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  Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1) (Paperback)(English / Latin) By (author) Giovanni Boccaccio, Translated by Virginia Brown

  

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  Short Description for Famous Women 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.
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  • Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 30 April 2003
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Literary Studies: General | Gender Studies: Women | European History | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
  • ISBN 13: 9780674011304 ISBN 10: 0674011309
  • Sales rank: 525,508

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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 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.