Course teached as: B008228 - STORIA DEL RINASCIMENTO Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Modern History. An advanced study of issues and methods concerning research on European modern history (late 15th - early 19th centuries), through reading and analysis of printed and handwritten sources.
LUCA DELLA ROBBIA, La condanna a morte di Pietro Paolo Boscoli, a cura di Marco Pacioni, Introduzione di Adriano Prosperi, con un saggio di Delio Cantimori, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2012;
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, Il Principe, a cura di Giorgio Inglese, con un saggio di Federico Chabod, Torino, Einaudi, 2005;
ANGELO POLIZIANO, Coniurationis commentarium – Commentario alla congiura dei Pazzi, a cura di Leandro Perini, Firenze, FUP, 2012.
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DELIO CANTIMORI, Eretici italiani del Cinquecento e Prospettive di storia ereticale italiana del Cinquecento, a cura di Adriano Prosperi, Torino, Einaudi, 2009.
Learning Objectives
During the course, consisting in the attentive reading of historical texts, the student will be offered the opportunity for leading (under the teachers’s supervision) a personal research-work, which can give him the sense of practising an historical research, and so to test his personal attitudes and the notions and methods he has learned during the course itself.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
lectures; seminars
Further information
TITLE
a) Histories: La congiura antimedicea di Pietro Paolo Boscoli. Politica, cultura, religione nella Firenze del Rinascimento;
b) Historians: Delio Cantimori
Type of Assessment
Oral presentation; written paper; oral discussion
Course program
The 2015-2016 course will be divided in two Sections. Section 1 (Histories: 30 hours) will be devoted to “La congiura antimedicea di Pietro Paolo Boscoli. Politica, cultura, religione nella Firenze del Rinascimento”, a long-dated historical theme faced with a cultural history perspective. Section 2 (HIstorians: 6 hours), devoted any year to an historian of the Renaissance, will be dedicated this year to Delio Cantimori (1904-1966).