Docente di Lettere: Paola Ponte

Docente di Lettere: Paola Ponte
Title:
THE AGE OF LEOPARDI
Interdisciplinary module - Literature - English - Art
Duration: 12 h
SUB-TOPIC
TO COME ACROSS A WRITER/AUTHOR → To know Leopardi
thoroughly!
Reading of “Small moral works” particularly Dialogue between a
goblin and a gnome.
CONTENT
OBJECTIVES
- To describe the basic opinion (view, idea) of the Romanticism.
- To compare the other writers of romantic literature
- To work and use the image of romantic painter
- To build own romantic art production
- To write a poetry on a romantic way
- To recognize the structure of a text
- To link visual language to verbal language
- Memorization of words or short parts of a dialogue
- To develop communication skills
- To respect other student’s work
LINGUISTIC
- To know and create new words about the theory of Romanticism
OBJECTIVES
- To ask and answer questions about romantic literature
- To understand satirical language
- To identify important concepts with key words
- To understand an English text with dialogues
LANGUAGE
(FUNCTIONS AND
LANGUAGE)
- LANGUAGE: infinity badly, dark life, indifferent nature, alone,
deadly sadness, boredom...
- To create new word from prefixes and suffixes.
- FUNCTIONS: to use paradigm, name, adjective
PRE-KNOWLEDGE
- Basic concepts of romantic literature and art
- To be able to reading and understanding literary texts (Small Moral
Works by Leopardi) in a nearly autonomous way with the
help of a dictionary
PROCEDURES
STAGES
Step I:
Materials (web
Rising student’s motivation and interest.
resources, video,
Discussion in L1 about their previous
sheet, flash-card,
knowledges of different literary movements in
games...)
the 19th century, particularly Romanticism
movement.
It was used method of
cooperative learning,
Step II:
Students are divided in four groups. Students
read the “Dialogue between a gnome and
goblin” of Leopardi. The teacher give each
collaborative
learning,
jigsaw, and reciprocal
teaching
group one different work about turning
(Lezione partecipata
finding out and sorting out.
e intedisciplinare per
un apprendimento
Step III:
Students give a title for each paragraph of the
dialogue and complete a graph with key
words.
Step IV:
Students read statements and decide if they
are true or false.
Step V:
- To find or write a romantic poetry
- To realize a theme of dialogue
- Creative activities of invention → to give a
personal interpretation of dialogue →
students find the current theme (subject,
topic, motif) on pessimism cosmic and on
disappointment of modern progress about
the Dialogue
- To solve a crossword
collaborativo)
- To complete the sentences
- To choose a picture on romantic way and
give a title, an idea or an emotion
- The students ask the questions:
*What do you see in the pictures?
*What do you think about?
Step VI:
“Everybody is useful but nobody is
indispensable” → the gnome and the goblin
often refer to this idea. Students read what
they say and use the key information and
complete a graph.
Step VII:
Activity
about
cognitive
and
linguistic
development → brainstorming.
Step VIII:
Activity of iconography analysis to support
the independent expression and the personal
observation of romantic picture.
Step IX:
The teacher asks the students to close their
eyes and imagine a romantic name or
adjective and after they draw it.
Step X:
Students give a personal performance as
dialogue also with the music.
PRE-TASK
- To tune the students through creative
Tuning in Activating
motivation with game or visual language
prior-knowledge
(image, picture, etc.)
- To learn by creativity → the teacher, with
the students, prepares paper material, made
of reference words and images.
- Connecting new and old → the teacher
proposes, thanks to the students, a new
knowledges chart with those students have
already acquired and that they have learnt
from the reading of Leopardi’s Dialogue.
- The teacher underlines the words key,
reference inside the dialogue, like a help to
understand easier the text, using plain
markers of the speech and emphasizing basic
ideas in bold print (way of scaffolding) →
What I know / What I learnt
- The teacher proposes, after, exercises with
sentences to complete (language frame).
TASK
1.Finding out Discovery
learning
- To suggest activities of analysis to facilitate
the autonomous and personal expression of
the literary part which has been studied
- Development of the abilities of comparison
- The teacher provides explanatory and visual
material, establishing a connection with the
discipline → Copies of the Italian and
English text are provided to students
2.Sorting out Organising
information
- To use the contents through personal
activities (games, theater-craft, animation,
creation of bookmarks)
- To build own romantic art production
- To suggest activities of creative production
to become familiar with the (Small work)
(Dialogue)
- Each students draws the project for a
bookmark
- To do a role-play.
- To work about reciprocal interaction
POST TASK
- Language
reflection/awareness
- Self-assessment
- Assessment
- To identify some idioms, verbs, also in
special situations.
- To develop a critical mind to improve
students’ ability
EVALUATION STANDARDS
The achievement of predifined objectives
will be evaluate, as far as knowledge and
competences are involved. In particulare:
- The general knowledge of debated contents
- The ability to use L2 correctly in writing,
speaking, listening and reading to transmit
the debated contents
- The acquired level of cognitive abilities
- The level of autonomy and originality
acquired in the personal work.
EVALUATION PROCESS
There will be an ongoing evaluation, while
the work is in progress.
The students will know about their
evaluation process, that will be expressed
through a four-levels system of emoticons.
They will non get any numerical evaluation
while their work will be in progress. It will
be assigned at the end of the work, to express
the value of the emoticons that each student
has got.
FROM LOTS
listening
speaking
reading
writing
TO HOTS
memorising
understanding
applying
comparing
interpreting
recognising
analysing
name
name
name
name
MAKE REFERENCE TO TAXONOMY
↓
LA TAVOLA TASSONOMICA
Apprendimenti elementari
- Memorizzare
- Automatismi disciplinari
- Eseguire procedimenti
automatizzati
- Automatismi cognitivi
Apprendimenti intermedi
- Descrivere le conoscenze
- Applicare e controllare
le conoscenze
Apprendimenti superiori
- Convergenti
- Analisi
- Sintesi
- Metodo
- Divergenti
- Intuizione
- Invenzione
evaluating
creative
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A GOBLIN AND A GNOME
(“Small moral works” of Leopardi)
GOBLIN:
Here you are, Beelzebub’s son! Where are you going?
GNOME:
My father has sent me to find out what on earth these rogues men are scheming; he
is suspicious about something, because they haven’t taken the quarrel since quite a long time, and
in his whole realm you see nobody. He thinks they are doing something against him, if to sell and
buy by sheep, not by gold or silver, hadn’t been back; or if the civil peoples weren’t satisfied with
paper notes for money, as they did several times, as the barbarians do; or if Licurgo’s laws hadn’t
been borne, this looks the least believable to him.
GOBLIN:
You are waiting for them to no avail: they are all dead, the ending of a tragedy told
where all the characters died.
GNOME :
What do you want to deduce?
GOBLIN : I want to deduce the men are all dead, and the race is disappeared.
GNOME :
Oh, this is a news. But, so far, nobody has tried to think.
