Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Italian Language and Literature
- Code
- BBI-OLA11-331
- Title
- Italian History of Literature 4. (Humanism, Renaissance, and Baroque)
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- knowledge: A deeper knowledge of literary and cultural history, the notions of Humanism, Renaissance, and Baroque. Sensibility for literary problems, critical reading of historical sources, competence of understanding of professional texts. Have a usable language knowledge of at least C1 level. skills: Development of critical thinking, acquisition of methods of literary studies. Able to communicate national culture in the target language. Able to mediate between cultures and to develop intercultural competence. attitude: Improving of cultural sensibility. Improving the culture of debate (in a foreign language) and of the cooperation with fellows. autonomy and responsibility: Open towards social problems. Integrates the acquired methods and pieces of information in his or her individual opinion.
- Course content
- The subjects with the title History of Italian literature aim at giving a wide survey for teacher training students of the history of Italian literature, its literary and philosophical tendencies, its important authors and important works, and the theoretical questions arising in connection with all these topics. History of Italian literature 4 (lecture) gives an overview of the 15th-17th century Italian literature: Latin and vulgar language literature of the Humanism; the most important aspects of the literature of the Renaissance, the Manierism and the Baroque through the oeuvre of the most important authors (Alberti, Ariosto, Poliziano, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Castiglione, Tasso, Campanella, Marino, etc) and the analysis of the most important literary and cultural events. The lecture gives an overview of the important literary debates, the connections between literature, arts, history, philosophy and sciences, and the formation of modern theatre.
- Assessment method
- Written or oral exam
- Bibliography
- Branca, Vittore – Ossola, Carlo: Cultura e società nel Rinascimento tra riforma e manierismo. Firenze. Olschki. 1984. Garin, Eugenio: L’umanesimo italiano. Bari. Laterza. 1952. Monfasani, John: “Umanesimo italiano e cultura europea” in Il Rinascimento italiano e l’Europa. I. Storia e storigorafia, a cura di Marcello Fantoni. Vicenza: Fondazione Cassamarca - Angelo Colla Editore, 2005, 49–70. Procacci, Giuliano, Machiavelli nella cultura europea dell'età moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995.