Medieval-Renaissance Italian Literature and Culture

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course helps you to understand and interpret the most important works of medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, as well as painting, sculpture, architecture, and music, in their historical, social, and cultural context. We will analyze key texts from Cavalcanti, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Poliziano, and Ariosto, among others, and learn to appreciate key works of art and architecture by Duccio, Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Masaccio, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, among others. The course is taught in Italian, and also aims to help you speak, understand, and write Italian with more confidence, accuracy, and ease. Counts as a Lit-Culture course; required for majors and supplementary majors in the Lit Culture concentration; this course or ROIT 30721 required for majors in the Italian Studies concentration. Cross-listed with MI 30577.