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Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown
Category: Classics | Series: The\I Tatti Renaissance Library
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 t ...Show more
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio; Virginia Brown (Edited and Translated by)
Category: History | Series: The\I Tatti Renaissance Library
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 t ...Show more
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