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Spring 2019
Apr 19, 2024 |
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| ITAL 0492 - Mediterranean Decameron |
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*Mediterranean Decameron*
The Decameron, Florence’s “mercantile epic”, embraces a wide cosmopolitanism through stories of trade, travel, politics, and piracy within the pan-Mediterranean network, extending from Marseilles to Alexandria of Egypt. While certainly a theater of political and cultural conflict, the Mediterranean also emerges as a mobile and hybrid space of positive exchange, including wit, humor, sex, love, knowledge, religion, and wisdom. Through discussion and research, in this course we will focus on how and why ideas and beliefs of the Eastern Mediterranean are represented, and whether travel across the Mediterranean transforms protagonists and communities, proposing new values and prospects for the Italian and Western European audience. (ITAL0355 or equivalent) 3 hrs. sem.
0.000 OR 1.000 Credit hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours 0.000 TO 2.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Languages Division Italian Department Course Attributes: CMP, EUR, LIT, LNG |
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