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Apr 29, 2024
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REL 240 - Dante:Hell,Heaven & Florence4 credits
This course considers one of the most influential authors in the Western world. We will take the entire spiritual journey from hell to heaven and of Dante’s Divine Comedy and consider it in Dante’s medieval intellectual, literary and political context. In addition to the Comedy, we read selections from Dante’s On Monarchy and The New Life. Other primary texts include selections from Aquinas, Bonaventure, Guido Cavalcanti, Boccaccio’s Life of Dante, and Dino Compagni’s Chronicle of Florence, along with other contemporary chronicles as we examine medieval Florence and the intellectual background of the Comedy. This course is a seminar emphasizing class discussion and written research assignments of different lengths. This counts as an Italian “Language in Context” course. The course employs a student-generated “geographic database” as a research tool. This database of primary texts and images allows the students to rapidly immerse themselves in Dante’s contemporary Florence and better understand how Dante used the particular details of his surroundings to build poetic image and metaphor. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
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