GOBLIN:
Silly, don’t you think that the gazettes never have published, when the men
are dead?
GNOME:
You tell the truth. Now, how would we know the world news?
GOBLIN:
Which news? The sunrise or sunset, or it’s hot or cold, or here and there it has rained
or snowed or it has been windy? Because, as the men disappeared, the fortune removed its bandages
and after it wore its glasses and hung the wheel on a pivot, is sitting with folded arms, looking at the
world things without it lays its hands on something: there are no realms or empires that
swell or burst as bubbles, because they are all vanished, there aren’t any wars
and every year it looks like each other as eggs.1
GNOME:
You couldn’t know what day is of the month, because the almanacs never will
be published.
GOBLIN:
It won’t be bad that the moon, for this reason, won’t lose its way.
GNOME:
And the week days will be nameless.
GOBLIN: What? Do you fear, if you don’t call them by their name, they won’t come? Or, maybe,
do you think they will go back if you call them, that once passed?
GNOME:
You couldn’t number the years.
So we’ll pass ourselves off young people when we will be old, and as
we won’t count the passed age, we’ll be less troubled and when we’ll be very old,
we won’t expect our death from day today.
GOBLIN:
GNOME:
But how did those rascals die?
In part they fought among one another, in part they sailed, in part they ate
one another, in part, not a few, they killed themselves, in part they rotted into idleness,
in part they had gone off their had because of the books, in part they caroused and they
came corrupt for a thousand other things. At the end they studied the way to go
against nature and to come to no good.2
GOBLIN:
1
What I know (remembering) Ariosto → Astolfo sulla Luna → Il monte di tumide vesciche veduto da Astolfo sulla
Luna.
What I learnt → (analysing) → L’uomo è arrogante, presuntuoso, pieno di sé → Pessimismo storico → L’umanità non
esisterà più, distrutta non da eventi naturali catastrofici, come potrebbe capitare al giorno d’oggi, ma perché ha
perseguito, in mille modi, la sua stessa fine. Le guerre finalmente avranno termine. La fine dell’uomo, nulla toglie alla
Terra → inessenzialità dell’uomo → antropologia negativa.
I ragazzi hanno scoperto e analizzato una positività → l’inessenzialità dell’uomo porta purtroppo a considerare gli anni
uguali gli uni agli altri “si assomigliano come uovo e uovo” → “Every year I looks like each other as eggs”. È vero, le
guerre non ci sono più, ma anche la capacità di sentirsi diversi non c’è più. Ecco, la grandiosa capacità dell’uomo di
differenziarsi!
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Favola o terribile presagio di una Terra che ritrova la sua bellezza senza l’umanità? Gli allievi lavorano su
attualizzazioni → “Topical subject” con questa tematica → Relazione con l’ambiente → Brainstorming → Activities of
tuning and finding out
GNOME:
Anyway, I don’t know how the whole race of animals can become extinct, as you tell.
GOBLIN:
You who knows the geology, should know that the case isn’t new and there
were several kinds of animals in former times, which there aren’t today, except some petrified
bones. Moreover, those poor creatures, used no device that, how I told you, the men used to go to
ruin.
GNOME:
It may be so. I’d like one or two of that rabble raised from the dead and to know
that they would think when they see the other things, though the man kinds is
extinct, still last and go on as it was, when they thought that the whole world was
made and kept only for them.
GOBLIN: They didn’t want to realize that the world is made and kept for the goblins.
GNOME:You are crazy if you mean what you are saying.
GOBLIN: Why? Of course I do.
GNOME:Eh, fool, go away. Who doesn’t know the world is made for the gnomes?3
GOBLIN:
For the gnomes, who are always underground? That’s the best thing you can hear.
What do the sun, the moon, the air, the sea, the countryside do to the gnomes?
GNOME:
What do the golden and silver quarries, and the whole body of the earth
except the outer skin?
GOBLIN:
Well, either they do or they don’t do, let’s leave this argument alone, because I’m
persuaded that they think also the lizards and the midges and the whole world is
made for their services. But everyone thinks how he wants, because nobody would get this
opinion out of his head; and from me I tell you only this if I wasn’t born as a goblin, I
would despair.
The same thing would happen to me if I wasn’t born gnome. Now I’d
know gladly what the men would say about their arrogance, when, among the other
GNOME:
things which they did to one and to the other, they sank thousands of arms underground and they
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Disputa tra gnomo e folletto
stole us our things against our will, telling they belonged to the mankind and the nature had hidden
them and buried over there as a joke, because they wanted to try if they would find and pull out
them.
GOBLIN:
I don’t think it’s wonderful, when they convinced themselves not only that
world things were at their service, but they intended that all together, compared to
the mankind, were a trifle. And the own events were called the world revolutions,
and their people’s history, the world’s history, though you could number, also into the
earth’s borders, maybe several other races, I don’t speak of creatures, but only of animals, how
many heads of alive men: the animals, which were made specially for their use, never realized the
world turned against.
GNOME:
Were also the mosquitoes and the fleas made for profit of the men?
GOBLIN:
Yes, they were I mean to practice them into the patience, like they said.
GNOME:
Really, they didn’t have the chance to practice the patience, if the fleas weren’t.
GOBLIN:
But the pigs according to Crisippo, were a piece of meat, which was
prepared by the nature for the cookers and the 1arders of the men, and, because
they didn’t rot, they where seasoned with souls instead with the salt.
GNOME:
I think, on the contrary, if Crisippo had in his brain a little salt instead of the soul, he
wouldn’t have imagined a so big bad mistake.
GOBLIN:
Also this is another happy occasion; how many countless races of animals never have
been seen or known by the men, who are their owners; or because they live in places where they
never set foot, or to be so small that they anyway didn’t discover them. They didn’t notice about
other several races before the last times. The same, you can say about the kind of the plants, and a
thousand others. Likewise at time, with their spy-glasses, they noticed some star or
planet, that till them, during thousands and thousands of years, they never had known it was alive;
and at once they wrote it among their chattels: because they thought the stars and
the planets were lantern candle-ends, which were put up above to light their
Lordships, because at night they had a lot of things to do.
So in summer’s time, when they saw to fall those small flames that
some nights fall, they would have side some spirit was snuffing the stars for the
service of the men.
GNOME:
Now they are all disappeared, the earth needs nothing, and the rivers
aren’t tired to run, and the sea, even if it doesn’t serve anyone for the navigation
and for the traffic, doesn’t dry.4
GOBLIN:
GNOME:
And the stars and the planets were born and get and they didn’t go into mourning.
GOBLIN:
And the sun hasn’t painted his rust-brown face like it did, according to Virgilio, for
Cesare’s death: whose, I think, he had so much trouble as the statue of Pompeo had.
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Indifferenza della natura
ACTIVITY OF TUNING AND FINDING OUT
THE FIRST GROUP
ACTIVITIES OF CLIL
EvErybody is usEful but nobody is indispensable
The Gnome and the Goblin often make reference to this idea. Read what they say and use the keyinformation to complete the graph below.
