ITAL 220 - Italian Civilization: Interpreting the Texts

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

From the origin of the Italian language to the masterpieces of the Renaissance. Selected texts from the “Dolce stil nuovo” and Dante’s Vita nuova; Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Italian Humanism; Boccaccio’s Decameron and the “novella” tradition; Ariosto, and the Italian epic; Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bembo on politics and ideology; Michelangelo, Stampa, Franco on gender in literature. Ms. Antognini.

Prerequisite(s): ITAL 217, ITAL 218 or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.