Home | Summer Institute 2004

Columbia University, New York City

July 5 – 30, 2004

  Mon, July 5:   Arrival by 5 PM, at Columbia University
Reception 5–6 PM
Welcoming dinner 7 PM
Unit 1 (July 6–8)  

Politics, Society and Culture in the Italian Renaissance (Margaret L. King)
  Tu, July 6:   The City
      Session 1: Read:
King, chapter 1
      Session 2: Read:  
King, chapter 2
      Session 3: Read:  
Bruni, “Panegyric,” in The Earthly Republic; Boccaccio, Decameron, Prologue
      Afternoon Session:        2-3 PM: Getting Acquainted; Sharing materials; Projects
  Wed, July 7:   Class, Gender, and Popular Religion
      Session 1: Read:
King, chs. 5–6
      Session 2: Read:
Poggio, On Avarice, in The Earthly Republic (entire)
      Session 3: Read:
Fonte, 43–117
  Th, July 8:   The Fall of Italy
      Session 1:  Read:
King, chs. 7–8
      Session 2: Read:
Machiavelli, The Prince (entire)
      Session 3: Read:
Castiglione, The Courtier, bks 1 & 3
Unit 2 (July 9–10)   Italian Literature: Dante & Petrarch (Robert Proctor)
  Fri, July 9:   Dante  
      Session 1:  Read:
Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1–5;
Purgatorio, Cantos 1, 2, 14, 15 (Reader)
      Session 2: Cont’d
      Session 3: Cont’d
  Sat, July 10:   Petrarch; Proctor
      Session 1: Read:
Petrarch, The Canzoniere, Introduction and poems 1–10, 23, 24, 34, 35; Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity; and Petrarch’s On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others” (Reader)
      Session 2: Read:
Proctor, Defining the Humanities (entire)
      Session 3: Cont’d
Unit 3 (July 12–13)   Philosophy (Michael Allen)
  Mon, July 12:   Renaissance Philosophy: Cosmology
      Session 1: Introduction to Renaissance Philosophy
        Read:
Proem: Literature & Philosophy; Donne & the extracts from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Troilus, and Tempest (Reader)
      Session 2: Poetic Theogonies & Creationism of Hesiod
        Read:
Hesiod & Virgil (Reader)
      Session 3: Platonic Myths
        Read:
Timaeus (cosmology), Statesman (time & the theory of cycles), Republic (Myth of Er, reincarnation & personal destiny), Theaetetus (Reader)
  Tu, July 13:   Ficino & Pico, Copernicus & Bruno
       Session 1: Ficino’s Theory of the Soul: Its Nature & Place in the Cosmos
        Read:
Ficino (Reader)
      Session 2: Pico’s Philosophy of Man as the Fourth World and his Christology
        Read:
Pico (Reader)
      Session 3: The Copernican Revolution, Bruno’s Theory of Infinite Worlds
        Read:
Copernicus & Bruno (Reader)
Unit 4 (July 14–15)   Humanism (Albert Rabil)

  Wed, July 14:   Humanism
      Session 1: Overview
        Read:
King, chapter 3; Rabil, “Renaissance Humanism”(Reader)
      Session 2: Antiquity, Discovery of Manuscripts, Education
        Read:
Humanism 1, 2, 3 (Reader)
      Session 3: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Human Dignity
        Read:
Humanism 5, 6, 7 (Reader)
  Th, July 15:   Humanism and...
      Session 1: Women: The Querelle des Femmes
        Read:
Agrippa, Declamation on the Nobility & Preeminence of the Female Sex; Humanism 8a (Reader)
      Session 2: Politics
        Read:
More, Utopia (cf. Machiavelli, Prince)
      Session 3: Christianity Read: Humanism 9; Erasmus, Paraclesis (Reader)
      Session 3: Christianity
        Read:
Humanism 9; Erasmus, Paraclesis (Reader)
      Afternoon Visit: Morgan Library (2 PM): Historic tour & lecture by Wm Voelkle
Unit 5 (July 16, 19)   New Horizons: Rabelais/Marguerite de Navarre (Rouben Cholakian)
  Fri, July 16:   Narrative Prose Forms in the Renaissance
      Session 1: Novel vs. short fiction; prose vs. poetry, frame device; courtly vs. bourgeois texts
        Read:
Clements & Gibaldi, Anatomy of the Novella, ch. 1 (1–35) (Reader)
        Cholakian & Cholakian, Early French Novella, 17–73 (Reader)
        Godwin, “The Frame-Novel and the ‘Pleasure of Being Different’” (Reader)
      Session 2: Rabelais: narrative voice / characters / description / satire / hyperbole
        Read:
Rabelais, Tiers Livre (Bk 3), chs. 9–10, 25–27, 34, 48 Coleman, Rabelais, ch. 5 (Reader)
        Rouben Cholakian, The Moi in the Middle Distance, 18–28, 43–50 (Reader) Screech, Rabelais, 207–92 (Reader)
      Session 3: Marguertie de Navarre: Frame device / Boccaccio / dialogic reasoning / psychological analysis
        Read:
Heptameron, Prologue, 60–70

Ferrier, Forerunners of the French Novel, ch. 4 (Reader)

  Mon, July 19:   Renaissance Ideas
      Session 1: Education / gender roles / religion / marriage / humanism
        Read:
King, passim
      Session 2: Rabelais: Humanistic education / Thélème
        Read:
Gargantua, chs. 1–11, 23–24, 52–58 Screech, 118–201 (Reader)

Cholakian, “Moi” & the Middle Distance, 104–18 (Reader)

      Session 3: Marguerite de Navarre: “feminism” / honor ‘ “perfect” love
        Read:
Heptameron, Day 1, 71–154

Patricia Cholakian, Rape & Writing in the Heptameron, 1-104 (Reader)

Unit 6 (July 20–22)   Italian Renaissance Art (Mary Garrard)
  Tu, July 20:   The Rebirth of Antiquity and the Imitation of Nature
      Session 1: Architecture
        Brunelleschi: Foundlings’ Hospital; the Pazzi Chapel; the Florentine Cathedral dome
        Read:
Richard Turner, Renaissance Florence, ch. 4 (Reader)

John Onians, Bearers of Meaning, ch. 9 (Reader)

      Session 2: Public and Domestic Art
        Alberti: Malatesta Temple, Rucellai Palace; Marriage cassoni and birth salvers; Bernardo Rosellino; Tomb of Leonardo Bruni Donatello: St. George (statue and relief); David; Judith
        Read:
Turner, Renaissance Florence, ch. 3

Paola Tinagli, Women in Italian Renaissance Art, ch. 1 (Reader)
      Session 3: Painting
        Masaccio: The Pisa Madonna; the Brancacci Chapel
Read:
Samuel Edgerton, Jr., The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective, chs. 1–3 (Reader)

Paul Hills, The Light of Early Italian Painting, ch. 8 (Reader)

      Afternoon Visit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Group 1 (2:30 PM); others to Cloisters
  Wed, July 21:   Platonic and Heroic Idealization in Florence and Rome
      Session 1: Style Wars
        Botticelli: Primavera, Birth of Venus
Leonardo da Vinci: Ginevra de’ Benci, Virgin of the Rocks, St. Anne

Read:
Mary Garrard, “Female Portraits, Female Nature” (Reader)

      Session 2: The “High Renaissance in Architecture and Painting
        Bramante: The Tempietto
Raphael: School of Athens

Read:
Onians, Bearers of Meaning, ch. 17 (Reader)
Christiane Joost-Gaugier, Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura, ch. 7 (Reader)

      Session 3: Heroic Virility
        Michelangelo: Doni tondo; David; design and slaves for the tomb of Julius II

Read:
Charles Seymour, Jr., Michelangelo’s David, chs. 3–4 (Reader)

      Afternoon Visit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Group 2 (2:30 PM); others to Cloisters
  Th, July 22:   Venice and the Later Cinquecento: Woman as Subject, Women as Artists
      Session 1: The Cult of Feminine Beauty
        Giorgione: Sleeping Venus, Laura
Titian: Sacred and Profane Love, Flora, Venus of Urbino

Read:
Tinagli, Women in Renaissance Art, ch. 4 (Reader)
Agnolo Firenzuola, On the Beauty of Women, Introduction (xiii–xxxiv only), Second Dialogue (44–68), and notes (79–83) (Reader)

      Session 2: Paragones: Design and Color, Men and Women
        Titian: Danae, Rape of Europa

Read:
Patricia Reilly, “The Taming of the Blue: Writing out Color in Italian Renaissance Theory” (Reader)

