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Famous Women

by Giovanni Boccaccio
language: english
Publisher: Harvard University Press, April of 2001 ‧
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313â€"1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.

Famous Women

by Giovanni Boccaccio

Property Description
ISBN: 9780674003477
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: April of 2001
Language: English
Dimensions: 141 x 208 x 31 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Format: Book
Collection: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Biographies
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780674003477

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio, poeta e escritor toscano, nasceu em 1313 e morreu em 1375. Figura maior da literatura italiana e europeia, é sobretudo conhecido pelo Decameron, recolha de cem novelas composta entre 1349 e 1353, afirmação da vida e da invenção romanesca em tempos de grande peste. Entre as personagens famosas do Decameron conta-se Calandrino, protagonista de várias situações cómicas a que A Novela do Gordo Entalhador foi também beber.

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