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ITAL 220 - Italian Civilization: Interpreting the Texts
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: ITAL 217 , ITAL 218 or permission of the instructor.
Not offered in 2014/15.
Two 75-minute periods.
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