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Literature of Renaissance in Italy (45 h, 3 credits)
- The historical context: definitions of Renaissance as an historical period and as an approach to reading literature
- The social context: the Italian society during the Renaissance Age
- The cultural context: the Revival of Antiquity
- Literature:
- Petrarch, on the cusp of the Renaissance; Papal restoration of Rome
- Ficino and his legacy: Florentine Neo-Platonism in philosophy and art
- The epic poems: Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto
- Urbino and Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier: Renaissance courts and civility
- Machiavelli: Florentine politics and the advent of modern polical thought
- Guicciardini and the modern historiography
- The poets of Lyons: Italian influences in French literature
- Venice, courtesans, women poets and the Commedia dell’arte