The Warburg Institute’s weekly specialised French and Italian training courses for 2021-2022 at beginner, intermediate and advanced level are now open for booking. All classes will meet online via the Zoom platform, and are open to everyone. This year we are also able to offer a 5-day intensive course in Renaissance Italian, and a weekly course in Renaissance Italian Palaeography for advanced level students. If you are not sure of your language level, please contact warburg@sas.ac.uk for a placement test.

Specialised French for Renaissance Research (Beginners and Intermediate) & Advanced Renaissance French

Autumn 2021 & Spring 2022

Designed to help students gain, increase or improve access to historical scholarship on the Renaissance and primary textual sources for the period. Beginner and intermediate classes provide a grounding in fundamental French grammar and vocabulary, developing students’ reading and translation skills, and introducing them to relevant specialised language. The advanced class will consolidate students’ understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of Renaissance French, with a focus on translating authentic source material into English.

Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/specialised-french-reading-renaissance-texts-beginners-and-intermediate-advanced-renaissance [warburg.sas.ac.uk]

Specialised Italian for Renaissance Research (Beginners and Intermediate) & Advanced Renaissance Italian

Autumn 2021 & Spring 2022

Designed to help students gain, increase or improve access to historical scholarship on the Renaissance and primary textual sources for the period. Beginner and intermediate classes provide a grounding in fundamental Italian grammar and vocabulary, developing students’ reading and translation skills, and introducing them to relevant specialised language. The advanced class will consolidate students’ understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of Renaissance Italian, with a focus on translating authentic source material into English.

Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/specialised-italian-reading-renaissance-texts-beginners-and-intermediate-advanced [warburg.sas.ac.uk]

Renaissance Italian Palaeography

Autumn 2021 & Spring 2022

Designed to help students analyse handwritten vernacular textual sources in Italian for the Renaissance and Early Modern period. Students will be introduced to the basic principles of palaeography and the key scripts used to produce manuscripts and documents in Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an emphasis on developing the necessary skills to accurately transcribe unseen texts. No previous training in palaeography is expected, but students should have a solid grasp of modern Italian grammar and vocabulary and, ideally, some familiarity with Renaissance Italian.
Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renaissance-italian-palaeography [warburg.sas.ac.uk] LAST FEW PLACES

The above courses do not award CATS credits, but students at each level will be able to take a mock and final exam, and receive feedback, in late spring or early summer 2022, dates tbc. The exam will be taken online at home and not under “exam conditions”.

Places are also available for our 5-day September 2021 intensive courses:

Women and the Invention of the Renaissance

13-17 September 2021: 3.00-5.00pm: online via zoom. With Dr Jessica Maratsos (Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, Pembroke College, Cambridge)

Drawing on recent scholarship with a wide range of textual, visual, and material culture, this course will reconsider the crucial part women played in creating and shaping Renaissance culture, often in defiance of the constraints of their time.

Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24534 [warburg.sas.ac.uk]

Renaissance Italian 5-day Intensive

20-24 September 2021: 1.00-3.00pm & 4.00-5.00pm: online via zoom. With Dr Matthew Coneys (Warburg Institute)

The course is designed for students who already possess a solid understanding of modern Italian. It will focus on the grammar, vocabulary and orthography of Renaissance Italian, with the aim of helping students to navigate primary sources produced in a range of social and regional contexts between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24513 [warburg.sas.ac.uk]

The running of all courses is dependent on student uptake, so please book your place as soon as possible and feel free to spread the word among colleagues and contacts.

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