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On Famous Women, Boccaccio, Giovanni
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Item specifics
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- Title
- On Famous Women
- ISBN
- 1599102668
- EAN
- 9781599102665
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 2011-08-04
- Publication Name
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- Release Title
- On Famous Women
- Artist
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Brand
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- Colour
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- Book Title
- On Famous Women
- Publisher
- Italica Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 216mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Zoology, History
- Item Width
- 140mm
- Item Weight
- 399g
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Boccaccio's On Famous Women ( De claris mulieribus ) is a remarkable work that contains the lives of one hundred and six women in myth and history, ranging from Eve to Boccaccio's contemporary, Queen Giovanna I of Naples. It is the first collection of women's biographies ever written. Boccaccio composed it at Certaldo in 1361/62 and revised it in various stages to the end of his life in 1375. He dedicated it to Andrea Acciaiuoli, countess of Altavilla in the kingdom of Naples and sister of Niccolo Acciaiuoli, the grand seneschal of Queen Giovanna I. In his preface the author states that the biographies of illustrious men had been written often by a number of excellent writers, and he cited his hero Petrarch's Lives of Famous Men ( De viris illustribus ) as an example. No one, however, had ever done the same for women. Boccaccio therefore presents a wide variety of women from antiquity to his own time, offering their lives as both moral exempla and entertaining reading. Boccaccio is best known as the author of the Decameron in which he portrayed women among the lieta brigata of pleasure-seeking young aristocrats and among the various characters of their tales. But in these biographies we find more serious themes that became standards of the Renaissance: secular and religious life; politics and private life; fame, fortune and earthly power; advantage and adversity; women's character, virtues and vices; their social roles, individual talents and achievements. On Famous Women is the earliest source of women's biography in the West and has had a long and distinguished publication career and literary influence. Its impact can be seen in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cite des dames, and in the work of Spencer, Alonso de Cartagena and Thomas Elyot, among many others. Guido A. Guarino's translation is based on the edition of Mathias Apiarius, printed in Bern in 1539. This new edition includes the original woodcut illustrations of the 1539 Apiarius edition, a new bibliography and bibliographical essay. First English translation. 2nd revised edition. Introduction, new bibliography. 310 pages, 14 illustrations.
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Publisher
Italica Press
ISBN-13
9781599102665
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111700369
Product Key Features
Book Title
On Famous Women
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Zoology, History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
399g
Additional Product Features
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United States
Editor
Guido a Guarino
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