Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne

IMAGERY AND SHOWS OF the DOCTORS - MOUNTEBANKS ON the EUROPEAN SQUARES BETWEEN THREE HUNDRED AND SEVEN HUNDRED. II LEAVES. The themes and the dealt arguments, so like the competences and the abilities that understand each other to form, offer contents and methods of great usefulness to learn to move suitably between different linguistic, cultural and artistic contexts of the Europe between Middle Ages and the Eighteenth Century. Particularly, the teaching proposes to itself to teach to institute adequate connections between scientific culture and artistic culture, between high culture and low culture, between literature and arts of the show.

At the end of teaching, the student will need to know:

- History and problems of relations between medicine and entertainment

- specific characters in the world of charlatans

- phenomena of popular performances

 - History and problems of relations between charlatans and professional actors

 - Forms of the spectacles of the piazza

The lessons of the duration of 54 hours (9 CFU), which take place in the classroom. Meetings are envisaged as examples of the techniques of the Commedia dell'Arte, with intervention of actors

Knowledge and planned capacity will be verified through an interview with questions and discussion on texts analyzed during the lessons. The preparation will be considered adequate (with vote expressed in thirtieths) if the student will demonstrate adequate expressive capabilities in dealing with the proposed topic, if it will try to move adequately among the issues discussed, if will give evidence of appropriate capacities for connection between different subjects, if it is able to place each topic in its historical and cultural context.

The first part of the lessons will address the following issues: the evidence of European literature on the medical imagery and its functions within a variety of therapeutic hypotheses between the Middle Ages and the Eighteenth Century; The main phenomenologies of the relationship between medicine and performance; The sumptuous developments of the quartet between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, considered through certain French, German and Italian dramaturgical testimonies. With regard to the next two centuries, the lessons will undergo critical documentary and dramaturgical analysis, in which the behavioral habits and performative activities typical of doctors and specialists in the square (with particular attention to the study of historical phenomena in which There are some particularly significant meetings between the charlatan performances and the Commedia dell'Arte. In the baroque and the eighteenth century literature, the relationship between imaginary medicine, magic and science will be studied.

R.Tessari, Allettamenti meravigliosi. Immaginario e spettacoli dei ciarlatani (provisory title; The text will be published by April 2016; If it does not go out in time for the exams, it will be replaced by the teaching material freely available on the teacher's website at the Department's website) R.Tessari, La Commedia dell'Arte. Genesi d'una società dello spettacolo, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2013 (i primi cinque capitoli).

If you do not attend, you must add one of the following texts:

G.Cosmacini, Il medico saltimbanco, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2008

R.Tessari, Divine oscenità. Alle origini dello spettacolo, Medusa, Milano, 2015 (capitoli I, II e IV)