| Description |
1 online resource (x, 387 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Italian literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature and history -- Italy
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Collective memory and literature.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Renaissance -- Italy
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Literature and society -- Italy
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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Collective memory and literature
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Italian literature
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Literature and history
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Literature and society
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Renaissance
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011006221 |
| ISBN |
9780823241231 |
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0823241238 |
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9780823269068 |
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082326906X |
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