Middlebury

ITAL 6775

Italian Renaissance Epic

The course will study the poetry of chivalry in Italy between the fifteenth and sixteenth. Particular attention will be given to epic novels by Matteo Maria Boiardo (Orlando innamorato) and Ludovico Ariosto (Orlando furioso), then to the evolution in epic structure of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.

Required Text: /Tra romanzo cavalleresco e poema epico: Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso/, a cura di Gino Tellini, Firenze, 2016 (materiale di lavoro che sarĂ  distribuito in PDF a tutti gli iscritti al corso).
Subject:
Italian
Department:
Italian
Division:
Language School
Requirements Fulfilled:
Literature

Sections in Summer 2016 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session

Summer 2016 Language Schools, Mills 6 Week Session

ITAL6775A-L16 Lecture (Tellini)