ITAL 23 Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture

This course explores the transformations that marked Italian literature and arts over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from the Baroque culture of crisis and change to the Enlightenment's reassessment of earlier forms of knowledge and representation. Specific topics will vary for each offering; themes may include the poetics of the marvelous, popular culture, the nuova scienza, evolving gender identities, the dialogues among the arts, the "cult of reason," and the relevance of both Baroque and Enlightenment categories to post-modernity. Emphasis is on the fundamental interdisciplinarity of this period’s culture and on its formal innovations in genres including the fairy tale, travel literature, the commedia dell'arte, the novel, and the opera. Authors and artists may include Basile, Marino, Galileo, Tarabotti, Isabella Andreini, Monteverdi, Bernini, Caravaggio, and Goldoni.

Instructor

Canepa

Prerequisite

ITAL 10, or permission of the instructor.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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