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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
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.

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.