      Session 3: Women Artists
        Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Giovanna Garzoni

Read:
Mary Garrard, “Here’s Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist” (Reader)

      Afternoon Visit: The Frick Collection (2:30 PM)
Unit 7 (July 23, 26):   Spain and the Renaissance: Cervantes and Zayas (Patricia Grieve)
  Fri, July 23:   The Worlds of Cervantes’ Don Quixote
      Session 1:

Fictional Worlds
        Read:
Don Quixote, Part I: Prologue through chap.26; chaps 47–52
      Session 2: The Autonomous Character
        Read:
Don Quixote, Part II: Prologue and chaps 1–3, 8–11, 16, 18, 22–23, 41–48, 72–74
  Mon, July 26:   Cervantes and María de Zayas
      Session 1: Cervantes and the World of the Novella
        Read:
“Tale of Inappropriate Curiosity,” DQ, Part I, chaps 33-34
Forcione, “Jealous Extremaduran,” in Cervantes and the Humanist Vision (Reader)
      Session 2: María de Zayas, The Disenchantments of Love
        Read:
Disenchantments of Love, First and Second Nights
Grieve, “Embroidering with Saintly Threads” (Reader)
      Session 3: María de Zayas, The Disenchantments of Love, cont’d
        Read:
Disenchantments of Love, Third Night
Unit 8 (July 27–28)   Marriage, Sexuality and Representation in Early Modern English Drama (Mary Beth Rose)
  Tu, July 27:   Marriage & Sexuality in Renaissance England
      Session 1: Read:
Elizabethan Writers on Marriage & Sexuality (Reader)
      Session 2: Read:
Othello
  Wed, July 28:   John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi; and Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam
      Session 1: Read:
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
      Session 2: Read:
Elizabeth Cary, Mariam
Unit 9 (July 29–30)   Music (Craig Monson)
  Th, July 29:   Music in Church & Court
      Session 1: Introduction

Read:
Fenlon, “Music and Society” (Reader)

      Session 2: New Ways of Wedding Words & Notes 1

Handout:
Tape; words to music (Reader)

      Session 3: New Ways of Wedding Words & Notes 2
  Fri, July 30:   Music’s Many Uses, Many Messages
      Session 1: Sacred Sirens: Music Within Convent Walls

Read:
Monson, “Putting Bolognese Nun Musicians in their Place” (Reader)

      Session 2: Music & Reformations
    Session 3: Perfect Harmony: Courtly Song & Dance

Read:
Monson, “Elizabethan London” (Reader)

Materials to be Distributed to Each Participant
Books: Primary Sources

Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius, Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex, ed. and trans. Albert Rabil (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Castiglione, Baldassare, The Book of the Courtier, trans. George Bull (New York: Penguin Classics, 1967)

Cervantes, Miguel, Don Quixote (London: Penguin Classics, 1995)

Erasmus, Praise of Folly (New York:  Penguin Classics, 1993)

Fonte, Moderata, The Worth of Women.  Ed. & trans. Virginia Cox (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)

Kohl, Benjamin G. & Ronald W. Witt, eds., The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978)

Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince trans. George Bull (New York: Penguin Classics, 1995)

Marguerite of Navarre, The Heptaméron, trans. P.A. Chilton (New York:  Penguin Classics, 1984)

More, Thomas, Utopia (Penguin Classics, 1965)

Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (New York:  Penguin Classics, 1955)

Shakespeare, Othello, ed. Russ MacDonald (New York: Pelican, ?)

Webster, John, The Duchess of Malfi (Dover, 1999)

Zayas, María de, Disenchantments of Love, trans. H. Patsy Boyer (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997)

Books:  Secondary Sources

King, Margaret L. Renaissance in Europe (New York: McGraw Hill, 2003)

Proctor, Robert E., Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition can Improve our Schools, with a Curriculum for Today’s Students (Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, rev. ed., 1998)

 

Photocopy Packet

 

Bruno, Giordano, On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, Introductory Epistle, 27–28

Cary, Elizabeth, Mariam, from Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England, ed. James Fitzmaurice, et al (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), 47–108

Cholakian, Patricia, Rape and Writing in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre (Carbondale & Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), 1–104

_____ and Rouben Cholakian, eds., The Early French Novella: An Anthology of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French Tales (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1972), 1–73

