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"""The stories are compelling, from falsely accused queens to emotional exchanges between prisoners and gruesome rituals of punishment.Musto renders their composition tangible through extensive use of recent analytical and theoretical approaches, incorporating feminist critiques, the rethinking of how fabula and historia intersect, and the role of memory (among others). The research is carefully documented, and he is very good at acknowledging the numerous colleagues who have inspired him, naming names and works.... I can imagine using several chapters in masters-level teaching of historiography. Students would relish the wonderful texts and images, from Domenico da Gravina to Francesco da Barberino."" - Speculum ""In bringing back to scholarly attention a vast corpus of trecento texts dealing with the kingdom of Naples, Musto's volume sets out to fill a documentary lacuna, while also challenging conventional views of the Italian Renaissance. As stated in the introduction, the goal of the volume is to problematize traditional approaches to historical texts in light of cultural theory and reappraise fifty years of ""Anglophone scholarship on medieval Italy.""... The result is a broad investigation of visual, archival, and literary sources penned by both well-known (e.g., Villani, Petrarca, and Boccaccio) and often neglected authors (e.g., Clareno and Gravina). Their narratives, Musto shows, are highly rhetorical texts that weave together facts and fictions, thus calling for a consideration of the nature of history writing."" - Renaissance Quarterly"

The stories are compelling, from falsely accused queens to emotional exchanges between prisoners and gruesome rituals of punishment.Musto renders their composition tangible through extensive use of recent analytical and theoretical approaches, incorporating feminist critiques, the rethinking of how fabula and historia intersect, and the role of memory (among others). The research is carefully documented, and he is very good at acknowledging the numerous colleagues who have inspired him, naming names and works.... I can imagine using several chapters in masters-level teaching of historiography. Students would relish the wonderful texts and images, from Domenico da Gravina to Francesco da Barberino. - Speculum In bringing back to scholarly attention a vast corpus of trecento texts dealing with the kingdom of Naples, Musto's volume sets out to fill a documentary lacuna, while also challenging conventional views of the Italian Renaissance. As stated in the introduction, the goal of the volume is to problematize traditional approaches to historical texts in light of cultural theory and reappraise fifty years of Anglophone scholarship on medieval Italy. ... The result is a broad investigation of visual, archival, and literary sources penned by both well-known (e.g., Villani, Petrarca, and Boccaccio) and often neglected authors (e.g., Clareno and Gravina). Their narratives, Musto shows, are highly rhetorical texts that weave together facts and fictions, thus calling for a consideration of the nature of history writing. - Renaissance Quarterly

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Ronald G. Musto is co-publisher of Italica Press, former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book, former Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, and editor of Speculum. He has recently been appointed Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, UK.

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