B029539 - PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Portuguese and Italian languages

The reception of Camões in Europe. The course means to supply, at first, a bio-bibliographic introduction of Luís Vaz de Camões and to contextualize his figure and literary work in Portugal and Europe of the 16th Century. Secondly, it will be studied the reception of the figure and the literary work of the Lusitanian poet in some European literatures.

It is requested the study of this work:
Camões, Os Lusíadas/I Lusiadi, a cura di Valeria Tocco, Milano, BUR

The course is addressed to the students of Magistrale and it aims: 1.to expand students’ knowledge of the Portuguese literature of the 16th Century; 2.to give students critical instruments for the analysis of poetic texts in the Portuguese language of the 16th Century; 3.to improve their knowledge on the topic of the course through group researches and to improve their intellectual participation exchanging views with teacher and other students.

Knowledge of Portuguese and other European languages (English, French, Spanish)

remote lessons.

72 hours – 12 credits – I semester. Part-time students are pleased to contact the titular professor. Attendance is required for at least 2/3rds of the course.

The exam is oral and it concerns questions on the topic of the course, including the bibliographic references indicated in the program. The exam aims to verify:
-the knowledge of the basic-concepts of the Portuguese literature of the 16th Century;
-the ability to describe poetic texts in their historical and cultural context;
-the ability to read and explain the texts analysed during the course with fluency, critical competence and theoretical consciousness.

1.Compulsory reading of the following work:
Camões, Os Lusíadas/I Lusiadi, a cura di Valeria Tocco, Milano, BUR

2.Compulsory critical readings:
Aquilino Ribeiro, Luís de Camões, fabuloso, verdadeiro, Lisboa, Bertrand [s.d.] (Biblioteca Umanistica)
J.S. da Silva, Camões no Portugal de Quinhentos, Lisboa, ICLP, 1981 (Biblioteca Umanistica)
Almeida Garrett, Camões, Lisboa, Typ. de J.B. Morando, 1839
Rui Afonso Mateus, A recepção de Camões no barroco português. O caso de Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2011
Maria Lucília Gonçalves Pires, A crítica camoniana no século XVII, Lisboa, ICLP, 1982 (Biblioteca Umanistica)
Camões a la Renaissance: Colloque international tenu en novembre 1980 sous les auspices de la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian de Lisbonne, Bruxelles-Paris, Presses Univeristaires de Bruxelles e de France, 1983 (Biblioteca Umanistica)
Eugenio Asensio, José V. de Pina Martins, Luís de Camões: el humanismo en su obra poetica los lusiadas y las rimas en la poesia espanhola (1580-1640), Paris, Fundação C. Gulbenkian, 1982 (Biblioteca Umanistica)
Manuel Ferro, O lugar de posição de Camões na galáxia literária dos países lusófonos, História revista, 2013, vol. 18 (accesso online)
Xosé Manuel Dasilva, A recepção de Camões na Galiza, in Colóquio Letras n. 182, pp. 58-66
3.Lesson notes
4. Other material explained during the course