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On Famous Women (Hardcover, 2nd Revised ed.)
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On Famous Women (Hardcover, 2nd Revised ed.)
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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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