MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE AND HUMANIST
cod. 1004616

Academic year 2012/13
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Letteratura latina medievale e umanistica (L-FIL-LET/08)
Field
Discipline linguistiche, filologiche e metodologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
36 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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Integrated course unit module: CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, MEDIEVAL AND HUMANIST

Learning objectives

Students will gain advanced knowledges of the medieval and humanistic Latin Literature and the necessary tools to the reading and the interpretation of the authors.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The course is structured as follows: a) classification of medieval Latin literature and humanistic b) illustration of the theater in the Middle Ages c) analysis of the sacred and profane theatre's production in the Middle Ages with reading, translation and stylistic, rhetorical and philological commentary of certain passages of the Rosvita's works and of elegiac comedies.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Leonardi Claudio, Letteratura latina medievale: un manuale,Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2003

Edoardo D'Angelo, La letteratura latina medievale: una storia per generi, Roma 2009.

F. Bertini, Commedie latine del XII e XIII secolo, voll. I-VI, Genova 1976-1998.

S. Pittaluga, La scena interdetta, Napoli, Liguori, 2001.

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures and exercises plus weekly tutorials.

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam consists of an oral exam on various parts of the program, after the realization of a paper on a topic relevant to the program.

Other information

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