Dante s Divine Comedy, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence NEH Summer Institute Florence, Italy June 30-July 24, 2014

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1 THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND WILL BE UPDATED REGULARLY AS DATES FOR GUEST VISITS ARE ESTABLISHED. Dante s Divine Comedy, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence NEH Summer Institute Florence, Italy June 30-July 24, 2014 Primary Texts: Dante Major Works Dante, The Divine Comedy 1: Inferno, trans. Robin Kirkpatrick (Penguin Classics, 2006). Dante, The Divine Comedy 2: Purgatorio, trans. Robin Kirkpatrick (Penguin Classics, 2007). Dante, The Divine Comedy 3: Paradiso, trans. Robin Kirkpatrick (Penguin Classics, 2007). Primary Texts: Dante Minor Works Dante, Letter to Can Grande della Scala. Ed. Ermenegildo Pistelli. Trans. Paget Toynbee. Testo critico della Societa' Dantesca Italiana. Florence: Societa' Dantesca Italiana, Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia. Ed. and trans. Steven Botterill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l996. Dante, Il Convivio (The Banquet). Trans. Richard Lansing. New York: Garland, l990. Dante, La Vita Nuova. Ed. Domenico de Robertis. Milan: Ricciardi, l980. Dante, Monarchia. Ed. and trans. Prue Shaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Secondary Texts Aquinas, Thomas. selections. On closed site. Cambridge Companion to Dante, ed. Rachel Jacoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). (Selections will be available on closed site. Participants from subscribing institutions can access an e-book version.) Chiara Frugoni, A Day in A Medieval City, trans. William McCuaig (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of Brother Sun. Virgil s Aeneid, selections. Books 4 and 6 available on closed site. See LINKS for a list of web resources, including The Dante Society, Princeton Dante Project, Danteworlds, The World of Dante, and Dante Today. Faculty Director BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN (bdschildgen@ucdavis.edu) Time 9-1 M-F, with some days taken as field trips. There will be a twenty-minute break at 11 each day. Daily Organization 9-12 for faculty-led focus on the readings for the day; 12-1, group discussion. Meeting Place University of Florence, Via Laura, no.48

2 Institute Schedule Week 1 (June 30-July 4) Background: Dante, early works, Virgil, Florence, Politics, Economics, the Church, and Ethics Reading for the week: Dante s Inferno 1-22; Monday: Giuseppe Mazzotta, Life of Dante, pp. 1-13, CCD; John M. Najemy, Dante and Florence, pp , CCD; Lino Pertile, Introduction to Inferno, pp , CCD; Tuesday: Kevin Brownless, Dante and the Classical Poets, pp , CCD; Wednesday: Charles Till Davis, Dante and the Empire, pp Recommended: Letter to Can Grande della Scala; Virgil s Aeneid, selections; Thomas Aquinas, selections; Monarchia, Convivio, all as pdf documents on the closed site [OR WWW]. Monday June 30: Introductions Professor Peter Hawkins in residence from June 30-July 16 9:00-10:30 Institute faculty introduce themselves. Overview of the goals and objectives of the Institute and planned activities. Introduction to reading strategies for the Divine Comedy, and to iconographic art and literature. 10:45-12:30 Professor Lino Pertile guest speaker Introduction to Inferno. 12:30-1:00 Orientation to Florence s archives and libraries (Schildgen). Tuesday July 1 9:00-11:00 Private visit to the Baptistery of San Giovanni and Santa Reparata 11:00-1:00 Inferno 1-4. (Schildgen and Hawkins) Wednesday July 2 9:00-11:00 Inferno 5-9. (Schildgen and Hawkins). 11:15-1:00 Professor David Ardagh, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Free Will, Ethics and Politics Afternoon Guided visit to medieval strata of Palazzo della Signoria (Time to be established). Thursday July 3 9:00-1:00 Inferno (Schildgen and Hawkins). Friday July 4 9:00-12:00 Inferno (Schildgen and Hawkins) Santa Maria Novella visit. Week 2 (July 7-July 11) Background: Inferno, Purgatorio, Medieval Politics, Art, and Poetry

3 Reading for the week: Dante s Inferno 23-34, Purgatorio 1-24; Wednesday: Jeffrey Schnapp, Introduction to Purgatorio, pp , CCD. Monday July 7 9:45-12:00 Private guided visit to Uffizi with Professor William Cook (when it is closed) 2:00-5:00 Inferno (Schildgen and Hawkins) Tuesday July 8 9:00-12:00 Inferno (Schildgen and Hawkins) Afternoon visit to Siena (Guided tour of Palazzo Comunale and Opera del Duomo, Siena with Professor William Cook) Wednesday July 9 Reading Jeffrey Schnapp, Introduction to Purgatorio, pp , CCD. 9:00-1:00 Introduction to Purgatorio 1-7. (Schildgen and Hawkins) Thursday July 10 9:00-12:00 Purgatorio (Schildgen and Hawkins) Friday July 11 9:00-1:00 Purgatorio (Schildgen and Hawkins) Week 3 (July 13-July 18) Professor Peter Hawkins continues in residence. Professors Hawkins and Schildgen will lead the discussions. Background: Purgatorio, the Bible, Lyric poetry, Monasticism and Medieval learning Reading for the Week: Dante s Purgatorio 25-33, Paradiso 1-10; Monday: Peter Hawkins, Dante and the Bible, pp , CCD, Teodolinda Barolini, Dante and the Lyric Past, pp , CCD; Friday: Rachel Jacoff, Introduction to Paradiso, pp , CCD. Monday July 14 Reading Peter Hawkins, Dante and the Bible, pp , CCD; Teodolinda Barolini, Dante and the Lyric Past, pp , CCD. 9:00-1:00 Purgatorio (Hawkins and Schildgen) Afternoon Professor Chiara Frugoni, University of Rome, emerita, Upper Basilica, Church of San Francesco, Assisi at Santa Croce.

