Week 1

Introduction, RVF 1

Week 2

Secretum

Week 3

Secretum, selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Week 4     

“Petrarch’s favorite books”, reading, writing, bookmaking  during Petrarch’s time (session with Prof. Jennifer Newman, Hunter Library)

RVF 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Week 5

RVF 10, 12, 22, 23

Week 6

RVF 23, 24, 27, 28, 30

Week 7

RVF 34, 35, 40, 46, 51, 60, 61, 70, 77, 78, 90

Week 8

RVF 114, 126, 127, 128, 129

Week 9

RVF 134, 136, 142, 150, 152, 164, 173, 195, 196, 197

Week 10

Research for presentation

Just a reminder of these Petrarchan verses about April 6:

Mille trecento ventisette, a punto / su l’ora prima, il dì sesto d’aprile, / nel laberinto intrai, né veggio ond’esca (RVF 211.12-14)

Sai che ’n mille trecento quarantotto, / il dì sesto d’aprile, in l’ora prima, / del corpo uscìo quell’anima beata (RVF 336.12-14)

Week 11

RVF 211, 228, 234, 246, 247, 263, 264

Week 12

RVF 266, 267, 269, 270, 271, 272, 292, 299, 302, 311, 316, 323

Week 13

no class | spring recess

Week 14

RVF 332, 336, 337, 346, 355, 359, 360

Week 15

RVF 363, 365, 366; Petrarch after Petrarch: presentations

Week 16

Reading day

Week 17

Final exam