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PROGRAMME OF ITALIAN CULTURE COURSES    
 HISTORY OF ART & ITALIAN HISTORY
1)    ROME FROM EMPIRE TO PAPACY.
Class hours: from 09 a.m. to 11 a.m. (20 hours for 1 month)
  • September: "Places of art, places of history".
2)    FROM GIOTTO TO THE YOUNG MICHELANGELO / FROM THE AGE OF
       DANTE TO THE AGE OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT
Class hours: from 09 a.m. to 11 a.m. (20 hours for 1 month)
  • October: "Giotto and painting in Florence" / "Italy, Tuscany, Florence in the second half of the XIII Century".
  • November: "Painting in Siena" / "From the Communes to the Seigniories".
  • December: "Gothic sculpture" / "Crisis of the Empire".
  • January: "Architecture between Romanesque and Gothic" / "From Boniface VIII to the Popes of Avignon".
  • February: "From late Gothic to Renaissance" / "Florence before and after the plague of 1348".
  • March: "Early Renaissance: architecture; sculpture" / "Italian States in the second half of the XIV Century".
  • April: "Early Renaissance: painting" / "The Republic of Venice and the conquest of the dry land".
  • May: "Developments of Renaissance" / "Cosimo the Elder between Banco and Palazzo".
  • June: "Renaissance in the second half of the XV Century" / "Florence during the age of Lorenzo the Magnificent".
 LITERATURE
        FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE.
Class hours: from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (16 hours for 2 months)
  • October - November: "Middle Ages” – “Lectura Dantis (Hell)".
  • December - January: "Humanism and Renaissance” – “Lectura Dantis (Purgatory)".
  • February - March: "Baroque and Illuminism” – “Lectura Dantis (Paradise)".
  • April - May: "Romanticism and Contemporary Age".
 HISTORY OF ART

During the lessons some films will be shown together with visits to museums, galleries and monuments.

1)    GREAT PROTAGONISTS OF ITALIAN ART
Class hours: from 9.30 to 11 a.m. (16 hours for 2 months)
  • October - November: "Cimabue, Duccio, Pietro Cavallini and the Roman school, Arnolfo di Cambio".
  • December - January: "Giotto, Simone Martini, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti".
  • February - March: "Piero della Francesca, Perugino, Mantegna, Antonello da Messina".
  • April - May: "Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffaello".
2)    GREAT CENTERS OF ART IN ITALY.
Class hours: from 9.00 to 11.00 a.m. (16 hours for 1 month)
  • June: "Art in Rome between the XVI and XVII Century".
3)    WOMEN AND ARTISTS IN ITALIAN SOCIETY BETWEEN MIDDLE AGES AND
       BAROQUE.
Class hours: from 9.30 a.m. to 11 a.m. (16 hours for 2 months)
  • October - November: "The role of woman and artist during Middle Ages".
  • December - January: "Artist women in Italy during Renaissance".
  • February - March: "Artist women between Renaissance and Baroque".
  • April - May: "Great women painters in the XVII Century".
4)    RENAISSANCE BETWEEN XV AND XVI CENTURY.
Class hours: from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (16 hours for 2 months)
  • October - November: "Renaissance in Central Italy".
  • December - January: "Renaissance in Southern Italy".
  • February - March: "Renaissance in Northern Italy".
  • April - May: "Developments of Renaissance between Florence and Rome".
 ITALIAN HISTORY

During the lessons some films will be shown together with visits to museums, galleries and monuments.

1)   THE RISORGIMENTO AND THE UNITY OF ITALY.
Class hours: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (16 hours for 2 months)
  • October: "Italy and Europe at the end of the 2 years period 1848-1849".
  • November: "Cavour and Piedmontese politics during the ‘preparation 10 years period (1849-1859)".


  • December: "The second war of independence (1859); the enterprise of the Thousand (1860): Garibaldi and his myth".
  • January: "How they arrived at the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy: the winners and the vanquished".


  • February: "The organization of the Unitarian State, society and culture. The ‘Historical Right’ at the government".
  • March: "The third war of independence: between the political achievement of the Venetian liberation and the sorrow of the military defeats".


  • April: "The Kingdom of Italy and the Second Empire. The Franco Prussian war".
  • May: "20 September 1870: Rome is Italian. The end of temporal power and ‘the Roman question".
2)   ANCIENT ROME: CRISIS OF THE REPUBLIC, PRINCEDOM OF AUGUSTUS,
      EMPIRE.
Class hours: from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (16 hours for 2 months)
  • October: "Crisis of the Republic".
  • November: "The age of Caesar".


  • December: "The Princedom of Augustus and the Julio Claudian Dynasty".
  • January: "The crisis in 68 and the Flavian Dynasty".


  • February: "The II Century, the golden age of the Empire: lights and shades".
  • March: "The dynasty of the Severi (193-235): the beginning of the end".


  • April: "The Barbarians and the borders of the Empire".
  • May: "Diocletian (284-305), the restorer".
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