Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio

Famous Women

Giovanni Boccaccio with Virginia Brown (Translator)

282 pages first pub 1362 (editions)

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

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