Program Overview

Introduction to the Corso Ordinario in Lettere Moderne

The Corso Ordinario in Lettere Moderne is a five-year course that offers advanced teachings in the study of literature, from the medieval era to contemporary times, with a particular focus on the Italian tradition and fundamental openings to the Romance context and foreign literatures.

Course Description

The course includes frontal lessons, seminar activities, and educational visits to museums, theaters, research centers, libraries, and archives. Students are encouraged to develop intellectual curiosity and critical spirit, and to acquire a comprehensive, transdisciplinary, and comparative vision of literary tradition and linguistic phenomena through philological, hermeneutic, linguistic, historical, and intermedial analysis of literary texts.

Teaching Staff

The course is taught by a team of experienced professors, including:

• Massimo Fusillo
• Lino Leonardi
• Arnaldo Soldani
• Gabriele Pedullà
• Andrea Torre

Courses Offered

The course offers a range of teachings, including:

Letterature comparate - Melodramma / Realismo

A comparative study of literature, focusing on melodrama and realism in literature, painting, theater, cinema, and music.

Filologia romanza e italiana - I trovatori di Dante 1

A course on Romance and Italian philology, focusing on the troubadours of Dante.

Storia della lingua italiana - Lingua e tecnica del primo Montale

A course on the history of the Italian language, focusing on the language and technique of the early Montale.

Letteratura italiana - "Il Principe" di Niccolò Machiavelli

A course on Italian literature, focusing on Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince".

Letteratura Italiana del Rinascimento - Variazioni sul mito I

A course on Italian Renaissance literature, focusing on variations on the myth.

Mutuable Teachings

The course also offers mutuable teachings from other courses, including:

Culture di minoranza

A course on minority cultures.

Studi di genere e intersezionali

A course on gender and intersectional studies.

Linguistica Generale

A course on general linguistics, focusing on the notion of symmetry in syntax.

Reference Teacher

The reference teacher for the course is Andrea Torre.