 Since men disappeared Fortune has unbandaged her eyes, put on spectacles and attached her wheel to a
pivot. She sits with arms crossed. Watching the world go round without troubling herself in the least
as to its affairs.
 The Moon will continue her course.
 We shall be able to say we are young when we are old and we shall forget our cares when we cannot
fix their anniversary. Besides, when we are very old, we shall not know it, nor expecting death daily.
 I should dearly like to resuscitate one or two of the rascals, just to know what they would think when
they saw all going on as before, in spite of the disappearance of the human race.
 In short they (men) have arrived at their end, by endeavouring, as long as they lived, to violate the laws
of nature, and to go contrary to their welfare.
What do you remember?
Read the following statements and decide if they are true or false by putting a tick in the
correct square. If you think they are false correct them in the space provided.
STATEMENT
A Goblin is sent onto
the Earth by his father
to see what has
happened to men.
Fortune has been left
“unemployed” by the
disappearance of men
Both the Gnome and
the Goblin think that
the world was created
for their exclusive
service
Nature cannot follow
its course because all
men are dead
The Goblin wishes
some men could come
back to see that the
world goes on in spite
of the disappearance of
the human race.
The Gnome and the
Goblin say that fleas
and porks were made
to exercise men’s
patience.
TRUE
FALSE
x
It’s a Gnome who is
sent and not a Goblin
x
Nature follows its
course and it’s
completely indifferent
to Men’s
disappearance
It’s the Gnome who
wishes this.
x
x
X
X
The Goblin says this
but he mentions gnats
and fleas
Choose the best title for each paragraph of the dialogue:
a) Men were the cause of their own disappearance
b) The Gnome and the Goblin make fun of men’s arrogance
c) Life goes on even without men
d) Men are troublemakers
Work on a painting
The Hay Wain- John Constable
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Look at the picture and answer:
1) Does this picture look real?
Yes, it does,
2) What is happening in the picture?
A chart carrying hay is crossing a small river. There are two people on them. A dog is looking at the
scene from the bank.
Focus your attention on colours, light and lines.
1) Are lines well defined?
No, they aren’t.
2) What is the prevailing element of this picture?
The prevailing element s nature with trees, meadows, water and the clouds in the sky.
3) Which side does the light in the picture seem to be coming from? Why? (Note the shadow)
The light comes from the left.
4) Where does light come from?
It comes from the Sun but it cannot be seen
5) What time of the day do you think it is in the painting? Motivate your answer.
In the afternoon because of the position of shadows and the intensity of light.
6) Are there more cool or warm colours? Why?
Cool and warm colours are well balanced because they are the real colours of Nature
7) Are the colours used dark or bright?
They are bright.
Look at the title:
1) Does the title clearly refer the scene painted by Constable?Yes, it does. Actually, it seems that the
chart is not the most important element and the real “protagonist” of the painting. It is only the
pretext used by the painter to represent a country landscape, a scene or rural life.
Use these key words to write sentences about romanticism
and the dialogue BetWeen the gnoMe and the goBlin
NATURE
THE GOBLIN
INDIFFERENCE
MEN
THE GNOME
PESSSIMIS
DISAPPEARANC
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RASCALS
THE
MOON
TIME
THE SUN
Examples:
1) Men have disappeared but time goes on as if nothing had happened.
2) The Sun rises and sets even if men are dead.
3) Time is no longer scheduled by calendars and this is advantageous.
4) The disappearance of men has aroused in Nature a feeling of complete indifference.
5) The Goblin and the Gnome say men are rascals because they destroyed one another.
6) The Moon still appears in the sky and lights the darkness of night.
7) We can infer a feeling of pessimism from the Gnome and the Goblin’s words.
Write a poem which sounds romantic to you.
A rainbow crosses the sky
The little girl smells a rose
Its delicate petals with drops.
Her eyes are full of love
She does not know why.
She is speechless
But Nature fills her heart.
Focus your attention on the general features of romanticism you were
already familiar with and the way they are used by Leopardi in the
DIALOGUE bEtwEEn A GnOmE AnD A GObLIn
I ALREADY KNEW
In the Romantic period Nature is a source of
feelings for men, a refuge from social life
Men and his emotions are the focus of poetry
Romantic poetry often conveys feelings of
melancholy, of regret for something that no
longer exists
Men become bad in contact with society but
they are good by nature
Romantics often regret the past
Man is the pivot of poetry
I HAVE ACQUIRED
Nature is completely indifferent to men
Life without Men on Earth is better
The tone is ironical here. The two protagonists
don’t think life was better before the
disappearance of Men
Men have disappeared because they have
destroyed one another in different ways
The Gnome and the Goblin think the present is
much better than the past
Men are rascals
Dialogue between a gnome anD a goblin
Before you read.
Activity n.1.BRAINSTORMING
What comes to your mind if you think about the word “extinction”?
EXTINCTION
What comes to your mind if you think about the word “war”?
WAR
Read the passage.
Activity n.1
The Earthis threatened by a lot of dangers.Mention some related to the environment.
Activity n.2.
Divide the dialogue into paragraphs and give a title to each of them.
Activity n.3
In the dialogue the gnome and the goblin are disappointed and pessimistic about the world. What
are the main reasons why the youth can feel pessimistic or disappointed nowadays?
Activity n.4.
What is the attitude of Nature towards Man in this dialogue? Choose the adjectives that best define
it and circle them.
helpful careless indifferent worried
comprehensive annoyed understanding maternal
Activity n.5
Very often in English you use prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning of words. Find examples
in the dialogue and write them down together with their base form.
Activity n.6.
In the dialogue there are a lot of irregular verbs. Write ten of them together with their infinitive and
past participle.
Infinitive past simple past participle
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
ACTIVITY OF TUNING, FINDING OUT AND SORTING OUT
THE SECOND GROUP
INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITY OF LITERATURE
BUILD A GAME OF GIACOMO LEOPARDI TO LEARN MORE
ABOUT HIS GREAT PERSONALITY
PUZZLE N. 1 :
3; 8; 7
(initials)
THE
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(THE SOLITARY SPARROW)
PUZZLE N. 2
: 3; 8; 2; 7
THE
OF
(THE SATURDAY OF VILLAGE)
PUZZLE N. 3:
8
RESOLVE THE PUZZLE IN ITALIAN AND TRANSLATE IN ENGLISH
CA
(RECANATI)
PUZZLE N: 4
8; 6
RESOLVE THE PUZZLE IN ITALIAN AND TRANSLATE IN ENGLISH
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(OPERETTE MORALI)
TWISTED WORDS
Delete all the names listed in the chart written in across, down.
The remaining letters give the title of a poem written by Giacomo
Leopardi (do not count the last two letters).
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2 Who is the greatest italian poet of the nineteenth century?
3 What is the state of mind that accompanied Giacomo Leopardi in his lifetime?
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4 Where did Giacomo Leopardi die?
