ITALIAN STAGEY LITERATURE
LETTERATURA TEATRALE ITALIANA
Niccolò Machiavelli's Theatre between History and Philology
Il teatro di Niccolò Machiavelli tra storia e filologia
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| 2018/2019 | 6 |
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| Ida Campeggiani | Wednesday after the class (Palazzo Veterani, first floor) |
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. In detail, the course will provide basic knowledge of Niccolò Machiavelli’s comedies.
Program
Analisys of Machiavelli’s Mandragola and Clizia (and of the traduction of Terence’s Andria). The course will provide methodological instruments and notions useful to read the texts while tracing a panorama of Machiavelli’s theatre, where his dark view of human nature is put on stage. Finally, we will discuss the philological case of the so-called Comedy in verse, recently attributed to Machiavelli.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Students are expected to demonstrate competence on Machiavelli's comedies (and also on his 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 and competence of the sectorial language of literary studies.
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
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer and specific communications from the lecturer can be found, together with other supporting activities, inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures in the class.
- Attendance
Attendance is compulsory.
- Course books
- N. Machiavelli, Teatro, Introduzione e commento di D. Fachard, Roma, Carocci, 2013 (ed. economica consigliata per lo studio della Mandragola e della Clizia). In alternativa, si potrà ricorrere a: N. Machiavelli, Opere letterarie, a cura di L. Blasucci, Milano, Adelphi, 1964; N. Machiavelli, Teatro: Andria, Mandragola, Clizia, a cura di G. Davico Bonino, Torino, Einaudi, 2001 (in generale, per i testi fissati criticamente si tenga presente N. Machiavelli, Teatro: Andria, Mandragola, Clizia, a cura di P. Stoppelli, Roma, Salerno, 2017)
- F. Bausi, Machiavelli commediografo e narratore, in Id., Machiavelli, Roma, Salerno, 2005, pp. 270-301
- G. Ferroni, Niccolò Machiavelli, in Id., Storia delle letteratura italiana. Dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Torino, Einaudi, 1991, vol. II, pp. 31-59
- D. Perocco, voce Clizia, in Enciclopedia Machiavelliana, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2014, pp. 324-331
- P. Stoppelli, voce Mandragola, ivi, pp. 118-131
- P. Stoppelli, voce Andria, ivi, pp. 55-58
- P. Stoppelli, Introduzione, in N. Machiavelli, Commedia in versi da restituire a Niccolò Machiavelli: edizione critica secondo ms. banco rari 29, a cura di P. Stoppelli, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018, pp. XV-XXXVII
- Assessment
Oral exam. The attending student is expected to discuss any subject treated by the teacher during the classes. He is expected, in addition, to demonstrate the knowledge and comprehension of the above mentioned texts. All the students will be equally judged according to 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 allt the texts. All the students will be equally judged according to 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
Non-attending students must follow bibliographical references listed above and in the corresponding section below:
- L. Blasucci, Prefazione a N. Machiavelli, Opere letterarie, a cura di L. Blasucci, Milano, Adelphi, 1964, pp. IX-XL
- C. Dionisotti, Appunti sulla Mandragola, in «Belfagor», XXXIX, 6, 1984, pp. 621-644
- 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 to 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.
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