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

Course title 2020-2021: A Diogneto

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

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

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

First semester (six weeks).
Monday and Wednesday, 12-14 hours, STREAMING LESSON.
Friday, 9-11 hours, Aula 15, LESSON IN PRESENCE
Beginning of the course: Monday, November 16th, 2020.

Course title 2020-2021: The Gospel of Nicodemus and its tradition.

The traditions on the Passion-Death-Resurrection of Jesus are contained not only in works that have become canonical, but also, and to a much wider extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content and from that of the phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fortune of texts without a statute of authority. The course aims to deepen the literary history of the Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as the Acts of Pilate, the most successful and widespread apocryphal on Passion-Death-Resurrection among Christians of all ages and languages, transmitted by more than five hundred manuscripts and subject to adaptations and rewriting of all kinds (homilies, sacred representations, novels, poems), which in the sixth century led, among other things, to the addition of the long and famous description of the Descensus ad inferos of Christ.

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

General section: a text to choose between
P. CHIESA, Elementi di critica testuale. Seconda edizione, Bologna: Pàtron, 2012;
R. MAISANO, Filologia del Nuovo Testamento. La tradizione e la trasmissione dei testi, Roma: Carocci, 2014.

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

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

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

The course presents and analyses the three fundamental modes of conflict: agon, polemos, stasis. That is, the conflict as "competition" (ethos at the same time moral, economic and sporting, which finds its clearest determination in ancient Greek thought); the conflict as "war" (Hobbes); the conflict as "civil war", within the community and the political body (Loraux, Agamben). The aim of the course is to define the peculiarity of these different modes of conflict.

- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part 1. and Part 2.
- J.-P. Vernant, City-State Warfare, in J.-P. Vernant, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece, Zone Books, New York 1989.
- N. Loraux, The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens, Zone Books, New York 2006.
- G. Agamben, Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm, Stanford University Press, Redwood city 2015.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

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

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

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


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

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


BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

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

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


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

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

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

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

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

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

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


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


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

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

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

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

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

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


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

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

MODULE 1 (6 university credits):

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

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

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

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


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)


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

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

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

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the 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 representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
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.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• Z. Snyder, 300 (2007)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989)
• Justin Kurzel, Macbeth (2015)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

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:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


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 basic notions of philosophical anthropology, a discipline that focuses on the investigation of the central aspects of what it is to be human. The first part of the course aims at providing an overview of classic questions in philosophical anthropology. The second part will focus on the themes of personal identity and the relation with others in the contemporary debate.
Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze philosophical texts
- Capacity to navigate the classic and contemporary debate on selected topics of philosophical and cultural anthropology
- Capacity to write argumentative essays and to prepare/edit texts
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. M. Montaigne (1580). “Delle carrozze”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, Tutte le edizioni
2. M. Montaigne (1580). “I cannibali”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, Tutte le edizioni
3. T. Todorov (1984/2014). La conquista dell’America. Il problema dell’altro, Einaudi
4. Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: I. Kant (1798/2010). Antropologia dal punto di vista pragmatico, Einaudi; M. Scheler (1928/2006). La posizione dell'uomo nel cosmo, Armando; A. Gehlen (1940/2010). L’uomo. La sua natura e il suo posto nel mondo, Mimesis; S. Landucci (2014). I filosofi e i selvaggi, Einaudi; A. Campodonico (2013). L'uomo. Lineamenti di antropologia filosofica, Rubbettino

FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. M. Montaigne (1580). “Delle carrozze”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, All editions
2. M. Montaigne (1580). “I cannibali”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, All editions
3. T. Todorov (1984/2014). La conquista dell’America. Il problema dell’altro, Einaudi
4. Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: I. Kant (1798/2010). Antropologia dal punto di vista pragmatico, Einaudi; M. Scheler (1928/2006). La posizione dell'uomo nel cosmo, Armando; A. Gehlen (1940/2010). L’uomo. La sua natura e il suo posto nel mondo, Mimesis; S. Landucci (2014). I filosofi e i selvaggi, Einaudi; A. Campodonico (2013). L'uomo. Lineamenti di antropologia filosofica, Rubbettino
5. S. Landucci (2014). I filosofi e i selvaggi, Einaudi

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

a. Attending students:
The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.

b. Non-Attending Students:
E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

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

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

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

Drawing on the problem of the sacred as tackled in some philosophical works of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, the course aims at outlining the phenomenological approach to the religious experience. Further, the course provides the basic skills needed in order to approach the main phenomenological themes related to the reflection on religious experiences and fosters the development of a critical attitude with respect to issues related to the care of oneself and others.

M. Heidegger, Lettera sull’«umanismo», in: Id., Segnavia, Adelphi, Milano 2002 (pp. 267-315).

M. Heidegger, Perché i poeti?, in: Id., Sentieri interrotti, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 2002 (pp. 247-297).

M. Heidegger, «Come quando al dì di festa…», in: Id., La poesia di Hölderlin, Adelphi, Milano 2001 (pp. 59-93).

E. Lévinas, Dal sacro al santo. Cinque nuove letture talmudiche, Città Nuova Editrice, Roma 1985 (pp. 81-111).

E. Lévinas, Dio, la morte e il tempo, Jaca book, Milano 2003 (pp. 171-199, 225-228, 273-277, 285-297).

E. Lévinas, Difficile libertà, Jaca book, Milano 2004 (pp. 27-41, 289-292, 341-357).

S. Bancalari, Logica dell’epochè. Per un’introduzione alla fenomenologia della religione, Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2015 (pp. 157-190 e 213-247).

The course aims to offer: (1) an introduction to the Hellenistic world, to the new phenomenon of royalty and to the world of the Greek poleis at that time: greek poleis’ political institutions (in the aspects of continuity and evolution), their relationship to the sovereigns, the role of the élite and the intense mutual relationship between them, made of diplomatic relations, exchange of honors and judges, recognition of syngeneia, common participation in cults. The topics will be addressed taking into account literary, epigraphic, archaeological and iconographic sources. (2) An introduction to the main databases of Greek literary texts and inscriptions and to the most important bibliographic research tools. (3) The presentation by the students of some topics related to the course and agreed with the teacher.

