03098nam 2200685 a 450 991081797850332120230725053520.00-8232-6906-X0-8232-4123-8(CKB)2550000000054673(PromptCat)40020085193(MH)012986794-2(SSID)ssj0000538653(PQKBManifestationID)11379486(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538653(PQKBWorkID)10559729(PQKB)10558654(StDuBDS)EDZ0000054481(MiAaPQ)EBC3239584(Au-PeEL)EBL3239584(CaPaEBR)ebr10497668(OCoLC)763156414(EXLCZ)99255000000005467320110217d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrA local habitation and a name[electronic resource] imagining histories in the Italian renaissance /Albert Russell Ascoli1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20111 online resource (x, 387 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8232-3428-2 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.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'.Italian literatureHistory and criticismLiterature and historyItalyCollective memory and literatureCivilization, Medieval, in literatureRenaissanceItalyLiterature and societyItalyItalian literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and historyCollective memory and literature.Civilization, Medieval, in literature.RenaissanceLiterature and society850.9/001Ascoli Albert Russell1953-602444MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817978503321A local habitation and a name4112874UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress