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Famous Women

Famous Women Hardcover - 2001

by Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown (Translator)

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Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford 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. Famous Women, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Castiglione's Courtier. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin. Record # 383464
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  • Title Famous Women
  • Author Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language LAT
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA
  • Date 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 383464
  • ISBN 9780674003477 / 0674003470
  • Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.56 x 1.36 in (20.96 x 14.12 x 3.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00053492
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Choice, 10/01/2001, Page 314
  • Foreword, 10/01/2001, Page 58
  • Library Journal, 02/15/2001, Page 167
  • New York Review of Books, 04/25/2002, Page 50
  • New York Times, 04/22/2001, Page 10

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