevitable, due to superior numerical strength and armament, or even due to the "will to fall" (Braudel) of an exhausted Byzantium on a political level.
For the conclusion of the course, students will have the opportunity to attend an educational trip to the Peloponnese, in particular to the archaeological site of Mystras (Unesco heritage site since 1989), organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lakonia. The main purpose of the event will be to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the course of the lectures.

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

Michael Sweerts (1618-1656) and the Rome of the Bamboccianti

Born in Brussels and died in Goa, India, living in Rome for at least a decade, Michael Sweerts is a very interesting figure in seventeenth-century European figurative culture. The course will examine his artistic production, the context within which he works. It will take place largely in churches, museums, public and private collections in the city of Rome, comparing his work with that of his contemporaries, active during the pontificate of Innocent X Pamphili.

Preparation for the exam requires in-depth, critical and informed study of.

(a) at least one of two texts of your choice: G. Kieft, I Paesi Bassi settentrionali: arte, mestiere e
committenza nel secolo d'oro, in La pittura nei Paesi Bassi, a cura di B.W.Meijer, Milano, Electa,
1997, tomo II, pp. 409-522 (disponibile su Teams) or Mariette Westermann, The Art of the
Dutch Republic. 1585-1718, New York, Harry Abrams, 1996 (available for purchase online for a
very modest amount).

(b) at least one of the following texts of your choice (or all of them):

Svetlana Alpers, Art of Description. Science and Painting in the Dutch Seventeenth Century; Simon Shama, The Embarrassment of Riches; Svetlana Alpers, Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market, 1995; Daniel Arasse, L' Ambition de Vermeer, 1993; Marco Mascolo, Rembrandt. Un artista nell'Europa del Seicento, Rome, Carocci, 2021; Les bas-fonds du baroque: la Rome du vice et de la misere, cataloge dirigée par F. Cappelletti et A. Lemoine, 2014.

(c) texts related to Michael Sweerts that will be made available in the file on Teams(the advice of course is always to read them all); including 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, Rome 1983, pp. 1-36; G. Capitelli, Bambocciate in L'Arte. Protagonists, Themes, Masterpieces, Paths, edited by G.C.Sciolla, 6 vols., Turin 2003; Eadem, Una testimonianza documentaria per il primo nucleo della raccolta del principe Camillo Pamphilj, in I capolavori della collezione Doria Pamphilj. Da Tiziano a Velázquez, exhibition catalog (Milan, Fondazione Arte e Civiltà, September 28-December 8, 1996), Skira, Milan 1996, pp. 57-80.

(d) Teaching materials, consisting of the ppts of the slides projected in class and available on Teams.

Non-attending students should add to this syllabus (with the exception of items d and e which
are precluded from them) the in-depth study of at least two other texts from those listed in (b).

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
A. Shatz, "Israel's Descent", London Review of Books, June 2024, https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2VDYTvkWvPI5eh_YeF-a_EywKtSNhn0KHJhfYTe0l5VV1K8CHB8-mtvB0_aem_Aa4fZ_8aPf0b9SoRz2UWYOlU2s2YSBLMq3rjTlcSqT0WFHyHnyteanJHgNbuqvSooe_CT-hzW2Uk-unayRal5ZRO(available as a pdf file on the course website)

One of the following:

G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: The Arab uprisings: A decade of struggles - Longreads
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
Corrao FM - Redaelli R (eds), States, Actors and Geopolitical Drivers in the Mediterranean. Perspectives on the New Centrality in a Changing Region, PalgraveMacMillan, 2021.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
Sune Haugbolle and Mark LeVine (eds.), Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World, London, Routledge, 2022.
Marc Owen Jones, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media, Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2022.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
Mark LeVine, We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World, University of California Press, 2022.
Shamiran Mako and Valentine M. Moghadam, After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

Translation Course
Translation Module
Acquisition of theoretical tools and the ability to apply appropriate translation strategies depending on the type of text and the problems involved. Development of linguistic reflection and translation strategies by practising reading, analysing and translating different types of texts.

Bruno Osimo, Propedeutica della traduzione, Hoepli, 2002
-Bruno Osimo, Manuale del Traduttore, Hoepli, 2004
- Reading texts uploaded on Teams

Recommended texts:
Franca Cavagnoli, La voce del testo, Feltrinelli, 2012
Silvia Pozzi, Il carattere e la lettera, Hoepli, 2022

The course focuses on Arabic computational lexicography.

The main subjects of the course are:

- general corpus building issues;
- linguistic specific features of Arabic lexicography;
- socio-linguistic levels of the Arabic language;
- variation management in Arabic lexicography;
- are unified or mixed dictionaries possible?
- systems for the electronic coding of Arabic dictionaries.

Baalbaki, Ramzi. The Arabic lexicographical tradition: from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th century. Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, volume 107. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2014.

Lancioni, Giuliano. «Sull’ordinamento dei dizionari arabi classici». In In memoria di Francesco Gabrieli, suppl. no. 2 to Rivista degli Studi Orientali 71, 113–27. Roma: Bardi, 1997.

The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of Latin and Greek manuscripts, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, both the external characteristics of manuscripts will be examined (material techniques for the preparation of the book as a physical object, methods and tools for its preparation, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), and the cultural panorama of the times and places of origin of manuscript books. Therefore, each aspect will be illustrated by choosing a reference manuscript witness.
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.

Renaissance is the season of the long narrative, the epic-chivalric poem (Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso), in many ways the direct ancestor of the modern novel; but it is also an incredibly prolific season for the short story, which, starting from Boccaccio's model, acquires different forms, in verse and prose (including many antecedents and sources of Shakespeare). The course will follow the evolution and interaction between these two narrative genres and examine related issues, from the question of the open narrative (the novel, which also originated as a serial story) or closed narrative (novella incorniciata) to the success with the general public.

