Famous Women (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2003-04-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Översättare
Virginia Brown
Originalspråk
Latin
Dimensioner
202 x 135 x 25 mm
Vikt
360 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780674011304

Famous Women

av Giovanni Boccaccio
Häftad,  Engelska, 2003-04-01
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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 potential. Virginia Brown's acclaimed translation, commissioned for The I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
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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 * Whatever his intentions--and it may be that feminism was a long-term outgrowth of the humanism that he pioneered--Boccaccio launched a lasting genre that urged women, as well as men, to reach for glory, and gave them examples to live by. -- David Quint * The New Republic *

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Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

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