Famous Women (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674011304)

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.

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
ISBN-10: 0674011309
ISBN-13: 9780674011304
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2003
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.88d