🐻 Cornell Romance Studies unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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The Craft of Storytelling: The Decameron ROMS 1102-001
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Thinking & Thought: Dante’s Examined Life ROMS 1113-001/002
- The Divine Comedy, v.1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
History of Romance Languages I ROMS 3210
- Romance Languages: A Historical Intro. by Alkire & Rosen
French
French Intermediate Composition and Conversation II FREN 2095
- Grammaire Progressive du Français Avancé by Boulares & Frérot
- Corrigés Grammaire Progressive Niveau Perfectionnement by Maïa Grégoire
French Stylistics FREN 3120
- Exercices de Style by Raymond Queneau
Italian
Writing Italy, Writing the Self: Jewish-Italian Lit and the Long 20th Century ITAL 1113
- Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
- Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre
- Who Loves You Like This by Edith Bruck
- Americordo: The Italian Jewish Exiles In America by Gianna Pontecorboli
- Nonna Carla by Alain Elkann
- Anita by Alain Elkann
- A Single Day by Alain Elkann
- The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani
- Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn by Ayala Fader
- ✔️ Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi (my highlights)
- The Golden Age of Italian Jews: 1848-1938 by Gino Segrè
- The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy by Sara Reguer
Italian I ITAL 1201
- Piazza: Introductory Italian by Melucci & Tognozzi
Italian III ITAL 2201
- Nuovo Spazio civilta by Medaglia & Medaglia
Italian Mysteries ITAL 2290
- Imparare L’Italiano Con I Fumetti: Dylan Dog - Jack Lo Squartatore by Cagli et al.
Pinocchio: Adventures in Literature & Film ITAL 3750
- ✔️ Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- ✔️ The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (my highlights)
Spanish
Continuing Spanish SPAN 1230
- Exploraciones by Blitt & Casas
Narrating the Spanish Civil War SPAN 1305
- Requiem for a Spanish Peasant by Ramón J. Sender
- The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Graham
Spanish Intermediate Composition & Conversation II SPAN 2095
- The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
- Manual de gramática by Dozier & Iguina
Global Latin America SPAN 3440
- Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
- Global Latin America: Into the 21st Century by Lesser & Gutmann
- Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
- Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener
Diasporas, Disasters & Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th & 21st Centuries SPAN 3675
- Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez
- The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Moses Maimonides SPAN 4540
- Epistles of Maimonides: Crisis & Leadership Abraham S. Halkin
- A Maimonides Reader by Isadore Twersky
- Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker by Sarah Stroumsa
- Maimonides: The Life & World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds by Joel L. Kraemer
- The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
Global Food Cultures of Greater Mexico SPAN 4875
- Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food by Jeffrey M. Pilcher
- Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies & the Destruction of Mexico by Alyshia Gálvez
- American Tacos: A History & Guide by José R. Ralat
- Tequila: A Global History by Ian Williams
Portuguese
Intermediate Portuguese for Spanish Speakers I PORT 2010
- Mapeando a Língua Portuguesa através das Artes by Sobral & Jouët-Pastré