Category Archives: Fall

History of Art
Syllabus
Prof. Elisabetta Cunsolo Throughout the centuries, due to its geographic position, Bologna has always been a place where foreigners stopped during their travels to the North or the South of Italy contributing to the spread of new ideas. The cultural and political prestige of Bologna and of many of its personalities is evident looking at its architecture and works of art still present in town. Nevertheless, its ambition to independence produced artistic expressions so original that they can be scarcely forced into traditional concepts.
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Theatre
Syllabus
Prof. Gabriele Marchesini
This course takes a general approach to acting styles, providing a direct and in-depth involvement with the Italian language as it mediates between the theory and the practice of theatrical literature, a literature conceived as a recited art rather than as one to be read.  This way, we will approach the theatre as protagonists, rather than simply practising our knowledge of another language and culture.
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History
Syllabus
Prof. Alberto Preti
In 1945 Italy was a predominantly agricultural society recovering from twenty years of dictatorship and a military defeat that had devastated the country and altered the collective identity of the Italian people. In the decades that followed the population of Italy saw their country undergo a rapid period of industrialization, urbanization, and modernization as well as the establishment of a democratic Republic that quickly took root.
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