Florence in the Age of Dante and Petrarch
Spring Semester 1998
Steve Jobe
jobe@hanover.edu
Frank Luttmer
historians@hanover.edu
Airplanes and Hotels
Airflight Information
- Sabena Airlines
- April 21: Leave Greater Cincinnati Airport Flight 544 at 6:40 PM. Arrive at Brussels 8:40 AM. Leave Brussels Flight 851 12:20 PM. Arrive in Florence 2:10 PM.
- May 20: Leave Rome DaVinci Airport Flight 820 at 6:45 AM. Arrive at Brussels 9:00 AM. Leave Brussels Flight 543 at 11:35 AM. Arrive at Greater Cincinnati Airport 2:40 PM.
Hotel Information
Course Description and Objectives
This course is an introduction to the literature, history, art, philosophy, and theology of the fourteenth century. By analyzing and interpreting primary texts and by experiencing the sights and sounds of Florence and nearby cities, the course seeks to reconstruct the world of Dante and Petrarch.
Readings
R.W.B. Lewis, The City of Florence
Dante, Inferno, trans. Robert Pinsky
Dante, Purgatorio, trans Allen Mandelbaum
Dante, Paradiso, trans. John Sinclair
Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence, trans. Daniel Bornstein
Petrarch, Selections from the Canzoniere and other Works, trans. Mark Musa
Thomas Aquinas
Boccaccio
Petrarch
Frederick Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance (On Reserve)
Grades
Final grades will be based on an evaluation of two 1000-word papers (40% each) and class participation (including occasional presentations on assigned readings and, at the end of the term, a presentation of an original terza rima to the class) (20%).
Schedule
April 22: Arrive in Florence
April 23: Inferno, Canto 1; Lewis, 3-56
April 24: Inferno; Lewis, 57-118
April 25: Weekend, No Class
April 26: Weekend, No Class
April 27: Inferno
April 28: Inferno
April 29: Hartt, 27-75
April 30: Day Trip to Padua: Hartt, 76-103
May 1: Dino Compagni, Introduction, 3-30, 45-52
May 2: Weekend, No Class
May 3: Weekend, No Class
May 4: Day Trip to Siena: Hartt, 104-132
May 5: Dino Compagni, 69-75, 81-100; Hartt, 133 ff.
May 6: Purgatorio
May 7: Purgatorio
May 8: Long Weekend, No Class
May 9: Long Weekend, No Class
May 10: Long Weekend, No Class
May 11: Lewis, 119-195; Boccaccio
May 12: Petrarch
May 13: Petrarch
May 14: Leave for Rome
May 15: Paradiso
May 16: Weekend, No Class
May 17: Weekend, No Class
May 18: Paradiso
May 19: Paradiso
May 20: Return from Rome to Cincinnati
