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Dante in Translation with Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta | |
| About the Course The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the Comedy's composition. Readings of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise seek to situate Dante's work within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, with special attention paid to political, philosophical and theological concerns. Topics in the Divine Comedy explored over the course of the semester include the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; love and knowledge; and exile and history. view class sessions >> Course Structure: This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 75 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2008. | About Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta Giuseppe Mazzotta is the Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian at Yale University. He specializes in medieval literature but his publications address all periods of Italian literature and culture and include Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divine Comedy; The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron; Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge; The Worlds of Petrarch; The New Map of the World: the Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico; and Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment. Recent editorial projects include Critical Essays on Dante and the Norton edition of Dante's Inferno. |
ITAL 310: Dante in Translation (Fall, 2008)
Syllabus
Professor:
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian, Yale University
Description:
The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the Comedy's composition. Readings of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise seek to situate Dante's work within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, with special attention paid to political, philosophical and theological concerns. Topics in the Divine Comedy explored over the course of the semester include the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; love and knowledge; and exile and history.
Texts:
Primary Texts:
Dante. Divine Comedy. Translated by John D. Sinclair. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Dante. Vita Nuova. Translated by Mark Musa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
Secondary Sources:
Auerbach, Erich. Dante, Poet of the Secular World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante's Poets. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Boyde, Patrick. Dante, Philomythes and Philosopher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Brandeis, Irma. The Ladder of Vision. Garden City: Doubleday, 1962.
Cachey, Theodore, ed. Dante Now. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
Davis, Charles T. Dante and the Idea of Rome. Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1957.
Freccero, John. Poetics of Conversion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Gilson, Etienne. Dante the Philosopher. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1949.
Harrison, Robert. The Body of Beatrice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante, Poet of the Desert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Moevs, Christian. The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Singleton, Charles. An Essay on the Vita Nuova. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.
Recommended:
Saint Augustine. Confessions. Translated by Rex Warner. New York: New American Library, 1963.
Virgil. The Aeneid. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum. New York: Bantam Classics, 1981.
Requirements:
Regular attendance is required.
Students will write a final paper of approximately 3000 words to be submitted two weeks after the last class.
Students will take two tests: one in mid-term, and one at the end of the term.
During lecture, a number of possible topics for the term papers will be suggested. A list of topics will be handed out in early November. The topics should be discussed either with the professor or the teaching assistant.
Grading:
Midterm examination: 15%
Final examination: 15%
Final paper: 60%
Attendance and participation: 10%
ITAL 310: Dante in Translation
Class Sessions
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ITAL 310: Dante in Translation (Fall, 2008)
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