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

A) C. BEARZOT, Manuale di Storia Greca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015.
B) M. BETTALLI, Introduzione alla storiografia greca, Roma, Carocci, 2009, pp. 47-61; 67-91 (Herodotus and Thucydides).
C) Reading of a book at own choice pf the “Histories” of Herodotus and of a book at own choice of “The Peloponnesian War” of Thucydides.
D) Well-detailed maps of the Greek world (Continental Greec, Asia Minor, Aegean Sea and Aegean islands, Straits area, Propontis, Black Sea, Magna Graecia, Sicily, and other hellenised areas of the Mediterranaean Sea). Such maps can be found in any historical Atlas (for instance Atlante Storico De Agostini, Novara 2003) or on the web.

Students unable to attend the course have to read furthermore:

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

1) G. Sergi, L’idea di Medioevo. Fra storia e senso comune, Donzelli.
2) G. Vitolo, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un'età di transizione, Sansoni.

Outline of history and texts of the Latin literature

Description of the course: The course aims to present an outline of Latin literature and of its historical and sogìcial context from its origin up to the II century a. D., through an anthology of passages of the most significant works.

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

The course will deal with the development of the ancient Christian literature from the origin to the fifth century. Special attention will be paid to the relationships of the Christian literature with the Judaic tradition, the Bible and the contemporary classical literatures.

M. Simonetti – E. Prinzivalli, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, Edizioni Dehoniane, Bologna 2010.

Student which attend lectures will study anthology of texts (bacheca docente)

Students which non attend lectures will study three books of the Augustine's Confessiones and the Mohrmann's intoductory study to Confessiones in BUR edition.

General introduction to Christian Archeology: Monuments, cemetery areas and decorative programs of the early Christianity (3rd-6th cent. AD) in Rome and in Orbis Christianus Antiquus.

F. Bisconti, O. Brandt (a cura di), Lezioni di Archeologia Cristiana, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Città del Vaticano 2014.
P. Testini, Archeologia Cristiana, Edipuglia Seconda Edizione, Bari 1980, pp. 1-72.

For not attending students: V. Fiocchi Nicolai, Strutture funerarie ed edifici di culto paleocristiani di Roma dal IV al VI secolo, Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, Città del Vaticano 2001.

The leading protagonists of Art Criticism in the Twentieth-Century will be considered through specific texts. The knowledge of the Artistic Literature and History of the Art, from Renaissance to Nineteenth Century, is required, as the attendance to lessons as well.

Roberto Longhi, Proposte per una critica d’arte, in “Paragone” 1950, 1, pp. 5-19 ;
Orietta Rossi Pinelli (a cura di), La storia delle storie dell’arte, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino 2014, to page 179;
Silvia Ginzburg (a cura di), Obituaries. 37 epitaffi di storici dell’arte del Novecento, Milano, Electa, 2008

The aim of course is to deepen student's knowledge on fundamental issues and problems from the diverse perspectives of the Greek mainland and colonies in the period between the fifth and fourth century before Christ.

E. Lippolis, M. Livadiotti, G. Rocco, Architettura greca. Storia e monumenti del mondo della polis dalle origini al V secolo, Milano 2007, pp. 173-305.
G. Bejor, M. Castoldi, C. Lambrugo, Arte greca: dal decimo al primo secolo a. C., Milano 2008, pp. 361-493.
Additional references will be made available during the course.
Students not attending should contact the lecturer during the consultation times or by e-mail.

This lecture class offers an introduction to the history of photographic languages, practices, and cultures from the origins to the post-WWII period. Lectures will focus on the "close reading" of different types of photographic texts (including individual images, series, photo-texts, books, and exhibitions) and will discuss case studies associated with the crucial moments in the medium's affirmation as an intellectual and artistic field.

Lacking an appropriate survey book (at least in Italian), a list of required readings will be provided at the beginning of classes.
Attendance is not strictly required, but it is warmly suggested.

