Detalls del llibre
The more than 100 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries of its author, the master storyteller Giovanni Boccaccio. The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women, Famous Women affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown's acclaimed translation, commissioned for The I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
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- Autor/a Giovanni Boccaccio
- ISBN13 9780674003477
- ISBN10 0674003470
- Pàgines 530
- Any Edició 2001
- Fecha de publicación 01/01/2001
- Idioma Anglès
- Col.lecció The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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Famous women (Anglès)
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- Giovanni Boccaccio
- , Virginia Brown
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- Harvard University Press (2001)
- 9780674003477



