Humanities 3: Renaissance and Reformation
Fall 2007 John Marino
TEXTS (Books for
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince and Other Works (Norton)
Niccolò Machiavelli, Mandragola, trans. Mera J. Flaumenhaft (Waveland Press)
Thomas More, Utopia, David Wooten (Hackett)
François
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans.
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection (Penguin)
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, rev. ed. (Signet)
Dornan & Dawe, Brief English Handbook, 7th ed (Pearson/Longman)
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I.
Renaissance: Ancient Models and Modern
Forms
F 9/28 From the Liberal Arts
to Renaissance Humanism: Theory & Practice (Handout Medieval U.)
M 10/1 A Practical Political Handbook: How to Gain and Maintain a Principality
Machiavelli, The Prince,
Historical Intro, vii-xvi; Chap. 1-11, pp. 3-33 (Handout Outlines)
W 10/3 The Art of War and The Renaissance Nature Effect: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
READER:#1 J.V. Field, The Invention of Infinity, pp 1-29; Humanism, Petrarch, Bruni, Pico
The
Prince, Chap. 12-14, pp. 33-42
F 10/5 A Mirror for Princes
The Prince, Chap. 15-23, pp. 42-65; Discourses, 89-118; Letters,123-31; Maxims, 260-2
M 10/8 Fortune is a Woman: A Book of Occasion or The Renaissance Predicament (fortuna v. virtù)
The Prince, Chap 24-26, pp 66-72; READER #2: Petrarch’s poetry and “Italia mia”
W 10/10 The Problem of Machiavelli PLAY: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, WLH 2205
Isaiah
F 10/12 La Mandragola and the Social Body (Student Performance)
Machiavelli, La Mandragola, pp. 7-55
M 10/15
The Printing Revolution:
Columbus Letter (1493): http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/columbus/translation.html
READER: #3 Vespucci Letter (1502), The Requirement (1512); More: 1-34
W 10/17 Christian Humanism and the Reformation: Erasmus’s Egg
The Sileni Alcibiades in More’s Utopia, pp. 169-91; READER: #4 The Paraclesis
F 10/19 The Renaissance Court: The Dialogue on Counsel
More, Utopia,Bk. I, pp.39-89
M 10/22 Discourse on Utopia: State of
Utopia, Bk. II, pp. 90-127
W 10/24 Utopian Solution: Problems and Contradictions
Utopia, Bk. II, pp.127-168
F 10/26 The Question of Private Property
CLASS DEBATE 1. Resolved: Private Property Should be Abolished
II. Reforming Church, State, and Self: The Present Reads the Past
M 10/29 The Reformation Movements: Origins and Divisions; War and Resolutions
READER: #5 Luther and Calvin documents PAPER #1 DUE in Class
W 10/31 Giants and Humans: Human Nature, Learning, and Students
Rabelais, Bk. I: Intro, chap 52-58
F 11/2 Redemptive Design of Rabelais' Book II: Aeneas, Christ, and Pantagruel
Rabelais, Bk. II: Prologue, chap 7-9, 21-22, 32
M 11/5 Nature and the Quarrel about Women
Rabelais, Bk. III, pp.239-287; Handout: Structure of Rabelais' Book III
W 11/7 The Design of Book III: The Quest for Truth in High and Low Culture
Rabelais, Bk. III, pp. 287-333
F 11/9 Self-Knowledge and Pantagruelion
Rabelais, Bk. III, pp. 333-375
M 11/12 Veterans’ Day
W 11/14 Relatively Speaking: How do we know the truth?
Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader," "On discrepant means," "On idleness" (pp. 3-10); "On true
and false" (pp. 74 -78); "On the Lame," pp. 351-363; Handout: The Return of Martin Guerre
W 11/14, 7:00 PM-9:15PM, Center 212,
Evening Film: Return of Martin Guerre (1982), 123min.
F 11/16 What Knowledge is Worth Having?
"On educating children" (pp. 37-73); Optional Film Review of Martin Guerre Due
M 11/19 Guest
Lecture: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
(Prince of
“Re-thinking Conquest:
Spanish and Native Experiences in the
Essays, "On
cannibals"(79-92) "On coaches"(330-350); READER #6 Las Casas,
Acosta
W 11/21 No Class/No Section in exchange for film PAPER #2 DUE by Noon to TA
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY WEEKEND
M 11/26 Politics and Power: The Arts of Civilization
Shakespeare, The
Tempest, Acts I-II, pp. 37-81
W 11/28 Renaissance Science: Music and Magic, Language and Wisdom
Shakespeare, The
Tempest, Acts III-V, pp. 81-121
F 11/30 Religion and Science
READER: #7 “Galileo’s Letter to the
Archduchess Christina” (1615), pp.87-118, 336-340
III. Conclusion: Modernity's Quest for Certainty and Stability
M 12/3 Brave New World: 17th-Century Crisis and the New Science
Reader: #8 Bacon's Four Idols and Descartes' Four Rules of the Method
W 12/5 Renaissance Revisited: Its Beginnings and Ends
READER: #9: Panofsky, “Artist, Scientist, Genius”
F 12/7 QUESTION PERIOD Reader #10: Review Study Guide
Cervantes, Don Quixote, Pt. II, ch. 10: http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/68/
Galileo Affair: http://www.unav.es/cryf/galileoaffair.html#index
FINAL: Tues., 12/11, 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM,
GRADES
9% Section Participation (At least 2 hrs. prep per 1 hr. lecture = 6 hrs./wk minimum)
25% Paper One (NOTE: Papers due in class on day indicated.
33% Paper Two No late papers without professor's permission.)
33% Final (1/2 hr. IDs, and 2 essays from study questions)
1% Extra credit for participation in play, debate, or film review
N.B. Thanksgiving Week Wednesday, 11/21, No Class/No Section in exchange for film
Add/Drop Deadlines - IMPORTANT
Last day to add . . . . . . . . . . . . October 12 Last day to drop w/o a "W" . . . .October 26
Last day to drop w/o a "F". . . . November 30
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OFFICE
HOURS
John Marino: H&SS 5072, (858) 534-3041, M: 1:00-2:00; W: 10:00-10:50, jmarino@ucsd.edu
John
Lee: GH 186, (858) 534-6154, j9lee@ucsd.edu
Amanda Solomon:
GH 173B, alsolomo@ucsd.edu
Andy Beck: H&SS 7017, aebeck@ucsd.edu
Ryan Zroka: H&SS 6025, zzroka@aol.com
COURSE
DESIGN
The course can be divided into two parts that relate to the two writing assignments.
(1) The calamity of the early sixteenth century is war and politics. Our readings from Machiavelli and More address the problem of the rational organization of society, the state, and right action.
(2) The problem of the later sixteenth century is the question of belief and religion. Our readings from Luther, Calvin, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare,Cervantes, and Galileo examine how we know about things and how we act in the world.
Framing the two themes are two long-lasting political, social, economic, and cultural crises in the mid-fourteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries on either end of the period. The fourteenth-century crisis provides an introduction to the origins of the Renaissance and its differentiation from the Middle Ages, while the seventeenth-century crisis offers a conclusion after a long period of experimentation and innovation that ends the Renaissance with a new certainty and stability. Thus, this course is about context and content, each reinforces our understanding of the other to provide for an interpretation of historical change.
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