Famous women / Giovanni Boccaccio ; edited and translated by Virginia Brown.

"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 devot...

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1. Verfasser: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Weitere Verfasser: Brown, Virginia, 1940-2009
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Latin
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Schriftenreihe:I Tatti Renaissance library ; 1.
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Uniform Title:De mulieribus claris.