Schedule of Lecture and Readings: do
readings before lectures
Tues 3/29 Introduction: Dante’s Florence and Reading Dante
Reading for Thurs: Inf. 1-2 Course Packet: skim pp. 5-39 over weekend
Thurs 3/31 Inf 1-2 Classical & Christian Traditions: “I am not Aeneas, not Paul”:
Reading for Tues: Inf 3-5 Course Packet: pp. 39-55
Tues
4/5 Inf 3-5 Dead Poetry: Reading the Writing on the Wall;
Love and Death in the Middle Ages
Reading for Thurs: Inf. 6-10 Course Packet pp.
56-57
Thurs 4/7 Inf 6-10 Anger Management: Florentine Guelfs & Ghibellines
Reading for Tues: Inf 11-17 Course Packet pp. 57-59
Tues 4/12 Inf 11-17 Suicide, Sodomy and so forth….
Reading for Thurs: Inf. 18-24 Course Packet pp. 59-62
Thurs 4/14 Inf 18-24 Bad Popes. What is a Comedy?
Reading for Tues: Course Packet pp. 62-77
Tues
4/19 Inf 25-29 Ulysses and the Limits of Knowledge;
Guido,
the Modern Man; Curiosity & Condottieri
Reading for Thurs: Inf. 30-33 Course Packet pp. 77-78
Thurs
4/21 Inf 30-33 The enemy within: the battle of Montaperti 1266
Communion
& Cannibalism: To eat or not to eat? Is that the question?
Reading for Tues: Inf. 34 Course Packet pp. 79-81
** Tuesday 4/26 FIRST PAPER DUE: TURN IN TO TA AT LECTURE **
Tues 4/26 Inf 34 Lucifer and the Question of Evil; Enemies of God & of Empire
Reading for Thurs: Purg. 1-4 Course Packet pp. 82-83
Thurs
4/28 Purg 1-4 The Birth of Purgatory;
Neither
Here nor There - the Psychology of Exile
Reading for Tues: Purg. 5-9 Course Packet pp. 83-84
Tues 5/3 Purg 5-9 Welcome to Purgatory Proper; Italy: the Harlot
Reading for Thurs: Purg.. Course Packet pp. 84-89
Thurs 5/5 Purg 10-14 Dante’s Arachnean Art: the Pride of the Artist
Reading for Tues:: Purg.. 15-18 Course Packet pp. 85, 90-91
Tues 5/10 Purg 15-18 Love & Free Will in the Middle of the Journey
Reading for Thurs: Purg. 19-22 Course Packet pp. 91
Thurs
5/12 Purg 19-22 Statius, Virgil and the Anxiety of Influence;
The
Axis of Evil?: France and the Papacy
Reading for Tues: Purg. 23-26 Course Packet pp. 91-95
**Tues 5/17 Take Home Midterm due at Lecture: turn in to TAs **
Tues
5/17 Purg 23-26 Into the Flames: Poetry and Passion;
A
Medieval Biology Lesson
Reading for Thurs: Purg. 27-33 Course Packet pp. 96-99
Thurs 5/19 Purg 27-33 Eden Redeemed; Lessons of Loss; The Church Triumphs?
Reading for Tues: Par. 1-4, 6, 8-9 Course Packet pp. 100-102
Tues
5/24 Par 1-4, 6, 8-9 The Order of the Universe;
Paradoxes of Paradise; Justinian on Empire
Reading for Thurs: Par. 11, 15-20
Thurs
5/26 Par 11, 15-20 The Epic Journey: Fathers & Sons;
Holy
Warriors Then & Now
Reading for Tues: Par. 22,
24, 26, 27
Tues 5/31 Par 22, 24, 26, 27 Adam on Language; Dante’s Final Exam
Reading for Thurs: Par. 28-33 Course Packet pp. : 103