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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.: | 9910817978503321 |
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