Italian Studies 397C - ST- The Three Crowns
Spring
2020
01
3.00
Michael Papio
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
51488
Herter Hall room 110
papio@hfa.umass.edu
In this course, students will gain a general familiarity with the three most influential and perennially important writers of Italian literature: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. We shall trace some of their principal concerns against the backdrop of their contemporary society and witness the transformation of a variety of subjects, from theology to history, from poetry to popular culture. Particular emphasis will be placed on the ways in which Petrarca and Boccaccio thought of themselves as continuators - or innovators - with respect to the Dantean tradition. Course taught in Italian.
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