Reading List:
Making Italy (ITAL 10080)
Reading List:
For lectures 1-4:
Core readings - indicated selections from the following texts:
ITAL10080 Lecturettes.Very short texts accompanying the lectures (as opposed to replacing them). Available on Brightspace.
Dalby, A. 2004. Italian. In Dalby, A. 2004. Dictionary of languages. London: Bloomsbury. Available on Brightspace.
Lepschy, A.L. and Lepschy, G. 1988. The Italian Language Today, London. Pp. 11-40. [3 copies, 450 LEP] - it’s recommended to buy this book, which is available in the campus bookshop.
Maiden, M. 1995. A Linguistic History of Italian, London: Longman, pp. 3-7. Available on Brightspace. [450.9 MAI, SLC 450.9 MAI]
Parry, M. Italian (Romance vernaculars). In G. Price, Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe. Oxford: Blackwell. Available on Brightspace.
Richardson, B. ‘Questions of Language’, in West, R and Barański, Z. (eds). 1995. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Esp. pp.63-79 [306.0945 BAR, 2 copies SLC 306.0945 BAR]
Historical background: at least one of the following:
Duggan, C. 1994. A Concise History of Italy. Cambridge University Press.
Hearder, H. Italy: A Short History. Cambridge, 1990. [2 copies, SLC 945 HEA]
Hearder, H. and Waley, D. P. A Short History of Italy. Cambridge, 1963 [3 copies, SLC 945 HEA]
Procacci, G. 1970. History of the Italian People. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. [945/PRO]
Schumann, R. Italy in the last 15 hundred years. University Press of America, 1986. [3 copies SLC 945 SCH]
General literary and linguistic histories (for reference, useful for selected topics)
Italian Literature, in Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., 1974 [2005]. (accessible online via Brightspace)
Italian History, in Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., 1974 [2005]. (accessible online via Brightspace)
Migliorini, B. and Griffith, G. 1966. The Italian Language. London. [2 copies, 450.9 MIG]
For lectures 5-8: Beecher, Donald, Massimo Chiavolella, and Roberto Fedi, eds. Ariosto Today: Contemporary Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. [851/ARI/B]
Black, Robert. Machiavelli. London: Routledge, 2013. [320/MAC/B]
Burke, Peter. The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. [945.05/BUR]
Jacoff, Rachel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [851/DAN/J]
Mazzotta, Giuseppe. ‘Italian Renaissance Epic’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Epic, ed. Catherine Bates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 93-118. [809.1/BAT]
Migiel, Marilyn, The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015 [853 BOC/M]
Scott, John A. Understanding Dante. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. [851/DAN/S]
Skinner, Quentin. Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. [854/MAC/S]
Wallace, David, Decameron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 [853 BOC/W]
Online Resources* All the Dante resources contain the full text of the Inferno, plus commentaries *
Dante Worlds Project (University of Texas, Austin). www.danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu
World of Dante Project (University of Viriginia)
www.worldofdante.org
Digital Dante Project (Columbia University)
www.digitaldante.columbia.edu
Discover Dante Project (University of Leeds)
www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125124/discover_dante
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University). Full text of Machiavelli’s The Prince, searchable
www.legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/machiavelli_prince.asp
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, entry on Machiavelli www.plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli
Extracts (in English) from Dante,Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Ariosto will be on Brightspace. Various editions and translations are also available in the library and in the bookshop.
For lectures 9-12: 19th-20th centuries booklet (on Unification, Fascism, Ginzburg short story) will be posted on Brightspace – this will be needed for tutorials/seminars in weeks 9-12
Z.G. Barański & R.J. West (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 (University of California Press, 2001), available as long loan, SLC and as e-book from library
R.J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship (Penguin, 2007) - long loan, week loan & SLC
P. Ginsborg, Italy and its discontents: family, civil society, state, 1980-2001 (London, Penguin, 2003)
Axel Korner, The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism (Routledge Studies in Modern European History, 2008) - available as long loan, week loan & e-book through the library
L. Riall, Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007)
A. Stiles, The Unification of Italy: 1815-70 (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001)
J. Whittam, Fascist Italy (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1995)
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002)
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996)