A local habitation and a name [[electronic resource] ] : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / / Albert Russell Ascoli

• Autore: Ascoli Albert Russell <1953->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 387 p. )
• Disciplina: 850.9/001
• Soggetto topico: Italian literature - History and criticism; Literature and history - Italy; Collective memory and literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Renaissance - Italy; Literature and society - Italy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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'.
• Titolo autorizzato: A local habitation and a name
• ISBN: 0-8232-6906-X; 0-8232-4123-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457900103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II