Chapter 1

Use the flash cards to test your knowledge of the periods of fashion and details of dress distinguishing them.

Take a story from the Decameron in the archive and discuss what ideas about individual virtue and responsibility are at stake. The Decameron is online at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/

Choose a quote from Petrarch from the archive, and try to describe his view of human character and its relationship to history and/or feeling.