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• English 410 Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Veronica Franco, Gaspara Stampa
  Key Terms, Names, and Ideas for Discussion (from Stortoni)
• As You Like It
• English 410: Writing Renaissance Women
  Representing Women in Italian Renaissance Art

Resources on Milton and related subjects

• A Mask at Ludlow Castle: Form and Meanings
• A Mask at Ludlow Castle (1634; 1645)
• Comus: Some Final Thoughts
• Lycidas
• The Nativity: Selected Texts
• Of Education: Questions to Consider
• Paradise Lost: An Outline
  (Adapted from a 1985 outline by John Tanner, BYU)
• The 1645 Poems: Observations and Questions to Consider
• Paradise Lost, Books XI and XII
  Some General Observations

Medieval Literature

• The Middle Ages: Augustinian Allegory and Medieval Literature
• The Consolation of Philosophy: A Few Points to Remember
• Dante: Allegory in the Commedia
• Dante's "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"
  Excerpts from a translation by Nancy Howe
• The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)
• Dante and the Resurrection of the body
• Dante's Vita Nuova (c. 1292-1300)

Greek and Roman Classics

• The Aeneid: An Outline
• Aristotle's Poetics and Horace's Ars Poetica: Some Notes to Guide Your Reading
• Some Notes on Euripides' Medea
• Some Notes on Aristophanes' The Birds
• The Odyssey, IX-XII: Odysseus' Story
• The Structure of Oedipus the King
  (According to Aristotle, the prototypical tragedy)
• The Search for Wholeness: Sophocles and Euripides

Handouts on Bible

• Acts and Epistles: The Teachings of the Early Church
• "If I perish, I perish": Heroes and Heroines of the Exile and Diaspora (587-ca. 200 B.C.E.)
• Genesis: Questions to Consider
• The Gospel of John: An Introduction
  General Definitions and Backgrounds
• Notes on Job
• A Few Notes on the Psalms
• Versions of Heroism: Samson and Ruth
• The "Sermon on the Mount"
  Matthew 5-7; Luke 6