Love &War Renaiss Italy: Chivalric Romance & Epic

(4 Credits)

Offers the opportunity to study two of the greatest works of Italian literature, Lodovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1532) and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581). Looks at these poems in their historical context and in relation to the rich literary traditions of romance and epic that converge in them. Thematic focuses include the construction of gender and the representation of religious and racial “otherness.”