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UNINA9910457900103321 |
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Autore |
Ascoli Albert Russell <1953-> |
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Titolo |
A local habitation and a name [[electronic resource] ] : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / / Albert Russell Ascoli |
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New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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0-8232-6906-X |
0-8232-4123-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 387 p. ) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian 14th and 16th centuries, this work examines the unstable dialectic of 'reality' and 'imagination', as well as of 'history' and 'literature'. |
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