ITALIAN 50A

Masterpieces of Italian Literature in English: Middle Ages to Baroque

• Literary and Cultural Analysis

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Leading philosophical, religious, and sociopolitical issues in Europe, examined in authors such as St. Francis, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Lorenzo de' Medici, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Ariosto, and Tasso. P/NP or letter grading.