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ITAL-UA 142: The Courtesan in Italian Renaissance Society and Culture
4.00 Credits
New York University
Examines an intriguing figure within the social panorama of Renaissance Italy, the "honest courtesan" or cortigiana onesta. It contextualizes courtesans' social position and cultural status, embracing elements of social history, literary history, and music and art history. Texts studied include both representations of courtesans, such as the notorious dialogues of Pietro Aretino, and writings by courtesan poets, such as Tullia d'Aragona and Veronica Franco.
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ITAL-UA 145: Love and War in Renaissance Italy: Chivalric Romance and Epic
4.00 Credits
New York University
Offers the opportunity to study two of the greatest works of Italian literature, Lodovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso (1532) and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (1581). Looks at these poems in their historical context and in relation to the rich literary traditions of romance and epic that converge in them. Thematic focuses include the construction of gender and the representation of religious and racial "otherness."
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ITAL-UA 147: Machiavelli
4.00 Credits
New York University
The inventor of modern political science, Niccolò Machiavelli is one of the most original thinkers in the history of Western civilization. In this course, Machiavelli's political, historical, and theatrical works are read in the context in which they were conceived-the much tormented and exciting Florence of the 15th and early 16th centuries, struggling between republican rule and the magnificent tyranny of the Medici family.
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ITAL-UA 148: Italian Culture and the Discourses of Early Modern Colonialism
4.00 Credits
New York University
An overview of the earliest documents relevant to Italian exploration of the "new world," as well as a consideration of the impact that the explorations had at home. Focuses on early colonial literature, such as the letters of Columbus, Pigafetta, and others, and examines the process of colonization of the Italian subject as evident in works by Machiavelli, Tasso, and Campanella.
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ITAL-UA 149: Florence: Literature, Art, Culture
4.00 Credits
New York University
Covers the jewel of Italian cities, from its Roman origins to the early 20th century. While the focus is on literary works, we also spend considerable time looking at the creation and expansion of the city itself as an architectural unit, as well as at its art works and its cultural florescence during the Renaissance. Ideal for students who plan to study at La Pietra in the near future.
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ITAL-UA 160: Dante and His World
4.00 Credits
New York University
Interdisciplinary introduction to late medieval culture, using Dante, its foremost literary artist, as a focus. Attention is directed to literature, art, and music, in addition to political, religious, and social developments of the time. Emphasizes the continuity of the Western tradition, especially the classical background of medieval culture and its transmission to the modern world.
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ITAL-UA 161: The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance
4.00 Credits
New York University
Study of Italian Renaissance civilization from its roots in the Middle Ages. Concentrates on the major problems of the times: the rise of the city-states and the evolution of the signorie, the birth of new language and art forms, and the changing attitudes toward the classical world, science, and philosophy. Students also explore, through readings of chronicles, letters, and contemporary documents, the effects such transformations had on the people of the times, on their daily lives, and on self-perceptions.
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ITAL-UA 162: Women’s Writing in the Italian Renaissance
4.00 Credits
New York University
A study of the remarkable tradition of published writings by women that developed in Italy between the 15th and 17th centuries. Offers an opportunity to look in detail at the works of well-known writers such as Vittoria Colonna, Gaspara Stampa, and Veronica Franco and lesser-known figures such as Moderata Fonte and Maddalena Campiglia. We Department of Italian Studies address the reasons for the emergence of this tradition of writing by women and the dynamics of its relationship with contemporary male literary culture.
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ITAL-UA 165: Italian Fascism
4.00 Credits
New York University
An interdisciplinary examination of the cultural production of the fascist period. Students examine the image that the fascist regime produced of itself through the study of popular novels, architecture, film, and political speeches.
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ITAL-UA 166: Contemporary Italy
4.00 Credits
New York University
Covers the political, cultural, economic, and social history of Italy since World War II. Starting with the transition from fascism to democracy, examines the Cold War, the growth of a mass consumer society, the social and political movements of the late 1960s and 1970s, the battle against the Mafia, postwar emigration, the rise and fall of postwar Christian Democracy and Italian communism, and the emergence of new parties in the 1990s such as Berlusconi's Forza Italia, Bossi's Northern League, and Fini's neofascist Alleanza Nazionale.
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