COML552 - Transalpine Tensions: Franco-Italian Rivalries in the Renaissance

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Transalpine Tensions: Franco-Italian Rivalries in the Renaissance
Term
2019A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
COML
Section number only
401
Section ID
COML552401
Course number integer
552
Registration notes
Undergraduates Need Permission
Meeting times
W 04:00 PM-06:00 PM
Meeting location
VANP 627
Level
graduate
Instructors
Scott M. Francis
Eva Del Soldato
Description
In the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, France and the Italian States were bound together by linguistic, economic, political, and religious ties, and intellectual developments never flowed unilaterally from one country to the other. On the contrary, they were transnational phenomena, and French and Italian thinkers and writers conceived of themselves and their work both in relation to and in opposition to one another. This course will consider the most fundamental aspects of Franco-Italian cultural exchange in the medieval and early modern period, with an emphasis on humanism, philosophical and religious debates, political struggles, and the rise of vernacular languages in literary and learned discourse. Authors to be studied include Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola Castiglione, Bembo, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Du Bellay, Machiavelli, and Montaigne. In addition to learning the material covered in the course, students will gain expertise in producing professional presentations and research papers, and will also have the opportunity to consult original material from the Kislak Center. This course is open to undergraduates with permission of the instructors. It counts toward the undergraduate minor in Global Medieval Studies and the graduate certificate in Global and Medieval Renaissance Studies.
Course number only
552
Cross listings
ITAL541401, FREN541401
Use local description
No