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Italian Literature from Dante to the Age of Scientific Revolutions Spring Semester 2009 prof. Carlo Zei ( [email protected] )
Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to some of the most significant texts in Western civilization. The course spans from the Middle Ages to the age of Enlightment. Dante stands as the last great voice of Medieval Italy. While reading about Dante's adventurous journey through Inferno students will gain a perspective on the political, literary, philosophical, and theological dimensions of the concept of love in medieval European culture. Petrarch, torn between earthly love (for his beloved Laura) and divine love (for God) leaves his inner conflict unresolved, as a precursor to the "modern man." Boccaccio links the medieval world to the age of Humanism. The reading the Decameron allows students to understand the literary traditions, which the text absorbs and manipulates, and the rapidly evolving intellectual debates in which Boccaccio engages, while extending and connecting the themes of divine and earthly love to those of “beffa”, satyre, anticlericalism, and misogyny. Then, through the reading of some Italian “quattrocento” writers, students will be introduced to the age of Humanism and Renaissance. Through the reading of Machiavelli’s Prince we will confront with a new idea of society as analyzed in the works of both the most controversial and the most widely read author of the Renaissance. From there we will move to define Baroque culture and poetry and finally we will briefly outline the age of scientific revolutions and the prominent figure of Galileo Galilei. Class Meeting Time: Class meetings will take place twice a week and each course meeting will last one and a half hours. monday 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM , wednesday 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM. Prerequisites: None Required Language of Instruction: English Required Readings: A)
Dante Alighieri - Inferno (Hell) (Any translation is OK. The following two are recommended: Robin Kirkpatrick, London, Penguin Classics 2002; Mark Musa - The Indiana Critical Edition, Indiana U.P. Bloogminton 1995).
B)
The Italian Renaissance Reader, Julia Conaway and Marc Musa eds. Meridian, 1987.
C)
Course Pack (distributed in Adobe PDF electronic format): 01 - History of Italy in a Nutshell. 02 - Outline of Medieval Florence History. 03 - The "riddle" from Verona. 04 - Andrea Capellano's Rules of Courtly Love. 05 - A selection of medieval lyric poems. 06 - Essay by Maria Luisa Ardizzone on Guido Guinizzelli and the Sweet New Style. 07 - Guido Guinizzelli - Al cor gentil 08 - Chronology of Dante Alighieri's life 09 - Dante Alighieri, The New Life (excerpts) 10 - Translating Dante's Inferno, some examples of the incipit 11 - Table: The Structure of Dante’s Inferno 12 - Decameron Day 5 Nov. 9: Federigo degli Alberighi 13 - Decameron Day 6 Nov. 9: Guido Cavalcanti 14 - John Freccero, The Fig Tree and the Laurel: Petrarch’s Poetics 15 - Poetic Forms in Petrarch 16 - Boetius, selections from The Consolation of Philosophy 17 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori 18 - Ludovico Ariosto, excerpts from Orlando Furioso 19 - Galileo Galilei, excerpt from The Assayer (Il saggiatore).
Recommended Readings: Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova, trans. Mark Musa (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992 and later reprints) Francis Petrarch, Selections from The Canzoniere and Other Works, trans. Mark Musa (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985 and later reprints) The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Peter Brand & Lino Pertile edts. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1999 and later reprints) pp. 1- 129. On-line resources: www.danteonline.it (Dante) http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu (Dante) http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu (Dante) www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ (Boccaccio) http://petrarch.freeservers.com/ (Petrarch) www.humanistictexts.org/ (Humanism) http://galileo.rice.edu/chron/galileo.html (Galileo) Form of Assessment: Reading, class participation, and written work are all required of students. Your grade will be calculated to reflect your class participation and your attendance. Class Participation+Attendance
33%
Midterm Exam
33%
Final Exam
33%
Calendar: Class
Topic
Week 1: Jan 19
Introduction
Week 1: Jan 21
Course Pack: Florence in the Middle- 01 - History of Italy in a Nutshell. ages: a historical profile. 02 - Outline of Medieval Florence History. Course Pack:
Week 2: Jan 26
Literature in Europe in the Middle-ages. Week 2: Jan 28
Early Italian Poetry
Week 3: Feb 2 Guido Guinizzelli and the "Sweet New Style" Week 3: Feb 4 Dante Alighieri's New Life Week 4: Feb 9
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Week 4: Feb 11
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Readings rquired for the day
03 - The "riddle" from Verona. 04 - Andrea Capellano's Rules of Courtly Love. Course Pack: 05 - A selection of medieval lyric poems. Course Pack: 06 - Essay by Maria Luisa Ardizzone on Guido Guinizzelli and the "Sweet New Style". 07 - Guido Guinizzelli - Al cor gentil Course Pack: 08 - Chronology of Dante Alighieri's life 09 - Dante Alighieri, New Life (excerpts) Movie Screening! Sean Meredith - Dante's Inferno (2007) Course Pack: 10 - Translating Dante's Inferno, some examples of the incipit 11 - Table: The Structure of Dante’s Inferno. Inferno: Cantos I-IV
Week 5: Feb 16 Week 5: Feb 18
Week 6: Feb 23 Week 6: Feb 25
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Inferno: Canto V
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Documentary screening: Edmund Iannucci Vulcan's Net: Passion and Punishment - Inferno V (1987)
Dante Alighieri's Comedy Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Inferno: Cantos IX-XV Field Trip to the Battistero
Week 7: Mar 2 Week 7: Mar 4
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Inferno: Cantos XXV-XXXIV
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Documentary screening: Admund Iannucci Dante's Ulysses and the Homeric Tradition - Inferno XXVI (1987)
Week 8: Mar 9
Mid-term Review Session
Week 8: Mar 11
Mid-term Exam
Week 9: Mar 16 Week 9: Mar 18
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 62-79
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 79-99
Week 10: Mar 23
Spring Break
Week 10: Mar 25
Spring Break
Week 11: Mar 30
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 99-132 The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 132-161.