- bibliographic and archival research (traditional methods, technological resources available and online databases);
- standards in force in the art-historical studies in scientific publications (the form of publications, tools and programs available);
- guidelines and tools to developing images and texts in scientific standards, for exercises in learning activities in art history, seminars and conferences (posters and oral presentation support);
- guidelines and tools to developing dissemination planning tools, guidelines for museum communication;
- web editing guidelines and tools, reliability of the resources available on the net.

Tools, materials and bibliography will be provided during the course.

The course will deal with the development of the ancient Christian literature from the origin to the fifth century. Special attention will be paid to the relationships of the Christian literature with the Judaic tradition, the Bible and the contemporary classical literatures.

M. Simonetti – E. Prinzivalli, Storia della letteratura cristiana antica, Edizioni Dehoniane, Bologna 2010.

Student which attend lectures will study anthology of texts (bacheca docente)

Students which non attend lectures will study three books of the Augustine's Confessiones and the Mohrmann's intoductory study to Confessiones in BUR edition.

I Modulo corso Triennale:
Secular spaces and religious spaces in Mesopotamia and Syria(IV-III millenium BC)
Bordering the space - Building the space –Hierarchy of the space
II Modulo corso Triennale:
The Warfare as economic resource- War procedures and political strategies
III Modulo corso Magistrale:
Women in the Ancient Near East( Mesopotamia and Syria): visibility and roles of women in the society-women’s rules in the mesopotamian laws . Some important women in the history of the archaic cultures from the Mesopotamian and Syrian visual communication and texts sources.
The students who don’t attend the courses I,I,III must be agree with the teacher a specific program within the first month of starting lessons.
Courses Attendance is recommended.a frequenza è vivamente consigliata

I Modulo corso Triennale:
the bibliography on this topic will be shown during the course. The preparation for the exam concerns both to attend lessons and to study the following
bibliography:
-P. Matthiae, Prima Lezione di Archeologia,Universale Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
- R.Dolce. A. Latini (curatrici), Circolazione di persone, prodotti ed idee tra il Vicino Oriente e il Mediterraneo Antico( IV mill.-VII sec. a.C..), Aula Magna Facoltà di lettere e Filosofia-DSU, Università Roma Tre, Firenze 2013 (pp.7-14,33-35) .
-R.Dolce, Città, capitali, metropoli del Vicino oriente antico e del Mediterraneo: R. Dolce, A. Pellitteri(a cura di),Città nel Vicino Oriente e nel Mediterraneo, Palermo, Flaccovio Ed. 2011.
-Further bibliographies regarding the topics of the courses will be suggested during the lessons.
-As reading regarding the historical frame only of the topics of the courses: M. Liverani. Antico Oriente .Storia Società Economia, Laterza Ed., Roma-Bari 2007

II Modulo corso Triennale:
the bibliography on this topic will be shown during the course. The preparation for the exam concerns both to attend lessons and to study the following bibliography :
-R. Dolce, Dai Palazzi Assiri.Immagini di potere da Assurnasirpal II ad Assurbanipal (IX-VII sec.a.C.)(Parte I:pp.25-43; pp.45-63, pp.65-75)
-Further bibliographies regarding the topics of the courses will be suggested during the lessons.
-P. Matthiae, Prima Lezione di Archeologia,Universale Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
- R.Dolce. A. Latini (curatrici), Circolazione di persone, prodotti ed idee tra il Vicino Oriente e il Mediterraneo Antico( IV mill.-VII sec. a.C..), Aula Magna Facoltà di lettere e Filosofia-DSU, Università Roma Tre, Firenze 2013 (pp.7-14,33-35)
-As reading regarding the historical frame only of the topics of the courses: M. Liverani. Antico Oriente .Storia Società Economia, Laterza Ed., Roma-Bari 2007

III Modulo corso Magistrale:
-Free choosing of students of two articles from the book:
AA.VV., Women in the Ancient Near East , London-NewYork 2014
-Further bibliographies regarding the topics of the courses will be suggested during the lessons
-As reading regarding the historical frame only of the topics of the courses: M. Liverani. Antico Oriente .Storia Società Economia, Laterza Ed., Roma-Bari 2007
The exam of CdL Magistrale regards both oral texts and brief papers (Italian English,French) on the themes of the lessons to submit to the teacher.

