Summary of Programme
(subdivided into the various modules where appropriate)
Module 1 (= 6 ECTS) Poggio Bracciolini, Historia disceptativa tripartita convivalis. Disceptationes 1 e 2
Written in 1450, this dialogue debates three different questions (disceptationes) that characterize the culture of the Humanistic age. In this module the first two will be examined: 1 which of the two, who invited or who has been invited, should thank the other for an offered lunch; 2 whether civil law is more noble and useful than medicine.
Reference Texts
P. Stoppelli, Filologia della letteratura italiana, Roma, Carocci Editore 2008;
Poggio Bracciolini, Historia disceptativa tripartita convivalis, critical edition, translation and commentary by F. Delle Donne, T. Armignacco e G. G. Visconti, Firenze, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo 2019.

Organisation of Teaching
42 hours of teacher up front lessons, plus 4 hours of exercises on the institutions of humanistic philology.

Module 2 (= 3 ECTS) Poggio Bracciolini, Historia disceptativa tripartita convivalis. Disceptatio 3
Reading of and comment on the disceptatio 3: whether the ancient Romans used only one language, or if only learned people spoke Latin.

Reference Texts
Poggio Bracciolini, Historia disceptativa tripartita convivalis, critical edition, translation and commentary by F. Delle Donne, T. Armignacco e G. G. Visconti, Firenze, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo 2019.

Organisation of Lessons
21 hours of teacher up front lessons.