CUNY Academic Commons | Carl Delos Santos | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/cdelossantos30/activity/ Activity feed for Carl Delos Santos. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 6a24c6aac9e6f37d4334f4fb60393a10 Carl Delos Santos commented on the post, Boccaccio and Machiavelli: Desire, on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/boccaccio-and-machiavelli-desire/#comment-1318 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:40:24 -0500 I’m not sure where the caption went for the image, but it’s “Ghismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo by William Hogarth 1697-1764”

]]> 668c010aae5dd288d744ab5ffe35525a Carl Delos Santos wrote a new post on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=801 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:38:16 -0500 This semester, we read the works of several Italian literary figures. Two figures that really stood out to me were Machiavelli and Boccaccio. It was very interesting reading “The Prince” and “The Decam […]

]]> 03633f594bb8778efdfa616f1b7bce39 Carl Delos Santos wrote a new post on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=761 Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:01:43 -0500 One of the images that Machiavelli places in our heads as fortune; which is that fortune is like a raging river, representing bad fortune

Early in “The Prince”, we see that Machiavelli believes that personal […]

]]> c10a8217dcce79781d2f457909a47f2f Carl Delos Santos commented on the post, Today's activity, on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/todays-activity/#comment-1144 Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:50:27 -0500 Chapter 16: Being Liberal
Machiavelli talks about being liberal, specifically with money. That a prince shouldn’t care about being mean when taking money from the people.
– Gianna, Carl

]]> e07d2740cbd1cc9f694a9d5ff5bd7314 Carl Delos Santos wrote a new post on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=651 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 03:55:40 -0500 Saint Angela of Foligno

Reading Angela da Foligno’s steps of penance was very interesting to me. It was very different to our previous readings, as this one felt the closest to god. It was very spiritual, and […]

]]> bf1bc5ebfe97131ae62520e26ecf757a Carl Delos Santos wrote a new post on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=640 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 23:59:19 -0500 Lady Fortune and Her Wheel: Fortune is often depicted as a woman with a blindfold, spinning a wheel to represent the different outcomes and possibilities being chosen out of chance.

Reading through the […]

]]> 581f91593a9827413a76fd9bea096c87 Carl Delos Santos commented on the post, Canzoniere 189: Lost, on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/canzoniere-189-lost/#comment-388 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:31:35 -0400 Sorry for doing the same canzone, I didn’t see it but, I thought your post was really good. I felt that you gave good analyzations of the stanzas, and you brought up some interesting points that I didn’t think of, […]

]]> 54809c02905bb7edb2c7e592c20304c5 Carl Delos Santos wrote a new post on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=488 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:01:27 -0400 In the canzoniere, we get to see the state of Petrarch’s mind many times, but there’s one metaphor for his state of mind that stands out to me. Canzone 189 portrays Petrarch’s state of mind as a ship at sea. The […]

]]> 2cc9352dce2bc96b223672a4083e9629 Carl Delos Santos commented on the post, Choose a poem from Petrarca's Canzoniere, on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/choose-a-poem-from-petrarcas-canzoniere/#comment-283 Sat, 23 Oct 2021 22:12:19 -0400 I forgot to comment sooner sorry, but I’m planning on analyzing 189

]]> d257d95d516ae21fa7b411ba5981f96e Carl Delos Santos wrote a new post on the site Dante to Machiavelli at CCNY https://ital28100.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=255 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 01:16:00 -0400

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