Famous women

Giovanni Boccaccio ; edited and translated by Virginia Brown

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 to women. The 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford 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. "Famous Women", which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.

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書名 Famous women
著作者等 Boccaccio, Giovanni
Brown, Virginia
書名別名 De mulieribus claris
シリーズ名 The I Tatti Renaissance library
出版元 Harvard University Press
刊行年月 2001
ページ数 xxv, 530 p.
大きさ 21 cm
ISBN 0674003470
NCID BA52223806
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言語 ラテン語
英語
原文言語 ラテン語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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