A local habitation and a name
Subtitle: imagining histories in the Italian renaissance
By: Albert Russell Ascoli
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780823234288; 9780823234295
Subjects: Renaissance; Italian literature; Literature and history; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Literature and society; Collective memory and literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Petrarch's middle age: memory, imagination, and history in the 'Ascent of Mt. Ventoux'; title: Boccaccio's Auerbach: holding the mirror up to mimesis; title: Pyrrhus's rules: playing with power in Boccaccio's Decameron; title: Petrarch's private politics: Familiares, book 19; title: Machiavelli's gift of counsel; title: Ariosto's 'Fier pastor': form and history in Orlando Furioso; title: Ericthonius's secret: body politics in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso; title: Clizia's histories; title: Liberating the tomb: difference and death in Gerusalemme Liberata.