The students will be able to analyze the structure of the Latin texts (grammar and rhetoric) and to translate them. The student will know how to set up an original critical discourse on a text, confronting himself with the previous readings and interpretations and applying the most up-to-date methodologies.
Course Prerequisites
The course is intended to the students of the Bachelor's Degree in Literature and requires knowledge of the morphology and legal syntax of the Latin language, good skills in Latin literature, reading, analysis, and translation of Latin texts.
Teaching Methods
The course consists of 36 h of frontal teaching and 6 h of seminars on specific topics
Assessment Methods
The final assessment consists of a written and oral exam on the entire syllabus. The written exam involves the translation of a piece analyzed in class along with some open-ended questions on issues of morphology and syntax. The oral test, which will be supported by those who have achieved a score of at least 18/30 in the written test, consists of an interview on course-related topics and metric reading of a text. The tests aim to value the knowledge of the contents and bibliography provided for by the course, the quality of the written and oral expression, the critical and methodological skills and the achievement of the intended objectives will be evaluated. The score ranges from 1 to 30 with honors, according to the following: <18 = seriously lacking knowledge; 18-21: essential knowledge; 22-24: documented knowledge; 25-27 extensive knowledge; 28-30: in-depth knowledge; 30 with honors: in-depth knowledge, supported by critical re-elaboration
Texts
1) A. Traina-G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, a cura di C. Marangoni, 6a edizione riveduta e aggiornata, Bologna, Patron, 2007, capitoli I-VII; 2) F. Berardi, Le vie del latino. Storia della lingua latina con elementi di grammatica storica, Congedo editore, Galatina 2024 (appendix 1); 3) F. Berardi, Cicerone. Dell'oratore, Rusconi, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2025. The students who do not attend lessons will replace the study of notes reading: Francesca Romana Nocchi, Quintiliano. Modelli pedagogici e pratiche didattiche, Brescia, Morcelliana 2020. Latin texts will be provided during the lessons.
Contents
Reading and exercitatio
Course Language
Italian
More information
Non-attending students will be responsible for contacting the teacher to receive detailed information on the texts to be translated. To deepen the study of basic morphology and syntax, the study of the following volume is recommended: F. Lubian - L. Salvioni, Latino zero. Guida all'apprendimento della lingua, Il Mulino 2025
