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III. Italian.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

Course 3C: French 1A and 2B or Spanish 1A or 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.