A local habitation and a name : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance /
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'.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.