HSTEU401
RENAISSANCE
Winter 2012
Office Smith 212A
Prof. O’Neil Office Hours:
Tu & Th 11-12 and by appointment at other times. Always glad to meet.
E-Mail: oneilmr@u.washington.edu
Course web page:
http://courses.washington.edu/hsteu401 - consult web page for lecture outlines.
Books ordered at University Bookstore (also on reserve at OUGL)
Lisa Kaborycha, A
Short History of Renaissance Italy
Gene Brucker (ed) Two Memoirs of Renaissance
Florence: Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati
Gene Brucker, Renaissance Florence on-line version via UW Libraries http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02002
Lauro Martines, A Renaissance Sextet:
Six Tales in Historical Context
Leon Battista Alberti, The Family in
Renaissance Florence: Book Three, edited by Renee Neu Watkins
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince: Norton Critical Edition
This
edition contains a selection of Machiavelli's letters, sections from the Discourses
on Livy
and other critical
essays which will be assigned. If you have a different edition of The Prince,
I can arrange for
these materials to be placed on
e-reserve. Let me know.
Xerox packet of required readings
available at Professional Copy and Print, 42cd &
Recommended: Boccaccio Decameron:
Penguin or any edition; there is an older translation available
on-line at Gutenberg Project http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23700/23700-h/23700-h.htm
Further reading for
advanced students (not required).
Graduate level bibliography available on request.
Daniel Waley, The
Course Requirements: all assignments must be completed to pass this
course.
Attendance at lectures,
participation in class discussions plus 2 one
page response papers
10%
Response
papers should be a brief, one page statement about reading assigned for a
given day.
Please turn in one before the midterm and one after. Hand in only one page,
double space or
1.5 spacing at minimum. If you go over one page, print double sided. You
may focus on any aspect
of the assigned reading. .The
purpose is to raise
questions about the reading for discussion.
Discussion days are marked with ** in the
syllabus. Response papers may be typed or
handwritten (but not in
pencil). They will be graded +, √ or
— (= plus, check or minus).
Short paper 4-5
pages: due Tuesday Jan 24, 20%
Instructions
for first paper included with syllabus Late papers marked down -.1 per day overdue.
Midterm Exam Thursday
February 2 in class
Longer paper 6-10 pages: due Tuesday March 6 in class. Topics will be posted.
Final exam: Friday 2:30 PM March 16. Earlier exam will be scheduled at a time to be
arranged.
Schedule of lectures and readings: Readings listed for a specific day should be done
before the lecture.
Wk I: Introduction:
Tu 1/3
Was there a Renaissance? 1) Jakob Burckhardt and
the Medievalists
2) Dante, medieval
Th 1/5 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
Tu 1/10
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
Th 1/12 Florentine
& Venetian Republics: Aristocrats, merchants, office holders
Reading: David Herlihy, Article on Family, pp. 1-13 in Xerox packet
Brucker,
Renaissance Florence, Chap. 2, The Economy, pp. 51-88
** In class discussion: Diary of
Gregorio Dati, ppp. 107-141 in
Gene Brucker, Two Memoirs of Renaissance
Wk III Reading: Kaborycha, Short History
of Ren
Tu 1/17 14th
C: Republics vs signorie or despotisms:
SLIDES:
** In class discussion of: Diary
of Buonaccorso Pitti, in
Brucker Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
Th 1/19 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
Tu 1/24 First
short paper due Tuesday 1/24 at lecture
Wk IV READING: Kaborycha, Short
History of Ren Italy, Ch. 6, section on Medici pp. 108-116.
Brucker,
Renaissance
Vespasiano,
Lives of Cosimo & Strozzi (in
Xerox packet)
Tu 1/24
Civic Humanism: Salutati & Bruni
Slides: Early 15th C. Art & Architecture in
Th 1/26 Cosimo
di Medici: Politics & Patronage
Slides: Medici building and art projects: Gozzoli frescoes
Reading: Brucker, Renaissance Florence,
Ch 6, Culture, pp. 213-255
** In class discussion: Xerox packet -- Vespasiano, Lives
of Cosimo & Strozzi
Wk V 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 1/31 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, Storzzi
& Riciarda
Th 2/2 MIDTERM EXAM IN
CLASS: (bring bluebooks)
Reading
for Midterm: Kaborycha, Short History of Renaissance Italy
Brucker, Renaissance Florence, Ch 1-4, pp 51-171, Ch 6 pp. 213-255
Xerox Packet: Gordon Griffiths article on city states
Selections from Petrarch, Salutati on Lucretia,
David Herlihy, "Family in Renaissance Florence"
Strozzi letters, Biography of Cosimo
Gene
Brucker, Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
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
Wk VI
Lorenzo the
Magnificent: also Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Milan, and Rome
Reading: Brucker Renaissance Florence Ch 7, pp.
256-280
Kaborycha, Short
History of Ren Italy, Ch. 9 pp. 164-167; 171-181; Ch 10, 207-208
Tu 2/7
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)
Renaissance
Individualism? Humanism Self Fashioning versus Group Identity
Reading: Brucker Renaissance Florence Ch 5, pp. 172-212
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
Wk VII
Tu 2/14 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)
Th 2/16
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
Wk VIII
1497-1512: Machiavelli, the
Tu 2/21 ** Political theory from
Augustine to the Humanists:
In
class discussion: The Prince, Part I, Ch 1-13, pp 4-40
in
Th 2/23
** The European Context of Italian Wars: 1494-1530
In class discussion: The
Prince, Part II, Ch 14- 26, pp 40-72 in
Wk IX From Florence to Rome:
Tu 2/28 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
Th 3/1 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)
TUES MAR 6 LONGER PAPER DUE AT LECTURE.
Wk X
Tu 3/6
Th 3/8 Rome and Italy after 1530
SLIDES: 16th C. Rome – the City after the Sack
In
class discussion: Review for final
FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE: class will be consulted on this
schedule
Early final time and
place to be announced
Regular final, Friday
March 16, Smith 304, 2:30-4:20 PM