Lecture Outlines: These outlines represent lectures since the midterm.
FINAL EXAM WILL START WITH COSIMO DEI MEDICI
Wk V
Mon Cosimo dei Medici and Piero di Cosimo dei Medicis
Discussion of Vespasiano's Life of Cosimo
Slide show: Cosimo dei Medici -- to be posted
Weds Women in Renaissance Florence
Discussion of Strozzi letters, Salutati on Lucretia (compare Livy's version) and
"Ricciarda" -- first story in Martines <Renaissance Sextet>
Lecture Topics
Renaissance Humanism: Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Neoplatonism
Link to readings: Discussion of Pico On the Dignity of Man
15th Century Papacy : the return from Avignon to Rome
Recap on Medici: The 15th Century Medici: Cosimo, Piero and Lorenzo
Lecture topics: Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Pazzi Conspiracy of 1478
Link to readings: Discussion of Letters of Alessandra Strozzi,
Salutati's Declamation of Lucretia, with Livy's version
Martines, "Ricciarda" in Renaissance Sextet (first story)
Weekend reading: Alberti On the Family Book 3,
Boccaci o stories Nastagio degli Onesti & Griselda (note that Griselda story is scanned
backward; it starts on p. 10, ends on p.1)
Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family: Discussion Questions
SLIDES: Women in the Renaissance: Botticelli and others
Lecture: French Invasion of 1494 and the "Dwarfing of Italy"
Career of Savonarola and the Republic of 1494
Medieval Political Thought: Background to Machiavelli
Monday November 23
Lecture on Machiavelli career in Republic of 1491-1512 and his exile in 1512
Discussion: Machiavelli's Diplomatic Letters (link to PDF of Adams, pp. 75-88
Machiavelli Letter to Vettori, Adams, pp 123
Readings from Prince and selections in Adams from his Discourses on Livy pp. 88-118 (not to p. 189 = typo on syllabus)
OPTIONAL selections from Penguin edition of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: sections on types of government & on religion
not required, but of possible interest to people writing papers on Machiavelli
After Thanksgiving break
Monday November 30 Continue Machiavelli discussion including Discourses on Livy (see links above)
Link to readings Leonardo's letter of self recommendation to Duke of Milan
Slides of Michelangelo and Raphael
Mantua and Urbino: The Princely Courts and Castiglione's The Courtier
Slides of Mantua and Urbino
Renaissance Papacy for exam review
The Sack of Rome, 1527 and the end of the Renaissance
Chronology of the Italian Wars
Slides of Castel Sant' Angelo and Michelangelo
OUTLINES FROM FIRST HALF OF CLASS TO MIDTERM
Wk I Wednesday Burckhardt and the question of the "Renaissance"
Friday From Roman Empire to Medieval Italy:
Byzantium, Germanic Invasions, Charlemagne (Power Point to be posted)
Wk II
Monday Medieval Italian city states: the rise of the commune (link to be posted)
Florence 12-13th C.: Guelfs versus Ghibellines, rise of the popolo
Discussion: Handout on the Buondelmonte murder 1216
Dante Alighieri, Florence and the Divine Comedy
Slide show: Dante's Florence, Baptistery and Bargello
Discussion: Handout on Dante, Divine Comedy. Paradise, Canto 14
Dante meets his great-great-grandfather Cacciaguida, who tells about the old days in Florence
Wednesday 14th Century Crises: Famine and Black Plague
Link for Boccacio on Black Plague under Course Readings
Slides: Giotto da Bondone: 1267-1337 Arena Chapel Padua, St. Francis Assisi
Friday Florence 14th C.: Merchants, Guilds: Chart of Guild Symbols
Map of Florence showing expansion of walls
In class discussion of: Diary of Gregorio Dati, in
Brucker Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
Questions for in class discussion on Brucker, Two Memoirs, Gregorio Dati, Pitti:
Week III
Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo: humanism and civic humanism
In class discussion of Petrarch selections in Xerox packet:
Letters & Ascent of Mount Ventoux
Link to Petrarch Reading Selections
In class discussion of: Diary of
Brucker Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
Office holding: citizen ambition in the republic
In class discussion Martines, Renaissance Sextet, Ch. 4, Bianco Alfani
Wk IV
14th C: Republics vs signori or despotisms:
Milan and the Visconti: Baron Thesis on War between Milan and Florence
Map of Visconti conquests up to death of Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1402
Weds
Florence: from the Ciompi Revolt to Cosimo dei Medici