Fall 2003

ITC 360 • ITALIAN CIVILIZATION

Course Description

This course will focus upon the architects, painters, sculptors, writers, philosophers, inventors, patrons, and politicians who lived and worked in Renaissance Italy.

Grading Policy

Three 3 - 5 page papers: 75% Class participation and 1 oral presentation: 25%

Texts

Boccaccio, Decameron (selections) Machiavelli, The Prince Brucker, Renaissance Florence Cassirer et al., The Renaissance Philosopy of Man Castiglione, The Courier Petrarch, Letters, Poems (selections) Cereta, Laura Collection of Letters Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (selections)

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