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ISBN10: 159910265X, ISBN13: 9781599102658, [publisher: Italica Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
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ISBN10: 159910265X, ISBN13: 9781599102658, [publisher: Italica Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 1.2 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
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ISBN10: 159910265X, ISBN13: 9781599102658, [publisher: Italica Press 8/12/2011] Hardcover On Famous Women 1.17 [Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
ISBN10: 159910265X, ISBN13: 9781599102658, [publisher: ITALICA PR] Hardcover Special order direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2011]
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ISBN10: 159910265X, ISBN13: 9781599102658, [publisher: Italica Press, Inc.] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Boccaccio's 'On Famous Women' ('De claris mulieribus') is a remarkable work that contains the lives of one hundred and six women in myth and history, ranging from Eve to Boccaccio's contemporary, Queen Giovanna I of Naples. It is the first collection of women's biographies ever written. Boccaccio composed it at Certaldo in 1361/62 and revised it in various stages to the end of his life in 1375. He dedicated it to Andrea Acciaiuoli, countess of Altavilla in the kingdom of Naples and sister of Niccolò Acciaiuoli, the grand seneschal of Queen Giovanna I. In his preface the author states that the biographies of illustrious men had been written often by a number of excellent writers, and he cited his hero Petrarch's 'Lives of Famous Men' ('De viris illustribus') as an example. No one, however, had ever done the same for women. Boccaccio therefore presents a wide variety of women from antiquity to his own time, offering their lives as both moral 'exempla' and entertaining reading. Boccaccio is best known as the author of the 'Decameron' in which he portrayed women among the 'lieta brigata' of pleasure-seeking young aristocrats and among the various characters of their tales. But in these biographies we find more serious themes that becam ...
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