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 of Giovanni Boccaccio’s classic work, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
Famous Women
ISBN: 0674011309
ISBN 13: 9780674011304
Publication Date: April 28, 2003
Authors: Giovanni Boccaccio, Virginia Brown