A) M. Mari (a cura di), L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2019 (entire volume).
B) J. Ma, “Peer Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic Age”, P&P, 180, 9-40.
C) Essays by John Ma, Riet van Bremen, Patrice Baker, David Potter, Angelos Chaniotis in A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, Oxford 2003.
D) L. Moretti, “La scuola, il ginnasio, l’efebia”, in R. Bianchi Bandinelli (dir.), Storia e civiltà dei Greci, 8. La società ellenistica. Economia, diritto, religione, Milano 1977, 469-490.
E) Chr. Müller, “Oligarchy and the Hellenistic City”, in H. Börm – N. Luraghi (eds.), The Polis in the Hellenistic World, Stuttgart, F. Steiner Verlag, 2018, 27-52.
F) Material provided by the teacher.

Sign and representation. Kant and pragmatism
The course aims to analyse the problematic relationship between Kant and Peirce. In particular, during the classes, the Kantian theory of knowledge as representation and its critical reception by Peirce will be discussed in depth.
The course will take place as follows:
- Introduction to Kant's theory of knowledge
- Analysis of selected parts of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
- Analysis of Peirce's essays in cognitive semiotics

I. Kant, Critica della ragion pura (preferibilmente edizione Bompiani, a cura di Costantino Esposito) [parti scelte].
C. S. Peirce, “Una nuova lista di categorie”; “Questioni riguardo a certe pretese capacità umane”; “Alcune conseguenze di quattro incapacità”. In Id. Scritti scelti. UTET, Torino 2008, pp. 71-143.
R. M. Calcaterra, Peirce discepolo e avversario di Kant, in M. Failla (a cura di), Leggere il presente. Questioni kantiane, Carocci 204, pp. 167-178.
G. Maddalena, Anti-Kantianism as a necessary characteristic of pragmatism, in K. P. Skowronski and S. Pihlström (Eds.) (2019). Pragmatist Kant. Pragmatism, Kant, and Kantianism in the Twenty-first Century, Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 4. Helsinki: Nordic Pragmatism Network 2019, pp. 43-59.
G. Baggio, Lo schematismo trascendentale e il problema della sintesi tra “senso”, “segno” e “gesto”. Un’interpretazione pragmatista, in “Spazio filosofico”, 21, 2018, pp. 83-99.

Recommended texts

G. Maddalena, Peirce, La Scuola 2015.
R. M. Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti. Il pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, Carocci 2015

This course aims to probe the ethical import of a personological view of self-narrativism that is well-entrenched in a naturalistic context. Against the backdrop of William James’ theory of the duplex self, the claim that we constitute ourselves as morally responsible agents (as ‘Lockean persons’) by forming and using autobiographical narratives is combined with Dan McAdams’ view of narrative identity as a layer of personality. During personality development, internalised and evolving stories of the self layer over other layers of personality, and this process of layering may be integrative. The process of self-representation originated from the I/Me dialectic, then, takes the form of what Jung identified as “individuation”, namely, a striving towards the unity of the various strata of personality. Such a process has an ethical dimension that is reminiscent of the ideal of eudaimonia, the discovery and actualization of one’s own unique potentials and talents.

1) J. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Clarendon Press, Oxford 1975 (book II, ch. 27).
2) D. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), 2nd ed., edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge and P.H. Niddich, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1978 (book I, part IV, sect. 6)
3) W. James, Principles of Psychology (1890), Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 1981 (vol. I, chapters IX e X).
4) M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa, A. Paternoster, The Self and its Defenses. From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science, Palgrave-Macmillan, London 2016.
5) P. Fonagy, G. Gergely, E. Jurist and M. Target, Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, Other Press, London 2002.
6) R.D. Laing, The Divided Self, Tavistock, London 1960.
7) A. Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, Polity Press, London 1991.

Experience and infinite Task. Knowledge, language and messianism in the philosophy of Walter Benjamin.

The course will focus on some essais of the early Benjamin (1916-1925) in order to reconstruct the gnoseological basis of his theoretical and practical philosophy. Between them "On language as such and on the Language of Man" (1916), "On the program of the coming philosophy" (1917-18),
"Epistemo-logical Preface" to "Origin of german baroque Drama". The thesis "On the Concept of History" as well as some fragments on the philosophy of knowledge and on politics will be also examinated.

Walter Benjamin
"On Language as such and on the Language of Man" (1916),
"On the Program of the coming Philosophy" (1917-18),
"Epistemo-logical Preface" to "Origin of german baroque Drama" (1925).
"Teological-political Fragment" (1921)
"On the Concept of History" (1940)
(any edition, suggested W. Benajmin, "Selected Writings, H. Eiland and Jeggins edrs., voll. I and 4, the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge Mass. and London, 1996-2003)

Tamara Tagliacozzo, "Experience and infinite Task. Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin, Rowman and Littlefield International, London-New York 2018.

In the first part, the course aims at giving the students the basic concepts of applied ethics, with a particular focus on roboethics and the relation between ethics and communication, in particular considering films. In the second part, the course aims at providing a basic understanding of the debate on human reasoning and decision-making.
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.

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL ATTEND THE COURSE AND PASS THE PRE-EXAM AT THE END OF THE COURSE (WHICH WILL INCLUDE A WRITTEN TEST AND TWO PAPERS, WHOSE FORMAT WILL BE EXPLAINED IN CLASS)

Module I (prof. Mario De Caro)
- G. Tamburrini, Etica delle macchine 2020, Carocci
- De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori

Module II (dott. Sofia Bonicalzi)
- G. Gigerenzer, Imparare a rischiare. Come prendere decisioni giuste, Cortina
- Booklet prepared by dr. Bonicalzi, which will include: D. Kahneman, Pensieri lenti e veloci. Mondadori; J. Bargh, A tua insaputa. La mente inconscia che guida le nostre azioni, Bollati Boringhieri; R.H. Thaler & C. Sunstein, Nudge. La spinta gentile, Feltrinelli

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO DON’T ATTEND THE COURSE OR DON'T PASS THE PRE-EXAM AT THE END OF THE COURSE OR DON'T TRY IT
- G. Tamburrini, Etica delle macchine 2020, Carocci
- De Caro, Magni, Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori
- G. Gigerenzer, Imparare a rischiare. Come prendere decisioni giuste, Cortina
- Booklet prepared by dr. Bonicalzi, which will include: D. Kahneman, Pensieri lenti e veloci. Mondadori; J. Bargh, A tua insaputa. La mente inconscia che guida le nostre azioni, Bollati Boringhieri; R.H. Thaler & C. Sunstein, Nudge. La spinta gentile, Feltrinelli
- L. Ceri, Etica della comunicazione, Il Mulino

