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Florence Program
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About
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Fortuna e Natura |
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Instructor:
Nicholas Regiacorte |
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In a decaying city, amid growing terrors of plague and lawlessness, how might we guard ourselves against fear, cynicism and isolation? Considering the 14th century backdrop to The Decameron and Boccaccio’s brigata of storytellers as an example, we’ll ask how it is possible to escape our fortune and nature enough to celebrate them. To what hillsides, real or imagined, may we retreat and start fresh? What new order and culture may bind us together where old institutions failed? |
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Through close reading of the novelle, considering the frame that governs them, tracking dominant motifs and strategies in storytelling, and searching for traces of these things in contemporary Florence, students will attempt to answer those questions for themselves in order to demonstrate the relevance of Boccaccio’s work today. Students will experiment with the same themes and strategies in stories of their own, relative to what they read and derived from their own experiences, and workshop them in class. |
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Heaven,
Hell and Purgatory: The Relationship Between Italian Art and the Christian
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updated 9/7/07
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