Filologia e attualizzazione: interpretare i testi e comprendere la Storia.

Which contribution to the students’ understanding of reality can result from the work on a literary text? Which is the way to offer students a key to unlock the art of understanding? Training students to recognize the dangerous seed of the rhetoric and to unveil its deceptive wordiness by means of a pointed look and a thorough analysis – this is what a teaching founded on the critical approach can aim at. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]