Yale Summer Session in Siena: Italian Renaissance Theater (ITAL 228)

Location: Siena Italy

The course will take as its point of departure Poliziano's play and will study the impact of both Aristotle's Poetics on the theatrical premises of the theater and the Florentine intellectual life of the late 15th century. We will then read two plays of Machiavelli, the Mandragola and the Clizia by relating them to the theatrical spectac... read more

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