A local habitation and a name imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / Albert Russell Ascoli.

Author/creator Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press,
Descriptionx, 387 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Italian literature--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Italy.
Collective memory and literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Renaissance--Italy.
Literature and society--Italy.

Contents Petrarch's middle age: memory, imagination, and history in the 'Ascent of Mt. Ventoux' -- Boccaccio's Auerbach: holding the mirror up to mimesis -- Pyrrhus's rules: playing with power in Boccaccio's Decameron -- Petrarch's private politics: Familiares, book 19 -- Machiavelli's gift of counsel -- Ariosto's 'Fier pastor': form and history in Orlando Furioso -- Ericthonius's secret: body politics in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso -- Clizia's histories -- Liberating the tomb: difference and death in Gerusalemme Liberata.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011006221
ISBN9780823234288 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0823234282 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823234295 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0823234290 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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