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.