The more than 100 women whose life stories make up this volume
range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and
mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries of its author,
the master storyteller Giovanni Boccaccio. The first collection of
biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women,
Famous Women affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history
when mediaeval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to
more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown's 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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