_____, Rouben, The Moi in the Middle Distance (Turanzas: Studia Humanitatis, 1982), 18–28, 43–50, 104–18

Clements, Robert J. and Joseph Gibaldi, Anatomy of the Novella (New York: NY University Press, 1977), ch. 1 (1–35)

Coleman, Dorothy, Rabelais: A Critical Study in Prose Fiction (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), ch. 5

Dante, Diagrams based on Inferno and Purgatorio

Dante, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, cantos 1–5;  Purgatorio, ed. and tr. Charles S. Singleton (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), cantos 1–2, 14–15

Donne, John, Devotions, Expostulation xix      

Edgerton, Samuel, Jr., The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective (New York: Harper & Row, Icon Editions, 1975), chs. 1-3 (3–49, including chronological outline, xv–xvii)

Fenlon, Iain, “Music and Society,” in The Renaissance: From the 1470s to the End of the 16th Century, ed. Iain Fenlon (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989), 1–62

Ferrier, Janet, Forerunners of the French Novel (Manchester: University Press, 1954)

Ficino, Marsilio, various passages from his Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus

Firenzuola, Agnolo, On the Beauty of Women, ed. and trans. Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), xiii–xxxiv, 44–68 & notes 79–83 (Reader)

Forcione, Alban, Cervantes and the Humanist Vision: A Study of Four Exemplary Novels (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992), “Jealous Extremaduran,”

Freedom of the Will: selections from Augustine, Erasmus, Luther, The Thirty-Nine Articles, Hooker, Milton

Garrard, Mary D., “Female Portraits, Female Nature,” in Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds., The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 58–85

_____, “Here’s Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist,” Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994), 556–622

Godwin, D. A. “The Frame-Novel and the ‘Pleasure of Being Different’,” Seventeenth-Century French Studies 12 (1990): 38–52

Grieve, Patricia, “Embroidering with Saintly Threads: María de Zayas Challenges Cervantes and the Church,” Renaissance Quarterly 44 (1991):86–106

Hesiod, Theogony, 116–206, 453–590, 45–175

Hills, Paul, The Light of Early Italian Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), ch. 8 (128–45, plus notes, 157–58)

Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L., Raphael’s Stanza della Segnature: Meaning and Invention (Cambridge: University Press, 2002), ch. 7 (81–114, and notes, 205–22)

Marriage & Sexuality:  Selections from Elizabethan writers relevant to the interpretation of marriage in Shakespeare

Monson, Craig, “Elizabethan London,” in The Renaissance: From the 1470s to the End of the 16th Century, ed. Iain Fenlon (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989), 304–40

_____, “Putting Bolognese Nun Musicians in Their Place,” in Women’s Voices across Musical Worlds, ed. Jane Bernstein (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003), 118–41

Onians, John, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance (Princeton: University Press, 1988), ch. 9 on Brunelleschi (130–46, up to “to Dante. Tuscan Language”), ch. 17, on Bramante (225–39 only, Developments related to Music)

Petrarch, Letters of Old Age Rerum Senilium Libri I-XVIII, trans. Aldo S. Bernardo, Saul Levin, and Reta A. Bernardo, vol. 2 (Baltimore & London:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), XVII.3–4, XVIII.1 (655–79)

_____, Familiar Letters Rerum familiarium libri I–VIII, trans. Aldo S. Bernardo (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1975), VI.2, 290–95

Plato, Timaeus, 27e–34a, 41a–43e; Statesman, 269c–270a, 270d–272b, 272d–274d; Republic X, 614b–618b, 619b–621d; Theaetetus, 176a–d.

Reilly, Patricia, “The Taming of the Blue: Writing out Color in Italian Renaissance Theory,” in Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds., The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (New York: HarperCollins, 1992),  ch. 4 (86–99)

Screech, M. A., Rabelais (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980), 118–201, 207–92

Seymour, Charles Jr., Michelangelo’s David: A Search for Identity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), chs. 3 and 4 (44–78, and notes 91–93, and plates 9–36)

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, V.i; Tempest, V.i; Hamlet, II.ii, I.iv; Troilus & Cressida, I.iii

Tinagli, Paola, Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity (Manchester: University Press, 1997), ch. 1 (pp ?, on painted furniture), ch. 4 (121–54)

Turner, A. Richard, Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art (New York: Abrams, 1997), chs. 3, 4

Virgil, Aeneid, VI.725–51

 
     
     
     

 
 
  
 

  
  

 

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