FF:IJ2A222 Italian Literature I - Course Information
IJ2A222 History of Italian Literature I (from the Origins to Dante)
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Paolo Divizia, Dottore di Ricerca
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- IJ2A221 Textual Criticism I && IJ2A231 History of Italian I
The subject is open to students of different study programmes who have already passed a course of Ancient Italian Literature and obtained a mark between A and C. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- History of Italian literature from the early days till Dante.
The course aims at providing a general knowledge, from an historical-philological point of view, of the history of language, of the most renowned authors and literary movements in Italian literature for the period taken into account. Specific attention is given to texts and context, linguistic and stilistic aspects, metre and philological questions (sources/models, genetic/evolutionary variants, transmission/fortune).
Since the course mostly consists in reading and explaining excerpts of literary works which are part of the exam, you are kindly invited to print them on paper. - Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course the student will be able to read texts of ancient Italian literature in original language; find secondary bibliography specialised in Italian literature; use the secondary bibliography to support a critical assessment of an Italian literary text; frame artistic texts in historical, social, cultural and artistic contexts; know their textual issues, as well as offering a theoretical framework for these texts; prepare a critical review of a literary work.
- Syllabus
- You should be familiar with the following authors' works and topics (to be studied on Ferroni's History of literature or an equivalent):
- beginning of Italian vernacular languages and the first vernacular documents; Francis of Assisi; Sicilian Poetical school and its fortune in the rest of Italy; Bonvesin da la Riva; veracular translations (volgarizzamenti); Brunetto Latini; Bono Giamboni; Stilnovismo; poeti comico-realistici: Iacopone da Todi; Dante; preachers of the Dominican order (Iacopo Passavanti, Domenico Cavalca); Francis Petrarch; Giovanni Boccaccio; Franco Sacchetti.
- You should also be familiar with ALL the excerpts that were read during lectures and any other author that was eventually dealt with during the course.
- Teaching methods
- Lecture: description of the literary field, explanation and definition of basic notions and their demonstration on concrete texts by concrete authors. Seminar: Application of the acquired theoretical knowledge on authentic texts. In the form of a presentation the students show their capability to connect their theoretical knowledge while working with a concrete text.
- Assessment methods
- The exam includes the complete programme of the subject such as provided in the lectures held during the semester (including lectures given by guest lecturers, and references to topics covered in the previous semester if the subject has the number II in its title) and in a manual on the subject to choose from among those listed. The final grade will also take into account the work done by students during the semester and their active participation in the course.
Attendance is compulsory.
Maximum number of unjustified absences: 1. Late arrival, i.e. when the lecture has already started, will be marked as an absence. Doing other things, not relevant to the subject, during the classes (such as chatting, reading/sending email, surfing the internet, watching films/videos) will also be considered as an absence. Homework which is the result of plagiarism or written with the aid of AI tools may result in non-admission to the exam.
Arriving late at the exam may result in non-admission to the exam. - Language of instruction
- Italian
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Lze zapsat až po úspěšném složení bakalářské zkoušky. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- IJ2A225 History of Italian Literature II (from Petrarch to Baroque)
(IJ2A221 || IJ2A021) && ((IJ2A231 || IJ2A031) || (IJ2A222 && IJ2A224)) - IJ2B005 Textual Criticism (Filologia italiana) III
(IJIA028 || IJ1A055 || IJ1A055com || IJ1A055mai || IJ1A055min) && (IJ2A021 ||IJ2A221) && (IJ2A222 || IJ2A224)
- IJ2A225 History of Italian Literature II (from Petrarch to Baroque)
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