Famous Women (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) - Softcover

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674011309 ISBN 13: 9780674011304

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Boccaccio Giovanni

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Críticas

"In a pungent new translation by Virginia Brown, [Boccaccio's] famous women hold up very well indeed...The success of Famous Women suggests that [Renaissance] ladies read their Boccaccio as we are invited to read him: with forbearance for his foibles and delight in the tales he tells with such gusto and skill." - Ingrid D. Rowland, New York Times Book Review "For good or evil, as wife, mother, or whore, these women have the splendor of clarity; their individual destinies are sharply defined." - Tim Parks, New York Review of Books

Reseña del editor

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 mediaeval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown's translation, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0674011309
• ISBN 13: 9780674011304
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320