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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
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Jon (EDT) Giovanni; Solomon Boccaccio
Category: History | Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying a ...Show more
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods : Books I-V by Jon (EDT) Giovanni; Solomon Boccaccio
Category: Classics | Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Rome in Triumph, Volume 1: Books I-II by Biondo Flavio
Category: No Category | Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Biondo Flavio (1392 1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity; famously, he was the author who popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. While serving a ...Show more
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