Attendig students:
Handouts supplied by the professor and downloadable from Teams
A book of your chice from among:
- R. Bruscagli, Studi cavallereschi, Firenze, Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2003
- G. Mazzacurati, All’ombra di Dioneo: tipologie e percorsi della novella da Boccaccio a Bandello, a cura di Matteo Palumbo, Scandicci, La Nuova Italia, 1996 (in fotocopie)
- M. Roggero, Le carte piene di sogni. Testi e lettori in età moderna, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006

Non-attending students:
Supplementary handouts
S. Carapezza, La novella nel Cinquecento, Milano, Unicopli, 2013

The course is structured in two parts. The first part deals with the syntax of contemporary Italian, with particular reference to the complex sentence and its constituent parts. Through the observation of the functioning of the structures of Italian, students will acquire full awareness of syntactic mechanisms, improve their grammatical and linguistic knowledge and identify the most appropriate methodologies for the treatment of the sentence in L1 and L2 teaching. The second part is devoted to formulating language in the teaching of Italian L1 and L2, with particular reference to proverbs, collocations, idiomatic phrases and pragmatic routines. After defining the notion of formulating language and showing its pervasiveness in the language, its various realisations are reviewed and its implications in the teaching of Italian to native and non-native speakers.

The course intends to present some central aspects of the 19th and 20th century debate on the philosophies of habit with a particular focus on the French debate between philosophy, psychology and literature through the analysis of the thought of Ravaisson and Proust.
The course is divided into a brief general overview of the history of the concept of habit, a focus on 19th- and 20th-century theories of habit, with specific insights into the theories of Ravaisson and Proust, and is completed by a survey of the main developments in the philosophical investigation of habit in contemporary philosophy.

For Erasmus Students:
Clare Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014
A. Elsner, T. Stern (eds. by), The Proustian Mind . London, Routledge, 2023 (Only: Chapters 9-10-11)
Mark Sinclair, Being Inclined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019

The course is devoted to the history and evolution of a particular genre of literary criticism: the Lectura Dantis. After a first part of lectures dedicated to focusing on the particular genre of criticism, some examples of Lectura Dantis will be presented and analysed. During the course, in addition to a series of seminar activities, students will be asked to produce their own Lectura Dantis.

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio

The course is organized into two main sections:
Section A - Introduction to digital publishing: reading devices; mark-up and file formats; software and reading interfaces; models of content organization; multimedia, hypertexts, interactive books; digital and on-line encyclopedias; enhanced e-books; generative AI and publishing; digital book market.
Section B - The readers' point of view: reading habits in the digital ecosystem; social reading; augmented reading; online reading.

Section A
- Gino Roncaglia, La quarta rivoluzione, Laterza 2010
- Gino Roncaglia, L'architetto e l'oracolo. Forme del sapere, da Wikipedia a ChatGPT, Laterza 2023

Section B
- Maurizio Vivarelli, La lettura, Editrice bibliografica 2018

Non-attending students and students not participating in project work will add
- Francesca Tomasi, Organizzare la conoscenza: Digital Humanities e web semantico, Bibliografica 2022
or
- Fabio Ciotti, Digital Humanities - Metodi, strumenti, saperi, Carocci 2023

A list of alternative textbooks in English is available upon request.

1) Paola Carucci - Maria Guercio, Manuale di Archivistica. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci 2021 (in particolare i capitoli 1-2, 5-10, 12-13) alternatively Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Bibliografica, 2023.

2) Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Gli Archivi nella società contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.

3) Raffaele Pittella, “Hence that sense of new air”. Archival debate and historiographical developments in Italy between the early and late 20th century, in “JLIS.it”, vol. 15, no. 2 (May 2024), pp.1-15.

4) G. Cencetti, Sull’archivio come «universitas rerum», in «Archivi», vol. IV, fasc. I (1937), pp. 3-13; G. Cencetti, Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico, in «L'archiginnasio», n. XXXIV, 1-3 (1939), pp. 106-117.

5) C. Pavone, Intorno agli archivi e alle istituzioni, Roma 2004, pp. 71-75 (Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l'archivio rispecchi l’istituto? [1970]).

A historical perspective on religions must grasp the stratification of their presence on the territory and reconstruct their dynamics and strategies: since 2007, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources and capital concerning religion. Innovations and trends concerning religious beliefs and practices are created in cities. Theoretical knowledge will be provided on the concept of religious space/place, the results of empirical research on the presence of religious places in increasingly plural spaces also due to migration movements and diaspora processes.

The main case study will be that of shared religious places. In particular, places where religions coexist in public spaces and in urban and suburban contexts will be analysed. In particular, studies on the relationship between space and religion: from the geography of religion to the geographies of religions.

Theories, concepts, terminology, methods related to the study of religious places and the location of the sacred in space through materiality and planning relations will be exposed and discussed.

Attending Students

1. Course notes and readings indicated in the course (see online teaching materials and additional material to be distributed by the lecturer during lectures)

2. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 or
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
or D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
or M. Giorda, La Chiesa romena in Italia, Viella 2023

3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not attending students:
1. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 and
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).

2. D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.

3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (ed B. Nuti)

The aim of the course is to provide an in-depth knowledge of the history of certain disciplines and approaches related to the field of religion and religions through a multidisciplinary and methodological history of studies.
In particular, we will explore:

History
Anthropology
Sociology
Juridical apporaches
Geography
Cognitive sciences

Comparison is also one of the themes addressed in the construction of studies and research on religion
The course deals with the stages through which religion and religions have gained independent ground in academia and become an object of study: through the creation of the 'religion' model and through a process of retro-projection into the past of what is considered a religion at a given historical moment, we deal with how different prototypes found in the contemporary and subsequently in the past, in a plurality of forms, have been assumed.

Attending Students

1. Notes and readings indicated in the course (see online teaching materials and additional material to be distributed by the lecturer during lectures)

2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020
OR
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022
OR
Brent Nongbri, Prima della religione. Storia di una categoria moderna, traduzione di Alessia Piana, Claudiana 2022.

