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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Students will enter the world of Italian Renaissance (in the 15the and 16th centuries) in an innovative fashion and will gradually increase their awareness of that fervent period of rebirth and transformations from Medieval age to modernity. In the general revival of antiquity, we will focus on the beginnings in Tuscany and in the city of Florence: important members of Medici Family and their organization of power and communication; the interests in ancient Greek and Roman culture renewed during the migration of Byzantine scholars; humanists, who gained access to some original manuscripts in their researches; educated women and their special role in the literary society, and so on. We will also analize the spread of Renaissance in the most important cultural and political centres such as Venice, Ferrara and Rome.´ Literature - Handbooks on Italian Renaissance (including in their own language) should be useful to give basic information in combination with notes of the lessons. Such as: J. Ch. Burckhardt, (ed.) The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860, and subs. editions); John Najemy (ed.), Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550, Oxford University Press2010; Warren Treadgold (ed.), Renaissances Before the Renaissance: Classical Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984); Brian Jeffrey Maxson, The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014); G. Ruggiero (ed.), A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. G. Ruggiero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), with consolidated bibliography; in addiction some further readings will be suggested during the course, like specialized articles and original texts in translation, depending on the interests of students, too.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims to enable the student to know the main features and general outlines of Renaissance: origins and development of that concept of "rebirth" through the most significant political events and cultural experiences in the relevant centres in Italy.
Students will be able to understand why in that time and in that country occurred certain necessary conditions for cultural rebirth, and to recognize the most important personalities and events of that chronological and geographical span.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge of English language (useful, but not mandatory, previous knowledge of ancient classical world).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Regular diligent attendance is required (absence max. twice during the course), taking part to the class and sharing opinion and information during the seminar session, with a fruitful interchange of ideas, reading together some passages of literary texts.
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Recommended literature
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