Renaissance Europe I: Foundations and Forms
All classes will take place on Mondays, 15:00-17:00, in H3.55 (3rd floor, Humanities Building)
Week 1: Introduction [David Lines] Module Description, Aims & Assessment inc. Essay Deadline HERE.
Models and influence
Week 2: Greece, Rome, and beyond [Bobby Xinyue]. Full reading list with various pdfs listed below.
Cicero, Pro Archia (Oration for Archias the Poet). PDF HERE.
Petrarch’s letters to: Socrates, Pulice di Vicenza, Cicero (x2), and Posterity. PDF HERE.
Mantuan, Eclogue 5. PDF HERE.
Kallendorf, C. W. (2007), ‘Renaissance’, in idem. (ed.), A Companion to the Classical Tradition (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell), pp.30-43. PDF HERE.
Week 3: The Christian tradition [David Lines]. Full reading list
Petrarch, The Ascent of Mount Ventoux. PDF HERE
Augustine, Confessions, Book VIII at https://0-www-loebclassics-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/view/augustine-confessions_2014/2014/pb_LCL026.355.xml
Week 4: Italian and European Humanism [Ingrid De Smet]. Full reading list.
Week 5: Inventing the Renaissance: from Vasari to Burckhardt [Rebecca Carnevali]. Full reading list with pdfs below.
Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists. PDF HERE; Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. PDF HERE.
Week 6: Reading Week (no class)
Texts, Art, and Artefacts
Week 7: Renaissance Poetry and Poetics [Catherine Bates]. Full reading list.
Week 8: Distaffs, Lutes and Prayer Books: The Female Renaissance [Ingrid De Smet]. Full reading list.
Week 9: Renaissance painting [Rebecca Carnevali]. Full reading list with pdfs below.
Cennino Cennini, The Book of the Art. PDF HERE; Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting. PDF HERE; Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists. PDF HERE
Week 10: Botanical Manuals [Michael Bycroft]. Full reading list.