Not attending students will replace point number 1 with:

G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

For Bachelor and Master's degree students.
Second semester. Hours: one meeting per week will be held, lasting three academic hours, Laboratorio Informatico of the Area di Mondo Antico (LISA).
Course start: March 2025.
The mode of the course delivery will depend on the University regulations in force at the time. In any case, since it is a laboratory, which requires direct teacher-student interaction, there is NO registration of meetings and attendance (in the possible modes) is mandatory.

The Laboratory introduces to the knowledge of the main informatic resources for the historical and philological studies related to Antiquity, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
- Introduction. Word-processor features. Multilingual keyboards; writing in ancient Greek.
- Creation of a scientific bibliography; methods of citation. Tools for bibliographic research: bibliographic repertories; on-line consultation of catalogues (OPAC); on-line consultation of books and periodicals (open access and by subscription); on-line reviews.
- Analysis of literary texts: text databases; electronic dictionaries; software for text analysis and lexical research on Greek and Latin texts.
- Research of epigraphic and papyraceous sources; research and consultation of manuscripts.

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

The course aims to convey a solid knowledge of written Italian, addressing, with a practical approach, various topics related to the structure of the text and the different textual typologies. It will also address topics useful for the acquisition of a correct writing method and the creation of texts, with particular attention to the typologies necessary for one's course of study.

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

Applications for enrollment (both for bachelor's and master's degree students) can be sent by e-mail to silvia.finazzi@uniroma3.it, from 7th January to the last week of February 2025. For a better organization of enrollments and activities, students interested in participating are requested to indicate the following essential data in their e-mails: 1) matriculation number; 2) course of study; 3) philological exams already taken and/or philological courses already attended.

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

Introduction to Biblical Hebrew

In this workshop students will learn the first elements of Hebrew grammar, and how to translate narrative texts of Hebrew Bible.

G. Deiana – A. Spreafico, Guida allo studio dell'ebraico biblico, Roma 1997 (e ristampe).
Exercises and texts distributed during course sessions.

“Vuoti di memoria” (“Voids of Memory”) is a TV program conceived by Loredana Rotondo in the early 2000s to bring attention back to some figures either forgotten or slipped to the margins of public discourse. Over the course of several years, 20 episodes of about 35 minutes each were produced. These documentaries are built primarily on both visual and textual sources, and on interviews aiming to situate the protagonists within their network of relationships.
Ten episodes were selected for the workshop, dedicated to the following figures:
Carla Lonzi
Giuseppe De Santis
Paola Levi Montalcini
Amelia Rosselli
Goliarda Sapienza
Bruno Munari
Cristina Campo
Annibale Ruccello
Gino Martinoli
Danilo Dolci
The workshop is organized in a series of meetings centered on the screening of documentaries and their analysis. It intends to deepen practices related to the use of visual, textual and oral sources, fundamental to the work of historical reconstruction. The workshop is curated by Professors Laura Fortini, Laura Iamurri and Manfredi Merluzzi.

The ten documentaries of the series “Vuoti di memoria” will be available on the Teche Rai. Focused readings will be made available on the e-learning platform of the Department of Humanities.

Dominance has never been achieved solely through the recognition and display of superior technological or military might. Knowledge is power, and it exercises its influence, as Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci put it, in the field of cultural hegemony, establishing the boundaries of what knowledge is and is not. Information, education and cultural and scientific production form the deep level of geopolitical interaction. Now, for the first time in history, this complex set of ideologies, practices and interchange has converged into a unified medium of production, access and diffusion: the web and its tools. From Edward Snowden's revelations in 2013 to the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal in 2018, from the pandemic to the contemporary war on fake news, the web and its sister technologies have become the ground on which to exercise control over politics and health, train new generations, disseminate scientific results, influence economic choices and challenge social norms. The cultural, aesthetic, social, juridical, economic and other structures that characterized the history of humanity up to the early years of the 21st century have been swept away by a new subject-object: the empire of the platforms.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to these issues, trying to develop a critical awareness of the use of digital tools and to stimulate active participation in the revolutionary processes we are experiencing today.

Workshop assigments and discussions will be based on the volume authored by Mario Ricciardi, "Communico. Linguaggi, immagini, algoritmi" (Rome, TAB Edizioni, 2021). Students will have to write weekly responses on the assigned readings and engage in both online and offline discussions guided by the instructor.

The instructor will make available selected passages and/or chapters from the following list of texts (1 an 5 are also available in English):

1) Shoshana Zuboff (2019), Il capitalismo della sorveglianza. Il futuro dell'umanità nell'era dei nuovi poteri, Roma, LUISS.
2) Gabriele Balbi e Paolo Magaudda (2014), Storia dei media digitali. Rivoluzioni e continuità. Roma-Bari, Laterza.
3) Sergio Bellucci (2019), L'industria dei sensi. Roma, Harpo.
4) Teresa Numerico (2021), Big data e algoritmi. Prospettive critiche. Roma, Carocci.
5) Guillame Pitron (2019), La guerra dei metalli rari. Il lato oscuro della transizione digitale. Roma, LUISS.

Seneca and the power: the two faces of an intellectual between commitment and compromise.
The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Seneca's "Apokokokyntosis" and "Consolatio ad Polybium", and will proceed with the integral reading, interpretation and commentary of both works, paying particular attention to the formal aspects of style and, where present, of metric.

- For "Apokolokyntosis":
an edition chosen among: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokolokyntosis, a cura di G. Vannini, Milano (Mondadori), Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di R. Mugellesi, Milani (Rizzoli) e Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, a cura di G. Focardi, Firenze (Giunti).

- For "Consolatio ad Polybium":
Lucio Anneo Seneca, Le consolazioni: a Marcia, alla madre Helvia, a Polibio, introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Traina, Milano (Rizzoli).

