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Book Title: Local Habitation and a Name : Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Albert Russell Ascoli
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Renaissance, Medieval, Europe / Italy, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, European / Italian
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