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
5. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" is both one of the most important texts of modernity and one of its greatest scandals.Anonymously published in 1670, it was the object of fierce criticism from the very beginning, but it continued to enjoy an important clandestine circulation, which allowed it to exert a great influence until the Age of Enlightenment. In the course we will proceed to a complete reading of the work and an analysis of its central themes: the critique of the theological imaginary (prophecy, law, vocation, miracles) as ideological support of non-democratic powers, the rethinking of the relationship between natural religion and historical religions, the naturalistic foundation of the legal-political sphere and the relationship between state and ecclesiastical power, the 'libertas philosophandi'.At the same time, an attempt will be made to highlight the heterogeneous theoretical positions held by the work, trying to frame them within the evolution that in Spinoza's thought is realized somewhere between the early works and the final drafting of "Ethics". In other words, it will be a matter of testing how in the very pages of the "Treatise" there is an imperceptible transition from a first position, in which good consists solely in the union of the mind with God guaranteed by intellectual knowledge and imagination and passions are therefore an obstacle to be freed from, to a second position, in which imagination and passions play a decisive role not only in politics but also in ethics.

Baruch Spinoza, Theological-political treatise (ed. by E. Curley)

- One of the following books:

Henri Laux, Imagination Et Religion Chez Spinoza: La Potentia Dans L'histoire, Paris, PUF, 1993
Vittorio Morfino, Il tempo e l'occasione. L'incontro Spinoza-Machiavelli, Milano, Led Edizioni universitarie, 2002
André Tosel, Spinoza, ou Le crépuscule de la servitude: Essai sur le 'Traité théologico-politique', Paris, Aubier, 1984
Theo Verbeek, Spinoza's 'Theologico-political Treatise': Exploring the Will of God, Routledge, 2003.
Stefano Visentin, La libertà necessaria. Teoria e pratica della democrazia in Spinoza, Pisa, ETS, 2001

The course aims to show the relationship between activity and passivity of consciousness analyzing the concepts of perception, affectivity, unconscious, interest, association, judgment in Husserl.

Edmund Husserl, Lessons on Passive Synthesis, La Scuola, 2016.
Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology of the Unconscious, Udine, Mimesis (forthcoming)

The course will focus on Aristotle, Categories, 1-5.
Aristotle's text will be explained in detail and the following aspects will be considered:
1: The distinction between homonyms, synonyms, and paronyms
2: The relations “dici de subiecto” / “esse in subiecto” and Aristotle's list of the categories
3: Aristotle’s account of substance

[a] Aristotle, Categories, Translated with a Commentary by J. Ackrill, Clarendon Press, Oxford 2002, ch. 1-5, pp. 3-12 (text); 69-91 (Commentary).

[b] M. Vegetti – F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
R. Smith, Aristotle’s Logic, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/
P. Studtmann, Aristotle’s Categories, “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-categories/

[c] Students are required to prepare a paper in Italian or English (3.000 words) about one of the following topics:

[i] Categories, dialectic and metaphysics
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
S. Menn, Metaphysics, Dialectic and the Categories, “Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale”, 100, 1995, 311-337.

[ii] Inherence and predication
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
G.E.L. Owen, Inherence, “Phronesis”, 10, 1965, 97-105.
R. Heinaman, Non-substantial Individuals in the Categories, “Phronesis”, 26, 1981, 295-307.

[iii] Substance and individuals
Bibliography: texts of sections [a] e [b] should be supplemented with:
M. Frede, Individuals in Aristotle, in Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford 1987, 49-71.

The thought of Thomas Aquinas in the contemporary philosophical debate.

Tommaso d’Aquino, L’ente e l’essenza, Bompiani, Milano, 2002.
A. Kenny, Aquinas, MacMillan LTD, London, 1969.
B. Miller, Dall'esistenza a Dio, Carocci, Roma, 1992.
M. Micheletti, “IL CONTRIBUTO DEL TOMISMO ANALITICO ALLA FILOSOFIA CONTEMPORANEA. DALL'ANTROPOLOGIA ALLA TEOLOGIA NATURALE E AL DIBATTITO SULL'ONTOLOGIA.” Divus Thomas, vol. 117, no. 2, 2014, pp. 110–175.
M. Marassi, “IL PROBLEMA DEL FONDAMENTO NEI CONTRIBUTI DELLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA»: A MARGINE DELLA PIÙ FAMOSA DISPUTA.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 323–348.
D. Sacchi, “LA PRESENZA DI GUSTAVO BONTADINI SULLA «RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA» NELLA SECONDA METÀ DEL NOVECENTO.” Rivista Di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, vol. 101, no. 1/3, 2009, pp. 217–284.

Politics of nature
The environmental issue requires a subversion of political thought in the Western canon.
How can we think of a politics that is no longer a characteristic sphere of human subjects alone?
A reconnaissance of the so-called "environmental" or "ecological" problems is necessary to imagine again and again the sphere of interactions between human and non-human.

I. Stengers, Cosmopolitics - selected chapters - Cosmopolitics I; Cosmopolitics VII
Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck, and Christos Lynteris (Eds.), The Anthropology of Epidemics, Routledge 2019

PROGRAM OF CANON LAW:

I. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: relations between canon law, theology, morality and history.

II. FOUNDATION AND HISTORICITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM

III. THEORY OF SOURCES OF CANON LAW

IV. THE REGULATORY ACTIVITY OF THE CHURCH

V. THE TYPICALITY OF THE CANONICAL LEGAL SYSTEM IN RELATION TO THE NORM

VI. THE CHURCH AS INSTITUTION, GOD’S PEOPLE, SOCIETY

VII. ACTIVITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

For attending students (that is students attending at least 2/3 of classes and seminars) only:

C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (with the exception of some Chapters)

Non attending students can choose between program No. 1 and program No. 2:

PROGRAM No. 1

1. C. FANTAPPIE', Il diritto canonico nella società postmoderna. Lezioni universitarie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (except Chapter I or II or III).

