Women of Florence
By: by Isidora del Lvngo, tr. by Mary C. Steegmann, with a preface by Doctor Gvido Biagi.
Contributors: Steegmann, Mary C., tr.
Publisher: Chatto and Windvs
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Women -- Italy -- Florence; Renaissance -- Italy; Florence (Italy) -- History
Notes: Half-title: Women of Florence; being a study of their influence on Florentine history during and prior to the cinquecento.
Translation of Del Lungo's "La donna fiorentina del buon-tempo antico", Firenze, 1906.
"This work ... grew out of a number of detached speeches, first delivered as mere academic orations, and afterwards expanded into lectures."--p. xii.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Introductory.; title: Rise of the commune of Florence.; title: From Dante to Boccaccio.; title: Beatrice in the life and poetry of the thirteenth century.; title: The renaissance and the last years of freedom.; title: A matron of the cinquecento. A letter of Alessandra Mancinghi Strozzi.; title: Index.