The aim of the course is the acquisition of specialized knowledge on Italian Renaissance literature, through the study of an author, a work or a specific theme according to the most up-to-date research perspectives. At the end of the course the student will equip himself with the most appropriate historical, historical-literary and linguistic interpretative tools for the analysis of the literary texts of the Renaissance and will be able to apply advanced analysis methodologies on them.
teacher profile teaching materials
Selected passages from the letters of Coluccio Salutati, P. Aretino, P. Bembo and others, available on line, will be indicated during the course.
Programme
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.Core Documentation
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.
Reference Bibliography
Bibliography (almost all titles are also available in different ebook formats): Notes from the lessons (they are an integral part of the bibliography) F. Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, Milano, Adelphi, 2016. P. Procaccioli, Aretino e la primogenitura epistolare. Da dato di fatto a opinione, in Scrivere lettere. Corrispondenze in prosa e in versi, a cura di Giuseppe Izzi, Concetta Ranieri, pp. 1-16. L. Marcozzi, La finzione epistolare nelle opere del Bembo, ivi, pp. 35-52. L. Marcozzi, Bembo, Firenze, Cesati, 2017. Further bibliography will be indicated during the course and the materials will be made available online.Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons, tutorials, project discussion. The modality (in presence or on line) will be decided by the Department. In any case, the lessons will be available in streaming and online.Type of evaluation
Evaluation of a paper or of a research project on a subject agreed with the teacher.