Week 11: Apr 1
Week 12: Apr 6
Boccaccio's Decameron
Petrarch's Canzoniere
Course pack: 12 - Decameron Day 5, novel 9: Federigo degli Alberighi. 13 - Decameron Day, 6 novel 9: Guido Cavalcanti. The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 1-20. Course pack: 14 - John Freccero, The Fig Tree and the Laurel: Petrarch’s Poetics 15 - Poetic Forms in Petrarch The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 22-54.
Week 12: Apr 8
Petrarch's Canzoniere
Week 13: Apr 13
Easter Monday
Week 13: Apr 15
Humanism and the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 164-194.
Week 14: Apr 20
Some key terms of Renaissance Culture
Course pack: 16 - Boetius, selections from The Consolation of Philosophy
Week 14: Apr 22
Machiavelli's Prince
Week 15: Apr 27
Machiavelli's Prince
Week 15: Apr 29
Week 16: May 4
Course pack: 17 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 260-293
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 197-251 Baldassarre Castiglione; Course pack: Ludovico Ariosto 18 - Ludovico Ariosto, excerpts from Orlando Furioso Course pack: Galileo Galilei 19 - Galileo Galilei, excerpt from The Assayer (Il saggiatore).
Week 16: May 6
Review Session
Week 17: May 11
Final Exam
Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to some of the most significant texts in Western civilization. The course spans from the Middle Ages to the age of Enlightment. Dante stands as the last great voice of Medieval Italy. While reading about Dante's adventurous journey through Inferno students will gain a perspective on the political, literary, philosophical, and theological dimensions of the concept of love in medieval European culture. Petrarch, torn between earthly love (for his beloved Laura) and divine love (for God) leaves his inner conflict unresolved, as a precursor to the "modern man." Boccaccio links the medieval world to the age of Humanism. The reading the Decameron allows students to understand the literary traditions, which the text absorbs and manipulates, and the rapidly evolving intellectual debates in which Boccaccio engages, while extending and connecting the themes of divine and earthly love to those of “beffa”, satyre, anticlericalism, and misogyny. Then, through the reading of some Italian “quattrocento” writers, students will be introduced to the age of Humanism and Renaissance. Through the reading of Machiavelli’s Prince we will confront with a new idea of society as analyzed in the works of both the most controversial and the most widely read author of the Renaissance. From there we will move to define Baroque culture and poetry and finally we will briefly outline the age of scientific revolutions and the prominent figure of Galileo Galilei. Class Meeting Time: Class meetings will take place twice a week and each course meeting will last one and a half hours. monday 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM , wednesday 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM. Prerequisites: None Required Language of Instruction: English Required Readings: A)
Dante Alighieri - Inferno (Hell) (Any translation is OK. The following two are recommended: Robin Kirkpatrick, London, Penguin Classics 2002; Mark Musa - The Indiana Critical Edition, Indiana U.P. Bloogminton 1995).
B)
The Italian Renaissance Reader, Julia Conaway and Marc Musa eds. Meridian, 1987.
C)
Course Pack (distributed in Adobe PDF electronic format): 01 - History of Italy in a Nutshell. 02 - Outline of Medieval Florence History. 03 - The "riddle" from Verona. 04 - Andrea Capellano's Rules of Courtly Love. 05 - A selection of medieval lyric poems. 06 - Essay by Maria Luisa Ardizzone on Guido Guinizzelli and the Sweet New Style. 07 - Guido Guinizzelli - Al cor gentil 08 - Chronology of Dante Alighieri's life 09 - Dante Alighieri, The New Life (excerpts) 10 - Translating Dante's Inferno, some examples of the incipit 11 - Table: The Structure of Dante’s Inferno 12 - Decameron Day 5 Nov. 9: Federigo degli Alberighi 13 - Decameron Day 6 Nov. 9: Guido Cavalcanti 14 - John Freccero, The Fig Tree and the Laurel: Petrarch’s Poetics 15 - Poetic Forms in Petrarch 16 - Boetius, selections from The Consolation of Philosophy 17 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori 18 - Ludovico Ariosto, excerpts from Orlando Furioso 19 - Galileo Galilei, excerpt from The Assayer (Il saggiatore).
