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The History of Modern Italy – Mondays, 7:00PM
Fall Quarter (10 weeks): October 6 to December 15, 2025 (no class November 24)
The study of Modern Italy will begin in the year 1600, and will offer the student the opportunity to discuss the idea of “Modern” as well as the flowering of Italian culture in seventeenth century Rome. During the Winter Quarter we will study the making of the modern Italian democracy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And then in Spring Quarter we will follow the evolution of the new democratic state of Italy into the twentieth century and the story of the Fascist dictatorship of Mussolini. (Please see syllabus.)*Note that the syllabus has not yet been updated with next year’s dates.
William H. Fredlund, the Director of the Institute, obtained his B.A. and M.A. from UCLA, where he specialized in European history and art history. He studied in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship and completed a double Ph.D. in history and humanities at Stanford, specializing in Renaissance Italy. Dr. Fredlund has taught for UCLA, the University of Florence, Stanford, and UCSC Extension.