| Course Title: Advanced Topics in Italian: 'The Era of Machiavelli: Politics, Anxiety, and Dissimulation in the Italian Renaissance' |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
| Description: Often described as spaces that offered a safe harbor for generations of poets, artists, and intellectuals, Italian Renaissance courts were also a space of uncertainty and dissimulation, a political environment dominated by rules, a reality in which instability and manipulation were commonplace. Through the reading of works by Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Castiglione, three protagonists in the history of Italian literature between the end of the 15th and the first quarter of the 16th centuries, we will consider and analyze the Italian Renaissance not only as the cradle of extraordinary artistic, poetic, social, intellectual, economic, and geographic achievements, but also as a time in which the relationship between literature and structures of power reaches a crucial inflection point. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Mattia Boccuti | mboccuti@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | CIRU - Ciruti | 109 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits from the Humanities. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in English. |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 35 | Enrollment: 14 | Available: 21 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |