SAINTS & SINNERS IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (CL2055)

Presents a panorama of pre-modern Italian poetry, prose, and drama within their European context. Readings include: early religious and erotic lyrics (Sicilians, Tuscans, and Stilnovists), Inferno (Dante), Rime (Petrarch), Decameron (Boccaccio), the fiction and drama of Machiavelli, the love sonnets of Michelangelo, the Socratic dialogues of Tasso, and the Utopian fiction of Campanella.

Fulfills the Renaissance period requirement for the major in Comparative Literature. Original language option.