Course title:
Cassiodorus' De anima

Course description:
The module, of a monographic nature, intends first of all to retrace, in broad terms, the developments of a theme - that of the soul - dear to the tradition of Western thought since its beginnings, and capable, as well as incessantly nourishing philosophical and religious reflection, so to speak, of a high level, also having a singular impact on mentalities, on the imagination, on life behaviors, on the self-perception and representation of the human being in Western culture, particularly in the Latin Middle Ages. A work will then be analyzed - Cassiodorus' De anima - which enjoyed widespread success for a long time, and which, due to its eclectic character but not without traits of originality, lends itself well to providing an articulated and problematic status quaestionis on the theme , as it took shape in the early medieval centuries, before the more complete elaborations of Scholasticism. – As part of the module, exercises will also be activated aimed at orienting towards the knowledge and use of the main bibliographic and IT tools for the study and research on Middle Latin authors.

- MAGNI AURELII CASSIODORI De anima, cura et studio J. W. Halporn, Brepols, Turnholti 1973 (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 96, 533-575).
- M. DI MARCO, Scelta e utilizzazione delle fonti nel "De anima" di Cassiodoro, in Studi e Materiali di Storia delle religioni, n.s. IX,1 (1985) 93-117;
- M. DI MARCO, Note sulla simbologia dei numeri nel "De anima" di Cassiodoro, in Cassiodoro dalla Corte di Ravenna al Vivarium di Squillace. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Squillace 25-27 ottobre 1990, a cura di S. Leanza, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli-Messina 1993, 199-212.
- M. DI MARCO, Virtus adunationis. Alcuni esempi di innovazione lessicale nel De anima di Cassiodoro, in Varietate delectamur. Multifarious Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Latin. Selected Papers from the 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Ghent, 2022), Brepols, Turnhout 2024 (in corso di stampa).
- Anima e corpo nella cultura medievale, a cura di C. Casagrande e S. Vecchio, Ed. SISMEL, Firenze 1999 (Millennio medievale, 15).

The course “Greek Literature I LM” (“Materials for a cognitive criticism of literary texts in ancient Greece”) is intended for students who wish to combine deepening their knowledge of Ancient Greek with acquiring valid critical tools for interpreting literary texts. The course includes:
(A) a series of lectures aimed at illustrating the assumptions and methods of a cognitive-based literary criticism calibrated on the forms of ancient Greek literature;
(B) reading, translation, and commentary in class on a selection of texts (both in poetry and prose). Part of the texts to be worked on in class will be assigned to students so that they can be the subject of personal elaboration and presentation in class.
Attendance at the course is optional. Attending students must ensure attendance at at least two-thirds of the classes (24 out of 36 hours). For attending students, a reduction of the program is provided (see section C in Bibliography).

(A) An essential bibliography will be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course; it is strongly recommended to study T. Cave, Thinking with Literature: Towards a Cognitive Criticism (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2016); (B) The selection of texts to be examined in the course will be distributed by the teacher through e-learning channels (Teams); (C) M. Fantuzzi - R. L. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (CUP: Cambridge 2004). Attending students are not required to prepare on this volume.

The course aims to provide essential tools for critically and consciously addressing the contents and the challenges posed by the teaching of Ancient Greek in secondary schools today. The lessons will follow two main thematic strands:
(A) The regulatory framework governing the teaching of Greek language and literature in secondary schools;
(B) Methodologies and tools, especially digital ones, useful for developing educational pathways (for themes, literary genres, and historical-cultural contexts); in this context, the reference texts will be Plato's Protagoras and Phaedrus.
Attendance at the course is optional. Attending students must ensure attendance at at least two-thirds of the classes (24 out of 36 hours). For attending students, a reduction of the program is provided (see section C in Bibliography).

For sections A and B, the bibliographic material will be provided to students by the teacher at the beginning of the lessons; (C) a choice of one volume among: F. Carta Piras, Didattica della lingua e della letteratura greca. Materiali per la didattica del greco e per la funzione docente (Sandhi: Ortacesus 2011); L. Canfora – U. Cardinale (eds.), Disegnare il futuro con intelligenza antica. L’insegnamento del latino e del greco antico in Italia e nel mondo (Il Mulino: Bologna 2012); R. Oniga – U. Cardinale (eds.), Lingue antiche e moderne dai licei alle università (Il Mulino: Bologna 2012). Attending students are not required to prepare this part of the bibliography

- Outlines of the manuscript transmission and principles of textual criticism of Latin literary texts.

- "Cruel Venus”: Seneca's "Phaedra". The course will offer a presentation of the literary context of Latin tragedy, and will proceed to philological reading, interpretation and commentary of the entire text of the senecan drama, paying particular attention to aspects of manuscript tradition and ecdotics, as well as poetic form (relationship with the models , with particular attention to Euripides' "Hippolytus", metre, style).

- - P. Chiesa, La trasmissione dei testi latini. Storia e metodo critico, Roma (Carocci);
- M. De Nonno, Transmission and Textual Criticism, in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, edd. A. Barchiesi & W. Scheidel, Oxford University Press, pp. 31-48 [photocopies of this work will be made available on line ]
- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).

- Seneca, Fedra, introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di A. Casamento, ed. Carocci

The bucolic epos. The Theocritus’ bucolic Idylls
M. M:.Palumbo con note di L. Bettarini, Teocrito. Idilli e Epigrammi, Milano 2021, BUR.
Adele Teresa Cozzoli, Poeta e Filologo. Studi di poesia ellenistica, Roma 2012 (Herder edizioni)
G. Serrao, La poesia bucolica: realtà campeste e stilizzazione letteraria in L. Moretti, G. Serrao, M. Torelli, L. Franchi dell’Orto, Storia e Civiltà dei Greci, La Cultura ellenistica, 9, Bompiani, Milano 2000, pp. 180-199
Per la metrica si consiglia: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storie delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Mondadori Università 2003, 3-95; Maria Chiara Martinelli, Gli Strumenti del Poeta, Cappelli editore 1995

M. M: Palumbo con note di L. Bettarini, Teocrito. Idilli e Epigrammi, Milano 2021, BUR.
Adele Teresa Cozzoli, Poeta e Filologo. Studi di poesia ellenistica, Roma 2012 (Herder edizioni)
G. Serrao, La poesia bucolica: realtà campeste e stilizzazione letteraria in L. Moretti, G. Serrao, M. Torelli, L. Franchi dell’Orto, Storia e Civiltà dei Greci, La Cultura ellenistica, 9, Bompiani, Milano 2000, pp. 180-199
Per la metrica si consiglia: B. Gentili-L. Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storie delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Mondadori Università 2003, 3-95; Maria Chiara Martinelli, Gli Strumenti del Poeta, Cappelli editore 1995

