Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

by G Boccaccio (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $37.48

  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.

• New

  Hardcover
  2001

  $30.76

  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.