TY - BOOK AU - Ascoli,Albert Russell ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A local habitation and a name: imagining histories in the Italian renaissance AV - PQ4053.H57 L63 2011eb U1 - 850.9/001 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Italian literature KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and history KW - Italy KW - Collective memory and literature KW - Civilization, Medieval, in literature KW - Renaissance KW - Literature and society KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10497668 ER -