IT3014 The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

Curricular information may be subject to change

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

To be arranged.

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr C Rossignoli

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Module Staff

Dr C Rossignoli

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

This module provides an introduction to early modern Italian literature and culture, primarily through the works of Castiglione, Stampa, Ariosto and Tasso. Some of the key aspects that the course will consider include the humanist paradigm and the Questione della lingua, the codification and use of literary models as well as the definition and reinvention of literary genres, the crucial discussion on gender, women’s education and their role in society. More general themes relating to the Italian Cinquecento (such as the relationship of literature with the other arts, the links between the cultural and the socio-political transformations taking place in the Italian peninsula at the time) will also be considered throughout the course for their direct relevance to the texts studied and their contextualising value.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1- or 2-hour seminar and 1 surgery hour.

Scheduled learning hours

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

132

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.