Famous women
By: Giovanni Boccaccio ; translated by Virginia Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Virginia, 1940-
Series: I Tatti Renaissance library ;; 1.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Women -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: English and Latin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.