COURSE INFORMATION:

Students take the following two courses:

LTIT 250: Survey of Italian Poetry - 3 credits
LTIT 350: Italian Hermetic Poet, Eugenio Montale - 3 credits

PROGRAM INFORMATION:

Participants in the study abroad program will stay in the very hospitable town of Chiavari, Italy, in the Gulf of Tigullio. Such a coastal town is located only a short distance from Portofino, Lerici, and Cinque Terre. These locations are most celebrated by many world’s poets who visited, and even died, there. Percy Shelley lived in the village of San Terenzo, next to Lerici, Lord Byron took walks on the Portofino Mountain, Eugenio Montale spent his summer in the beautiful villa at Monterosso; while Dante and Petrarch, during their travels, spoke of the natural beauty of the Liguria region. In Chiavari, students will take a Survey of Italian Poetry (LTIT 250) including readings from Dante to Hermeticism. This will help them to familiarize with the art of reading, translating, and understanding poetry. They will also take a course on Italian Hermetic Poet, Eugenio Montale (LTIT 350), focusing on the issues of poetry, identity and sea landscape. Courses will be taught in English and students will take excursions to literary landmarks where they will read and perform poems with the coaching of musicians and Italian poets.

Students should expect moderate hiking on this program.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR:

Dr. Massimo Maggiari
Department of Italian
maggiarim@cofc.edu
843-953-5489

Professor Maggiari received his doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Genova, Italy, Dr. Maggiari has taught for almost 30 years in the U.S. and has traveled extensively in Europe, North America, and the Arctic. He has directed a summer program in Liguria for CofC since 1995. He is an author of several books, and contributed over the years to scholarship on Hermetic poetry. He is a born and bred Ligurian.