Dante
R Lampugnani
8 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: ITA2100 or equivalent
The aim of the subject is to introduce students to the works of Dante Alighieri, the most important poet of the Middle Ages, through a reading of the Divina Commedia. The work will be analysed as poetic narrative, with reference to the context in which it was written. Students should consider complementing their study of Dante with an appropriate cognate historical subject on medieval and Renaissance Italy.
Assessment
Written (3000 words): 50% * Examinations (1 hour): 20% * Seminar participation: 30%
Prescribed texts
Alighieri D La Divina Commedia ed. Cataldi Luperini, Le Monnier
Recommended text
Di Salvo T Lettura critica della Divina Commedia vol. I Inferno (latest edn) La Nuova Italia