PROGRAM No. 2

1. C. FANTAPPIE’, Storia del diritto e delle istituzioni della Chiesa, Bologna, Il Mulino 2011;
2. P. GROSSI, Diritto canonico e cultura giuridica, in Quaderni fiorentini, 32 (2003), pp. 373-389, downloadable from: http://www.centropgm.unifi.it/cache/quaderni/32/0374.pdf

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Christian and Medieval Iconography (I Semester - 6 CFU)

Sarcophagi in Late Antiquity

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

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

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

Private forms of Early Christian cult

Assignment:

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

Not attending students must add to the Assignment:

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

DANTE AND THE “BELLA SCOLA”: THE RECEPTION OF THE CLASSICS IN DANTE’S COMMEDIA AND OTHER WRITINGS
The course will focus first on select passages in the 'Commedia' and other works by Dante (Vita nova, De vulgari eloquentia, Monarchia, Epistola XIII) where the author expounds on the canon and the style of the great auctores of the classical world. Next specific instances where Dante hints at or echoes the classics will be examined, taking into account also the glosses, commentaries and other texts which defined the reception of his works in the Middle ages, paying particular attention to the textual variants found in the manuscript tradition of the 'Commedia' and to the glosses of the commentators from the 14th to the 16th century.

- DANTE ALIGHIERI, Commedia, ed. by A.M. CHIAVACCI LEONARDI, Milano, Mondadori, 2016, or ed. by G. INGELSE, Roma, Carocci, 2916 (if you have other editions of the text please get in touch with the lecturer): Inf. I, II, IV (69-151), V (52-69), VI (1-33), XVI (123-136), XVIII (127-136), XX, XXV, XXVI, XXVII (16-33 e 73-123) Purg. I (22-27 e 120-136), II (53-133), III (vv. 16-45); XXII; Par. VI (127-42), VIII (1-12 e 31-93), XV (25-30, 85-90 133-148); XVI (1-27), XVII (1-27), XXVI (76-84), XXX (19-27).

*L. AZZETTA, «Ad intelligenza della presente Comedìa…». I primi esegeti di fronte al «poema sacro», in Dante e la sua eredità a Ravenna nel Trecento, a cura di M. PETOLETTI, Ravenna, Longo, 2015, pp. 87-113.
- *G. CERRI, Dante e Omero. Il volto di Medusa, Lecce, Argo, 2007, pp. 113-16 e 125-29.
- *M. FIORILLA, Da Apollonio Rodio a Lucano, da Lucano a Dante: ripresa e variatio di una similitudine, in «Tutto il lume della spera nostra» Studi per Marco Ariani, a cura di. G. CRIMI e L. MARCOZZI, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2018, pp. 75-81.
- * M. FIORILLA, La metafora del latte in Dante tra tradizione classica e cristiana, in La metafora in Dante, a cura di M. Ariani, Firenze, Olschki, 2009, pp. 149-165 (solo le pp. 149-61).
- *S. GENTILI, «Ut canes infernales»: Cerbero e le Arpie in Dante, in I monstra nell’ ‘Inferno dantesco’, in I “monstra” nell’‘Inferno’ dantesco. Tradizioni e simbologie. Atti del Convegno storico internazionale di Todi, 13-16 ottobre 1996, Spoleto, CISAM, 1997, pp. 177-203.
- *S. GENTILI, Il fuoco di Ulisse, in Per civile conversazione. Con Amedeo Quondam, a cura di B. ALFONZETTI ET ALII, Roma, Bulzoni, 2014, pp. 605-615.
- *A. IANNUCCI, Dante e la «bella scola» della poesia, in Dante e la «bella scola» della poesia Autorità e sfida poetica, a cura di A.A. IANNUCCI, G.C. ALESSIO, C. VILLA et alii, Ravenna, Longo, 1993, pp. 19-37.
- *M. PETOLETTI, Canto XXV «Taccia Lucano. Taccia […] Ovidio», in Lectura Dantis Romana, Cento canti per cento anni. I. Inferno. Canti XVIII-XXXIV, a cura di E. MALATO e A. MAZZUCCHI, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2013, vol. II, pp. 802-22.
- *S. RIZZO, Lectura di Dante, ‘Inferno’, XXVI, in «Rivista di Studi danteschi», XVI/2, 2016, pp. 276-90 (solo le pp. 280-90).
- *A. TARTARO, L’aggettivo di Cleopatra (Inferno V, 63), in «La Cultura», XXXII, 1994, pp. 45-57.

The 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 other works by Dante ('Vita nova', 'Convivio', 'De vulgari eloquentia', 'Monarchia', 'Epistola' XIII), an anthology of classical sources with late antique and early medieval glosses, a selection of glosses from the early commentaries to the Commedia, and samples of pages from critical editions of the poem. Notes and other material will be uploaded in PDF format during the course in the lecturer’s web page.

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

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

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Codicology
The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of manuscripts, Latin and Greek, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, the external characteristics of the manuscript will be examined (material techniques for preparing the book as a physical object, ways and means of production, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of origin of the manuscript books. An in-depth study will be devoted to the methods and problems of description of the late medieval codices. This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials, through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

AIMS:
Acquiring adequate theoretical and technical knowledge regarding the common and distinctive elements that characterize bibliography and librarianship, the related areas of expertise and lines of development (including the digital one), with particular regard to:
1) design and compilation of bibliographies;
2) organization, management, evaluation and promotion of libraries in Italy;
3) evolution and use of document processing technologies (for both bibliographic and librarianship purposes);
4) history of printing and publishing (including digital).
By the end of the course, students will acquire the ability to apply the knowledge learned for bibliographic processing and understood the management problems of a library, the implications of the use of information and communication technologies in the two disciplinary fields, as well as in the editorial one.

STRUCTURE:

3 MODULES: 1) Information and Media Literacy; 2) Bibliography; 3) Library science, with final assessment for each module.

MODULE 1 (October): "Find your way in the docuverse for academic purposes".
The first module is an introductory one and offers an overview of the information complexity, the "document", the importance of acquiring information literacy and the role of libraries and librarians in this process. Furthermore, the module introduces the student to the search for information for the purpose of the final paper, to the different types of theses and to academic writing at the master's degree level.

MODULE 2 (November): Bibliography.
The second module:
- examines the definitions of bibliography; illustrates the historical evolution of the bibliography and the disciplines of the book and document (history, diplomatic, archival);
- addresses information complexity and focuses on digital information and the tools to access it (catalog, discovery tools, databases, etc.);
- deepens the metamorphosis of the book (digital book, Google books, etc.), of the text, of reading and of scientific communication, as well as the relationship between bibliography and the web;
- provides for practical exercises in bibliographic research, with compilation of bibliographic citations according to various citation styles - eg. APA, MLA, Chicago / Turabian etc. - starting from the "bibliographic chain".

