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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2021 |
Registration ID | ITALB308001 |
Course Title | Rome as Palimpsests |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Giammei,Alessandro |
Times and Days | T 01:10pm-04:00pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2470 From the urban dream that Raphael confessed to pope Leo X in the middle of the Renaissance to the parkour on the top of the Colosseum in the Assassin’s Creed videogames, Rome has always been both a memory and a vision: a place of nostalgia and endless potential. In this course we will investigate some crucial places, moments, and ideas in the modern history of this ancient capital of Western culture: XVI century Mannerist painting and the Pop Art of Piazza del Popolo, the early modern re-uses of the Colosseum and its cubic clone designed under fascism, the narrations of Romantic grand-tours and the ones of contemporary postcolonial authors. We will adopt a trans-historical and inter-disciplinary perspective, focusing on the main attempts to revive the glory of the ancient empire. We will try to understand weather Italy’s capital is a museum to be preserved, an old laboratory of urban innovations, a cemetery, a sanctuary, or simply an amalgam of past and future, glory and misery, beauty and horror. For Italian majors you will have an additional hour for credit. Prerequisite: One two-hundred level course for students interested in taking the course towards Italian credits. Enrollment Cap: 18; 14 Spaces Reserved for 360 students. |
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