Recommended Readings: Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova, trans. Mark Musa (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992 and later reprints) Francis Petrarch, Selections from The Canzoniere and Other Works, trans. Mark Musa (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985 and later reprints) The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Peter Brand & Lino Pertile edts. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1999 and later reprints) pp. 1- 129. On-line resources: www.danteonline.it (Dante) http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu (Dante) http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu (Dante) www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ (Boccaccio) http://petrarch.freeservers.com/ (Petrarch) www.humanistictexts.org/ (Humanism) http://galileo.rice.edu/chron/galileo.html (Galileo) Form of Assessment: Reading, class participation, and written work are all required of students. Your grade will be calculated to reflect your class participation and your attendance. Class Participation+Attendance
33%
Midterm Exam
33%
Final Exam
33%
Calendar: Class
Topic
Week 1: Jan 19
Introduction
Week 1: Jan 21
Course Pack: Florence in the Middle- 01 - History of Italy in a Nutshell. ages: a historical profile. 02 - Outline of Medieval Florence History. Course Pack:
Week 2: Jan 26
Literature in Europe in the Middle-ages. Week 2: Jan 28
Early Italian Poetry
Week 3: Feb 2 Guido Guinizzelli and the "Sweet New Style" Week 3: Feb 4 Dante Alighieri's New Life Week 4: Feb 9
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Week 4: Feb 11
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Readings rquired for the day
03 - The "riddle" from Verona. 04 - Andrea Capellano's Rules of Courtly Love. Course Pack: 05 - A selection of medieval lyric poems. Course Pack: 06 - Essay by Maria Luisa Ardizzone on Guido Guinizzelli and the "Sweet New Style". 07 - Guido Guinizzelli - Al cor gentil Course Pack: 08 - Chronology of Dante Alighieri's life 09 - Dante Alighieri, New Life (excerpts) Movie Screening! Sean Meredith - Dante's Inferno (2007) Course Pack: 10 - Translating Dante's Inferno, some examples of the incipit 11 - Table: The Structure of Dante’s Inferno. Inferno: Cantos I-IV
Week 5: Feb 16 Week 5: Feb 18
Week 6: Feb 23 Week 6: Feb 25
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Inferno: Canto V
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Documentary screening: Edmund Iannucci Vulcan's Net: Passion and Punishment - Inferno V (1987)
Dante Alighieri's Comedy Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Inferno: Cantos IX-XV Field Trip to the Battistero
Week 7: Mar 2 Week 7: Mar 4
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Inferno: Cantos XXV-XXXIV
Dante Alighieri's Comedy
Documentary screening: Admund Iannucci Dante's Ulysses and the Homeric Tradition - Inferno XXVI (1987)
Week 8: Mar 9
Mid-term Review Session
Week 8: Mar 11
Mid-term Exam
Week 9: Mar 16 Week 9: Mar 18
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 62-79
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 79-99
Week 10: Mar 23
Spring Break
Week 10: Mar 25
Spring Break
Week 11: Mar 30
Boccaccio's Decameron
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 99-132 The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 132-161.
Week 11: Apr 1
Week 12: Apr 6
Boccaccio's Decameron
Petrarch's Canzoniere
Course pack: 12 - Decameron Day 5, novel 9: Federigo degli Alberighi. 13 - Decameron Day, 6 novel 9: Guido Cavalcanti. The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 1-20. Course pack: 14 - John Freccero, The Fig Tree and the Laurel: Petrarch’s Poetics 15 - Poetic Forms in Petrarch The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 22-54.
Week 12: Apr 8
Petrarch's Canzoniere
Week 13: Apr 13
Easter Monday
Week 13: Apr 15
Humanism and the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 164-194.
Week 14: Apr 20
Some key terms of Renaissance Culture
Course pack: 16 - Boetius, selections from The Consolation of Philosophy
Week 14: Apr 22
Machiavelli's Prince
Week 15: Apr 27
Machiavelli's Prince
Week 15: Apr 29
Week 16: May 4
Course pack: 17 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 260-293
The Italian Renaissance Reader: pp. 197-251 Baldassarre Castiglione; Course pack: Ludovico Ariosto 18 - Ludovico Ariosto, excerpts from Orlando Furioso Course pack: Galileo Galilei 19 - Galileo Galilei, excerpt from The Assayer (Il saggiatore).
Week 16: May 6
Review Session
Week 17: May 11
Final Exam
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