ITAL 420

Fall 2019 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 26-Dec 11

Masterpieces Renaiss Lit

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Reading of masterpieces of the 1400 and 1500s and a study of their predecessors and influence; nonconcentrators in Italian may read the works in translation; lectures are in English. Content rotates.

Same as CWL 420 and MDVL 420. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours with consent of instructor. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of campus rhetoric requirement.

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ITAL 420 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39454	Lecture-Discussion	D2	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Foreign Languages Building	Stoppino, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Info: Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature Professor Eleonora Stoppino This course explores the problem of the relationship of women to dynastic power in the literature and culture of late medieval and Renaissance in Italy. Beginning from Giovanni Boccaccio’s famously ambivalent portraits of women in the Decameron and his treatise On Famous Women, we will locate women within an early modern system of inherited power and literary representations. We will then move to study a series of genealogically motivated chivalric poems (such as Orlando innamorato, Orlando furioso, Floridoro, Gerusalemme liberata) which propose a number of roles for women: warriors, queens, saints, monsters, saviors, poets, founders. These texts return again and again to the key role of women in establishing and maintaining dynastic continuity within noble families, but also to the dangers they pose to dynastic stability. We will try to understand how these literary texts work within the social and political context of the Italian city-states of this period. We will also study the involvement of women in the production and circulation of literary texts, focussing on notable patrons of the arts like Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia, and on important poets like Vittoria Colonna. Taught in English. Readings in Italian for Italian Majors and graduate students in Italian Studies.