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Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Description for Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)
Paperback. This collection of biographies in Western literature is devoted to women. It affords a glimpse of a moment in history when mediaeval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Translator(s): Brown, Virginia. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; BG; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 362.
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 mediaeval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown's translation, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin. ... Read more
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 mediaeval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown's translation, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674011304
SKU
V9780674011304
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Ref
99-1
About Giovanni Boccaccio
VIRGINIA BROWN is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
Reviews for Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)
In a pungent new translation by Virginia Brown, [Boccaccio's] famous women hold up very well indeed...The success of Famous Women suggests that [Renaissance] ladies read their Boccaccio as we are invited to read him: with forbearance for his foibles and delight in the tales he tells with such gusto and skill. - Ingrid D. Rowland, New York Times Book ... Read more