num_pages: 320
description: 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 of Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic work, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
language: English
title: Famous Women
titlecomplete: Famous Women
genres: Classics, Italian Literature, History, 14th Century, Research, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Nonfiction, Medieval
ratings_count: 133
publisher: Harvard University Press