MODULE 3 (December month): Librarianship.
The third module
- examines the definitions of librarianship;
- presents the areas of competence;
- outlines the historical aspects (history of the library with notes on the history of the book); types of libraries (state, university, public, etc.);
- faces the library as a complex system: organization, planning, management and evaluation; development of physical and digital collections; organization of physical and virtual spaces functional to learning through resources.

1) Luisa Marquardt, Orientarsi tra le informazioni (dispensa su Moodle).
2) Maurizio Vivarelli, Le dimensioni della bibliografia: scrivere di libri al tempo della rete, Roma : Carocci, 2013. ISBN 9788843069088.
3) Frédéric Barbier, Storia delle biblioteche: dall’antichità a oggi, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2016. ISBN 9788870759020.
4) Carlo Bianchini, I fondamenti della biblioteconomia: attualità del pensiero di S.R. Ranganathan, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2015. ISBN 9788870758566.

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

General texts

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

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


Articles on specific topics

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

Economic policies and social consequences. Changes in migration policies.

E. Lombardo, Il tramonto dell'Europa
E. Lombardo, Africa, neocolonialismo, ambiente e migrazioni

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

Students will read in depth the following texts:

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

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

Further readings:

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

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

The course aims to provide the necessary tools and skills for teaching Italian to non-native speakers, with particular attention to the school context. It will illustrate the learning/teaching contexts of Italian L1 and L2, the models of Italian, the relationship between teaching, norms and variation, the conditioning exercised by the educational tools and in particular the textbooks adopted in secondary school. At the end of the course students will learn about the relevant topics of L1 and L2 Italian didactics and the parameters useful for evaluating the effectiveness of a textbook.

Diadori, PIerangela / Palermo, Massimo / Troncarelli, Daniela (2015), Insegnare italiano come seconda lingua, Roma, Carocci.
De Roberto, Elisa (a cura di ) (2020). Fuori e dentro il libro di italiano. Grammatiche e antologie nella scuola secondaria, Firenze, Cesati.

The course aims to provide the necessary tools and skills for teaching Italian to non-native speakers, with particular attention to the school context. The course is divided into two modules. The first module will illustrate the learning/teaching contexts of Italian L2, the models of Italian, the relationship between teaching, norms and variation, the influence of educational tools and in particular the textbooks adopted in secondary school. The second module will be dedicated to speech, dialogue and interaction in the classroom: it will therefore be a question of reflecting on the space attributed or to be attributed to orality in the teaching of Italian and on the complex relationship between spoken and written in today's variational structure. At the end of the course students will learn about the relevant topics of L1 and L2 Italian didactics, the parameters useful for evaluating the effectiveness of a textbook and will be able to design didactic paths that take into account the different varieties of Italian.

Diadori, Pierangela / Palermo, Massimo / Troncarelli, Daniela (2015), Insegnare italiano come seconda lingua, Roma, Carocci.
De Roberto, Elisa (a cura di) (2020), Fuori e dentro il libro di italiano. Grammatiche e antologie nella scuola secondaria, Firenze, Cesati.
Andorno, Cecilia / Grassi, Roberta (2016), Le dinamiche dell’interazione. Prospettive di analisi e contesti applicativi, Milano, AItLA (e-book liberamente scaricabile dal sito www.aitla.it).

Drawing on the problem of the sacred as tackled in some philosophical works of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, the course aims at outlining the phenomenological approach to the religious experience. Further, the course provides the basic skills needed in order to approach the main phenomenological themes related to the reflection on religious experiences and fosters the development of a critical attitude with respect to issues related to the care of oneself and others.

M. Heidegger, Lettera sull’«umanismo», in: Id., Segnavia, Adelphi, Milano 2002 (pp. 267-315).

M. Heidegger, Perché i poeti?, in: Id., Sentieri interrotti, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 2002 (pp. 247-297).

M. Heidegger, «Come quando al dì di festa…», in: Id., La poesia di Hölderlin, Adelphi, Milano 2001 (pp. 59-93).

E. Lévinas, Dal sacro al santo. Cinque nuove letture talmudiche, Città Nuova Editrice, Roma 1985 (pp. 81-111).

E. Lévinas, Dio, la morte e il tempo, Jaca book, Milano 2003 (pp. 171-199, 225-228, 273-277, 285-297).

E. Lévinas, Difficile libertà, Jaca book, Milano 2004 (pp. 27-41, 289-292, 341-357).

S. Bancalari, Logica dell’epochè. Per un’introduzione alla fenomenologia della religione, Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2015 (pp. 157-190 e 213-247).

The course will present and discuss some basic notions of philosophical anthropology, a discipline that focuses on the investigation of the central aspects of what it is to be human. The first part of the course aims at providing an overview of classic questions in philosophical anthropology. The second part will focus on the themes of personal identity and the relation with others in the contemporary debate.
Students will acquire:
- Capacity to read an analyze philosophical texts
- Capacity to navigate the classic and contemporary debate on selected topics of philosophical and cultural anthropology
- Capacity to write argumentative essays and to prepare/edit texts
- Capacity to orally present and defend theses

FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. M. Montaigne (1580). “Delle carrozze”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, Tutte le edizioni
2. M. Montaigne (1580). “I cannibali”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, Tutte le edizioni
3. T. Todorov (1984/2014). La conquista dell’America. Il problema dell’altro, Einaudi
4. Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: I. Kant (1798/2010). Antropologia dal punto di vista pragmatico, Einaudi; M. Scheler (1928/2006). La posizione dell'uomo nel cosmo, Armando; A. Gehlen (1940/2010). L’uomo. La sua natura e il suo posto nel mondo, Mimesis; S. Landucci (2014). I filosofi e i selvaggi, Einaudi; A. Campodonico (2013). L'uomo. Lineamenti di antropologia filosofica, Rubbettino

FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1. M. Montaigne (1580). “Delle carrozze”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, All editions
2. M. Montaigne (1580). “I cannibali”, in M. Montaigne, Saggi, All editions
3. T. Todorov (1984/2014). La conquista dell’America. Il problema dell’altro, Einaudi
4. Booklet including short excerpts from various texts, including: I. Kant (1798/2010). Antropologia dal punto di vista pragmatico, Einaudi; M. Scheler (1928/2006). La posizione dell'uomo nel cosmo, Armando; A. Gehlen (1940/2010). L’uomo. La sua natura e il suo posto nel mondo, Mimesis; S. Landucci (2014). I filosofi e i selvaggi, Einaudi; A. Campodonico (2013). L'uomo. Lineamenti di antropologia filosofica, Rubbettino
5. S. Landucci (2014). I filosofi e i selvaggi, Einaudi

The course presents and analyses the three fundamental modes of conflict: agon, polemos, stasis. That is, the conflict as "competition" (ethos at the same time moral, economic and sporting, which finds its clearest determination in ancient Greek thought); the conflict as "war" (Hobbes); the conflict as "civil war", within the community and the political body (Loraux, Agamben). The aim of the course is to define the peculiarity of these different modes of conflict.

- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part 1. and Part 2.
- J.-P. Vernant, City-State Warfare, in J.-P. Vernant, Myth and Society in Ancient Greece, Zone Books, New York 1989.
- N. Loraux, The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens, Zone Books, New York 2006.
- G. Agamben, Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm, Stanford University Press, Redwood city 2015.

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
5. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" is both one of the most important texts of modernity and one of its greatest scandals.Anonymously published in 1670, it was the object of fierce criticism from the very beginning, but it continued to enjoy an important clandestine circulation, which allowed it to exert a great influence until the Age of Enlightenment. In the course we will proceed to a complete reading of the work and an analysis of its central themes: the critique of the theological imaginary (prophecy, law, vocation, miracles) as ideological support of non-democratic powers, the rethinking of the relationship between natural religion and historical religions, the naturalistic foundation of the legal-political sphere and the relationship between state and ecclesiastical power, the 'libertas philosophandi'.At the same time, an attempt will be made to highlight the heterogeneous theoretical positions held by the work, trying to frame them within the evolution that in Spinoza's thought is realized somewhere between the early works and the final drafting of "Ethics". In other words, it will be a matter of testing how in the very pages of the "Treatise" there is an imperceptible transition from a first position, in which good consists solely in the union of the mind with God guaranteed by intellectual knowledge and imagination and passions are therefore an obstacle to be freed from, to a second position, in which imagination and passions play a decisive role not only in politics but also in ethics.

Baruch Spinoza, Theological-political treatise (ed. by E. Curley)

- One of the following books:

Henri Laux, Imagination Et Religion Chez Spinoza: La Potentia Dans L'histoire, Paris, PUF, 1993
Vittorio Morfino, Il tempo e l'occasione. L'incontro Spinoza-Machiavelli, Milano, Led Edizioni universitarie, 2002
André Tosel, Spinoza, ou Le crépuscule de la servitude: Essai sur le 'Traité théologico-politique', Paris, Aubier, 1984
Theo Verbeek, Spinoza's 'Theologico-political Treatise': Exploring the Will of God, Routledge, 2003.
Stefano Visentin, La libertà necessaria. Teoria e pratica della democrazia in Spinoza, Pisa, ETS, 2001

The course aims to show the relationship between activity and passivity of consciousness analyzing the concepts of perception, affectivity, unconscious, interest, association, judgment in Husserl.

Edmund Husserl, Lessons on Passive Synthesis, La Scuola, 2016.
Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology of the Unconscious, Udine, Mimesis (forthcoming)

Economic policies and social consequences. Changes in migration policies.

E. Lombardo, Il tramonto dell'Europa
E. Lombardo, Africa, neocolonialismo, ambiente e migrazioni

Testi adottati:

F. Castro (a cura di G.M. Piccinelli), Il modello islamico, Giappichelli, Torino, 2007.

V. M. Donini, D. Scolart, La sharī‘a e il mondo contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma, 2015.

S. Borrillo, Femminismi e Islam in Marocco: attiviste laiche, teologhe, predicatrici, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2017.

Altri testi di approfondimento:

Z. Mir-Hosseini, M. al-Sharmani, J. Rumminger, Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition, Oneworld, 2015.

J.J. De Ruiter, M. Hashas, N. V. Vinding (eds.), Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges, Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

This is an introductive course to sociolinguistics. The epistemological setting of this branch of knowledge will be discussed, and its basic elements and tools will be introduced. Specific attention will be paid to two major sociolinguistic approaches, i.e. correlational and interactional sociolinguistics.

Berruto, G. – M. Cerruti, (2015), Manuale di sociolinguistica, Torino, UTET

Additional material will be provided during the course.

Language as communication and action, illocutionary act, performative, Grice’s cooperation principle, inferences, implicatures, presuppositions, text and discourse, deixis, anaphora, information structure.

1) C. Caffi, Pragmatica. Sei lezioni, Carocci 2009.
2) a text to be specified among the following: a. C. Bazzanella, Linguistica e pragmatica del linguaggio, Laterza; b. C. Bianchi, Pragmatica del linguaggio, Laterza; c. C. Bianchi, Pragmatica cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione, Laterza.

Students will be introduced to the political crisis which ensued the death of Nero in 68 A.D. and the
following convulsions during the short reigns of Galba, Otho and Vitellius. It will be stressed how on
December 21 69 A.D. Vespasian’s position was officially confirmed by the Senate, but he remained quite
frank about the military origin of his rule. He dated his powers to July 1, when the troops had acclaimed
him, thus flouting constitutional precedent and contradicting even the behaviour of his rival Vitellius, who
had awaited confirmation by the Senate. Later Vespasian received by law a number of powers for which his
Julio-Claudian predecessors had not sought explicit sanction. .
A part of the course will be dedicated to the building developments of the period in Rome (domus
Transitoria and domus Aurea). There will two archaeologists' lessons in particular about the Transitoria
domus, which can now be visited.

G.Geraci-A. Marcone- Storia Romana (editio maior), Le Monnier Università,
Mondadori Education, Milano 2017.
G.Geraci-A. Marcone- Fonti per la storia romana, Le Monnier Università, Mondadori
Education, Milano 2019.
In Storia di Roma Einaudi ( A. Schiavone ed), vol. II, 2 “I principi e il mondo”,
Torino 1991, the papers of W. Eck, E. lo Cascio and Mario Pani.

“The inscriptions of the praetorian prefects”
The long history of the praetorian prefecture stretches for six centuries between the late Augustan age and the Justinian age. The life, social origin, culture and career, skills and activity, the profile and extension of the mandate of its owners, i.e. the praetorian prefects, changed over time, and significantly in the first half of the Fourth century. The transformation of the office, its being at first dangerously close and then definitively distant from the person of the Emperor, without institutional roots either in Rome or in the cities of the Roman Empire, had important epigraphic consequences: first of all on the typology and conservation of the inscribed monuments, made in honour of the prefects and made by the prefects themselves, then on the consistency and representativeness of the surviving epigraphic heritage. The student faces the analysis and interpretation of the epigraphic texts relating to the holders of the prefecture between the First and Sixth centuries: he is called upon to reflect on the historical contextualization of careers and to formulate hypotheses on the paths of realization and conservation of the inscribed monuments.

