THE COURSE IS AIMED TO GIVE A COMPETENT AND UP-TO-DATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTO OF LATIN LITERATURE, FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE SECOND CENTURY C.E. A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT LITERARY WORKS WILL BE READ, TRANSLATED AND COMMENTED AT VARIOUS LEVELS.
teacher profile teaching materials
(1) A number of lectures about the so-called ‘Literary Space’ of ancient Rome, minded in particular (a) to underline the links between literature and politics (and between men of letters and society) in Rome, (b) to illustrate tipology and development of the literary genres in Rome, (c) to understand the range of different levels and functions of the latin written texts. Problems of preservation and transmission of the corpus of the latin classics will be envisaged also, even as regards their medieval and modern heritage.
(2) Some lectures about main features of latin language.
(3) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of:
- (a) Horace, Sermones, book I;
- (b) Cicero, Pro Milone oratio;
- (c) Vergil, Aeneis, book I
- G. B. Conte, Letteratura latina, Firenze (ed. Le Monnier, 2002 and reprints), parts I-IV (from the Beginnings to the II sec. C.E.).
- An hand-out for the lectures (“Profilo di storia della letteratura latina. Testi di supporto (dalle Origini alla morte di Silla)”, and 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.
As for (2):
- M.J. Falcone, Breve grammatica di latino, Carocci, Roma 2026 or R. Oniga, Latin. A Linguistic Introduction. Edited & Translated by N. Schifano (Oxford University Press, 2014.
- S. Timpanaro, Nozioni elementari di prosodia e metrica latina, Firenze, 1953 [a copy will be provided from the reprint included at the end of the anthology for the first two years, “Primordia et incrementa Latinitatis”, edited by Antonio La Penna (Turin, 1966, pp. 353–376)] or L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina classica. Con cenni di metrica greca. Per i Licei e gli Ist. magistrali, Firenze, Dante Alighieri, 2004, pp. 1-38.
As for (3):
- Quinto Orazio Flacco, Satire. Testo latino a fronte, a cura di L. De Vecchi, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (only book I).
- (a) Cicerone, In difesa di Milone, a cura di P. Fedeli, Venezia, Marsilio, 1996.
- Publio Virgilio Marone, Eneide, Traduzione a cura di A. Fo. Note di F. Giannotti, Torino, Einaudi, 2010 (only book I).
Mutuazione: 20702408 LINGUA E LETTERATURA LATINA in Lettere L-10 R (docente da definire)
Programme
The course ‘Latin language and literature’ is aimed at giving a thorough and integral knowledge of some important Latin authors and literary works, read in original and explicated as regards both the language and the contents. It consists of:(1) A number of lectures about the so-called ‘Literary Space’ of ancient Rome, minded in particular (a) to underline the links between literature and politics (and between men of letters and society) in Rome, (b) to illustrate tipology and development of the literary genres in Rome, (c) to understand the range of different levels and functions of the latin written texts. Problems of preservation and transmission of the corpus of the latin classics will be envisaged also, even as regards their medieval and modern heritage.
(2) Some lectures about main features of latin language.
(3) Setting, reading, italian translation and commentary of:
- (a) Horace, Sermones, book I;
- (b) Cicero, Pro Milone oratio;
- (c) Vergil, Aeneis, book I
Core Documentation
As for (1):- G. B. Conte, Letteratura latina, Firenze (ed. Le Monnier, 2002 and reprints), parts I-IV (from the Beginnings to the II sec. C.E.).
- An hand-out for the lectures (“Profilo di storia della letteratura latina. Testi di supporto (dalle Origini alla morte di Silla)”, and 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.
As for (2):
- M.J. Falcone, Breve grammatica di latino, Carocci, Roma 2026 or R. Oniga, Latin. A Linguistic Introduction. Edited & Translated by N. Schifano (Oxford University Press, 2014.
- S. Timpanaro, Nozioni elementari di prosodia e metrica latina, Firenze, 1953 [a copy will be provided from the reprint included at the end of the anthology for the first two years, “Primordia et incrementa Latinitatis”, edited by Antonio La Penna (Turin, 1966, pp. 353–376)] or L. Ceccarelli, Prosodia e metrica latina classica. Con cenni di metrica greca. Per i Licei e gli Ist. magistrali, Firenze, Dante Alighieri, 2004, pp. 1-38.
As for (3):
- Quinto Orazio Flacco, Satire. Testo latino a fronte, a cura di L. De Vecchi, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (only book I).
- (a) Cicerone, In difesa di Milone, a cura di P. Fedeli, Venezia, Marsilio, 1996.
- Publio Virgilio Marone, Eneide, Traduzione a cura di A. Fo. Note di F. Giannotti, Torino, Einaudi, 2010 (only book I).
Attendance
Course attendance is optionalType of evaluation
Oral exam (queries about the historical outline of Latin literature, and reading in latin, translation and interpretation of some passages of the texts of Lucanus, Tacitus, and Virgil in the syllabus).