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Author Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-

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

Imprint New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 387 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Italian literature -- History and criticism.
Literature and history -- Italy.
Collective memory and literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Renaissance -- Italy.
Literature and society -- Italy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780823234288 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823234295 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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