ITALIAN STAGEY LITERATURE
LETTERATURA TEATRALE ITALIANA
The Italian comedy in the early sixteenth century
La commedia italiana nel primo Cinquecento
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| 2017/2018 | 6 |
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| Ida Campeggiani | after the lectures |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The purpose of the course is the acquisition of the foundmental historical and critical competences in Italian Stagey Literature. This implies, as an ultimate target, the control of the essential concepts which can guide the student through the study of dramaturgical phenomena, according to one of the main aims of the Laurea Triennale and of the Philological-Literary Curriculum. In detail, the course aims to illustrate the early history of Italian comedy in the sixteenth century and students will acquire a solid knowledge of the comedies of three fundamental authors: Bibbiena, Machiavelli, Ariosto.
Program
Analysis of Bibbiena’s Calandra, Machiavelli’s Mandragola and Ariosto’s Lena. Some other remarkable texts related to the evolution of the genre ‘comedy’ (such as the prologues of Ariosto’s Cassaria and Suppositi and a paragraph from Machiavelli’s Discorso o dialogo intorno alla nostra lingua) will be provided by the lecturer. The course will provide methodological instruments and notions useful to read the texts while tracing a panorama of vernacular comedy in the early sixteenth century.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
- Students are expected to demonstrate competence on the Italian comedy at the beginning of the sixteenth century (authors, texts, Latin and vernacular models)
- 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 demonstrate the owning of the sectorial language of literary studies, in order to be able to reason according the basic elements of the discipline.
Teaching Material
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
Supporting Activities
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, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures. 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):
L. Ariosto, La Lena (ed. consigliata: a cura di A. Gareffi, Torino, UTET, 2007, vol. II)
Id., Prologhi delle due redazioni dei Suppositi e della Cassaria (questi brani saranno nel dossier preparato e messo a disposizione dalla docente);
B. Bibbiena, La Calandra (ed. consigliata: a cura di G. Padoan, Padova, Antenore, 1985; leggere attentamente l’introduzione di Padoan);
N. Machiavelli, La Mandragola (ed. consigliata: a cura di G. Sasso, Milano, BUR, 1980; o a cura di P. Stoppelli, Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 2006);
Id., Discorso o dialogo intorno alla nostra lingua (il paragrafo in questione sarà fornito nel dossier, ma il testo integrale, a cura di P. Cosentino, si potrà leggere in N. Machiavelli, Scritti in poesia e in prosa, a cura di A. Corsaro, P. Cosentino, E. Cutinelli-Rèndina, F. Grazzini, N. Marcelli, Roma, Salerno 2012, pp. 417-465);
G. Ferroni, I generi teatrali e La commedia in Id., Storia delle letteratura italiana. Dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, vol. II, pp. 110-115; e, con particolare attenzione alle sezioni dedicate alla loro produzione comica, leggere integralmente Niccolò Machiavelli (ivi, pp. 31-59); Ludovico Ariosto (ivi, pp. 61-90);
G. Sasso, Considerazioni sulla Mandragola, in N. Machiavelli, La Mandragola, introduzione e note di G. Sasso, nota al testo e appendici di G. Inglese, Milano, BUR, 1980, pp. 5-99;
P. Stoppelli, voce Mandragola, in Enciclopedia Machiavelliana, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2014, pp. 118-131.
- 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- 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) Knowledge 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
Non-attending students are expected to prepare the texts listed above for attending students and also these ones:
G. Ferroni, Il testo e la scena. Saggi sul teatro del Cinquecento, Roma, Bulzoni, 1980 (del volume vanno studiati i seguenti saggi: I due gemelli greci a Roma, pp. 85-98; Gioco, trucco, illusione: la corte nel corso del tempo, pp. 99-162);
R. Alonge, La riscoperta rinascimentale del teatro, in Storia del teatro moderno e contemporaneo diretta da R. Alonge e G. Davico Bonino. Volume primo. La nascita del teatro moderno. Cinquecento-Seicento, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, pp. 5-27 e 51-78.
- 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) Knowledge 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.
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