Mastery (CILS QUATTRO)
242 self-paced lessons: Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio and Leopardi, the questione della lingua, dialects and regional languages, fine shades of meaning, irony and humour, slang, legal, medical and financial Italian, philosophy, style and editing, translation, and near-native listening, speaking and writing.
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Dante: Life and Times
Tell Dante's story, from Guelph Florence to exile in Ravenna, and describe how the Commedia is built.
Inferno, Canto I
Read the opening of the Inferno with notes, from the dark wood to the meeting with Virgil, and paraphrase it in modern Italian.
Inferno, Canto V
Read the canto of Paolo and Francesca with notes and understand its three famous tercets on love.
Reading Old Italian
Recognize the spellings, pronouns, verb forms and word order of Trecento Italian and turn them into modern prose.
Dante in Everyday Italian
Use the phrases Italians still borrow from Dante, from senza infamia e senza lodo to stai fresco and il bel paese.
Drill: Old to Modern Italian
Rewrite Old Italian forms and word order as modern Italian, at speed.
Why Tuscan?
Explain why fourteenth-century Florentine, and not Venetian, Neapolitan or Roman, became the basis of standard Italian.
Writing About Dante
Write a literary commentary on a passage of the Commedia with the structure and vocabulary Italian schools expect.
Listening Lab: Dante Read Aloud
Follow the Commedia recited aloud, hearing the eleven-syllable line, the run-on vowels and three famous passages.
Real-World Mission: Paraphrase a Passage
Paraphrase tercets of the Commedia into clear modern Italian, step by step, as an Italian student would for an exam.
Unit 1 review: Dante and the Origins of Italian
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "Dante and the Origins of Italian", then translate three sentences.
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