For the 2024-2025 academic year, the curriculum requires mandatory attendance in at least two 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 per year, successfully pass the corresponding examinations, and complete a minimum of 150 hours of training activities:

Dante’s troubadours

Lino Leonardi

Melodrama / Realism: two conflicting approaches in literature, painting, theater, cinema, and music (from Euripides to TV series)
Massimo Fusillo

Variations on the Myth II. Variations on the Myth of Adonis
Andrea Torre

History of Italian Language – Language and technique in early Montale: from Ossi to Occasioni
Arnaldo Soldani