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.


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2011.
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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