Reading Lists for Comprehensive Examination on a Historical Period (Part 1)

World Literature: European: Middle Ages to 1600

Dante, Inferno

Boccaccio, The Decameron, selections (Penguin)

Petrarch, The Sonnets, selections (Croft Classics)

Machiavelli, The Prince

Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

Montaigne, Selected Essays

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream (Hill and Wang)

Tristan and Iseult

The Song of Roland (Penguin)

Lope de Vega, The Sheep Well

Last Update: 01/24/2009