For the 2024-2025 academic year, the curriculum requires mandatory attendance in at least three courses at the Scuola Normale, with successful completion of the corresponding exams (see below). Additionally, students may choose to participate in the training initiatives organized by the other partner institutions on a voluntary basis.

In particular, the following activities are planned:


Students enrolled in the PhD programme are required to attend at least three courses, successfully pass the corresponding examinations, and complete a minimum of 150 hours of training activities:

Filologia romanza e italiana – Translating the Classics
Lino Leonardi

Letteratura italiana – The Lyrical Macrotext in the Neoclassical Age
Stefano Carrai

Letteratura italiana del Rinascimento – Italian Pastoral. Cultural Codes and Literary Genres : Poetic Representations of Arcadia between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Andrea Torre

Linguistica Generale – Neurolinguistics
Andrea Carlo Moro

Storia della lingua italiana – The Sense of Form in Petrarch’s Canzoniere: Metrics and Text Orchestration
Arnaldo Soldani