When does the Renaissance begin and end? Which is the difference between the ‘Renaissance’ and the ‘Early Modern period’? What do we mean by the notions of ‘Humanism’ and ‘Classicism’? This module primarily aims to enable students to develop an informed understanding of these concepts, their meanings and (different) periodizations. It then introduces the fundamentalContinue reading “ITAL30260 Politics and Morals in Renaissance Italy”
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ITAL20200 Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio: the Three Crowns
Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio are known as the ‘Tre corone’ (the ‘Three Crowns’) of Italian literature. What is the meaning of this expression? And what are the reasons for its use? This module aims to enable students to answer these questions and develop an informed understanding of the life, works and receptionContinue reading “ITAL20200 Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio: the Three Crowns”
Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century: Constructing Subjects by Assoc Prof Ursula Fanning
This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining links between women’s writing and autobiographical modes, and ultimately rejects it in favorContinue reading “Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century: Constructing Subjects by Assoc Prof Ursula Fanning”