5 Who was the first tutor of Giacomo Leopardi?
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1 What is the name of the journal and philosophical apparatus notes of Giacomo Leopardi?
2 Which ancient language Giacomo Leopardi knew better than anyone else?
3 Resolve the puzzle number 3 (italian language)
4 What was the first poem of the Idylls?
5 Disease which struck Giacomo Leopardi?
6 What current has joined Giacomo Leopardi?
7 What pessimism is the one described in the first part of “Zibaldone”?
8 Resolve the puzzle number 4 (resolve in italian and traslate in English)
9 In what month was Giacomo Leopardi born?
10 What is the main theme of the poem “Infinite”?
11 Resolve the table “twisted words”
12 In his youth, what movement had Giacomo Leopardi supported?
13 Resolve the puzzle number 1
TWISTED WORDS
Delete all the names listed in the chart written in across, down.
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2 Who is the greatest italian poet of the nineteenth century?
3 What is the state of mind that accompanied Giacomo Leopardi in his lifetime?
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1 What is the name of the journal and philosophical apparatus notes of Giacomo Leopardi?
2 Which ancient language Giacomo Leopardi knew better than anyone else?
3 Resolve the puzzle number 3 (italian language)
4 What was the first poem of the Idylls?
5 Disease which struck Giacomo Leopardi?
6 What current has joined Giacomo Leopardi?
7 What pessimism is the one described in the first part of “Zibaldone”?
8 Resolve the puzzle number 4 (resolve in italian and traslate in English)
9 In what month was Giacomo Leopardi born?
10 What is the main theme of the poem “Infinite”?
11 Resolve the table “twisted words”
12 In his youth, what movement had Giacomo Leopardi supported?
13 Resolve the puzzle number 1
The Romanticism
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EXOTICISM-GENIUS-ELSEWHERE-MADNESS-TITANISMUNDEFINED
1)In another time, temporal exoticism
2)The poet, in this time, is considered a genius
3)The space was considered undefined
4)Period when the romantic poet is considered a “big man”:
titanism
Write down a sentence that explains the characteristics of each
movement.
ROMANTICISM
A lot of subjectivism, tension towards the infinite, tragic vision
of the
life, attention for the history,...
Friedrich “The walker in front of the sea of fog”
NATURALISM
The reality and the human psychology can be treated in the
literature, with the same rigorousness of the scientific
metode,…
Rousseau “Scenes of Apremont”
DECADENTISM
No positivistic and materialistic tendencies, no conformist
attitudes,
seer poet, who sees and hears mysterious and invisible worlds.
That time is considered the exasperation of the Romanticism.
Ramon Casas “Jove Decadent”
THE MAGIC OF THE ROMANTIC
POETRY
The Romanticism is the art of presenting to the people literary works that procures
them the greatest possible pleasure.
The Romanticism is a flame that burns in a piece of ice , and that flame warms the
hearts and minds of the people who read the poems.
The Romanticism can make beautiful emotions, it excites you, and in this feel it melts
the ice in you, turning it into steam.
This steam envelops your mind, making you fully immerse into the world that poetry
creates around you.
“This is the magic of romantic poetry”
INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENT
OF ITALIAN LITERATURE
HAVE FUN TO DISCOVER HIDDEN THEMES
IN THE OPERETTA NORALE:
“DIALOG OF A GOBLIN AND A GNOME”
OF GIACOMO LEOPARDI
DIALOGUE OF A GOBLIN AND A GNOME
Read the summary of the dialogue and choose among the keywords listed ones
you feel will best and enter them in the map
The meeting of the goblin and the gnome
The goblin, wonder spirit of the air, and the gnome, tiny being who lives underground, meet.
The gnome said he was net by his father to understand what has happened to the human race.
It suspects that the mankind has disapperaed because it do not happen harm in the world.
The incredulous goblin suspects they are all dead, and also he suspects the race is extincted.
The doubts about the future without the man
The two beings reflect on the aftermaths that might happen if the human race were extinct.
They are sure in the world there would be no more wars, kingdoms to conquer or conquered. And
there would be no more the passage of time and the calendars, too
Even luck while noting the facts would not intervene more.
The stupidity of the man
The goblin and the gnome continue the dialog listing the motivations of the extinction of man.
The human race has destroyed itself with the wars and the suicides, with the idleness, squeezing the
brains on the books and finally meditating all possible strategies of life also against nature.
In the past some speciesIn the past some species became extinct but not their with will (for
example the dinosaurs for a meteorite); instead, the human race has come to destruction for his
stupidity.
The human presumption
The dialogue continues to be ironic about the mad presumption of the man that believes to be the
center of the universe and the purpose of creation.
What would the stupid men think if they will be awakened and they will saw in fact the human race
is not the center of the universe and the nature perpetuates the cycle inexorably?
The man would understand not all things in the world were created for his service, almost enslaving
everything with selfishness, without realizing the imminent revolt of the nature.
The absurd claim of the man
Both says the man believs to be the centre of the Universe:
"The earth does not feel I will needless to her."
The nature perpetuates her cycle inexorably (the rivers are the same, the stars and the planets born
and set, the sea do not dries up and the Sun shines equally).
The dialogue ends mocking the vanity of the man.
The goblin and the gnome are ironic about the men who consider the nature and everything that is
done especially for the exclusive use of their spiece.
KEY WORDS
1. The perdition
11. The rabble
2. The presuption
12. The death
3. The centrality of the man in the Universe
13. The arrogance
4. The good of man kind
14. The moon
5. The failure to comply of man for nature
15. Extinct animals
6. The human eccentricity on other species
16. The woman
7. The selfish
17. The peace
8. The cockiness of the mankind
18. The human limit
9. The awakening: the awareness of being nothing
19. The unhappiness
10. The happiness
20. The stupidity
BRAIN STORMING
The centrality of
the man in
the Universe
Moon
Presumption
Selfish
Arrogance
The cockiness of
the mankind
Human limit
Unhappiness
Human eccentricity
THE HUMAN
ABSURDITY
Death
The awakening: the
awareness
of being nothing
Rabble
Extinct animals
Perdition
Stupidity
The failure to
comply
of the man for
nature
DO YOU REMEMBER ?
Now, without looking at the text, answer the following questions with true or false.
Finished answering, check in the text your questions and write "RIGHT" if you
answered correctly or "WRONG" if you gave a wrong answer.
I check my answers
I think
it is true
The man thinks he is not the center of the
Universe
The goblin is a wondering spirit of the air
Io think
it is false
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The gnome suspects the mankind is hidden
under the ground
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The mankind became extinct because of a
meteorite
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The nature interrupted his course after the
extinction of mankind
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The humankind believed that the whole word
was made and maintained only for him
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The mankind respected the nature
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RIGHT
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The gnome and the goblin were sorry for the
extinction of the humankind
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If the mankind were awake, it would not be
surprised
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RIGHT
The humankind thinks the stars and the planets
bright the sky to illuminate their homes
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The dialogue end mooking the eccentric
thinking of the humankind.
