Speech Crimes: Satire and the Limits of Expression in Italian History

Harvard FAS

Do not take this class. Stop reading here. Please. If you are still reading, stop now. OK. Good.If you are still reading, it is now your fault. Take this class if: you want to move through seven centuries of Italian history by following three things that repeatedly get people into trouble: laughter, censorship, and non-physical violence. We will be working with materials from Dante through the Renaissance, the Inquisition, Fascism, television, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and memes. Second: you…