A local habitation and a name : imagining histories in the Italian renaissance / Albert Russell Ascoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Literature and history--Italy.

Literature and history.

Collective memory and literature.

Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Literature and society--Italy.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 387 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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'.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-6906-X

0-8232-4123-8

OCLC:

763156414