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

Well-known for two books that are acknowledged landmarks in their respective subfields, Ariosto's Bitter Harmony (1987) and Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (CH, Dec'08, 46-1952), [CIP Ascoli] (Univ. of California, Berkeley) has written copiously on late-medieval and earlymodern Ita...

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Published in:Choice (Middletown) 2012, Vol.49 (7), p.1264
Main Author: Botterill, S
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Ascoli, Albert Russell
European history
Nonfiction
Romance literature
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Summary:Well-known for two books that are acknowledged landmarks in their respective subfields, Ariosto's Bitter Harmony (1987) and Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (CH, Dec'08, 46-1952), [CIP Ascoli] (Univ. of California, Berkeley) has written copiously on late-medieval and earlymodern Italian authors. This volume gathers the best of his work on Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Tasso, and, yes, Ariosto.
ISSN:0009-4978
1943-5975