A local habitation and a name [[electronic resource] ] : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / / Albert Russell Ascoli
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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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| 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 | |
| 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.: | 9910781715503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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