Methodological elements for the study of vernacular texts between the 13th and 16th centuries. Literary genres between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In-depth knowledge on the formation and history of the novel and the epic poem. Elements of periodization and literary geography. Development of the fundamental tools for commenting on the text. Specific notions of the history of ancient poetry.

The chivalric poem in Italy from the late Middle Ages to Ariosto. External history of the Orlando furioso. Analytical readings of Orlando furioso. Study of the sources: checks on the classical and humanistic sources of the poem. Fortune of Orlando furioso in the sixteenth century. The classical models and the debate on the epic-heroic poem. The gerusalemme liberata. Insights into the discourses of poetic art. Analytical readings of the Gerusalemme Liberata.

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Compulsory attendance for attending students. To be considered "attending" for the purposes of the exam, actual class attendance must be at least 80% of the number of hours.

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

In addition to the lectures held by the teacher, lectures are provided by guest teachers, in the historical-critical and literary fields, around subjects relating to the course or parallel and complementary to the course subject.

Teaching

Frontal lectures. Students may be asked to read during the course in order to be able to attend some classes with due preparation.

Course books

To give non-attending students the opportunity to compensate for what is done during lessons with independent study, the following materials referring to the same contents of the program are indicated in order to promote full understanding.

1) TEXTS - Preparation includes partial readings of the two texts being studied analytically:  L. Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, ed. annotated by choice - The reading and preparation of the following cantos is required: I, XVIII, XIX, XXIII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXIV. - T. Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata, ed. commented on by choice. - Reading and preparation of the cantos is required: I, VII, XII, XV, XVI, XX.

2) SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY - The following texts, available in the University library, must be prepared by non-attending students with partial readings, aimed at a synthesis of the parts read in order to frame the subject in the most appropriate way:  C. Segre, Storia interna dell'Orlando furioso, in Id., Esperienze Ariostesche, Pisa, 1966, pp. 29-41. - G. Baldassarri, Inferno e cielo. Tipologia e funzioni del meraviglioso nella Liberata, Rome, 1977 (Urbino - Central Humanistic Bibl.)

Course books

To give non-attending students the opportunity to compensate for what is done during lessons with independent study, the following materials referring to the same contents of the program are indicated in order to promote full understanding.