III. Italian.
Course 3C: French 1A and 2B or Spanish 1A and 2B prerequisite.—
One course is offered, for which no previous knowledge of Italian is required.
Students are advanced rapidly through an elementary grammar,
and then through a series of graded texts to the point where Modern
Italian is read with ease. Several of the more important monuments of
the Nineteenth Century are read and discussed, after which the attention
of the class is directed to Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The history
of Italian Literature is studied, and also that of the Renaissance. Books:
Grandgent's Grammar; Edgren's Dictionary; Amicis,
Alberto; Testa,
L'oro
e l'orpello; Goldoni,
Un curioso accidente; Capuana,
Homo; Bowen,
Italian
Reader; d'Ancona e Bacci,
Manuale della letteratura italiana (Dante,
Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet,
Italian Literature; Symonds,
Short History
of the Renaissance in Italy; Barrili,
Una Notte Bizzarra. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12-1, S. W. Rotunda, Professor
Wilson.
