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DANTE I

ITAL240
DANTE ENG TRANS.

ITAL830
FROM NEOREALISM TO FELLINI

ITAL732
DANTE'S PURGATORIO AND PARADISO

ITAL357
DANTE PETRARCH BOCCACCIO

ITAL535
BOCCACCIO
AND EUROPEAN
NARRATIVE

A critical reading of Dante's Vita nuova and Inferno within the context of their ancient and medieval traditions and with particular emphasis on recent American criticism. Reading knowledge of Italian is recommended. Original text with facing English translation.

CALENDAR

Course Documents:

• Syllabus (pdf, 158kb)
• Class Notes VN & Inf. 1-5 (pdf, 99kb)
• Aeneid. Book 6 (pdf, 105kb)

Articles:

• Cervigni, Dino. Spazialità e sacralità nella Vita nuova. (pdf, 70kb)
• Cervigni, Dino. Re-Configuring the Self through Suffering, Violence, and Death in Dante’s Vita nuova and Comedy. (pdf, 186kb)
• Cervigni, Dino. The Rhetoric of Words, Names, and Silence. (pdf, 103kb)
• Cervigni, Dino. Journey to the Word. Silence, Names, and Words in the Commedia. (pdf, 86kb)
• Cervigni, Dino. From Beginning to End: Dante's Judeo-Christian Fourfold Mythopoiesis. (pdf, 256kb)
• Cervigni, Dino. Dante's Lucifer. The Denial of the Word. (pdf, 242kb)
  
  
  

Ital 240 intends to analyze Dante’s New Life and some fundamental cantos of the Divine Comedy (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise) within the context of their ancient sources and contemporary criticism and Dante’s complete oeuvre.

Course Documents:

• Syllabus (pdf, 48kb)
• Aeneid. Book 6 (pdf, 105kb)
• Readings Paradise (pdf, 142kb)

The course will focus on Italian Neorealism in its historical unfolding in order to analyze its principles and connections with Italy's history and culture.

Course Documents:

• Syllabus (doc)

A critical reading of Dante’s Purgatory and Paradise within the context of its ancient and medieval traditions and with particular emphasis on recent American criticism.

Course Documents:

• Syllabus (doc)
• Class Notes Purg. 26-31 (pdf)
• A review on Dante and His Translators: Dante Alighieri, Inferno, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander.(pdf)

Articles:

• Cervigni, Dino. L’Eunoè o il ripristino del bene perduto. (doc)
• Cervigni, Dino. Beatrice’s Act of Naming. (pdf)
• Cervigni, Dino. Canto XXXIII Beatrice’s Prophecy, Matelda’s Name, and the Pilgrim’s Renewal. (pdf)

This course introduces students to the worlds of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio situated in the context of medieval and early modern Europe.

Course Documents

• Syllabus (pdf)

Boccaccio's Decameron within the context of previous narrative traditions and subsequent development of narrative in Europe. According to their own interests, students will be guided to investigate Boccaccio's influence upon narrative throughout Europe. All texts will be in their original language and in English translation; discussion in English

Course Documents

• Syllabus (pdf)