ITAL 310
Dante in Translation
Fall 2008
Topics
- Introduction
- Vita Nuova
- Inferno I, II, III, IV
- Inferno V, VI, VII
- Inferno IX, X, XI
- Inferno XII, XIII, XV, XVI
- Inferno XIX, XXI, XXV, XXVI
- Inferno XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII
- Inferno XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV
- Purgatory I, II
- Purgatory V, VI, IX, X
- Purgatory X, XI, XII, XVI, XVII
- Purgatory XIX, XXI, XXII
- Midterm Exam
- Purgatory XXIV, XXV, XXVI
- Purgatory XXX, XXXI, XXXIII
- Paradise I, II
- Paradise IV, VI, X
- Paradise XI, XII
- Paradise XV, XVI, XVII
- Paradise XVIII, XIX, XXI, XXI
- Paradise XXIV, XXV, XXVI
- Paradise XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX
- Paradise XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII
- General Review
- Final Exam
Readings
- Primary Texts:
- Dante. Divine Comedy . Translated by John D. Sinclair. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
- Dante. Vita Nuova . Translated by Mark Musa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
- Secondary Sources:
- Auerbach, Erich. Dante, Poet of the Secular World . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
- Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante's Poets . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
- Boyde, Patrick. Dante, Philomythes and Philosopher . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- Brandeis, Irma. The Ladder of Vision . Garden City: Doubleday, 1962.
- Cachey, Theodore, ed. Dante Now . Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
- Davis, Charles T. Dante and the Idea of Rome . Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1957.
- Freccero, John. Poetics of Conversion . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
- Gilson, Etienne. Dante the Philosopher . New York: Sheed & Ward, 1949.
- Harrison, Robert. The Body of Beatrice . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
- Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante, Poet of the Desert . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
- Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
- Moevs, Christian. The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Singleton, Charles. An Essay on the Vita Nuova . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.
- Recommended:
- Saint Augustine. Confessions . Translated by Rex Warner. New York: New American Library, 1963.
- Virgil. The Aeneid . Translated by Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam Classics, 1981.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.