THE FIGURE AND WORKS OF DANTE BETWEEN BOCCACCIO AND PETRARCH
The course aims to focus on the reception of Dante’s figure and works in Boccaccio and Petrarch, a crucial issue that also deeply involves the cultural projects of the two writers. Great space will be devoted to the ‘Trattatello in laude di Dante’ on the Boccaccio side, to the ‘Familiare’ XXI 15 and the ‘Senile’ V 2 on the Petrarchan side. Particular attention will be paid to the Dante manuscripts in the libraries of Boccaccio and Petrarch and to the takes on the ‘Comedy’ in their great vernacular masterpieces, ‘Decameron’ and ‘Canzoniere’. Other texts, as "Carmina' and 'Esposizioni sopra la Commedia' by Boccaccio, 'Rerum memorandarum libri and 'Triumphi' by Petrarch, will be taken in account.

- * G. BOCCACCIO, Trattatello in laude di Dante, in Le vite di Dante tra XIV e XVI secolo, a cura di M. BERTÉ e M. FIORILLA, Iconografia dantesca, a cura di S. CHIODO e I. VALENTE, Roma, Salerno Editrice 2017, pp. 11-154: scelta di passi che saranno letti e commentati durante le lezioni.
- * F. PETRARCA, Fam., XXI 15, in ID., Prose, a cura di G. Martellotti, P.G. Ricci, E. Carrara, E. Bianchi, Milano, Napoli, Ricciardi, 1955, pp. 1002-1014.
- * F. PETRARCA, Sen. V 2, in ID., Res seniles (LIbri V-VIII), a cura di S. RIZZO con la collaborazione di M. BERTE', Firenze, Le Lettere, 2009, pp. 31-51.

- * M. ARIANI, «Quid incognitum»: Petrarca versus Dante?, in «L’Ellisse», XVII/1-2, 2022, pp. 9-1, pp. 77-91.
-* L. AZZETTA, Il culto di Dante, in Boccaccio, a cura di M. FIORILLA e I. IOCCA, Roma Carocci, 2021, pp. 313-333.
- * M. BERTE', I marginalia petrarcheschi alla 'Commedia', in «RIvista di Studi Danteschi» , XXIII/1, 2032, pp. 102-141.
- * S. FINAZZI, Boccaccio riflette sul latino di Dante: 'Par.' XV 28-30, in Il Dante di Boccaccio, Atti del Convegno (Certaldo Alta, 9-10 dicembre 2021), a cura di N. TONELLI, Firenze, Olschki, 2024, pp.
- * M. FIORILLA, Tracce petrarchesche nella biografia dantesca di Giovanni Boccaccio, in «L’Ellisse», XII/1, 2017, pp. 41-60.
- *M. FIORILLA, Carlo Martello tra storia e geografia: un possibile dialogo con Petrarca, in ID., Lettura del canto VIII del ‘Paradiso’, in «Filologia e critica», a. XLIX, 2019, pp. 18-24.
- * M. FIORILLA, Giovanni Boccaccio biografo e copista di Dante: un grande progetto culturale, in «Onorevole e antico cittadino di Firenze». Il Bargello per Dante, a cura di L. AZZETTA, S. CHIODO, T. DE ROBERTIS, Firenze, Mandragora, 2021, pp. 300-303.
- * M. FIORILLA, La figura e le opere di Dante nel progetto intellettuale di Giovanni Boccaccio, in «L’Ellisse», XVII/1-2, 2022, pp. 17-30
- * M. SANTAGATA, Presenze di Dante "comico” nel 'Canzoniere' del Petrarca, in «Giornale storico della letteratura italiana», CXLVI, 1969, 163-211;

Texts and Articles (marked by an asterisk) will be included in the Dispense del corso (course materials assembled by the lecturer), together with a selection of passages from 'Commedia', 'Decameron' and 'Canzoniere'. Passages of the works by Boccacccio and Petrarca examinated, an anthology of sources, copies of manuscripts will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page (MOODLE and TEAMS).

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

Caravaggio 2024 news and issues
The course will focus on the critical update of the master's career, in connection with the monographic exhibition to be held at the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica in Rome, Palazzo Barberini from March 2025.

The bibliography will be based on the catalogue of the Palazzo Barberini exhibition and will be provided in detail at the beginning of the course.

Moses the Egyptian. Texts and images of a myth.

This course aims to explore the narrative traditions about Moses against the background of Egyptian history and culture as perceived in antiquity and as revealed by modern research.

Notes and texts distributed during lessons.

During the course we will focus on the most significant developments involving the civilization that flourished in the area now occupied by the city of Rome from the 8th century BCE onward. In particular, the course aims to examine the main aspects concerning its cultural and socioeconomic history, cross-referencing the evidence preserved through the historical-antiquarian tradition with archaeological data: under the lens will be in particular the dynamics of conflict, exchanges with other communities, the formation of the Roman community and its institutions, the role of religion. The reconstruction of the earliest history of Roman civilization poses numerous problems in terms of methodology and interpretation of the sources, which over the centuries have fueled very heated debates that are still alive today: the main discussions and the different positions that have emerged within them will be the subject of specific examination, in order to introduce students to the dynamics of scientific confrontation in the field of antiquarian historiography

Synthetic reasoning between sense and concept

The course aims to investigate the theory of gesture understood as a dynamic and continuous process of synthesis between sense and concept. In particular, starting from an analysis of the notion of synthetic judgment, the theory of transcendental schematism and mathematical and geometrical synthesis in Kant, we will then move on to analyze the metaphysical and mathematical question of the infinite and continuum in Georg Cantor and Charles S. Peirce. Finally, a proposal of mathematical gesture as a cognitive process will be explored.

