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work_oryf7qhulnfyddxsq7qqmbyfse	Janet Levarie Smarr	Albert Russell Ascoli A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian RenaissanceA Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance. Albert Russell Ascoli. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Pp. x+387	2013	6	.pdf	application/pdf	1549	81	59	This volume is a collection of nine essays on canonical authors of the Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Tasso. Machiavelli's Clizia, for example, refers to the one on Boccaccio's Decameron 7.9, a tale which furnished discussions, strewn throughout the volume, on the interrelatedness of literature and history, fiction and by Petrarch's readings of other texts, provides a splemdid introduction to the theoretical heart of Ascoli's The first of two essays on Boccaccio similarly reflects on how that writer has been situated In the final essay, Tasso, like the other writers but in his own manner, confronts the unresolved place of his own poetry between imaginatively remembered history and historically situated fiction. first essay, as Petrarch addresses his letter to a person who is no longer there; both poets leave us Auerbach," "Machiavelli's Gift of Counsel" and "Ariosto's 'Fier pastor'," it offers us Ascoli's Italian 	./cache/work_oryf7qhulnfyddxsq7qqmbyfse.pdf	./txt/work_oryf7qhulnfyddxsq7qqmbyfse.txt