{"product_id":"9780674003477","title":"Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is \u003ci\u003eFamous Women\u003c\/i\u003e, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 106 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries. In the hands of a master storyteller, these brief biographies afford 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFamous Women\u003c\/i\u003e, which Boccaccio continued to revise and expand until the end of his life, became one of the most popular works in the last age of the manuscript book, and had a signal influence on many literary works, including Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and Castiglione's \u003ci\u003eCourtier\u003c\/i\u003e. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50078617829616,"sku":"9780674003477","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780674003477_p0.jpg?v=1784730755","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780674003477","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}