When selections ("sel.") are indicated, those given in any good multi-volume anthology should more than suffice.

The candidate will be expected to demonstrate not only familiarity with the works themselves and their authors, but also a general acquaintance with the major movements and developments in Italian literature, culture, and history, as they pertain to the works on the list. We therefore recommend that the candidate read a history of Italian literature.

We invite all the candidates to consult the faculty any time they have questions about any aspect of this list- e.g. the choice of selections or editions- or about the M.A. exams.

San Francesco d'Assisi - "Cantico di frate Sole"

Jacopone da Todi- sel.

Guido Guinizelli - sel.

Guido Cavalcanti - sel.

Dante - Vita Nuova. Commedia

Petrarca - Canzoniere - ample sel.

Boccaccio - Decameron - Days I, IV, X and sel.

Pulci - Morgante - sel.

Lorenzo de' Medici - sel.

Poliziano - Stanze I

Machiavelli - Principe. Mandragola

Guicciardini - sel.

Castiglione - Cortegiano I, IV

Ariosto - Orlando Furioso; Tasso - Gerusalemme Liberata : one complete, the other sel.

Cellini, Vita (sel.)

Tasso - Aminta

Selected rime of Bembo, Michelangelo, Della Casa, Stampa, Colonna, V. Franco, Gambara Marino - sel.

Vico - Scienza Nuova: "Idea dell' opera" (sel.), Book I

Goldoni - 2 comedies

Alfieri - Vita; Saul or Mirra

Parini - Giorno

Foscolo - Sepolcri; Jacopo Ortis ; sonetti (sel.)

Leopardi - Idilli. La ginestra: Operette morali (sel.)

Manzoni - Promessi sposi. Adelchi

Verga - Malavoglia; novelle (sel.)

Carducci - sel.

Pascoli - ample sel.

D'Annunzio - poesie - sel.

Selected poetry of Gozzano, Ungaretti, Montale, Saba, A. Rosselli

Pirandello, Fu Mattia Pascal. Sei personaggi

Svevo, Coscienza di Zeno

Pavese, La casa in collina or La luna e i falò

Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia

Calvino, Se una notte

Tornasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo

3 novels chosen from the following authors: Gadda, Moravia, Deledda, Borgese, Aleramo, Bassani, Sciascia, Eco, Tozzi, Morante, Ginzburg, Cassola, Fenoglio, D'Annunzio