Course	ITAL 110 Accelerated Italian
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
CRN	97091
Schedule	M T W Th 9:20 - 10:20 am OLINLC 206
Distribution	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 215 Humanism, Hermeticism, Hieroglyphs, Heretics: Introduction to Italian Renaissance Literature and Thought
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
CRN	97032
Schedule	Tu Th 5:30 – 6:50 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

Cross-listed: STS

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 knowledge, 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. Conducted in English.

Course	ITAL 275 “To Remake Italy”: Italian Film from Rossellini and Fellini to the Present
Professor	Joseph Luzzi
CRN	97054
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 – 2:50 pm OLIN 309 Screening: Tu 4:00 -6:30 pm RKC 103
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

The phrase rifare l’Italia (remake Italy) was a refrain for many of the Italian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s who created works that dealt in some way with their nation’s struggle to rebuild itself after two decades of Fascism and years of world (and civil) war. In particular, the famous postwar cinematic movement Neorealism revolutionized filmmaking by employing documentary-style techniques to address the pressing sociopolitical issues of the day. A focus of this course on the history of Italian film will be the works and legacies of the vaunted Neorealist movement, whose directors (Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti) trained or influenced a generation of the so-called auteur filmmakers (Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini). We will also study the richly interdisciplinary realm of the silent film era as well as the major recent Italian directors who continue to produce “art cinema” in the tradition of the Neorealist and auteur masters. All course work/readings in English; films with English subtitles.

Course	ITAL 301 Origins of Italian Literature
Professor	Nina Cannizzaro
CRN	97094
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 306
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

The debt of gratitude authors like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sydney, Pope  and numerous others owed to Italian literature is well known. But what  was it about Italian poetry that gave it such outstanding authority?  Much of the answer lies in early Italian poets? obsession with  redefining ?love? and distinguishing the array of nuances within it.  The growing discourse over love?s scientific essence superceded the  view of its predominantly religious make-up, and generated new ideas  about its role in obtaining knowledge of the self, nature and god, in  addition to its influence in creating an ideal society on earth. Such  ideas challenged the social parameters (and over time, many legal  parameters) put into place by Christianity. This course will examine  the various permutations of the concept of love from the medieval to  the early-modern age, also exploring how literary genres (lyric/epic  poetry, novelle, dialogues, medical / magical treatises, letters,  memoirs, theatre) reflected beliefs about how and when one was to  learn the lessons of love or become a victim to it.  Authors include  Lentini, Cavalcanti, Guinizelli, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Ficino,  Ariosto, Bembo, Machiavelli, Aretino, Franco, Michelangelo, Stampa,  Patrizi, Bruno, Marino, Pallavicino, and Casanova. The course is  taught in Italian with critical readings in Italian and English.  Advanced grammar review will be incorporated into the written work.