(Dipl. Sup.): Reading of texts from the Italian literary tradition of the XIII-XVI centuries in order to gain knowledge of the most representative authors of that period and technical abilities useful for a critical approach to their works (bibliographic research, textual analysis, study of the sources, and definition of the literary genre).
Topic: Dante’s Vita Nova
Bibliography: a previous knowledge of the following texts and monographs is required: D. Alighieri, Vita Nova, a cura di S. Carrai (Milano, Rizzoli, 2009); or D. Alighieri, Vita Nova, a cura di L. C. Rossi (Milano, Mondadori, 1999 or later impression); S. Carrai, Dante elgiaco. Una chiave di lettura per la Vita nova (Firenze, Olschki, 2006); C. Molinari, Dante, Vita Nova: “asemplare” il libello dal “libro della memoria”, in “Medioevo e Rinascimento, XXV / n.s. XXI, 2011, pp. 223-2247; D. Pirovano, Il dolce stil novo, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2015; E. Malato, Dante (Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2002)
Learning Objectives
Lectures are addressed to LT DAMS (12cfu) students and intend to enable them to obtein a high level of knowledge of Dante’s Vita Nova. They will acquire the instruments both for examining Dante’s Vita Nova in the context of the establishment and progressive definiton of the lyric poetry and for sketching an outline of Dante as poet and poetry theorician within the Romance Lyric Tradition, with special attention to instances of poetic affinity and/or contrast with Guido Cavalcanti,s Rime
Prerequisites
Elementary knowledge about thirteenth-century Literature and elements of Italian versification
Teaching Methods
Lectures: reading, analysis and commentary on Dante’s Vita Nova
Further information
You may contact the lecturer at the following e-mail address: carla.molinari@unifi.it
Type of Assessment
Oral exam
Course program
Lectures will concern about the following topics: bibliography; explanation of Dante’s Vita Nova structure in relation to the division of the text in paragraphs in its latest philologic edition (numeric symbology, story distribution on both levels of biographical tale and poetry reflection). Passages will be proposed in order to gain insights into all the remarkables subjects.