Great Italian Works in English Translation

3 credits · Undergraduate

Italian literature and culture from the Middle Ages to modernity. Founding of the Italian language through the "three crowns" of fourteenth-century Tuscany: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Italian Renaissance and its European-wide repercussions disseminating humanist and historicist traditions. Risorgimento and nationhood. Michelangelo, Leonardo, Ariosto, Tasso, Vico, Leopardi, Calvino, Morante, Pasolini. [3] (INT)