Famous Women: (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
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Giovanni Boccaccio (Author) Virginia Brown (Contributor)
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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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
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- Contributor: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Imprint: Harvard University Press
- ISBN13: 9780674011304
- Number of Pages: 320
- Packaged Dimensions: 133x203mm
- Packaged Weight: 358
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Release Date: 2003-05-30
- Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
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