4 Tuesday July 15 9:00-5:00 All day visit to Assisi and a Franciscan guided visit to the Basilica of San Francesco (Simone Martini, Cimabue, Pietro Lorenzetti, Giotto). Wednesday July 16 9:00-1:00 Purgatorio (Hawkins and Schildgen) 4 PM Visit to San Miniato, Lecture on Monasticism: St. Benedict and St. Bernard, Benedictine Monastery (followed by Gregorian Chant). Thursday July 17 9:00-1:00 Paradiso 1-5 (Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta and Brenda Schildgen). Friday July 18 Reading Rachel Jacoff, Introduction to Paradiso, pp , CCD. 9:00-1:00 Paradiso (Schildgen and William Franke) Afternoon lecture: Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta, Introduction to Paradiso and the encyclopedia of medieval learning. Week 4 (July 21-25) Background: Paradiso, St. Francis, Theology and Pedagogy Reading for the Week: Paradiso 11-33; Monday: Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of Brother Sun, A. N. Williams, The theology of the Comedy, pp , CCD; Selections from Approaches to Teaching Dante; Wednesday: David Wallace, Dante in English, , CCD. Monday July 21 Reading Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of Brother Sun ; A. N. Williams, The theology of the Comedy, pp , CCD. 9:00-1:00 Paradiso (Schildgen and Franke) Afternoon lecture: Professor William Franke, Self-Reflection and the Theological Apotheosis of Lyric in the Paradiso. Tuesday July 22 8:00-5:00 All day guided trip to Ravenna and its Paleo-Christian monuments. Wednesday July 23 9:00-1:00 Paradiso 19-22;

5 Afternoon Session: General issues: pedagogy, reception, canons, great books, translation, interrelationship of the arts and sciences in the medieval and early modern periods and applications in a pedagogical setting. Reading Selections from Approaches to Teaching Dante; David Wallace, Dante in English, , CCD to introduce Dante s reception in English. Thursday July 24 9:00-1:00 Paradiso Closing Session and Summations Evening Closing reception at the Institute director s house. Select Bibliography Dante Primary Alighieri, Dante. Il Convivio. Ed. G. Busnelli and G. Vandelli. 2 vols. Florence: Felice le Monnier, Dante's Il Convivio (The Banquet). Trans. Richard Lansing. New York: Garland, l990. La Divina Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata. Ed. Giorgio Petrocchi. 4 vols. Società dantesca italiana. Milan: Mondarori, The Divine Comedy. Trans. and commentary Charles S. Singleton. Bollingen Series 80. Princeton: Princeton University Press, *Not online* Monarchia. Ed. and trans. Prue Shaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, La Vita Nuova. Ed. Domenico de Robertis. Milan: Ricciardi, l980. De Vulgari Eloquentia. Ed. and trans. Steven Botterill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l996. Some of Dante s Sources Augustine. Confessionum Libri XIII. Ed. Martin Skutella. CCSL 27. Turnhout: Brepols, Augustine. De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos. Libri I-X. Ed. Bernard Dombart and Alphonse Kalb. CCSL 47. Turnhout: Brepols, Augustine. De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos. Libri XI-XXII. Ed. Bernard Dombart and Alphonse Kalb. CCSL 48. Turnhout: Brepols, Augustine. De Doctrina Christiana. Ed. Joseph Martin in CCSL 32. Turnhout: Brepols, Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem I and II. Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelstalt, l969.

6 Orosio. Le Storie Contro I Pagani. 2 vols. Ed. Adolf Lippold. Trans. Aldo Bartalucci. Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori, Virgil. Opera. Ed. R. A. B. Mynors. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969; rept Translations The Oxford Study Bible. Revised English Bible with Apocrypha. Ed. M. Jack Suggs, Katharine Doob Sakenfield, James R. Mueller. New York: Oxford University Press, Saint Augustine. City of God. Trans. Henry Betteson. Intro. G.R. Evans. London: Penguin Books, Saint Augustine. Confessions. Trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin. London: Penguin Books, Saint Augustine. On Christian Doctrine. Trans. D.W. Roberston, Jr. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Orosius. The Seven Books of History Against the Pagans. Trans. Roy J. Deferrari. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of American Press, Vergil. The Aeneid. Trans. Sarah Ruden. New Haven: Yale University Press, Secondary: Florence, Renaissance, Art, and Italian Environment and History David Abulafia, Italy in the Central Middle Ages Oxford, Walter Alvarez, The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped our Earth, New York, Girolamo Arnaldi, Italy and Its Invaders, trans. Antony Shugaar, Cambridge, Mass., Hans Baron, Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York, 1929.Chiara Frugoni, A Distant City: Images of Urban Experience in the Medieval World, trans. William McCuaig. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Chiara Frugoni, A Day in a Medieval City, trans. William McCuaig, Chicago, Chiara Frugoni, La voce delle immagini: Pillole iconografiche dal Medioevo, Turin, Richard A. Goldthwaite, Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy Johns Hokins, Jacques Le Goff, The Birth of Purgatory, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Chicago, Loren Partridge, Art of Florence , Berkeley, CA, Salvatore Settis, Iconografia dell arte italiana : una linea, Turin, Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean, The Italian City-republics. London, 1969; 4th edition, Ronald E. Zupko and Robert A. Laures, Straws in the Wind, Medieval Urban Environmental Law: the Case of Northern Italy, Boulder, CO, Beyond Florence, ed. Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine, and Duane J. Osheim, Stanford, Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation, ed. Katherine Jansen, Joanna Drell, and Frances Andrews. Philadelphia, 2009.