Famous Women (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 1) - Softcover

Book 1 of 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Boccaccio, Giovanni; Brown, Virginia

 
9780674011304: Famous Women (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 1)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

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ISBN 10:  0674003470 ISBN 13:  9780674003477
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2001
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