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.
| ISBN: | 9780674011304 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2003 |
| Author: | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 282 pages |
| Series: | I Tatti Renaissance Library |
| Genres: |
History |