THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING

Course objectives

Aim of the teaching unit is to give students knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of Latin Literature, that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first grade of studies. Moreover, it will make the students able to approach orginal themes in a research context, making more complex judgments, communicating knowledge and its process, and studying the subject in an independent and self-educational way. In particular, students are required to acquire: a deep knowledge of Latin language; a deep knowledge of Latin literature from III B.C. to VI A.D.; a good notion of the persistence of Latin language and civilization in Italian and European culture from the Middle Ages onwards; advanced skills in the research techniques required for the critical exam of Latin texts; mastery of the specific research tools available in traditional or computerized and telematic form in the specific area of Latin texts.

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FRANCESCO URSINI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Ovid's Metamorphoses and their reception in the medieval, modern and contemporary ages A selection of the most significant episodes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and their rewritings in medieval, modern e contemporary literature (from Dante’s Commedia to Christoph Ransmayr’s The Last World) will be presented, together with an outline of the most relevant aspects of the poem and its critical reception. The text of each episode will be closely read in its thematic, linguistic, stylistic, metrical and textual aspects, and then compared with one or more modern rewritings, in order to give students a full understanding of one of the most important works in world culture and its influence on modern European literature.
Books
- The Latin text of the passages covered by this course (episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses and from Apuleius’ Metamorphoses) together with some relevant critic literature will be provided in full in the handouts; - A. Cucchiarelli, F. Ursini, Studiare latino all'università, Roma, Carocci, 2024.
Bibliography
Suggested readings: H. Fränkel, Ovid. A Poet between Two Worlds, Berkeley-Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1945; B. Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet, Cambridge, At the University Press, 1966; K. Galinsky, Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”. An Introduction to the Basic Aspects, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1975; G. Rosati, Narciso e Pigmalione. Illusione e spettacolo nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, Firenze, Sansoni, 1983; Ph. Hardie, Ovidʼs Poetics of Illusion, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002; Th. Ziolkowski, Ovid and the Moderns, Ithaca-London, Cornell University Press, 2005; F. Ursini, Ovidio e la cultura europea. Interpretazioni e riscritture dal secondo dopoguerra al bimillenario della morte (1945-2017), Roma, Istituto di Studi Politici “S. Pio V”-Editrice Apes, 2017; F. Ursini, Una poetica della dissimulazione. Verità e finzione nelle Metamorfosi e nelle altre opere ovidiane, Quaderni della «Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale» 22, Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra, 2021. Reference texts: - Latin language: M. Fucecchi, L. Graverini, La lingua latina. Fondamenti di morfologia e di sintassi, 2a ed., Firenze, Le Monnier Università-Milano, Mondadori Education, 2016; A. Traina, G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, 6. ed. riv. e aggiornata, a cura di C. Marangoni, rist. a cura di A. Traina e B. Pieri, Bologna, Pàtron, 2007; - History of Latin literature: G. B. Conte, Profilo storico della letteratura latina: dalle origini alla tarda età imperiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019 (or a reference book for high school students such as F. Ursini, Tua vivit imago, Treccani-Giunti T.V.P.); - Literary Theory and Reception Studies: S. Brugnolo, D. Colussi, S. Zatti, E. Zinato, La scrittura e il mondo. Teorie letterarie del Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2016. - Commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Ovidio, Opere, II, Le metamorfosi, traduzione di G. Paduano, introduzione di A. Perutelli, commento di L. Galasso, Torino 2000; Ovidio, Metamorfosi, 6 voll., a cura di vari, Milano, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla-Arnoldo Mondadori, 2005-2015.
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseModern Philology
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDL-FIL-LET/04
  • CFU6