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ITAL 142 SC - Italian Literature and Cinema


Decameron di Boccaccio: Tradizioni, Traduzioni e Tradimenti
This course offers an introduction to Boccaccio’s Decameron through a close reading of Boccaccio’s collection of one hundred tales, an investigation of the literary traditions (tradizioni) that converge in the most important prose work of the Italian Middle Ages, and its cinematic “translations” (traduzioni/tradimenti). During the semester, we will read all the novellas that have been adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Decameron, 1971), and the Taviani brothers (Magnifico Boccaccio, 2015), re-valuing Boccaccio’s work and identifying the challenges that such a classical Italian work presents to Italian filmmakers in their attempts to transcribe it into an audiovisual spectacle.

Syllabus  

Prerequisite(s): ITAL044 SC  or equivalent.
Course Credit: 1.0


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