Topics in 17th & 18th Century Literature

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Works of various literary and philosophical writers will be studied. Topics may include the effect of the Inquisition, the Petrarchan and Arcadian traditions, theater as social and political laboratory, Galileo, Bruno, Campanella, Marino, Vico, Metastasio, Gozzi, Goldoni, the beginnings of the Risorgimento in the works of such authors as Alfieri, Parini, and Foscolo. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.