Italian Literature of the Classicism

Year
0
Academic year
2024-2025
Code
01012167
Subject Area
Italian Literature
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
Italian
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Italian knowledge equivalent to the B1 level of the CEFRL.

Teaching Methods

- Theoretical exposition, analysis of texts by the professor, viewing of framing materials.

- Contact with libraries and bibliographic specimens, guided management of platforms.

- Analysis of texts by students, individually or in groups, under the guidance of the professor, presentation and summary of texts.

Learning Outcomes

- Know the themes, works and authors studied and be able to contextualize them in their context.

- Understand the general structures of Classicism in Italy and its overall impact on other literatures.

- Master research instruments and have reflection skills that enable the study of other works of Italian Classicism.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

In the general framework of Classicism, a specific theme, a selection of works or authors will be studied.

Theme (e.g.): The female portrait.

- Effects of the female figure, loving phenomenology. Sicilian school. Group members, themes and poetic forms.

- The angel woman. “Dolce stil novo”. Chronology, poets.

- Laura's fiction and the dissent. Francesco Petrarca. Humanism. Intellectual path.

- The various dimensions of love. Giovanni Boccaccio, “Decameron”. Intellectual path.

- The 16th century gallery. Literary portrait and pictorial portrait. Andrea del Sarto and the petrarchism.

- The baroque profusion. Giovan Battista Marino. Intellectual path. Maritime poems.

Head Lecturer(s)

Rita Maria da Silva Marnoto

Assessment Methods

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 80.0%

Bibliography

Bolzoni, L. (2015). Poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento. Milano: Laterza.

Ferroni, G. (2016). Storia della letteratura italiana. Vols. 1, 2. Torino: Einaudi Scuola.

Marnoto, R. (2011). Retratos femininos. In V. M. A. Silva (Ed.). Dicionário de Luís de Camões (851-855).

— (2016). O petrarquismo português. Lisboa: IN-CM.

Quondam, A. (1991). Il naso di Laura. Modena: Panini.

Santagata, M.; et al. (2015). Il filo rosso. Vv. vols. Milano: Laterza.

Em linha: Treccani. http://www.treccani.it/ (consultado a 30-06-2020).