A local habitation and a name
Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-
A local habitation and a name imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / [electronic resource] : Albert Russell Ascoli. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2011. - x, 387 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Italian literature--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Italy.
Collective memory and literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Renaissance--Italy.
Literature and society--Italy.
Electronic books.
PQ4053.H57 / L63 2011eb
850.9/001
A local habitation and a name imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / [electronic resource] : Albert Russell Ascoli. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2011. - x, 387 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Italian literature--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Italy.
Collective memory and literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Renaissance--Italy.
Literature and society--Italy.
Electronic books.
PQ4053.H57 / L63 2011eb
850.9/001