该课程是耶鲁大学开放课程: 意大利语言和文学下的一门课程Dante in Translation, Fall 2008 解读但丁
关于但丁:
阿利盖利·但丁（意大利语：Dante Alighieri，1265年—1321年）13世纪末，意大利文艺复兴的前夜佛罗伦萨诞生了位伟大的男性诗人，这就是被恩格斯誉为 “中世纪的最后一位诗人，同时也是新时代的最初一位诗人”的阿利盖利·但丁（1265—1321）。意大利诗人，现代意大利语的奠基者，欧洲文艺复兴时代的开拓人物之一，以长诗《神曲》留名后世。恩格斯评价说：“封建的中世纪的终结和现代资本主义纪元的开端，是以一位大人物为标志的，这位人物就是意大利人但丁，他是中世纪的最后一位诗人，同时又是新时代的最初一位诗人”。
代表作品： 《神曲》，《新生》，《论俗语》，《飨宴》及《诗集》等著作

课程设置
该耶鲁大学课程每周在学校上两次课，每次75分钟，2008年秋季拍摄作为耶鲁大学开放课程使用.
The course is an introduction to Dante and his cultural milieu through a critical reading of the Divine Comedy and selected minor works (Vita nuova, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Epistle to Cangrande). An analysis of Dante's autobiography, the Vita nuova, establishes the poetic and political circumstances of the Comedy's composition. Readings of Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise seek to situate Dante's work within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, with special attention paid to political, philosophical and theological concerns. Topics in the Divine Comedy explored over the course of the semester include the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; love and knowledge; and exile and history.

关於课程主讲人：
Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta
Giuseppe Mazzotta is the Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian at Yale University. He specializes in medieval literature but his publications address all periods of Italian literature and culture and include Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the Divine Comedy; The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron; Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge; The Worlds of Petrarch; The New Map of the World: the Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico; and Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment. Recent editorial projects include Critical Essays on Dante and the Norton edition of Dante's Inferno.