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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
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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