Focusing on Renaissance Florence's contribution to modern European culture, this course studies the Florentine writers Dante and Boccaccio, using their major works, Dante's Comedy and Boccaccio's Decameron and supporting selections by Petrarch and Machiavelli to explore how modern institutions, politics, and society were being invented in 14th and 15th century Florence... http://goo.gl/IQS9Y