Lettere moderne

The five-year Undergraduate Course in Modern Literature offers a range of advanced courses featuring in-depth study of literature from the medieval period to the present day, with a particular focus on the Italian tradition and essential insights into Romance and foreign literatures. As per the Statute, students attend these courses in parallel with those at the University of Pisa. The curriculum includes lectures, seminars and educational visits to museums, theatres, research centres, libraries and archives. Students are encouraged to develop intellectual curiosity and critical thinking and to gain a comprehensive, transdisciplinary and comparative understanding of literary traditions and linguistic phenomena. This is achieved through philological, hermeneutic, linguistic, historical and intermedial analysis of literary texts, as well as formal and neurolinguistic analysis of natural languages. The programme fosters a methodological approach to the understanding of texts within their historical dynamics and cultural frameworks, and highlights connections with general theoretical and critical issues. The curriculum includes courses in Italian Literature, Renaissance Italian Literature, Contemporary Italian Literature, Comparative Literatures, Romance and Italian Philology, History of the Italian Language and General Linguistics. Additional courses, taught by Italian and international specialists, are offered annually.