Italian Studies
Term:  

Spring Quarter

Dept Course No and Title Instructor
ITALIAN (S25)1C  FUNDAMENTALSMAZZITELLO, P.
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ITALIAN (S25)1C  FUNDAMENTALSMAZZITELLO, P.
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ITALIAN (S25)1C  FUNDAMENTALSMAZZITELLO, P.
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ITALIAN (S25)1BCSP  ACCELERATED ITALIANMAZZITELLO, P.
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ITALIAN (S25)2C  INTERMEDIATEDI MAIO, F.
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ITALIAN (S25)2C  INTERMEDIATEDI MAIO, F.
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ITALIAN (S25)50  DANTES INFERNOMAZZITELLO, P.
Italian 50 – Spring 2025
Dante’s Inferno


Dante’s Comedy has inspired seven centuries of visionary thinkers and artists from the Middle Ages to the present. Thanks to Dante, readers of all time have traveled vicariously in an afterlife journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. His work is one the most celebrated and influential works of Western Literature. In this course, we shall focus on Hell, probably the most thrilling of the three afterlife kingdoms and, without any doubt, the one with the most successful reception in contemporary culture and pop culture. During the quarter, we will join that array of readers of all time who have experienced Dante’s infernal journey. While considering its historical, religious, and literary context, we will discover how it still relates to our world. If Dante’s Comedy is ultimately about the salvation of the soul, his journey through Hell is our journey in all the hells of contemporary society.
ITALIAN (S25)150  RENAISSANCE LIVINGSHEMEK, D.
Italian 150 Spring 2025
How to Do It: Advice for Good Living from the Renaissance


This class will study the Italian Renaissance through the period’s how-to books. Italians wrote, read, and kept in their homes books to help them face life’s great challenges: how to study, how to court and be courted, how to conceive a child (or not), how to run a good family, how to throw a banquet, how to keep yourself beautiful, how to cast a spell, how to behave in the city, how to be (or serve) a prince, how to cure illnesses, how to live long and even how to die well. This course will peer into the lives of Renaissance Italians through the things they taught each other to do, and reveal a past behind one of today’s most popular ways of sharing knowledge.
ITALIAN (S25)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYSHEMEK, D.
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ITALIAN (S25)199  INDEPENDENT STUDYMAZZITELLO, P.
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