Famous Women

• Author(s): Giovanni Boccaccio,
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Pages: 282
• ISBN_10: 0674011309
  ISBN_13: 9780674011304
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , Biography & Autobiography / Women , History / General , History / Europe / Renaissance , Literary Criticism / European / Italian ,

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, commissioned for The I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.