Leopardi express his pessimism to the ignorance
of the humankind
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RIGHT
GIVE A TITLE TO EACH PARAGRAPH
Assign to each paragraph the title you deem suitable:
5)THE PRESUMPTION OF MANKIND
6)THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE FUTURE
7)THE STUPIDITY OF MANKIND
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THE STUPIDITY OF THE MANKIND
The man arrives at his extinction with wars, suicides, with the idleness, with the ignorance,
squeezing the brains on the books and pondering always new strategies even in no compliance for the nature
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THE PRESUPTION OF THE MANKIND
The man believes to be the center of the Universe, he thinks the nature maintains hs cycle
only for his presence on the Heart
3 THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE FUTURE
The two beings reflect on how the world could be without the minkind: there would be no
wars, kingdoms to conquer, insults to the nature,...
MEDITATION ON THE THOUGHT OF
GIACOMO LEOPARDI
Write what you thought before and after reading this dialogue
What I thought before knowing the
dialogue of Giacomo Leopardi?
What I learnt after analyzing the
dialogue of Giacomo Leopardi?
I believed the presence of man on Earth was
almost essential
I understood the man is nothing compared to the
power of nature
I thought the human race could with his study I understood the man is a victim of his arrogance
uncover many secrets of nature
and fragility
Man lives on Earth, and often acts like he'd
The man is presumptuous, constantly challenges
never need any other animal or plant species,
the nature and the effects are there for all to see
believes that everything is created for his desire
The man with the use of force thinks he has no
rivals
Every day we see the man with his strength
produces only wars, gozzovigli, death and
misery.
ANALISE A PAINTING
Title: “Salisbury Cathedral”
Author: “Constable”
General impressions:
8)Do the things in this painting look real?
-Yes, they do.
9)What does it look like has happened to everything in the painting?
-It seems there was a heavy storm.
Look at colour, light and lines:
•Are there more straight lines or curved lines?
-There are more curved lines.
•Are there more living or non-livin subjects in the painting?
-In my opinion, they are equivalent.
•From which direction does the light in the peinture seem to be coming?
-It arrives from the left, on the top.
•What do you think is causing the light?
-The cause is the sun, obscured by clouds.
•What time of the day do you think it is supposed to be in the painting?
-In the afternoon.
•Are there more cool colours or warm colours? Why?
-There are more cool colours.
•Are the colours dark or bright?
-They are dark.
•Which objects are in the foreground, the middle ground and the backgrond?
-In the backgruond there is a small city, surronded by some trees and on the left
there's a Gothic Cathedral; in the middle ground, there is a big tree arounded by
some bushes, and also there's a farmer in a carriage who is crossing a brook; at
last, there is an old and destroyed fence that is surronded by some weed.
The title of the painting:
•What's the meaning of the title?
-The title represents the Salisbury Cathedral.
•In your opinion, why are there so many clouds? What they represent?
-Im my opinion, there are so many clouds because the painter wanted to
represent a landscape with the presence of bad weather, so it cause concern and
anxiety, making the whole thing look even more grim and gloomy, thanks to
the large shadow that they do
OTHER EXERCISES
THE ROMANTICISM, THE ELF AND GNOME
1) ROMANTIC POETRY: by Shelley
Tempo
Mare insondabile! le cui onde sono anni,
Oceano del tempo, le cui acque di profonda pena
sono salmastre per il sale delle lacrime degli umani.
Tu diluvio inarginabile, che nel tuo flusso e riflusso
cingi i limiti di ciò che è mortale,
e nauseato di prede, eppure gridi per una ancora,
e vomiti i tuoi relitti sulla sponda inospitale,
infido nella bonaccia, e terribile nella tempesta,
chi metterà gemme su di te,
mare insondabile?
Time
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality,
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
Who shall put forth on thee,
Unfathomable Sea?
2) WORDS RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:
pollution, atomic bombs, war, harmful gases, waste, recycling
3) ACTUALIZE A THEME OPERETTA:disappearance of the human race: the human race
today is "lowering" Now why do not you think only the most essential things but
often those most useless.
4) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT ROMANTICISM:
- Who are the most important writers of romanticism?
The most important writers of romanticism are Leopardi, Hugo, Foscolo; Berchet,
Shelley.
- What is the cosmic pessimism?
The cosmic pessimism is when all the time in life the man is unhappy.
- What is the century of romanticism?
The century of romanticism is about 1830 although it was born much earlier.
5) CROSSWORD:
Words:
Cosmic pessimism
Storic pessimism
Sentimentality
Pain
“A Silvia”
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STORICPESSIMISMHTTPIOYIII
COSMICPESSIMISMGYUIIGJHV
JIGYSENTIMENTALITYYYYUIREI
PAINFETYJHJVHRJGHKRHGHUKI
CASPAR: TRAVELLER IN A SEA OF FOG
this picture shows the theme of infinity because the protagonist is looking towards
the horizon that is not well defined and therefore I express this emotion of undefined
and the same time infinite.
TURNER: SHIPWRECK
This framework expresses to me terror because an issue of romance is own the
nightmare of fear and then this framework seems to me significant.
CLOUDS: CONSTABLE
this work expresses indefiniteness because if I look at the sky I think there may be a
life beyond the earthly and this creates in me the hope of a better life, of an
elsewhere that is really a romantic theme.
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:
1. Giacomo Leopardi was a ……………..
2. ............ Is a theme of romance
3. Giacomo Leopardi wrote the operetta "…………………….”
4. ………… was a painter of the romanticism
5. WORDS: writer of romance; infinity; the dialog of a goblin and an elf; Turner.
WITH KEYWORDS,WRITE TITLE FOR EACH PARAGRAPH:
THE RACE IS LOST - THE WORLD WILL GO AHEAD WITHOUT EVEN WITHOUT
MEN - THERE IS A COMPARISON WITH VIRGIL
1. ................. the goblin and gnome understand that men are all dead, and that the
race is lost. Then they wonder how the world will go on.
2. ................... the goblin and gnome wonder how the world without men will be, and
they understand that the world will go on without men because they are not
essential.
3. .................... the goblin and gnome say that if the sun has not stopped shining
when important people died as Virgil or Julius Caesar then it continue to shine if men
have disappeared.
PUT A TICK OR A CROSS WHETHER YOU THINK THE STATEMENTS BELOW ARE TRUE
OR FALSE.
STATEMENT
the goblin and
gnome not meet
but one dreams
of talking to each
other
The goblin and
gnome speak and
discuss how the
man
has
disappeared and
how the loss will
affect the world.
luck is not named
in 'operetta
Celebrities
are
not named
the earth will be
conditioned
by
the
disappearance of
man
the goblin and
gnome are not in
favour
of
the
disappearance of
man
I THINK
TRUE
IT’S
I THINK
FALSE
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I CHECKED MY
ANSWERS
SENTENCEOF SUPPORT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE DIALOGUE:
The reference words of dialogue between the goblin and gnome are:
- Men are villains,
- The race is lost,
- You will know most of the new worlds because the newspapers will no longer be
printed,
- Men are dead warring with each other, being in idleness or studying desperately on
the books,
- earth does not care if the men are dead or alive because life goes on the same.
