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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-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A local habitation and a name [[electronic resource] ] : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / / Albert Russell Ascoli Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-6906-X
0-8232-4123-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457900103321
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