Famous Women

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women. This edition presents the f

Hardback. New. After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio 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 to women.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New. This collection of biographies in Western literature is devoted to women. It affords a glimpse of a moment in history when mediaeval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential.

Harvard University Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8. Paperback in very good clean condition. Translated by Virginia Brown. In Boccaccio's narrative style, he presents the lives and accomplishments of one hundred women of historical and mythological interest. Text includes line references and Notes.