OF DEMONS AND ANGELS. DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY

ITALIAN 321

Focuses on masterworks of Italian literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, and on the ways in which this period laid a foundation of today's Italian society and culture. Includes historical, social, and cultural contexts of the Medieval and Renaissance periods.

ITALIAN 741

Survey of seventeenth-century Italian literature

FRENCH 430

Exploration of a thematic selection of texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Taught in French.

LITTRANS/MEDIEVAL 255

Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the Black Death? Were our medieval and early-modern ancestors different from us, or are we challenged with similar problems? What can we learn from their lives? And, if we could, what could we teach each other? Discuss these topics while reading one of the world's greatest literary classics, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a text that will make us both laugh and cry. Through reading the Decameron, investigate medicine, art, culture, music, politics, religion, interpersonal and transcultural relations, warfare, fashion, gender and gender roles, as well as everyday life in the Middle Ages and early modernity. Also examines medieval written documents, twentieth-century feminist responses to the Decameron and filmic renditions of it, medieval frescoes, historical descriptions of the plague, and modern descriptions of, and reactions to, the COVID-19 pandemic.

ITALIAN/MEDIEVAL 659

Lectures on Dante's life and times, reading Divine Comedy.