Schedule of lectures and readings:
Readings listed for
a specific day should be done before the lecture.
Wk I: Introduction:
Th 7/21
Was there a Renaissance? 1) Jakob Burckhardt and
the Medievalists
2) Dante, medieval
Fr 7/22 The Rise of the Communes to the 14th Century
Slides:
Architecture in Dante's Florence: Baptistery, Campanile, Bargello
Reading: Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance Italy, Ch. 1, pp.
2-18
Wk II
M 7/25
Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio and Giotto da Bondone
The
Black Plague of 1348: Economic & Social Effects
Reading: Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance Italy, Ch.
2, pp. 21-35
** Boccaccio, Preface to the Decameron
on Plague in Florence
Available on line at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.asp
Tu 7/26 Florentine
& Venetian Republics: Aristocrats, merchants, office holders
Reading: David Herlihy, Article on Family, pp. 1-13 in Xerox packet
** In class discussion: Diary of
Gregorio Dati, pp. 107-141 in
Gene Brucker, Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
(Optional
on line: Brucker, Renaissance Florence, Ch. 2,
Economy, pp. 51-88
Wk III Reading:
Kaborycha, Short History of Ren Italy, Ch. 3, pp 38-55; Ch 4, pp 58-71;
W 7/27
14th C: Republics vs signorie or despotisms: Milan,
Venice, Siena
SLIDES: Venice and Siena: Lorenzetti, Allegories of Good & Bad Government
** In class discussion of: Diary of Buonaccorso
Pitti, in
Brucker Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
Th 7/28
Office holding: citizen ambition in the republic
**
In class discussion Martines, Renaissance
Sextet, Ch. 4, Bianco Alfani
Petrarch
and the origins of Italian humanism
**
In class discussion of Petrarch selections in Xerox packet:
Letters & Ascent of Mount
Ventoux
Fri 7/29 First short paper due
Friday 7/29 at lecture
Fir 7/29 Florence before the
Medici: Ciompi Revolt 1378 to War with Milan 1402
Civic Humanism: Salutati & Bruni
Slides: Early 15th C. Art & Architecture::
Massaccio, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi
Wk III
Reading:
Kaborycha, Short History of Ren Italy, Ch. 6, section on
Medici pp. 108-116.
Vespasiano,
Lives of Cosimo & Strozzi (in
Xerox packet)
M 8/1
Cosimo di Medici: Politics, Patronage and Francesco Sforza
Slides: Medici building and art projects: Gozzoli frescoes
** In class
discussion: Xerox packet -- Vespasiano, Lives of Cosimo &
Strozzi
Reading: Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance Italy, Ch. 5, pp.
80-97
Coluccio Salutati,
Declamation of Lucretia (with Livy’s version in xerox packet)
Letters of
Alessandra Strozzi: in Xerox packet:
Riciarda
by Giovanni Gheradi, in Martines, Renaissance Sextet, Ch 1, pp. 19-35
Tu 8/2 The Second Medici: Piero
di Cosimo, il Gottoso (1464- 1469)
Women in Florence: Alessandra Strozzi and her exiled family
In-class
discussion: Documents on women listed above: Salutati, Strozzi
& Riciarda
W 8/3 MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS:
(bring bluebooks)
Reading
for Midterm:
Kaborycha, Short History
of Renaissance
Gene Brucker, Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
Xerox Packet:
Selections from Petrarch, Salutati on Lucretia,
David Herlihy, "Family in Renaissance Florence"
Strozzi letters, Biography of Cosimo
Topics:
Rise of the
Italian city states through 15th C (republics/tyrannies)
Humanism: Petrarch, & Civic Humanism
(Salutati, Bruni)
Economy/Society: Family structure, Plague,
Aristocrats vs Merchants
Th 8/4
Lorenzo the Magnificent, the
Pazzi Conspiracy and Pope Sixtus IV
Reading: Kaborycha, Short History of
Ren Italy, Ch. 9 pp. 164-167; 171-181; Ch 10, 207-208
(optional on line: Brucker Renaissance Florence Ch 7, pp. 256-280
** In-class discussion: Social Hierarchies and
Urban Rivalries
Martines, Renaissance Sextet, Ch 2, Scopone by Gentile
Sermini, pp. 39-68
(Optional:
Ch 5, Giacopo, by Lorenzo dei Medici, pp 144-167)
F 8/5
Renaissance
Individualism? Humanism Self Fashioning versus Group Identity
** In-class
discussion:
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, On the Dignity
of Man in Xerox packet
Antonio Manetti, The Fat Woodcarver, in Martines,
Renaissance Sextet, Ch 6, pp. 171-241
(Optional online reading:
Brucker Renaissance Florence Ch 5, pp. 172-212)
Wk IV
M
8/8 Women
and the Family in Renaissance Florence
SLIDES:
Images of Women in Renaissance Art
Reading: David Herlihy, The Family in Renaissance
Florence ( in xerox packet)
Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance Italy, Ch. 4, pp. 71-74
on Alberti
** In
class discussion: Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family, Book 3
Boccaccio, Decameron,
Nastagio degli Onesti, Day 5, 8th story ((in Xerox packet)
“
“ Griselda, Day 10, 10th
story (in Xerox packet)
Tu
8/9 Savonarola,
the Republic of 1494 and Alexander VI, the Borgia Pope
Reading: Kaborycha, Short
History of Renaissance Italy, Ch. 10, pp. 184-197
**
In class discussion: Machiavelli as Diplomat,
Letters
from Camp of Cesare Borgia, in
1497-1512:
Machiavelli, the Florentine Republic and Medici Restoration of 1512
Reading: Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance
Italy, Ch. 10, pp. 197-203
W 8/10 Political theory from Augustine to the
Humanists:
** In
class discussion: The Prince, Part I, Ch 1-13, pp 4-40
in Adams edition
Th 8/11 The European Context of Italian Wars:
1494-1530
** In class discussion: The Prince, Part
II, Ch 14- 26, pp 40-72 in Adams edition
F 8/12 In-class discussion of second paper topics (which will be posted on web
page)
1) Machiavelli 2) women/family 3)
individual and society
Bring tentative
statement of paper topics to class
Renaissance artists: Leonardo
da Vinci in Florence, Milan, and Rome
Raphael and
Michelangelo in Florence and Rome
Wk V Reading:
Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance Italy, Ch 12, pp. 224-232
M 8/15 Julius II, the
Warrior Pope: SLIDES: Michelangelo and Raphael
Reading:
Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance Italy, Ch 11, pp. 213-221
**
In class
discussion: Selections of Mach’s Discourses on Livy, Adams pp.
89-188
Machiavelli’s
Private Letters, Adams, pp 123-131
Tu 8/16 Princely Courts:
Mantua and Urbino; Castiglione’s The Courtier
Reading: Kaborycha, Short History of Ren, Ch. 11, pp.
209-211; Ch 12, pp. 232-236, 237-238
**
In class
discussion: Giovanni della Casa, Galateo (in xerox packet)
W 8/17 Rome: Medici Popes (Leo X and Clement VII) and the Sack of Rome 1527
Th 8/18 Rome
and Italy after 1530 SLIDES: 16th C. Rome – the City
after the Sack
In
class discussion: Review for final
F 8/19 FINAL EXAM IN CLASS