IN EVERY BOX WRITE THE WORD SHOWN THAT CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT
THE ROMANTICISM AND LYING IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN ONE AND ONE FOLLETTO
GNOME.
- The gnome says the father has sent him to look where they are hunted those
scoundrels men because they are afraid that they're plotting something against, but
do not really know that they are all dead and that THE RACE IS LOST.
-the gnome and goblin discuss the PROBLEMS THAT THERE WILL BE NO MEN and
won’t be printed more gazettes.
-THE MEN ARE MISSING because they killed each other or were too long on the
books or have too bummed.
-THE SUN COONIT PLASTER FACE because after all the land does not change
anything because it will continue to do its normal life every day.
- THE LUCKY HAS REMOVED THE BAND FROM ITS EYES that took off the blindfold
and is now watching the world without interfering.
THE MEN ARE
ALL DEAD
WHAT I HAVE ACQUIRED BY CARRYING THIS WORK?
Carrying out this work on the module CLIL, I have gained a deeper study are some
topics of the program such as the romance literature and dialogue between a goblin
and gnome of Giacomo Leopardi, and also I have also learned to invent exercises
regarding these topics.
HOW HAVE YOU LEARNT YOUR KNOWLEDGE PREVIOUSLY?
I have learnt earlier that it only with the study of romantic movements I have
studied operettas moral Leopardi’s.
ANALISE A PAINTING:
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH:
A MAN AND A WOMAN IN CONTEMPLATION TO THE MOON, 1819
GENERAL IMPRESSION:
- Which objects are real and which have changed their appearance?
In my opinion there are real objects because the subject of this picture is a
couple of people who look at the moon and in the foreground there are the
branches of a tree that "framing" the scene.
- Do the things look realin this painting?
In my opinion, this picture is fully real because there are no fantastic objects or
contexts.
- Are there more straight lines or curved lines?
In this picture there are mostly curved lines and in fact I think the picture looks
curved.
- What time of day do you think it is supposed to be in the painting?
The time of day when this picture is set is the late evening because the moon is
high in the sky and then it indicates the evening if not the night.
- What’s the meaning of the title?
The title meaning is that two people are looking at probably love because they
are contemplating.
-CROSSWORDS
Words:
Cosmic pessimism
Storic pessimism
Sentimentality
Pain
“A Silvia”
ASILVIASERIYTOPTIAGORTEI
RETAURSHVBJKDEFNKJVHGK
IOIOITRTRTRTVGVHVHGJVGD
STORICPESSIMISMHTTPIOYIII
COSMICPESSIMISMGYUIIGJHV
JIGYSENTIMENTALITYYYYUIREI
PAINFETYJHJVHRJGHKRHGHUKI
-COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:
Giacomo Leopardi was a writer of romanticism
The infinity is a theme of romanticism
Giacomo Leopardi wrote an operetta:” dialogue of an elf and a gnome”
Turner was a painter of the romanticism.
- WITH KEYWORDS,WRITE TITLE FOR EACH PARAGRAPH:
The race is lost: the goblin and gnome understand that men are all dead, and that
the race is lost. Then they wonder how the world will go on.
The world will go ahead without even without men: the goblin and gnome wonder
how thewill be world without men, and they understand that the world will go on
without men because they are not essential.
There is a comparison with Virgil: the goblin and gnome say that if the sun has not
stopped shining when important people died as Virgil or Julius Caesar then it
continues to shine if men have disappeared
-PUT A TICK OR A CROSS WHETHER YOU THINK THE STATEMENTS BELOW ARE
TRUE OR FALSE.
STATEMENT
the goblin and
gnome don’t meet
but one dreams of
talking to each
other
The goblin and
gnome speak and
discuss how the
man
has
disappeared
and
how the loss will
affect the world.
luck is not named
in 'operetta
Celebrities
are
not named
the earth will be
conditioned by the
disappearance of
man
the goblin and
gnome are not in
favour
of
the
disappearance of
man
I THINK IT’S TRUE
I
THINK
FALSE
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IT’S
I CHECKED MY
ANSWERS
The goblin and
gnome meet
T
T
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T
Luck is named in
operetta
Celebrities
Are
named
for
example Virgil.
The earth won’t
be conditioned by
the disappearance
of man
The goblin and
gnome
are
in
favour
of
the
disappearance of
man.
IN EVERY BOX WRITE THE WORD SHOWN THAT CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT
THE ROMANTICISM AND LYING IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN ONE AND ONE FOLLETTO
GNOME.
- The gnome says the father has sent him to look where they are hunted those
scoundrels men because they are afraid that they're plotting something against, but
theydo not really know that they are all dead and that THE RACE IS LOST.
-the gnome and goblin discuss the ISSUES THAT THERE WILL BE NO MEN as one will
not be printed more gazettes.
-THE MEN ARE MISSING because they killed each other or were too long on the
books or have too bummed.
-THE SUN WON’T PLASTER FACE because after all the land does not change anything
because it will continue to do its normal life every day.
-THE LUCK HAS REMOVED THE BAND FROM THE EYES that took off the blindfold
and is now watching the world without interfering.
ISSUES THAT
THERE WILL
BE NOT MEN
THE RACE IS
LOST
THE MEN ARE
ALL DEAD
THE LUCK HAS
REMOVED THE
BAND FROM THE
EYES
THE SUN
WON’T
PLASTERFACE
ACTIVITY OF TUNING, FINDING OUT AND SORTING OUT
THE THIRD GROUP
SCAFFOLDING (WORDS OF REFERENCE)
All deaths
Lost race
The fortune wakes up
No wars
Years are equal
Do not expect the death
Do not keep in mind
The years, the month and the days
Deaths during
Navigation
Deaths of cannibalism
Suicidal's deaths
Deaths of idleness
Died in wars
Deaths of study
Humankind
Vanished
selfishness
For they alone
Men exploited
Gnomes and animals
THE ROMANTICISM
Francesco Hayez- Il bacio
Il termine "Romanticismo" deriva dall'inglese, che nella metà del XVII secolo indicava quei generi
letterari, come i romanzi cavallereschi, che rappresentavano vicende fantastiche all'interno di
un'ambientazione storica più o meno accurata. Accanto a questo primo significato si sviluppò e alla
fine prevalse nel XVIII secolo quello di "pittoresco", riferito non solo a quanto veniva
artisticamente raffigurato, ma soprattutto al sentimento che ne veniva suscitato.
