A local habitation and a name : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance /

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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'.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Italian literature > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Italy.
Collective memory and literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Renaissance > Italy.
Literature and society > Italy.
Littérature italienne > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Italie.
Mémoire collective et littérature.
Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature.
Renaissance > Italie.
Littérature et société > Italie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Collective memory and literature
Italian literature
Literature and history
Literature and society
Renaissance
Italy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

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