I Modulo corso Triennale:
Secular spaces and religious spaces in Mesopotamia and Syria(IV-III millenium BC)
Bordering the space - Building the space –Hierarchy of the space
II Modulo corso Triennale:
The Warfare as economic resource- War procedures and political strategies
III Modulo corso Magistrale:
Women in the Ancient Near East( Mesopotamia and Syria): visibility and roles of women in the society-women’s rules in the mesopotamian laws . Some important women in the history of the archaic cultures from the Mesopotamian and Syrian visual communication and texts sources.
The students who don’t attend the courses I,I,III must be agree with the teacher a specific program within the first month of starting lessons.
Courses Attendance is recommended.a frequenza è vivamente consigliata

I Modulo corso Triennale:
the bibliography on this topic will be shown during the course. The preparation for the exam concerns both to attend lessons and to study the following
bibliography:
-P. Matthiae, Prima Lezione di Archeologia,Universale Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
- R.Dolce. A. Latini (curatrici), Circolazione di persone, prodotti ed idee tra il Vicino Oriente e il Mediterraneo Antico( IV mill.-VII sec. a.C..), Aula Magna Facoltà di lettere e Filosofia-DSU, Università Roma Tre, Firenze 2013 (pp.7-14,33-35) .
-R.Dolce, Città, capitali, metropoli del Vicino oriente antico e del Mediterraneo: R. Dolce, A. Pellitteri(a cura di),Città nel Vicino Oriente e nel Mediterraneo, Palermo, Flaccovio Ed. 2011.
-Further bibliographies regarding the topics of the courses will be suggested during the lessons.
-As reading regarding the historical frame only of the topics of the courses: M. Liverani. Antico Oriente .Storia Società Economia, Laterza Ed., Roma-Bari 2007

II Modulo corso Triennale:
the bibliography on this topic will be shown during the course. The preparation for the exam concerns both to attend lessons and to study the following bibliography :
-R. Dolce, Dai Palazzi Assiri.Immagini di potere da Assurnasirpal II ad Assurbanipal (IX-VII sec.a.C.)(Parte I:pp.25-43; pp.45-63, pp.65-75)
-Further bibliographies regarding the topics of the courses will be suggested during the lessons.
-P. Matthiae, Prima Lezione di Archeologia,Universale Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.
- R.Dolce. A. Latini (curatrici), Circolazione di persone, prodotti ed idee tra il Vicino Oriente e il Mediterraneo Antico( IV mill.-VII sec. a.C..), Aula Magna Facoltà di lettere e Filosofia-DSU, Università Roma Tre, Firenze 2013 (pp.7-14,33-35)
-As reading regarding the historical frame only of the topics of the courses: M. Liverani. Antico Oriente .Storia Società Economia, Laterza Ed., Roma-Bari 2007

III Modulo corso Magistrale:
-Free choosing of students of two articles from the book:
AA.VV., Women in the Ancient Near East , London-NewYork 2014
-Further bibliographies regarding the topics of the courses will be suggested during the lessons
-As reading regarding the historical frame only of the topics of the courses: M. Liverani. Antico Oriente .Storia Società Economia, Laterza Ed., Roma-Bari 2007
The exam of CdL Magistrale regards both oral texts and brief papers (Italian English,French) on the themes of the lessons to submit to the teacher.

The course will explore issues of body, space and light in contemporary theatre performance, through the reading of general texts pertaining to them and other text concerning specific experiences of individual artists or groups of artists who have significantly addressed these issues in their work.

