Lecture Outlines for 2012: Posted in reverse order, with current lectures first
For Reference: The Medici Succession from Cosimo the Elder to Cosimo I
Wk X
Tu 3/6 Mantua and Urbino: The Princely Courts
The Sack of Rome, 1527 and the end of the Renaissance
Slides of Castel Sant' Angelo and Sack of Rome
Th 3/8 Discussion: Castiglione's The Courtier (read sections in textbook pp. 231-238)
Della Casa, Galateo, selections in xerox packet
Review for Final
Wk IX
Tu 2/28
** In class discussion: Machiavelli's The Prince
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, selections from Adams volume
Th 3/1 Discussion:
Scopone and The Fat Woodcarver, in Martines, Renaissance Sextet, Ch 6, pp. 171-241
Machiavelli's Letter to Vettori (humanist in exile)
Michelangelo and Raphael
Wk VIII
Tu 2/21 Machiavelli, the Florentine Republic and the Renaissance Papacy
** In class discussion: Machiavelli as Diplomat, Letters from Camp of Cesare Borgia, in
Th 2/23 No Class: Professor O'Neil Sick
Wk VII
Tu 2/14 Family and Women in Renaissance Italy
In class discussion: 1) Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family, Book 3: Study Guide for Alberti discussion
2) Boccaccio, Decameron, Nastagio degli Onesti, Day 5, 8th story -- Questions on Nastagio and Griselda
(both in Xerox packet) Griselda, Day 10, 10th story
Th 2/16 Savonarola, the Republic of 1494 and Alexander VI, the Borgia Pope
Wk VI
Tu 2/8 MIDTERM EXAM
Th 2/10 Lorenzo Il Magnifico, Pope Sixtus IV and the Pazzi Conspiracy of 1478
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Text of Oration on the Dignity of Man (outline to be posted)
Wk V
Tu 1/31 Florence: from the Ciompi Revolt to Cosimo dei Medici
Discussion of Vespasiano's Life of Cosimo
Slide show: Cosimo dei Medici
Th 2/3 Marsilio Ficino and Neoplatonism (see Petrarch outline from Wk IV)
Piero (son of Cosimo) and the Strozzi exiles
Discussion of Letters of Alessandra Strozzi, Salutati's Lucretia, Ricciarda
Wk IV
Tu 1/24 Continue discussion of Memoirs of Pitti and Dati
Office holding: citizen ambition in the republic
** In class discussion Martines, Renaissance Sextet, Ch. 4, Bianco Alfani
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
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
Wk III
Optional Reading: Martines, Chap 6, "The Course of Urban Values" from Power & Imagination:
City States in Renaissance Italy , pp. 72-93
Tu 1/17 14th C: Republics vs signori or despotisms:
Slides: Giotto da Bondone: 1267-1337 Arena Chapel Padua, St. Francis Assisi (ignore Dominican section)
** In class discussion of: Diary of Buonaccorso Pitti, in
Brucker Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence
Th 1/19 NO CLASS: SNOW DAY
Wk II Reading: Boccaccio on the Black Plague: Introduction to the Decameron
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.html
Tu 1/10 14th Century Crises: Famine and Black Plague
Th 1/12 Florence 14th C.: Merchants, Guilds: Chart of Guild Symbols
Questions for in class discussion on Brucker, Two Memoirs, Gregorio Dati :
Map of Florence showing expansion of walls
Wk I
Tu 1/3 Burckhardt and the question of the "Renaissance"
Medieval Italian city states: the rise of the commune (link to be posted)
Th 1/5 Florence 12-13th C.: Guelfs versus Ghibellines, rise of the popolo
Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy
Power Point Slide Show on Dante, 13th C. Florence and Age of Towers
Reading for Thursday class: Buondelmonte murder 1216
Dante, Divine Comedy. Paradise, Canto 14
Dante meets his great-great-grandfather Cacciaguida, who tells about the old days in Florence
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Wk IV
Wk V
Tu The 15th Century Medici: Cosimo, Piero and Lorenzo
Th
Wk VII
Tu 15th Century Papacy
Humanism between Florence and Rome see Week X on Renaissance Papacy
Wk VIII