The purpose of the course is the acquisition of the foundmental historical and critical competences on Dante's Divina Commedia. This implies, as an ultimate target, the control of the essential concepts of the Dantesque work, according to one of the main aims of the Laurea Magistrale. The course aims to provide a basic knowledge of the Divina Commedia, paying special attention to metric, rethorical and stylistical aspects. Lectures will provide instruments and notions useful to read Dante’s Inferno and some satirical texts also written in tercets («terza rima») in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and variously connected to the Dantesque model.

The course will initially focus on the Inferno. Then the use of Dantesque tercets («terza rima») will be examined through the analysis of some satirical poems written in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: Juvenal’s Satires translated by Sommariva, Antonio Vinciguerra’s and Niccolò Lelio Cosmico’s satires, those written by Ariosto and by some of his imitators, such as Ercole Bentivoglio and Luigi Alamanni (all these texts will be available in a folder provided by the lecturer).  

-  Students are expected to demonstrate competence on the Divina Commedia and in particular on its first «cantica», the Inferno.

 - 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 to contextualize them.

- Students are expected to be sensitive to metric patterns, rethorical and stylistical effects.

- Students are expected to demonstrate the owning and competence of the sectorial language of literary studies, in order to be able to reason according to the basic elements of the discipline.

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

Besides the lectures held by the official teacher, there will be held other supplementary lectures by some guest professors, about subjects related to the course or about subjects near and complementary to the subject of the course.   

Teaching

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

Attendance

Attendance is compulsory.

Course books

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

Dante, Inferno (ed. commentata a scelta)

Dossier di testi satirici scritti in terza rima: Giovenale volgarizzato da Sommariva; Antonio Vinciguerra, satira Contra falsum et imperitum vulgi iudicium; Niccolò Lelio Cosmico, parte della Satyra (ed. Cian 1903); Ludovico Ariosto, Satire I, II, III, IV (ed. Segre 1987 e, per il commento, D’Orto 2002); Ercole Bentivoglio, Satira I (ed. Corsaro 1987); Luigi Alamanni, Satira I (ed. Perri 2013)

Mario Fubini, Il metro della Divina Commedia in Metrica e poesia: lezioni sulle forme metriche italiane. 1. Dal Duecento al Petrarca, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1962, pp. 185-221; Id., La terzina dopo Dante, ivi, pp. 222-235;

Ignazio Baldelli, voce terzina in Enciclopedia dantesca (ED);

Pietro G. Beltrami, Primi appunti sull’arte del verso nella Divina Commedia, in Id., L’esperienza del verso. Scritti di metrica italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015, pp. 17-46;

Luigi Blasucci, Sul canto come unità testuale, in Id., Letture e saggi danteschi, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2014, pp. 109-125;

Cesare Segre, Premessa, in L. Ariosto, Satire, Torino, Einaudi, 1987, pp. vii-xi.

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. All the students will be equally judged according the following criteria: (1) Konowledge of the matter. (2) Capacity of reasoning adequately on the subject of the questions. (3) Capacity of exposing the matter with an appropriate language.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Non-attending students are invited to follow the program on-line and prepare all the texts. All the students will be equally judged according the following criteria: (1) Konowledge of the matter. (2) Capacity of reasoning adequately on the subject of the questions. (3) Capacity of exposing the matter with an appropriate language.

Attendance

Attendance is non compulsory.

Course books

Students are expected to prepare the texts listed above and the following ones:

Dante, Purg. I-VIII (ed. commentata a scelta).

Assessment

Oral exam. The non-attending students are invited to follow the program on line and prepare all the texts. They are expected, in addition, to demonstrate the knowledge and comprehension of the above mentioned texts. All the students will be equally judged according the following criteria: (1) Konowledge of the matter. (2) Capacity of reasoning adequately on the subject of the questions. (3) Capacity of exposing the matter with an appropriate language.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.