The program syllabus will unfold as follows:
- Analysis of the Kantian distinction between synthetic and analytic judgments
- Analysis of Transcendental Schematism and the Kantian idea of the construction of mathematical and geometrical synthesis
- Proposal of an interpretative hypothesis of transcendental schematism as an active and dynamic synthesis of sense and concept through gesture
- Examination of Peirce's proposal of a logic of continuity
- Examination of Poincaré's conception of mathematics
- Proposal of a hypothesis on the mathematical gesture as a cognitive process starting with Giuseppe Longo

- I. Kant, “Introduction” and “On the schematism of pure concepts of understanding”, in Critique of the Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press 1998.
- C. S. Peirce, “Detached Ideas continued and the Dispute between Nominalists and Realists", in The New Elements of Mathematics (NEM), edited by C. Eisele, Mouton Publishers 1976, 4: 331-346.
- Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, Introduction, first and second part
- G. Maddalena, The Philosophy of Gesture, McGill Queens Univ 2015.
- G. Longo, "Gestualità umana nelle prove e l'incompletezza del formalismo", in Matematica e senso, Mimesis 2021, pp. 127-163.
- G. Baggio, Transcendental schematism and Quasi-transcendental semiotics. A working hypothesi. In S.P.̈. Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski (a cura di), Kant and Pragmatism, Nordic Pragmatism Network, 2019, pp. 77-97.

Recommended Texts

- G. Cantor, “Comunicazioni per la dottrina del transfinito (§§ 1-7)”, in La filosofia dell’infinito. Scritti scelti (1884-1888), Mimesis 2021, pp. 45-82.
- F. Zalamea, Peirce’s Continuum. A Methodological and Mathematical Approach.
- G. Maddalena, Metafisica per assurdo. Peirce e i problemi dell’epistemologia contemporanea, Rubbettino 2009, pp.127-223.
- F. La Mantia, C. Alunni, F. Zalamea (eds.), Diagrams and Gestures. Mathematics, Philosophy, and Linguistics, Springer 2023
- D.F. Wallace, Everything and More. A Compact History of Infinity, W. W. Norton & Company 2003

The course will present and discuss some fundamental questions of contemporary moral philosophy. The course is divided into four parts, respectively focusing on themes in (1) moral psychology (investigating how people make moral decisions and judgments); (2) ethics (investigating what ought to be done from a moral point of view); applied ethics (investigating how general moral principles ought to be applied to specific areas of practical life); (4) metaethics (investigating the nature and meaning of moral belies and values).
Among the themes that will be discussed: free will and moral responsibility, moral luck, objectivism and relativism of morals, normativity, end of life issues. The goal of the course is that students learn to easily navigate the contemporary debate in moral philosophy, gaining an in-depth knowledge of some of its most important topics and methods.

Written exam, please check "Moodle-Annunci" for info and get in touch with the instructor in case of doubts
FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. J. Wolff (2020), An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, W. W. Norton & Company (only the parts indicated by the instructor)
2. H. Frankfurt (1969), "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 66, No. 23 (Dec. 4, 1969), pp. 829-839
https://doi.org/10.2307/2023833
3. T. Nagel (1979), "Moral luck", available in Nagel, Thomas, 1979, Mortal Questions, New York: Cambridge University Press
4. P. Foot, "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect" in Virtues and Vices (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978) (originally appeared in the Oxford Review, Number 5, 1967.)

Written exam, please check "Moodle-Annunci" for info and get in touch with the instructor in case of doubts
FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. J. Wolff (2020), An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, W. W. Norton & Company.
2. H. Frankfurt (1969), "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 66, No. 23 (Dec. 4, 1969), pp. 829-839
3. T. Nagel (1979), "Moral luck", available in Nagel, Thomas, 1979, Mortal Questions, New York: Cambridge University Press
4. P. Foot, "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect" in Virtues and Vices (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978) (originally appeared in the Oxford Review, Number 5, 1967.)

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

The exam program will be valid from the 2025 summer session.

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://www.labgeocaraci.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Caraci-Geotema-OCR.pdf).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Il viaggio prima del viaggio. Credenze, miti e desideri dalle esperienze odeporiche terrestri a quelle extraterrestri, in Annalisa D’Ascenzo (a cura di), I viaggi e la modernità. Dalle grandi esplorazioni geografiche ai mondi extraterrestri, Roma, CISGE, 2021, pp. 265-297 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/1092/1070).

The course will present and discuss basic notions of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research fields at the interplay between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the course will focus on the topic of moral cognition, investigating the basis of moral reasoning, motivation, choice, and judgment.

Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze texts
- Capacity to navigate the contemporary debate on the bases and mechanisms of moral cognition
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (selected parts);
2 – A. Mele (2009), Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will

Il corso intende analizzare nel dettaglio la vita culturale di uno dei centri principali del Rinascimento italiani: la corte dei Montefeltro a Urbino, sotto il governo di Guidubaldo (1482-1508) e di suo figlio adottivo Francesco Maria della Rovere (1508-1516), quando vi soggiornarono figure di primo piano quali Raffaello Sanzio, Polidoro Virgili, Pietro Bembo, Baldassarre Castiglione e Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena. La prima metà delle lezioni si soffermerà sul contesto e la relazione tra le diverse arti (letterature, teatro, pittura, musica, architettura), mentre la seconda si focalizzerà sul Cortegiano, dove quella grande esperienza viene messa in scena da uno dei suoi protagonisti, per l’appunto Castiglione, diffondendo per l’Europa il duraturo mito di Urbino.