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

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

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

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

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

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

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

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

Environmental History
Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last three centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (in particolare la Parte seconda e la Parte terza).
- A. W. Crosby, Lo scambio colombiano. Conseguenze biologiche e culturali del 1492, Einaudi, Torino 1992.
- M. Armiero - S. Barca, Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2004.
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provided during lessons.

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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.).

Not attending
- Numa Broc, La Geografia del Rinascimento. Cosmografi, cartografi, viaggiatori, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini, 2007 (except capp. IX and XII).
- 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://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Aristotele, De generatione animalium

R. Descartes, L’Homme



Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

The origins of the Theatine order

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

Testi di riferimento:

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

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

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

Introduction: The Balkans and the European Turkey; Geography, people, economy and society; The Great Powers, the Balkans e the national awakening; The end of the Ottoman power and the nation building and state building; The new century, its development and the consequences on the South-east Europe: The Balkan Wars: the end of the Risorgimento phase and the start of a new political vision: nationalism and imperialism; The World War One and its consequences; Peace, war and the Balkans in the New Europe; New Borders, new states and new people also? The interwar years the first massive modernization in the Balkans; A new ruler: the Third Reich; crisis and war; The establishment of a communist rule in the Balkan countries: the birth of a new world? Between Stalin ad Tito; The Seventieth and the eighties: stabilization and stagnation; the fall of the communist regimes and the hard transition.

1) Alberto Basciani, L'illusione della modernità. Il Sud-est dell'Europa tra le due guerre mondiali, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2016
2) E. Ivetic, I Balcani, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020 3) Andrew B. Wachtel, Storia dei Balcani, Lecce, Salento Books, 2016.

for non-attending students:

1) Ben Fowekes, L'Europa orientale dal 1945 al 1970, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004 2) Bulent Gokay, L'Europa orientale dal 1970 a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005 .

"Cena Trimalchionis": critical framework, integral reading in latin, translation and commentary of chapters 26.7 to 78.8 of Petronius’ Satyricon: form and meaning of a unicum in the Latin literary tradition.

In the case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the ways of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented. In particular as regards lessons and the dissemination of teaching materials, Moodle and/or Teams platforms will be used.

- G.F. Gianotti, La cena di Trimalchione. Dal “Satyricon” di Petronio, Acireale-Roma (Bonanno Editore); as a reference text for the entire novel: Petronio Arbitro, Satyricon. Introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Aragosti, Milano (ed. BUR).

- Further readings and materials relating to the text in the program will be indicated during the course and / or be made available on line at the url of the course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Optional readings:

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

Memory, Writing and History in the Bible

The course will be centered on "writing as remembering", a theme Scriptures developed in different literary genres (historiography, novel, myth, poetry...), touching several central questions in the study of Hebrew Bible, such as Biblical narrative compared with the history we can reconstruct from archeological findings and external sources, place and function of myth in the Bible, historiography in the Bible and in ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

The course offers the opportunity to learn Biblical Hebrew (1/3 out of the teaching hours): to complete the study of Hebrew grammar students are recommended to attend the course since the first semester (Ebraico). Students not attending Hebrew lessons will study an additional part of program.

For students attending course:
G. Deiana – A. Spreafico, Guida allo studio dell'ebraico biblico, Roma 1997 (e ristampe).
Notes and texts suggested/distributed during course sessions.
Students attending the course without attending Hebrew grammar lessons must contact Prof. Moro for more texts

For students not attending course:
Please contact Prof. Moro (caterina.moro@uniroma3.it).

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.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

On the basis of documents and contemporary testimonies to the different linguistic phenomena, the course will illustrate some aspects of linguistic communication in Latin, considered in its diachronic development (from protohistory to the Romance) and in its various registers (standard and informal). The reading and analysis of various texts regarding Latin technical-scientific and didactic literature is aimed at providing the tools to grasp the specificities of the historical evolution of the Latin language and to identify its morphosyntactic and stylistic peculiarities. For this purpose the course consists of:
(1) A number of lessons minded in particular to offer an overview of the history of the Latin language from its origins up to the 6th century A.D., through the reconstruction of its evolution in the dimension of language of everyday use and literary language;
(2) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of texts included in Latin technical-scientific (by Cato, Varro, Celsus, Apicius, Vitruvius, Mela, Seneca, Plinius senior, Frontinis, Vegetius) and didactic literature (by Virgilius, Anonymous of Aetna, Columella, Grattius, Nemesianus).

Point 1:
- (a) I. Mazzini, Storia della lingua latina e del suo contesto. Linguistica e lingua letteraria, Vol. 1, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2007.
- (b) Further bibliography and tools about the texts in the syllabus will be given during the course, and made available on line at the url of the course.

Point 2:
- (a) P. Parroni, La poesia del mondo naturale, in A. Fusi-A. Luceri-P. Parroni-G. Piras (a cura di), Lo Spazio Letterario di Roma antica, vol. VI (I Testi. 1 – Poesia), Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2009, pp. 214-269.
- (b) A. Luceri-P. Parroni-G. Piras, La letteratura tecnico-scientifica ed erudita, in A. Fusi-A. Luceri-P. Parroni-G. Piras (a cura di), Lo Spazio Letterario di Roma antica, vol. VII (I Testi. 2 – Prosa), Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012, pp. 597-798.


Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:

- Elena Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata con la collaborazione di Ermanno Malaspina, Alessandria, Ediz. dell’Orso, 2014.

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

Petronius’ Satyricon: the “shipwreck chapters”: philological reading of the chapters 100-115 of the novel.

In the case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the ways of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented. In particular as regards lessons and the dissemination of teaching materials, Moodle and/or Teams platforms will be used.

- 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 at the url of the course]

- P. Maas, La critica del testo. Traduzione a cura di G. Ziffer, Roma (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura);

- G. Vannini, Petronii Arbitri Satyricon 100-115. Edizione critica e commento, Berlin-New York (de Gruyter) [introduction and critical text of this book will be made available on line at the url of the course]; as a reference text for the entire novel: Petronio Arbitro, Satyricon. Introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Aragosti, Milano (ed. BUR).

