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ITAL 8815

Language and Power in Early Modern Italy (1300-1600) · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

92BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023

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What the challenge rank is made of

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Conducted in Italian.Political power in pre-modern Italy, as elsewhere, was gained, increased, and maintained not through military and economic might alone. Languages - in all its forms - played a significant role as well in acquiring and consolidating the loyalty of the masses, as we shall explore in this course, focusing on the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. We will examine the key, recurrent themes of public discourse, such as appeals to territorial pride, destiny, virility, rebirth, and self-sacrifice, as communicated through a wide variety of means of civic expression, including political oratory, social ritual, the fine arts and works of literature.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Maria Sole CostanzoRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	1001 record	—	—	1001 rating · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Maria Sole Costanzo is the only instructor with evaluation records for ITAL 8815, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Maria Sole Costanzo

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ITAL 2214Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading II	25 records	90
ITAL 2213Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading I	23 records	95
ITAL 5526Dante's "Divine Comedy" in Translation	23 records	89
ITAL 8813Dante's "Divina Commedia"	12 records	92
ITAL 8835Leon Battista Alberti and the Languages of the Italian Renaissance	12 records	91
ITAL 5520Life in Renaissance Italy	11 record	96

Other ITAL classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ITAL 1004Elementary Italian II	1133 records	84
ITAL 1114Intermediate Italian II	1029 records	83
ITAL 1003Elementary Italian I	922 records	85
ITAL 1113Intermediate Italian I	1019 records	80
ITAL 1021Elementary Italian Practicum I	210 records	81
ITAL 1022Elementary Italian Practicum II	210 records	83

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Maria Sole Costanzo	Fall 2023	01	100	92	—

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.