M.M. Bakhtin’s lectures on the history of foreign literature recorded by M.A. Beban. Part 4

The paper presents a decoded and commented fragment of M.M. Bakhtin's lectures as he read at the Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute (now N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University) in the second semester of the academic year 1936/37. It was recorded by M.A. Beban – a Moksha-Mordovian writer, one of the founders of the professional Mordovian literature, that days – a student of the Faculty of Literature. The fragment includes the consideration of the theme «The period of the Early Renaissance» (general characteristics of the period, the work of F. Petrarca and G. Boccaccio).