Non è possibile definire il Romanticismo in senso unico poiché si tratta di un fenomeno complesso
che assume connotazioni diverse a seconda delle nazioni in cui si sviluppa. Nel movimento
romantico non c'è un riferimento preciso a un sistema chiuso di idee che possa compiutamente
definirlo ma esso fa piuttosto riferimento a un "modo di sentire" a cui gli artisti del tempo
adeguarono il loro modo di esprimersi artisticamente, pensare e vivere.
The term "Romanticism" comes from to English, who in the mid-seventeenth century meant those
literary genres such as romances, representing fantastic events in a historic setting more or less
accurate. Next to this first meaning is developed and ultimately prevailed in the eighteenth century
to "picturesque", referring not only to what was artistically portrayed, but especially the feeling that
he was aroused.
You can not define Romanticism in one way because it is a complex phenomenon that has different
attributes depending on the countries in which it develops. In the Romantic movement there is a
precise reference to a closed system of ideas that can fully define it but it does rather on a "way of
feeling" in which artists of the time conformed to the way they express themselves artistically, think
and live.
ANALYSE A PAINTING
“Viaggiatore in un mare di nebbia”
Caspar David Friedrich
Olio su tela
Questions:
1. Do the things in this painting look real?
2. What does it look like has happened to everything in the painting?
3. What’s the meaning of the title?
4. Are there more coldcolours or warm colours? Why?
5. Are the colours dark or bright?
ANALYSE A PAINTING
SOLUTIONS
Answers:
1. The painting represents a man with his back turned to the viewer. He is standing on a cliff, and
looking on the fog from above.
2. The painting is static because there is no action, in fact it depicts a moment of meditation.
3. The title “Viaggiatore in un mare di nebbia” (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog) describes a state of
mind of the man in the picture: looking down at the fog he feels like a traveler in the middle of a
sea of fog. This sea of fog could represent the unknown.
4. The background is dominated by cold colours, mostly white and light blue; whereas the foreground
where the man is standing, is dominated by a warm brown for the cliff. The man himself is wearing
a very dark green suit. a cold colour but contrasting with the white background.
5. The painting portrays a clear contrast between dark and light colours: the cold colourof the dark suit
contrasts with the light background, as does the dark brown colour of the cliff.
Soluzioni
Complete with the missing words.
HISTORICAL - 18th - LYRIC - GERMANY - FEELING - LEOPARDI - COSMIC - HISTORICAL MANZONI - FOSCOLO
10)The Romanticism develops in the 18th century.
11)The Romanticism was born in Germany.
12)Leopardi , Manzoni and Foscolo are the most important authors of romantic literature.
13)Historical pessimism: nature is conceived of a kindly mother. Unhappiness is determined by the
man himself.
14)Cosmic pessimism: Leopardi realizes that even nature not only affects the man himself.
15)The important values in the modern consciousness are the fantasy, the feeling and the emotions.
16)Literary genres privileged are two: the lyric poetry and historical novel.
Soluzioni
Do questions and answers on the romantic literature.
•When does the Romanticism develops?
The Romance develops in the 18th century.
•Where was Romanticism born?
The Romance was born in Germany.
•Who are the most important authors romantic literature?
The most important authors are: Leopardi, Foscolo and Manzoni.
•What is Leopardi’s work based?
Leopardi’s work is based on several ideas grouped into a single work, “The Zibaldone”.
•What historical and cosmic pessimism do?
Historical pessimism: nature is conceived of a kindly mother. Unhappiness is determined by the
man himself.
Cosmic pessimism: Leopardi realizes that even nature not only affects the man himself.
•What are the important values in the modern consciousness?
The important values in the modern consciousness are the fantasy, the feeling and emotions.
•What were the literary genres favored by the Romantic artists?
Literary genres privileged were two: the lyric poetry and the historical novel.
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- Weapon
- Oil
- Cannon
- Smoke
- Lachrynatory
- Refusals
- Smog
- Acid
- Deforestation
- Pollution
- Bazooka
DO YOU REMEMBER? (SOLUTION)
Put sign whether you think the statements below are true or false. Read the fact file, check the
wrong answers.
I
I
THINK… THINK…IT'S I CHECKED MY
STATEMENT
IT'S TRUE FALSE
ANSWERS
1. the poet felt estranged.
X
T
2. the poet was fascinated by the negative
X
T
T
the poet was fascinated
by elsewhere.
3. the poet wasn't fascinated by elsewhere
4. in the operetta "dialogo di un folletto e di
x
X
T
uno gnomo": they are waiting for the end of
the world.
5. they think humans are intelligent.
6. they tell about the newspapers.
x
7. the poet was fascinated by society.
x
8. the goblin says, the humans are all alive.
x
T
T
the poet wasn’t
fascinated
by society.
T
the goblin says, the
human
are all die.
x
T
T
the gnome is afraid,
beacause,
if the humans die, the
journals
wont be pubblicated
9. the goblin is indifferent to the weather.
10.the gnome is indifferent to the weather.
x
T they think humans
aren’t intelligent.
x
My sweet poetry
DREAM
ACTIVITY OF SORTING OUT
THE FOURTH GROUP
MY BOOKMARKS
BOOKMARK: I imagined that this elf’s sitting on a tree listening to music that
comes from far and from this reflection I found this sentence:
The music is the most romantic of all the arts, you could almost
say that it alone is romantic, because only the infinite is its theme. HOFFMANN
trivialpursuit
my
game
TRIVIAL GAME ON LEOPARDI
Canti and Operette Morali
1) How many Operette Morali are there altogether? (24)
2) What is the name of the yellow flower that can be found in the title of one of Leopardi’s
poems? (the broom)
3) What is the main theme of “Il sabato del villaggio?” (waiting for the festivity is better than
the festivity itself)
4) What’s the name of the collection L’Infinito is part of? (Idilli)
5) In which month of the year does the poet tell Silvia: “E tu solevi così menare il giorno?”
(May)
6) How does Leopardi define “l’ermo colle” in the poem “L’infinito”? (caro)
7) How are Silvia’s eyes defined in the poem Leopardi wrote to her? (ridenti e fuggitivi)
8) List the titles of four “Operette Morali”.
9) Quote two themes of “Il passero solitario”. (vagueness/indefinite)
10) Are the Operette Morali written in verses or prose? (prose)
11) What is the role played by “Il passero solitario” in the Idilli? (it’s an introduction)
Leopardi’s life.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
Where and when was Leopardi born? (Recanati/1798)
Who were his parents? (Count Monaldo and Adelaide Antici)
What did he start writing in 1819? (The Zibaldone)
What did he write in 1824? (the Operette Morali)
When did he die and how old was he? (in 1837/ he was 39)
Who helps him to leave Recanati? (his friends)
What is the idea that Leopardi has about Nature? (at first it is considered a caring mother
and then a stepmother)
8) What encouraged Leopardi to look for a refuge in his studies? (his mother’s worries about
the family financial situation)
9) Who did Leopardi write a lot of letters to? (Pietro Giordani)
10) Why did Leopardi go to Milan? (he accepted a publishing job)
11) What are the subjects that Leopardi learnt during his years of intense study? (Sanskrit,
Hebrew, Astronomy, French, English, Greek and Latin)
Romanticism.
