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III. Italian.

For Graduates and Undergraduates.

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; Barrili,
Una Notte Bizzarra; Testa, L'oro e l'orpello; Goldoni, Un curioso accidents;
Capuana, Homo; d'Ancona e Bacci, Manuale della letteratura italiana
(Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet, Italian Literature; Symonds, Short
History of the Renaissance in Italy. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1,
S. W. Rotunda, Professor Wilson.