Introduction to Literary Italian

Intermediate/ advanced semester students of Italian Course Description: The goal of this course is to develop the students’ language knowledge, building on the knowledge acquired in previous courses, through the study of a wide array of Italian literary texts about the city of Rome and its history. In particular we will explore text from three periods, the Fascism era, the boom economico period, and the beginning of the XXI century. This will provide the students the opportunity to read literary texts of different genres and registers.