The course aims to introduce to the study of Italian literature through the analysis of significant works especially considering their relationships with foreign literary tra-ditions. At the end of the course the stu-dent will be able to - contextualize, under-stand and comment on a literary text; - move with competence in the framework of the Italian literary tradition and its main thematic and formal characteristics, with attention to the intersections with the Eu-ropean literature.
Boccaccio's Decameron: culture, literature, reality, legal issues and narrative strategies.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron, introduzione, note e repertorio di Cose (e parole) del mondo di Amedeo Quondam ; testo critico e nota al testo a cura di Maurizio Fiorilla ; Schede introduttive e notizia bibliografica di Giancarlo Alfano | BUR | 2013 | 978-88-17-06326-5 | |
| Sebastiana Nobili (a cura di); Gian Mario Anselmi (introduzione) | Giovanni Boccaccio | Unicopli | 2014 | 978-88-400-1749-5 | |
| Francesco Bausi | Leggere il Decameron | il Mulino | 2017 | 978-88-15-26763-4 |
The main aim of this course is to give an introduction to the history of the Italian literature through the direct analysis of a corpus of texts on issues of particular interests.
