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Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)
Giovanni Boccaccio, Virginia Brown (Translator)
Published by Harvard University Press, 2003
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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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Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
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Title: Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New