Italy

HOURS: M-F 9:30-12:00

Day I	INTRODUCTION. History and historiography of the Italian Renaissance.
Day II	Petrarch and the birth of Humanism.
Day III	Boccaccio.
Day IV	Boccaccio. Early masters in Italian art: Giotto, Simone Martini.
Day V	Latin and Italian Humanism. Salutati. Alberti. Art from Masaccio to Brunelleschi.
Day VI	Valla. Pico della Mirandola. Women Humanists and their male colleagues.
Day VII	Machiavelli.
Day VIII	Guicciardini. MID-TERM EXAM
Day IX	Leonardo: writer, 'proto-scientist' and artist.
Day X	Bembo and Castiglione: on rules and behavior.
Day XI	Michelangelo, the artist and his poetry.
Day XII	Petrarchism and women writers: V. Colonna, V. Franco, G. Stampa, I. Di Morra.
Day XIII	Benvenuto Cellini. Giorgio Vasari and the canonization of the Renaissance.
Day XIV	Ariosto and the "Culture of Contraddiction".

Grading Policy
Class participation: 10%
Quizzes: 25%
Mid-term exam: 25%
Final exam: 25%
Cultural Journal: 15% (10 pages minimum)

Textbooks
1) The Italian Renaissance Reader. Edited by Julia C. Bondanella and Mark Musa. New York: Penguin Meridian, 1987.
2) Course reader prepared by the instructor