The course aims to build a short canon of the works of Behavioral Italian literature from the sixteenth century, starting by reading and commenting on a range of texts from the Libro del Cortegiano of Baldassar Castiglione and the Galateo of Giovanni Della Casa. It aims to provide a specific path, which is used to frame the authors mentioned and literary genres practiced within a historical-geographical framework, as comprehensively as possible. In detail, the course will offer a critical survey and some appropriate methodological competences about Italian Literature, its geography and periodization, and about its main philological and linguistic aspects

Historical and analytical path on the Renaissance treatises (from the political to the behavioral), supported by notions of History of Language and tradition of the classics. Readings from Libro del Cortegiano. Readings from Galateo.

The students are expected to demonstrate the owning and competence of the basic knowledge on the Italian from its origins to the sixteenth century, with a special attention to its elements of literary geography, of periodization, and to the literary and poetical genres.

The students are expected to demonstrate the comprehension of the concepts and contents included in the course; and to show a capacity to read the texts, and some adequate analytic skill and connection capacity between the specific analysis and the general historical framework.

The students are expected to demonstrate the owning and competence of the sectorial language of literary studies.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

There will be a seminar held by Yvonne Elet Professor (also extended to the general public and fellow guests) which relates to the figure and work of Raphael.

Attendance

The students will be requested some readings during the course, in order to be able to attend the classes with a specific preparation

Course books

Some didactic materials will be at the attending students disposal at the beginning of the course. Those materials include some texts related to the matter of the lectures, and they will be a subject for the final exam. During the examination interview the student will have to prepare the following texts (some of which included in the folder):

 

B. Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, a cura di N. Longo, Milano, Garzanti, 2013.

G. Della Casa, Galateo, a cura di Stefano Prandi, Torino, Einaudi, 2006.

R. Fedi, La fondazione dei modelli. Bembo, Castiglione, Della Casa (in Storia della letteratura italiana, diretta da E. Malato, , vol. IV, Il primo Cinquecento, parte I, L’apogeo del Rinascimento, pp. 507-90).

G. Ferroni-A. Cortellessa-I. Pantani-S. Tatti, L’esperienza letteraria in Italia, vol. I, Dalle origini fino al Cinquecento, Milano, Mondadori, 2010.

G. Barbarisi, Ancora sul testo del Galateo, e C. Berra, Il Galateo “fatto per scherzo”, in Per Giovanni Della Casa, Bologna, Cisalpino, 1997.

C. Dionisotti, introduzione alle Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, le Rime, Milano, TEA, 1997, pp. 1-70.

We also recommend the choice of reading one of the following analytical texts:

 

 N. Elias, La civiltà delle buone maniere: la trasformazione dei costumi nel mondo aristocratico occidentale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.

N. Elias, La società di corte, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.

E. Saccone, Le buone e le cattive maniere: letteratura e galateo nel Cinquecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992.

Assessment

Oral exam. The attending student is expected to discuss any subject treated by the teacher during the classes, including the lectures held by other guest teachers. He is expected, in addition, to demonstrate the knowledge and comprehension of the above mentioned texts. The non-attending students are invited to follow the program on line. All the students will be equally judged according the following criteria: (1) Konowledge of the matter. (2) Ability of reasoning on the course topics (3) Capacity of exposing the matter with an appropriate language.

Disabilità e DSA

Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.

A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.