PHI 628 The Renaissance: Rebirth of Humanities
This course spotlights the extraordinary period of the Italian Renaissance during the 14th through 16th Centuries, truly the dawn of the modern era. Students focus on each discipline of the Humanities to see how the medieval perspective gave way to a radically different worldview infused not only by the rebirth of interest in and appreciation of the classical principles of Greece and Rome but also by Christianity’s integration with the classics. We explore the master thinkers, poets, and artists of the day: philosophers (including Machiavelli, Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola); poets (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Tasso); architects (including Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, and Palladio); artists (including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Raphael, Donatello, Tintoretto, and Titian); and musicians (including Des Prez, Palestrina, and Monteverdi). Students are also immersed in the history of the period, especially the rise of powerful city-states (Florence, Milan, Venice, etc.) whose rulers became unprecedented patrons of the arts. An inter-disciplinary team-taught course. (Same as ENG 628)
Cross Listed Courses
ENG 628