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Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, Part II, 2005: Amendments to prescribed texts and periods

The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice of the following amendments to Paper It. 8. Italian culture, from 1500 to 1600, which appeared in the 14 May edition of the Reporter (p. 914). See also p. 1053.

(a) Literary texts and topics: Guicciadini, Ricordi; Machiavelli, Discorsi; Castiglione, Cortegiano; Ariosto, Orlando Furioso; Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata; comedy; pastoral drama; Petrarchan lyric; the place of women in Cinquecento literary culture;

(b) Topics in the visual arts: Michelangelo, paintings, poetry, and sculpture; the representation of women in Cinquecento art;

(c) Historical topics: court culture (with special reference to Florence and Ferrara); the Counter Reformation and its cultural effects.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 18 June 2003
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