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Academic Year 2000/2001

Medicean Negotiations: Cultural Production and the Renaissance Papacy
FIST 238 FA

This course will consider the literary and artistic patronage of the Roman papacy of the high Renaissance, concentrating on the reigns of the two Medici popes, Leo X (1513-1521) and Clement VII (1523-1534) and on artists and writers such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Bramante, Lorenzo de' Medici, Castiglione, Macchiavelli, Luigi Guicciardini, and Pietro Aretino. A close reading of both visual and literary texts will place them in the context of papal politics in both Florence and Rome, of expanding Medic i family power in both cities, of the opening salvos of the Protestant Reformation, and, finally, of the Sack of Rome in 1527 and the revival of an international papacy under Paul III (1534-1549), in English.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RLAN    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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