| CODE | ITL1030 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Dante: 'Inferno' e 'Purgatorio' | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Italian | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | A selection of canti from the Inferno and the Purgatorio will be read with a series of problems in mind: theology and political thought, history and allegory, self and society, platonic love and erotic impulses, reason and faith, transience and eternity, the human and the divine. The interpretative fate of this summa of medieval culture throughout the centuries will be traced and scholarly questions raised primarily in Italy and the United States will be debated. The traditional close reading, or Lectura Dantis format, of canto by canto analysis will be combined with a broader approach based on the networks of associations composed of metaphors, images and allusive lexemes, so that each canto will be read individually and also within the vaster framework of Dante's Commedia. Reading List: Dante Alighieri, (1993) La Divina Commedia. L’Inferno. Preferably Di Salvo’s annotated edition, Zanichelli Dante Alighieri, (1993) Il Purgatorio. Preferably Di Salvo’s annotated edition, Zanichelli Recommended Reading: Auerbach, E.(1963) Studi su Dante, Feltrinelli Singleton, (1968) Viaggio a Beatrice, Il Mulino Contini G. (1968) Un’idea di Dante, Einaudi Hollander R., (1980) Studies in Dante, Longo Mazzotta G. (1993) Dante’s Vision and the Circle of Knowledge, Princeton UP Ferrucci, F. (2007) Dante. Lo stupore e l’ordine, Liguori Raimondi, E. (2008) Metafora e storia. Studi su Dante e Petrarca, Aragno |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This study-unit is taught and assessed in Italian. | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Gloria Lauri Lucente Joseph Pace Asciak |
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