Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio

Famous Women

Giovanni Boccaccio with Virginia Brown (Translator)

560 pages first pub 1362 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 o...

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