UCJITBP311 Italian Literature 1

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
dott. Matteo Maria Quintiliani, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
dott. Matteo Maria Quintiliani, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Táňa Pavlíková Alešová, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Timetable
each odd Wednesday 13:05–14:40 PrPed
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
UCJITBP311/A: each odd Wednesday 14:45–16:20 PrPed, M. Quintiliani
Prerequisites
good knowledge of the Italian language
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Italian (programme FPF, ITAL-bpk)
Course objectives
The cycle of lectures and seminars is dedicated to an overview of Italian literature from the 13th to the 15th century. The lectures aim to characterize a period from a literary, historical and social point of view and to present the main authors of the period. The seminars focus on an analysis of a series of texts.
Learning outcomes
The students have a general knowledge of the main trends of the Italian literature from the 13th to the 15th century, they can place the most important Italian authors and their works in the literary and historical context, thay can subject a literary text to a formal and content analysis.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduzione sulle origini
  • 2. Il ‘200: la letteratura religiosa e didattica
  • 3. Le origini della poesia d’arte: dalla Scuola siciliana al Dolce stil nuovo
  • 4. L’antitesi della lirica illustre: il realismo, la giocosità e la letteratura di viaggio
  • 5.-6. Dante Alighieri: la trattatistica, la lirica e la “Divina commedia”
  • 7.-8. I classici del ‘300: Francesco Petrarca
  • 9.-10. I classici del ‘300: Giovanni Boccaccio
  • 11.-12. L’umanesimo: la nascita delle Accademie, la corte di Lorenzo de’ Medici
  • 13. Revisione
Literature
    required literature
  • Segre, C., Martignoni, C., Leggere il mondo. Vol. I-V, Milano: Mondadori, 2001.
  • Špička, J. a kol. Letteratura italiana del Medioevo e del Rinascimento. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2014.
Teaching methods
Přednášky a semináře
Assessment methods
Attendance min. 70 %, homework, oral exam after the course of Italian literature 2.
Language of instruction
Italian
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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