1) In V. Hugo’s opinion what is the most important feature of modern literature? (the
grotesque)
2) Who wrote the most important Manifesto of Italian Romanticism? (Giovanni Berchet)
3) Who wrote “L’uomo della sabbia”? (Theodor Hoffman)
4) What kind of novels did Balzac and Stendhal write? (realistic novels)
5)
6)
7)
8)
Who is the forerunner of historical novel in Italy? (Alessandro Manzoni).
In which work can the Manifesto of French romanticism be found? (Cromwell by V. Hugo)
Where was “Romanticism” born? (Germany)
What are the most important representatives of Italian Romanticism? (Foscolo, Manzoni,
Leopardi)
9) What does Romanticism give new value to? (fancy, passions, feelings, human emotions)
10) What’s the title of Ugo Foscolo’s epistolary novel? (Le Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
11) What is the most important representative of gothic novel in the U.S.A?
Dialogue between a Goblin and a Gnome.
1) Which insects are mentioned by the Gnome in his dialogue with the goblin? (mosquitoes
and fleas)
2) Who represents Leopardi, the Gnome or the Goblin? (the Goblin)
3) Why have the Men disappeared from the Earth? (wars, mutual destruction, opposition to
Nature, laziness, going beyond human limits)
4) How does Nature react when Man disappears from the Earth? (indifference)
5) Who sends the gnome to try and understand why there are no longer men on the Earth? (his
father)
6) Which subject is the gnome very good at? (Geology)
7) Which are the newspapers mentioned by the goblin and the gnome? (the gazette)
8) In the goblin’s opinion the disappearance of years has got advantages. Which ones? (ageing
is impossible, it is impossible to be worried about the past, death is no longer waited for
with anxiety)
9) Which weather conditions will continue to exist in spite of the disappearance of Man? (heat,
cold, rain, snow and wind)
10) What’s the key word of the work? (indifference)
11) In the goblin’s opinion what does Fortune take off and put on? (he takes off a blindfold and
puts on a pair of glasses)
English
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
What’s the English for the word “passero”? (EAGLE, ROBIN, CROW)
What is the English for “folletto”? (GOBLIN)
What is the grammar tense mentioned by Leopardi in one of his poems? INFINITIVE)
What is the English for “Giacomo”? (JAMES)
What are the two colours mentioned in the title of Flaubert’s masterpiece? (Red and Black)
How would you say “Leopardi è morto nel 1837? Leopardi has died/died/is dead? (DIED)
What was Leopardi’s father like? (he was very strict)
Do you remember the name of three Italian cities that Leopardi visited? (Rome, Florence,
Milan, Naples, Pisa, Bologna)
9. Use the letters of the word RECANATI to form 3 more English words (it, eat, tea, care, nice,
…)
10. Why can’t you visit Leopardi’s home on 1st January? (Because it’s closed)
11. Was Leopardi an only child? (No, he had brothers and sisters)
Curiosities
1) Which sign of the Zodiac was Giacomo Leopardi born under? (Cancer)
2) Leopardi was born nine years after an important historical event. Which one? (The French
Revolution)
3) Which province does Recanati belong to? (Macerata)
4) Where was Leopardi buried? (Naples)
5) After Leopardi’s death, his body ran the risk of being thrown into a grave with many others.
Why? (because in Naples there was the plague and this is what the Law established)
6) Does palazzo Leopardi still exist in Recanati? (Yes, Leopardi’s descendants live in it)
7) What was the tower of “Il passero solitario” beheaded by? (a lightning)
8) An Italian singer composer mentions Leopardi in one of his songs whose title is “Canzone
per Piero”. Who is it? (Francesco Guccini)
9) How much is the ticket to enter Leopardi’s house in Recanati? (5 euros)
10) How many books are there in Leopardi’s library approximately? (about 20,000)
11) Which of these two portraits represents Leopardi? (both)
HOW TO PLAY TRIVIAL PURSUIT
Each player or team of players has a playing piece which has room to fit six pieces of pie in it. The
aim of the game is to “win” the six pieces by answering questions about different topics that in this
case are:
1) Canti and Operette Morali(ORANGE)
2) Leopardi’s Life(PINK)
3) Romanticism(YELLOW)
4) Dialogue between Goblin and Gnome(BLUE)
5) English(GREEN)
6) Curiosities(BROWN)
Each topic corresponds to a different colour.
Players begin in the middle of the board and they can decide to take one of the different paths out of
the centre of the board. Each path leads to a space marked with a specific colour.
The player rolls the die and moves the playing piece a number of spaces according to the number
rolled. The player lands on a space and has to answer a question which is related to the colour of the
space. If the answer is correct the player goes on playing, if it’s not his turn is over. Order of play
passes in a clockwise rotation. To get a “piece” a player has to land on the colour piece he needs
which is placed at the end of each “spoke” on the outer rim. When the payer has got the six “pieces”,
one for each colour,he has to reach the middle of the board again to win.
Traduzione
Come giocare a TrivialPursuit.
Ogni giocatore o squadra ha un segnalino che ha sei “spicchi”. Lo scopo del gioco è vincere i sei
spicchi rispondendo a domande su argomenti diversi che sono:
1) Canti e Operette morali (ARANCIONE)
2) Vita di Leopardi (ROSA)
3) Romanticismo (GIALLO)
4) Dialogo tra un folletto e uno gnomo (BLU)
5) Inglese (VERDE)
6) Curiosità (MARRONE)
Ogni argomento corrisponde ad un argomento diverso.
I giocatori iniziano dal centro del tabellone e possono scegliere di seguire il percorso che vogliono.
Ogni percorso porta ad uno spazio contrassegnato da un colore diverso.
Il giocatore lancia il dado e muove il segnalino di tanti spazi a seconda del numero ottenuto. Il
giocatore arriva su una casella e deve rispondere ad una domanda relativa al colore della casella
stessa. Se la risposta è corretta il giocatore continua a giocare, se non lo è passa il turno ad un
avversario. Il gioco segue un senso orario. Per vincere lo spicchio il giocatore deve arrivare sulla
casella del colore che gli serve posizionata alla fine di ogni “raggio” sul perimetro esterno. Quando
il giocatore ha i sei spicchi, uno per ogni colore, deve nuovamente raggiungere il centro del
tabellone per poter vincere.
THE STUDENTS CLOSE THEIR EYES AND IMAGINE A
ROMANTIC NAME OR ADJECTIVE AND AFTER THEY
DRAW IT
CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR A SECOND AND IMAGINE AN "OBJECT" ROMANTIC
AND DRAW IT: When I think of romanticism I can think of a person who
writes and then I thought of putting image as a feather to write as they
used once.
Si presenterà, per il giorno 10 marzo 2015, un video
musicato di animazione teatrale sul Dialogo di Leopardi
(attività di sorting out).