Texts related to general issues:
- Antology edited by the teacher on the concept of Performance;
- L. Mango, La scrittura scenica, Bulzoni, Roma, 2003;
- F. Crisafulli, Luce attiva, Titivillus, Pisa, 2007; this book is also available in English (Active Light, Artdigiland, Dublin, 2013) and French (Lumière active, Artdigiland, Dublin, 2015);
- F. Crisafulli, Il teatro dei luoghi. Lo spettacolo generato dalla realtà, Artdigiland, Dublino, 2015.
Attending students must know two, and non attendig students four of the following texts, concerning specific experiences of individual artists or groups of artists:
- S. Carandini (a cura di), Memorie delle cantine. Teatro di ricerca a Roma negli anni ’60 e ’70, Bulzoni, Roma, 2012;
- F. Crisafulli (a cura di), Il teatro di Giuliano Vasilicò (being published by Artdigiland);
- A. Kasai, Un libro chiamato corpo, a cura di M. P. D’Orazi, Artdigiland, Dublino, 2016;
- S. Marenzi (a cura di), Trasform’azioni. Rassegna internazionale di danza Buto. Fotografia di un’esperienza, Editoria&Spettacolo, Roma, 2010;
- S. Tarquini (a cura di), Fabrizio Crisafulli. Un teatro dell’essere, Editoria&Spettacolo, Roma, 2010.
- S. Brecht, The Theatre of Visions: Robert Wilson, Methuen, New York, 2007.

Michelangelo
Cappella Sistina and Cappella Paolina

The course offers a first thorough examination of Michelangelo's personality and in particular of his work as a painter

texts

- C. Acidini Luchinat, Michelangelo pittore, Milano 2007
- Michelangelo e la Cappella Paolina. Riflessioni e contributi sull’ultimo restauro, atti del convegno a cura di A. Paolucci, S. Danesi Squarzina, Roma 2016

A dossier of texts and images projected during the lectures will be available at the end of the course at the secretary of the Artistic Heritage History

"Rome and the Roman world: an epigraphic civilization"
study of the different categories of epigraphic sources in Latin, of the criteria of their ancient writing, of their history and of their modern edition (paper and digital). Introduction to the consultation of collections and other tools of epigraphic and bibliographic research.

ATTENDING students:
- A. Buonopane, manuale di epigrafia latina (=Manual of Latin Epigraphy), Rome (Carocci) 2009 ss .;
- xerocopie provided by the teacher in class;

TEXTS of reference for non-attending students: they must agree a program with the teacher; the study texts can be in English, French, German, Spanish.

The module illustrates the main phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features of contemporary English. It also trains students in the use of monolingual dictionaries.
Language improvement classes: reading, writing, listening and speaking activities leading to the required level.
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; use of language laboratory
STUDENTS MUST PASS THEIR B1 (first language) OR A2 (second language) LANGUAGE TESTS BEFORE DOING THIS EXAM. STUDENTS WILL BE AWARDED 12 ECTS ONLY IF THEY PASS THE EXAM
STUDENTS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO ATTEND CLASSES. IF THEY CAN'T, THEY ARE REQUESTED TO MEET THE COURSE TEACHER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR.

• Jeffries L., Discovering language. The Structure of Modern English, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 (chapters 1-6).
• Jackson H., Words and Their Meaning, Longman, 1988 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 12).
• One of the following monolingual dictionaries (latest edition):
- Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
- Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- MacMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

The module illustrates the main phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features of contemporary English. It also trains students in the use of monolingual dictionaries.
Language improvement classes: reading, writing, listening and speaking activities leading to the required level.
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; use of language laboratory

STUDENTS MUST PASS THEIR B1 (first language) OR A2 (second language) LANGUAGE TESTS BEFORE DOING THIS EXAM. STUDENTS WILL BE AWARDED 12 ECTS ONLY IF THEY PASS THE 2nd yr. EXAM
STUDENTS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO ATTEND CLASSES. IF THEY CAN'T, THEY ARE REQUESTED TO MEET THE COURSE TEACHER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR.

• Jeffries L., "Discovering language. The Structure of Modern English", Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 (chapters 1-6).
• Jackson H., "Words and Their Meaning", Longman, 1988 (chapters 2, 3, 12).
• One of the following monolingual dictionaries (latest edition):
- Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
- Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- MacMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

The module illustrates the main phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features of contemporary English. It also trains students in the use of monolingual dictionaries.
Language improvement classes: reading, writing, listening and speaking activities leading to the required level.