TESTI (comprese introduzioni e commenti):
--Pietro Bembo, Stanze (1507), a cura di Amelia Juri, Salerno, Roma 2020
--Baldassar Castiglione e Cesare Gonzaga, Rime e Tirsi (1508), a cura di Giacomo Vagni, Libri di Emil, Città di Castello, 2015
--Baldassar Castiglione, Vita di Guidubaldo duca di Urbino (1508), a cura di Uberto Motta, Salerno, Roma 2006
--Baldassar Castiglione, Il Cortegiano (1528), a cura di Walter Barberis, Einaudi, Torino 2017
--Altri materiali saranno forniti in pdf

STUDI CRITICI:
--Amedeo Quondam, Baldassarre Castiglione, Viella, Roma 2024.
--Altri saggi saranno forniti in pdf

FILM:
--Kenneth Branagh, Molto rumore per nulla
--Ermanno Olmi, Il mestiere delle armi
--Roberto Rossellini, La presa di potere da parte di Luigi XIV

LETTURE IN PIU’ PER I NON FREQUENTANTI
--Pietro Bembo, De Urbini ducibus (1510), a cura di Valentina Marchesi, Libri di Emil, Città di Castello, 2011
--Altri materiali saranno forniti in pdf

Dante from Vita Nova to Paradise. The course is dedicated to Dante's poetry and the development of his style. The first part includes reading, contextualization and commentary of Vita nova and part of the Rime. The second part will be occupied by the complete reading with commentary of Paradise. In addition to in-depth studies on Dante's literary language, the main hermeneutical junctions of the third canticle will be examined, also in relation to Dante's self-exegesis expressed in the Epistle to Cangrande. The course includes lectures dedicated to the reading and commentary of the proposed works, with critical insights. The final part of the course will be dedicated to the creation of critical and didactic paths on the basis of the two works considered.
The course includes frontal teaching dedicated to reading and commenting on the works considered, with critical insights. The final part of the course will be dedicated to the creation of critical and educational paths based on the two works considered.

Texts:
Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, introduzione, revisione del testo e commento di Stefano Carrai, Milano, Rizzoli, 2009.
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, a cura di G. Inglese, Roma, Carocci, 2016.
Dante Alighieri, Epistola a Cangrande, a cura di L. Azzetta, Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2024.
Bibliography:
Stefano Carrai, Il primo libro di Dante. Un'idea della "Vita Nova", Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2020.
Roberto Rea, Dante: guida alla Vita nuova, Roma, Carocci, 2021.
Luca Marcozzi, Dante e la povertà, Roma, Carocci, 2024.
One volume to be chosen among the two of the Lectura Dantis Romana, Cento canti per cento anni, III. Paradiso, Roma, Salerno editrice, 2014 (1. Canti I-XVII, or 2. Canti XVIII-XXXIII).
Non-attending students will add: Roberto Antonelli, Dante poeta-giudice del mondo terreno, Roma, Viella, 2021..
Any further bibliography will be indicated on the Teams channel of the course

Dante's «Purgatory»

The course aims to offer a comprehensive and in-depth reading of Dante's "Purgatorio." Defined by the historian Jacques Le Goff as the "poetic triumph" of the purgatorial realm, the second cantica of the "Commedia" represents the first and most significant artistic elaboration of this afterlife zone, the existence of which had been definitively recognized by the Church only a few years earlier (1274). Special attention will be given to the ways in which the poet constructs an extremely detailed and profoundly coherent space from multiple perspectives (cosmological, theological, penitential). Its various sources will be examined, with special attention to the religious practices and the theological speculation of the time. Furthermore, the course will delve deeply into Dante's reflection on poetry in this cantica: from his encounters with Casella, the troubadour Sordello, and the classical poet Statius; to his investigation of fame and artistic progress in Canto 11, and the pivotal Cantos 24 and 26 where Dante engages with various predecessors, fully defining his own poetics and a tradition of reference.

Texts:
- Dante, "Divina Commedia. Purgatorio", a cura di Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi, Milano, Mondadori, 1994 [and further editions]
NB: the "Purgatorio" must be read in its entirety.

Critical bibliography (on Moodle):
- E. Auerbach, "Sacrae scripturae sermo humilis", in Id., "Studi su Dante", Milano, Feltrinelli, 2002, pp. 167-175 [1941];
- G. Contini, "Dante come personaggio poeta", in Id., "Un’idea di Dante. Saggi danteschi", Torino, Einaudi, 20013, pp. 33-62;
- A. Pegoretti, "Dal «lito diserto» al giardino. La costruzione del paesaggio nel «Purgatorio» di Dante", Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2007.

Students not attending lectures will integrate their preparation reading the following essays (on Moodle):
- C. Delcorno, "Exemplum e letteratura tra Medioevo e Rinascimento", Bologna, il Mulino, 1989, Introduzione e pp. 195-227;
- E. Pasquini, "Il dominio metaforico", in Id., "Dante e le figure del vero. La fabbrica della «Commedia»", Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2001, pp. 179-217
- E. Raimondi, "Rito e storia nel primo canto del «Purgatorio»", in Id., "Metafora e storia. Studi su Dante e Petrarca", Torino: Einaudi, 1977 [1970], pp. 65-94.

Title: Fascism, Resistance and Liberation.
From the post-war novel to contemporary narration

The course offers the reading of some texts that from the post-war period to today have described the resistance and the liberation process. The models of the resistance novel by Calvino, Fenoglio, Meneghello, Viganò, Morante, will be compared with some narratives of the new Millennium which, in a different way, offer today's readers a reconstruction of the past, and perhaps modify its image by problematizing it. The memory transmitted by literary narratives is filtered by the gaze, depending on the case, of a narrator-witness or "descendant", it adopts different models, it tells us about the past but also about the present of the writer. Therefore the course intends to provide the critical tools to read the transformations of narrative forms, their different relationship with historiography, memory, autobiography and the fictional dimension.

Bibliography:
the bibliography indicated constitutes a broad proposal of readings from which attending students, in agreement with the teacher, will have to choose at least one novel for each group (between those of the 20th and 21st centuries). The course includes "exercises", including group exercises, in which each student will report on one of the chosen texts.

