Course	ITAL 110 Accelerated Italian
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
CRN	90451
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 9:20 – 10:20 am OLIN 101
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

This beginning course is designed for the student with little or no prior exposure to Italian. The course will cover the major topics of grammar and give intensive practice in the four skills (speaking, comprehension, reading and writing). The grammar textbook will be supplemented by traditional homework exercises and a variety of multimedia work in the Bard Foreign Language Resource Center. Student must also enroll in a required weekly tutorial to practice oral skills. The course is designed as an indivisible, one-year sequence and includes a semester of language study in the fall (4 credits); the Intersession Intensive Italian Program in Italy (4 credits); and a final spring semester of language study (4 credits).

Course	ITAL 201 Intermediate Italian I
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
CRN	90215
Schedule	Tu Wed Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 302
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

For students who have completed Italian 106 (Intensive) Italian 110 (Accelerated) or the equivalent of Italian 101 and 102. Comprehensive review through practice in writing and conversation. Discussion, compositions and oral reports based on Italian literary texts and cultural material.

Course	ITAL 215 Humanism, Hermeticism, Hieroglyphs, Heretics: Introduction to Italian Renaissance Literature and Thought
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
CRN	90849
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 – 1:20 pm OLINLC 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Foreign Language, Literature, Culture

Many of the most appealing concepts born of the Italian Renaissance—from the reappropriation of Latin and Greek learning to the belief in divine madness, occult influences, original knowledge (prisca theologia / pious philosophy), or the essential cosmic harmony underlying any literary and figurative expression, as well as architecture and even mathematical formulas—were considered increasingly heretical after the office of the Inquisition was created in 1542. They were nevertheless avidly explored in acceptable venues and built the foundation of European-wide intellectual exchange. This course will introduce students to the repertoire of basic cultural referents with which the early-modern individual viewed knowlegde, and perceived history as well as the present. Among the authors we will explore are Dante, Petrarch, Alberti, Ficino (his interpretations and commentaries of the Picatrix and Pimander of the Hermetic corpus in addition to own writings on love and magic), Pico della Mirandola, Landino, Machiavelli, Ortensio Lando, A. Doni, P. Manuzio, F. Sansovino, Tasso, and Garzoni. No prior knowledge of period assumed, but welcomed.

Course	LIT / ITAL 340 European Literature and the Making of Italy
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
CRN	90216
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm ASP 302
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: Literature in English

It is no stretch to say that Italy owes its existence - both as an actual nation and ‘imagined community’ in Benedict Anderson’s term - to the enormous impact of its poets and writers on the drive for political unification that finally occurred in 1861, after centuries of fragmentation stretching back to the Caesars. As part of our look at the literary construction of Italy as an ‘idea’ during the Risorgimento (unification movement), this course will address such themes as the emergence of Italy as the ‘world’s university’ and ‘mother of European art’ in Byron, de Staël, Goethe, and Wordsworth; the influence of Dante on Romantic autobiography; and the representation of the Italian body politic as a woman in Italy and abroad. We will study the works of the so-called tre corone (‘three crowns’) - Ugo Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Manzoni - the leading authors of Romantic Italy who remain to be discovered in much Anglo-American criticism, though their admirers included Goethe (Manzoni), Nietzsche (Leopardi), and some of the most influential writers of the 1800s. A focus of the course will be on Manzoni’s monumental novel, The Betrothed, which many believe is second in importance only to Dante’s Divine Comedy in Italian literary history and comparable in scope and impact to such nineteenth-century historical novels as Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Scott’s Ivanhoe. The course will provide an opportunity for both moderated literature students and others to study Manzoni’s fascinating novel and the myth of Italy from an international and modern perspective. Taught in English translation; option of work in Italian.