WEEK 7

University of Washington
History Program in Rome
Winter 2009

Week Seven: February 16 - 22

Mon. 16:
10:00 AH Jewish Ghetto; Piazza del Campidoglio

**Discussion topics: history of the ghetto and Jews in Rome (STACIE); Michelangelo’s redesign of the Capitoline Hill (CARLY).

AH Reading: Morante, on the Jewish Ghetto.

2-4:00 History

Tues. 17:
Giordano Bruno anniversary

10:30-12:30 Italian Language Class

2:45 AH (class will take place today instead of Wednesday.)
We will meet in front of the Museum at 2:45 for our 3:00 p.m. ticketed entry. Please allow yourself 30 minutes travel time from the Pio on the little #116 bus. No backpacks, large or small bags, or cameras are allowed in the museum so if you need to check anything, please do it as soon as you arrive.

3:00-5:00 Museo di Villa Borghese
**Discussion topics: Bernini’s statues: another view (MAYA)

5:30 p.m. Piazza Navona

**Discussion topics: City as Theatre: Bernini’s Four Rivers Fountain and the history of Piazza Navona (JENNA)

AH Reading: Minor, “Setting the Stage” and “Town and Country Planning”; Martin, The Baroque.; Haskell, “The Mechanics of Seventeenth-Century Patronage”; Ovid, Metamorphoses selections.

SKIM: Hibbard, “The Prodigy”

Wed. 18:
No art history today – Lisa heading south with Honors

2-4:00 History

Thurs. 19:

10:30-12:30 Italian Language class

2-4:00 History

Fri. 20
TBA