Forty-six lives

Alternate Titles

• De claris mulieribus.

Description

"The more than 100 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries of its author, the master storyteller Giovanni Boccaccio. The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women, Famous Women affords 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. Virginia Brown's acclaimed translation, commissioned for The I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography.

Series Statement

• Early English Text Society. Original series, no. 214. 1943 (for 1940

Other Editions

• Forty-six livesPub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press1943-01-01
• Forty-six livesPublished for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press1943-01-01
• Forty-six livesPub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press1970-01-01
• Forty-six livesPub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press1970-01-01
• Forty-six livesPub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press1970-01-01
• De claris mulieribus.Published for the Early English Text Society. Oxford University Press1970-01-01