The Great Seduction: Italy’s Beauty, Genius, and Madness (ITAL-0057)

Spring 2025 · ITAL 0057 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Introduction to Italy’s cuisine, art, design, and organized crime system, and the profound influence they had in defining Italy’s national identity, economy, and social patterns. Emphasis on Italy’s innate love of beauty and food and on the way the country transformed this love into Italian businesses with a global reach. Analysis of the deep and lasting impact of the Mafia on some of Italy’s world-renowned industries and the country at large. In English.

Course codes: ITAL-0057, ITAL 0057, ITAL0057, ITAL-57, ITAL 57, ITAL57

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