The Department of Italian Language and Literature at Yale houses linguistic, literary, and historical approaches to Italian culture in all periods, with an emphasis on Italy's influential role in the development of the core arts, philosophies, and materials of Western culture. The undergraduate program requires intensive language training and is at its core interdisciplinary. The department routinely offers courses in a wide variety of areas and specialties, including film, philosophy, literature, history, art, architecture, and music. Learn more at http://www.yale.edu/italian
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Dante in Translation
The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the Comedy's composition.