Fabio Girelli-Carasi

ITALIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE

Summer 2018

Lecture and Assignment AUG 6

 

 
1) The meaning of the Renaissance  (17min.)

 

 
  2A       Leonardo the scientist and technologist 1   (50 min.)

 

IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT, DON'T YOU DARE USE "Da Vinci" as a last name.

HIS NAME IS LEONARDO, not Da Vinci.

 
2B      Leonardo the scientist and technologist 2        (50 min.)

 
3     Leonardo the Artist  (23 min.)
 

IN YOUR ASSIGNMENT, DON'T YOU DARE USE "Da Vinci" as a last name.

HIS NAME IS LEONARDO, not Da Vinci.


 

 

4   LIVING WITH THE PAST in not hard, it's actually fun.  (12 m)

 

The invention of the printing press
The Protestant Reformation
The Catholic Counter-Reformation
The End of the Renaissance



5   Gutenberg  (4 minutes)

 

 
6   The printing press and Reformation (14 min.)


 
7   Counter Reformation  (9 min.)

 


 

Filename: last-name.due-date  (.doc  .docx  .rtf)    DO NOT USE pages or google doc.

Email subject: assignment Aug 6
Task 1:   SCREEN  Video 1.  Either video 2A  or   2B.     Video 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 in separate paragraphs, clearly marked.

Break down your responses in separate paragraphs and mark them clearly with an appropriate headline. Don't scramble the order of responses. Go from 1 to 7.

 

WRITING  For each video, write quick notes and write a response that meets the criteria below.

AND READ THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!

(Don't tell me what I already know about the Renaissance. Tell me what I don't know, namely HOW YOU SEE YOURSELF WITH THE KNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE ACQUIRED, WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU.  - And if it means nothing, you have the opportunity to explain why it doesn't.

-- I maintain that KNOWLEDGE is simply the meaning of information. And that the much heralded "CRITICAL THINKING" is understanding what knowledge means to you personally.

There is no knowledge without information. There is no critical thinking without knowledge. The thing we have the most knowledge about is OURSELVES. Critical thinking is, therefore, understanding knowledge in relation to oneself.

For each video, think before you write: what does the information mean? You don't have to shake or squeeze your brain. The answer is right there, in front of your eyes. How are you reacting to the new knowledge? How has that reaction - attitude changed over time?

What is this knowledge doing to you, intellectually and emotionally, now that you are able to comprehend things that just a few weeks ago were unknown?

Do you like yourself better now? Worse? The same? All knowledge does weird things to us.

In case I should choose your work to post on the blog, I WILL ASK FOR YOUR PERMISSION FIRST.

 

DISCLAIMER:  I could not find the 'perfect' video that focused on the impact of the invention of the printing press directly on the Reformation. If you happen to find one, please send me the URL.

DISCLAIMER 2:  Same problem with the Catholic Counter-Reformation that started the real INQUISITION (aside: The Name of the Rose was historically incorrect when it labeled Bernardo "inquisitor."  The term and the office were created approx. a couple of centuries later.)  I found good material in Italian and Spanish, but very little in English. Moreover, the English material does not analyze the internal consequences in Catholic countries like Italy, Spain, France and Austria, among others.
BLOG   Answer    Did you post your comments and replies?

Keep up with the blog discussions. At the end of the semester, you will compile your COMMENTS (not the replies) into one single document. ONLY COMMENTS THAT MET THE DEADLINES WILL BE ACCEPTED.