XX secolo

Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
Teresa Viganò, Agnese va a morire
Luigi Meneghello, Piccoli maestri
Elsa Morante, La storia
Alba De Cespedes, Dalla parte di lei
Mario Tobino, Il clandestino
Alfredo orecchio, ll sospetto

XXI secolo

Benedetta Tobagi, La resistenza delle donne (2023),
Silvia Ballestra, La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu, (2022)
Michela Marzano, Stirpe e Vergogna (2023)
Davide Orecchio, Storia aperta (2021),
Scrittura industriale collettiva, In territorio nemico (2013)
Ascanio Celestini, Storia di uno scemo di guerra (2013)
Paola Soriga, Dove finisce Roma (2012)

During the lessons, in-depth critical bibliography will be provided, different depending on the student's reading choices, video material, online essays, magazine articles, etc. will be used.
Helena Janacek, Le rondini di Montecassino (2010)
Filippo Tuena, Tutti i sognatori (1999)

The course has a monographic character dedicated to the language of twentieth-century theatre, with particular reference to Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo and Dario Fo.

For a reference framework on twentieth-century theater and the work of the three authors, refer to the volume:
- C. Giovanardi - P. Trifone, La lingua del teatro, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015.

Papyrus in the Middle Ages: A Mediterranean History (4th-11th Centuries).

This course aims to address, through seminar-style approaches, the history of papyrus in the Middle Ages. It is a classic topic that, starting from Henri Pirenne's research, has been consistently investigated by scholars of written culture, who have viewed papyrus as a writing material, as well as by historians of economics, who have regarded papyrus as an indicator of trade relations across the Mediterranean.

Taking into account interpretations and debates surrounding this topic or related themes, the lessons aim to discuss studies (books, essays), and especially sources (translated into Italian) based on a specific questionnaire: in which areas of the Mediterranean was papyrus produced, and how? What were the logics, dynamics, and economic actors of its circulation across the Mediterranean after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476)? Did circulation encounter obstacles after the 7th century due to religious differences between Islam and Christianity? What were its areas of usage? How did these areas of usage vary depending on the cultural, geographical, economic, and political contexts? What impact did the economic logic of papyrus have on European cultural dynamics? When did the history of papyrus end, and why? How does the history of papyrus interact with our understanding of the cultural and economic history of the medieval Mediterranean?

Note well: In addition to participating in the discussions during the lessons, in the final section of the course students will be required to prepare and discuss, individually or in groups, a brief written text.

For attending students, the exam is essentially based on the materials provided by the professor and discussed in class. For reference reading, one can consider D. Internullo, Il papiro, la pergamena e le origini della memoria archivistica dell’Europa occidentale (secoli VI-XI), in Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall’Egitto tardoantico all’Europa carolingia, ed. by A. Ghignoli, M. Boccuzzi, A. Monte, N. Sietis, Roma 2023, pp. 119-162 (it will be available in the proper Teams channel)

For non-attending students, the examination is based on the comprehensive study of:
H. Pirenne, Maometto e Carlomagno, any of the many editions available
- C. Picard, Il mare dei califfi. Storia del Mediterraneo musulmano (secoli VII-XII), Roma, Carocci, 2017
- D. Internullo, Il papiro, la pergamena e le origini della memoria archivistica dell’Europa occidentale (secoli VI-XI), in Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall’Egitto tardoantico all’Europa carolingia, ed. by A. Ghignoli, M. Boccuzzi, A. Monte, N. Sietis, Roma 2023, pp. 119-162
Note well: in addition to an integral study, non-attending students are also asked to make the three readings interact with each other, trying in particular to understand: a) how our knowledge of Mediterranean history has changed since Pirenne's book publication - thus paying attention to Picard's book in this regard; b) how the data on papyrus circulation (cf. Internullo's essay) interacts with our knowledge of the Mediterranean.

Note well 2: A remedial programme must be agreed with the lecturer for those who have never taken a basic Medieval History examination (M-STO/01).

Theatre in Northern Italy and Ariosto’s experience

This course will investigate the main characteristics of italian theatre, between XVth and XVIth centuries; special attention will be addressed to Ariosto’s comedies: Cassaria (in verse), Suppositi (in verse), and Negromante (II redacton).

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7)


1) Primary Works: L. Ariosto, Cassaria, in verse (any edition; also available online: Microsoft Teams);
2) Primary Works: L. Ariosto, Suppositi, in verse) (any edition; also available online: Microsoft Teams);
3) Primary Works: L. Ariosto, Negromante (II redaction) (any edition; also available online: Microsoft Teams);


4) Criticism: *S. Ferrone, Sulle commedie in prosa dell’Ariosto, in Ludovico Ariosto. Lingua, stile e tradizione. Atti del congresso organizzato dai comuni di Reggio Emilia e Ferrara, 12-16 ottobre 1974, ed. by C. Segre, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1976, pp. 391-425;
5) Criticism: *G. Ferroni, Ariosto, Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2008, pp. 47-84;
6) Criticism: *M. Baratto, La fondazione di un genere (per un’analisi drammaturgica della commedia del Cinquecento) (1980), in Id., Da Ruzante a Pirandello. Scritti sul teatro, Napoli, Liguori, 1990. pp. 11-32;
7) Ariosto commediografo, a cura di F. Arato, P. Cosentino, P. Pellizzari, Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2024.

Additional readings for non-attending students (one of the following books):

1. G. Coluccia, L’esperienza teatrale di Ludovico Ariosto, Lecce, Manni, 2001;
2. A. De Luca, Il teatro di Ludovico Ariosto, Rome, Bulzoni, 1981;
3. C. Falletti Cruciani, Il Teatro in Italia. II. Il Cinquecento e Seicento, Rome, Edizioni Studium, 1999 e 2003, pp. 13-190;
4. A. Stäuble, La commedia umanistica del Quattrocento, Florence, Olschki, 1968


Items 1, 2, 3 4, 5, and 6 will be provided by the teacher.

The course will present and discuss basic notions of neuroethics, an interdisciplinary research fields at the interplay between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, the course will focus on the topic of moral cognition, investigating the basis of moral reasoning, motivation, choice, and judgment.

Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze texts
- Capacity to navigate the contemporary debate on the bases and mechanisms of moral cognition
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – A. Lavazza, V. Sironi (eds.), 2022, Neuroetica, Carocci (selected parts);
2 – A. Mele (2009), Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will