Famous women
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
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 colle...
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- ISBN13 9780674003477
- ISBN10 0674003470
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 530
- Colección The I Tatti Renaissance Library
- Año de Edición 2001
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Tela
Famous women
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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 colle...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
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.