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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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- Author/s Boccaccio, Giovanni / Brown, Virginia
- ISBN13 9780674003477
- ISBN10 0674003470
- Pages 530
- Collection The I Tatti Renaissance Library
- Published 2001
- Language English
Famous women
- Author Giovanni Boccaccio , Virginia Brown
- Publisher HARVARD
- ISBN 9780674003477
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