1. Jeffries L., Discovering language. The Structure of Modern English, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 (chapters 1-6).
2. Jackson H., Words and Their Meaning, Longman, 1988 (chapters 2, 3, 12).
3. One of the following monolingual dictionaries (latest edition):
- Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
- Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- MacMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

ITALIAN CINEMA. FROM THE ARRIVAL OF SOUND TO NEOREALISM
Italian cinema in the Fascist era. Origins and development of neorealism in the political, moral, cultural and artistic climate of the second Postwar. Production and reception modes. Plurality of ideologies, poetics, and styles. Contamination of genres. Neorealistic iconography. Forms of aesthetic renovation. The critical debate of the time. Historiographic reevaluations, critical rereadings and theoretical analyses from the 60s to today.

TEXTS: Gian Piero Brunetta, Guida alla storia del cinema italiano 1905-2003, Einaudi, Torino 2003 (in particolare le pp. 73-204); David Bruni, Commedia degli anni anni trenta, Il Castoro, Milano 2013; Stefania Parigi, Neorealismo. Il nuovo cinema del dopoguerra, Marsilio, Venezia 2014 e 2016; a selection of texts edited by the teacher (available at the beginning of the course at the copisteria in Via G. Rocco, n. 11).
FILMOGRAPHY: Gli uomini, che mascalzoni… (1932) di M. Camerini; 1860 (1934) di A. Blasetti); Vecchia guardia (1935) di A. Blasetti; Dora Nelson (1939) di M. Soldati; I grandi magazzini (1939) di Mario Camerini; Ossessione (1943) di L.Visconti; Paisà (1946) di R. Rossellini; Germania anno zero (1948) di R. Rossellini; Ladri di biciclette (1948) di V. De Sica; La terra trema (1948) di L.Visconti; Riso amaro (1949) di G. De Santis; Miracolo a Milano (1950) di V. De Sica; Il cammino della speranza (1950) di P. Germi; Bellissima (1951) di L. Visconti; Due soldi di speranza (1951) di R. Castellani; Lo sceicco bianco (1952) di F. Fellini; Pane, amore e fantasia (1953) di L. Comencini; Il grido (1957) di M. Antonioni. Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.

The focus of the course is on the analysis of style in painting that will be the main object of the classes, considering its importance in the history of european art form the 15th to the 18th century.

E. Castelnuovo, Attribution, ad vocem, in Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris 1968 (www.storiedellarte.com)


G. Previtali, Attribuzione, ad vocem, Enciclopedia Feltrinelli-Fischer, Milano 1971 (www.storiedellarte.com)


- R. Longhi, Precisioni nelle Gallerie italiane, [1° edizione in “Vita Artistica” 1926-1927], ristamato in Opere complete di Roberto Longhi. Saggi e ricerche, 1925-1928, Firenze 1967, pp. 265-354


- L. Bellosi, Buffalmacco e il Trionfo della morte, [1° edizione Torino Einaudi 1974], ristampa Milano 5 Continents 2003

Si richiede inoltre la conoscenza per il periodo che va dal 1401 al 1789 di un manuale a scelta tra:

- P. De Vecchi-E. Cerchiari, Arte nel tempo, Milano Bompiani
- C. Bertelli-G. Briganti, Storia dell’arte, Milano Electa o Milano Bruno Mondadori
- G. Cricco-F.P. Di Teodoro, Itinerario nell’arte, Bologna Zanichelli

- bibliographic and archival research (traditional methods, technological resources available and online databases);
- standards in force in the art-historical studies in scientific publications (the form of publications, tools and programs available);
- guidelines and tools to developing images and texts in scientific standards, for exercises in learning activities in art history, seminars and conferences (posters and oral presentation support);
- guidelines and tools to developing dissemination planning tools, guidelines for museum communication;
- web editing guidelines and tools, reliability of the resources available on the net.

Tools, materials and bibliography will be provided during the course.