**This class will be taught In-Person**
“Arcadia,” an imagined, beautiful land of shepherds, where work is easy and there is always time to lie under the trees and improvise songs of love—this myth became a part of the European imagination with the 1504 publication of an Italian book of that title by a young Neapolitan author, Jacopo Sannazaro. This course will take us to this land through a remarkable story of love, ambition, sorrow, and incipient social collapse. The instructor will summarize and read from his newly published English translation of Arcadia, explain its context in the Italy of its day, and explore the enduring concept of “Arcadia” in literature and culture.
