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HSTEU 401 SPRING 2007
RENAISSANCE ITALY

Course Web site: http://courses.washington.edu/hsteu401

Instructor: Mary R. O'Neil, Associate Professor
Office: Smith 212A
Office Hours: Off Hrs:Tu and Thurs 11-12
                         and by appointment
E-mail: oneilmr@u.washington.edu
Phones: 543-5790 (messages); 543-9370

Grader: Ryan Boehler <hengist@u.washington.edu>

Class Meeting Times and Location: PAA 114
https://eres.lib.washington.edu/eres/coursepass.aspx?page=docs&return=courses.a$ Tues & Thurs 2:30-4:20

HERE IS FINAL EXAM

FINAL EXAM REVIEW SHEET

TAKE HOME FINAL WILL BE DISTRIBUTED IN CLASS
THURSDAY 5/31 after in-class discussion of the

above link to Exam Review Sheet. Bring
questions to class on Thursday.

SECOND PAPERS DUE TUESDAY MAY 29TH
LINK TO TOPICS (also in left column)

Extra Readings for papers on women, widows (optional)
Sermons by Saint Bernardino of Siena, 15th C.
1) Two Sermons on Wives and Widows: available on line at:
     http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bernardino-2sermons.html

2)  On the vanity of the world, and especially of women
    NOW AVAILLABLE ON E-RESERVE LINK AT LEFT.

Machiavelli papers: Extra article on Michaevelli by David Wootton
NOW AVAILLABLE ON E-RESERVE LINK AT LEFT.

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Wk VII For Thursday please read the two Boccaccio stories,
Nastagio degli Onesti (link below) & Griselda (xerox packet)

Th 5/10 French Invasions of Italy
Savonarola, Republic of 1494 & Alexander VI, Borgia Pope

Reading: Martines, Power & Imagination, Ch XIV, pp. 277-296
** In class discussion:
     Machiavelli as Diplomat, Letters from Camp of Cesare Borgia, Adams,
                       pp 75-88     (Letters are also in xerox packet)
SLIDES: Leonardo da Vinci

Tu 5/8          Women and Family in Renaissance Florence

** Reading: David Herlihy, Family in Renaissance Florence ( xerox )
      In class discussion: Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family, Book 3
                  Link to Alberti Discussion questions
      Boccaccio, Decameron, Nastagio degli Onesti, Day 5, 8th story (link)
            “                “          Griselda, Day 10, 10th story (in Xerox packet)

SLIDES: Images of Women in Renaissance Art: Botticelli and others


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5/31/07

Contact the instructor at: oneilmr@u.washington.edu