Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing skills and critical instruments for understanding Spanish literature and culture of the Golden Age within their historical and social context. The course will develop abilities of textual reading and analysis of fundamental texts both in prose (Don Quijote) and verse (Garcilaso de la Vega, Santa Teresa de Jesús, Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz…).

Program

Sylabus:
The course aims at providing skills and critical instruments for understanding Spanish literature and culture of the Golden Age within their historical and social context. The course will develop abilities of textual reading and analysis of fundamental texts both in prose (Don Quijote) and verse (Garcilaso de la Vega, Santa Teresa de Jesús, Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz…)

Sylabus

- Alle radici dell’Europa. Mori, giudei e zingari nei paesi del Mediterraneo occidentale (Volume II: secoli XVII-XIX), a cura di F. Gambin, Firenze, Seid, 2009.

- Antología comentada de la literatura española. Historia y textos. Siglo XVI, a cura di Andrés Amorós, Madrid, Castalia, 2007 [All’inizio del corso verranno indicati i capitoli e i testi antologici che formano parte del programma d’esame].

- M. de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. di L. A. Murillo, Madrid, Castalia, 2 voll.

- M. Socrate, Il riso maggiore di Cervantes. Le opere e i tempi, Firenze, la Nuova Italia, 1998, soprattutto pp. 1-37 e pp. 55-128.

Recommended but not required critical bibliography:

- C. Samonà, G. Mancini, F. Guazzelli, A. Martinengo, La letteratura spagnola. I secoli d’oro, Milano, Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli.
- M. G. Profeti (a cura di), L’età d’oro della letteratura spagnola: Il Cinquecento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1997.
- AA. VV., De Cervantes y el islam, ed. di N. Martínez de Castilla e R. G. Benumeya Grimau, Madrid, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2006.
- J. H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale. 1469-1716, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006.
- H. Rawlings, L’inquisizione spagnola, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
- Alle radici dell’Europa. Mori, giudei e zingari nei paesi del Mediterraneo occidentale (Volume I: secoli XV-XVII), a cura di F. Gambin, Firenze, Seid, 2008.
- A. Vanoli, La reconquista, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
- G. Bessong, I sefarditi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010.
- F. Márquez Villanueva, Moros, moriscos y turcos en Cervantes. Ensayos críticos, Barcelona, Bellaterra, 2010.
- A. M. Paramio, J. C Villaverde Amieva, A. I. Beneyto Lozano, Memoria de los Moriscos, escritos y relatos de una diáspora cultural, Madrid, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2010.
- E. González Ferrín (coord.), Al-Andalus: paradigma y continuidad, Sevilla, Fundación Tres culturas (colección ánfora), 2011.
- S. Monti (a cura di), L’età di Carlo V. La Spagna e l’Europa, Verona, Fiorini, 2011.

Examination Methods

Attending students will take a self-assessment test (verifica in itinere) during the course. The grade given will be part of the final grade. The self- assessment test will be done only once (in December).
Students who pass the written exam will have to prepare, for the oral examination, only the second part, which consists on the reading and commenting of Don Quijote.
In order to take the oral exam, students need to have already passed both Lingua spagnola 1 (Spanish Language 1) and Letteratura spagnola 1 (Spanish Literature 1). All students are allowed to take part on the self-assessment test (prova in itinere).
The syllabus is the same for non-attending students. Students who cannot attend the lessons are kindly invited to get in touch with the professor.