- Further readings and materials relating to the text in the syllabus will be indicated during the course and / or be made available on line at the url of the course.


- Ulteriori letture e materiali relativi al programma saranno indicati durante il corso e/o depositati nell’apposito sito telematico dell’insegnamento.

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

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

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

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

- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato bizantino, Torino, Einaudi, 2002

- A. Pertusi (a c. di), La caduta di Costantinopoli, 2 voll., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, Milano 1976

Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020

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 circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. 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).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


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

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

Caravaggio 1598-1606: public-private commissions and patrons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Unità 1
RUBENS & CO. A ROMA

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

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

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

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


Unità 2
CARAVAGGIO E I CARAVAGGESCHI DI UTRECHT

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

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

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

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

Unità 3
I BENTVEUGHELS

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

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

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

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

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


Unità 4
I BAMBOCCIANTI

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

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

Unità 5
I PITTORI DI PAESAGGIO ITALIANIZZANTI

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

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

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


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

The course provides the necessary skills to study all the fragmentary written materials from Antiquity, namely papyrus, ostraka, parchment, etc. Students will learn how to decypher and edit fragments of documents and literary works, and how to extract useful information in order to start and perform a historical, palaeographical and philological research. In particular, special consideration will be given to the phenomenon of language and graphic interaction between Greek and Latin that can be found in many fragments of documents and books from the 3rd to the 6th century AD in Egypt and other eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

The teacher will provide the students with all the needed study materials.

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
5. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

1. Characters from the medieval world in Dante's Comedy.
2. Benedetto Croce and Italian literature.

1. A good commented edition, even scholastic, on the Divine Comedy; E. Pasquini, Vita di Dante. I giorni e le opere, Milano, Rizzoli; G. Gorni, Dante. Storia di un visionario, Roma-Bari, Laterza; E. Auerbach, Studi su Dante, Milano, Feltrinelli; also, for consultation: Nel Duecento di Dante: i personaggi, a cura di F. Suitner, Firenze, Le Lettere.

2. B. Croce, La poesia, Milano, Adelphi, a cura di G. Galasso; R. Wellek, Storia della critica moderna, vol. VIII, Francia, Italia e Spagna 1900-1950, Bologna, Il Mulino; P. D'Angelo, Il problema Croce, Macerata, Quodlibet; P. Craveri- K. E. Lönne-G. Patrizi, Croce, Benedetto, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, also online: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/benedetto-croce_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ .

- Students will also read two classics of Italian literature, with appropriate critical comments, which will be indicated during the course. Further information on the texts to be prepared will be provided during the lessons.

The course will focus on wonders and monsters in medieval and Renaissance literature, from Marco Polo to Torquato Tasso. Moreover, motifs in Encyclopedic texts, travel writings, and strictly literary texts will be examined and discussed.

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2):
1. Primary Works: Course lecture notes, provided by the professor (Files shared in Microsoft Teams);
2. Criticism (files provided by the professor and shared in Microsoft Teams):
a) F. Cardini, I viaggi immaginari, in Viaggiare nel Medioevo, a cura di S. Gensini, Roma-Pisa, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali-Pacini, 2000, pp. 493-516;
b) G.R. Cardona, I viaggi e le scoperte, in Letteratura italiana, vol. V: Le questioni, Torino, Einaudi, 1986, pp. 687-716;
c) M. Ciccuto, Le meraviglie d’Oriente nelle enciclopedie illustrate del Medioevo, in L’enciclopedismo medievale. Atti del Convegno «L’enciclopedismo medievale». San Gimignano, 8-10 ottobre 1992, a cura di M. Picone, Ravenna, Longo 1994, pp. 79-116;
d) G. Crimi, Mostri, menzogne e meraviglie nel ‘Bosadrello’ di Baldassarre da Fossombrone, in «Italique», XVI, 2013, pp. 155-191;
e) M. Fiorilla, I classici nel ‘Canzoniere’. Note di lettura e scrittura poetica in Petrarca, Roma-Padova, Antenore, 2012, pp. 82-105 (Testi geografici ed enciclopedici);
f) M. Masoero, I mostri nella letteratura della scoperta, in Disarmonia, bruttezza e bizzarria nel Rinascimento. Atti del VII Convegno Internazionale (Chianciano-Pienza, 17-20 luglio 1995), a cura di L. Secchi Tarugi, Firenze, Cesati, 1998, pp. 295-306;
g) R. Wittkower, Le meraviglie dell’Oriente: una ricerca sulla storia dei mostri, in Id., Allegoria e migrazione dei simboli, Torino, Einaudi, 1987, pp. 84-152;
h) Id., Marco Polo e la tradizione figurativa delle meraviglie dell’Oriente, ivi, pp. 153-187.

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

a) J. Baltrušaitis, Il Medioevo fantastico. Antichità ed esotismi nell’arte gotica, con un’introduzione di M. Oldoni, Milano, Adelphi, 2012;
b) G. Bossi, Immaginario di viaggio e immaginario utopico. Dal sogno del paradiso in terra al mito del buon selvaggio, Milano, Mimesis, 2003;
c) C.-C. Kappler, Demoni, mostri e meraviglie alla fine del Medioevo, a cura di F. Cardini, Milano, Jouvence, 2019;
d) J. Le Goff, Il meraviglioso e il quotidiano nell’occidente medievale, a cura di F. Maiello, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010;
e) Le meraviglie dell’India. Le meraviglie dell’Oriente, Lettera di Alessandro ad Aristotele, Lettera del Prete Gianni, in appendice i testi latini, traduzione e cura di G. Tardiola, Roma, Archivio Guido Izzi, 1991;
f) L. Montemagno Ciseri, Mostri: la storia e le storie, Roma, Carocci, 2018.

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

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

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

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

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

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

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

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

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

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

Presentation of the essential notions of the typology, such as the relationship between typology and universals, the notion of 'type' at the various analysis levels, and the relationship of typology with sociolinguistics, language teaching, areal comparison, and genetic comparison. Deepening of the mechanisms and explanations of linguistic change, also from the typological perspective. Reflection on the concepts of grammaticalization and reanalysis. Case study on the diachronic typology of the perfect.

Grandi, N., 2003, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Roma, Carocci.
Napoli, M., 2019, Linguistica diacronica, Roma Carocci.