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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 first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
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.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 april 2001
Aantal pagina's: 560
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Giovanni Boccaccio
Hoofdredacteur: Virginia Brown
Tweede Redacteur: Virginia Brown Brown
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press
Eerste Vertaler: Virginia Brown
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 133 mm
Product hoogte: 33 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 141 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 33 mm
Verpakking lengte: 207 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 680 g
EAN: 9780674003477