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Famous women
By Boccaccio, Giovanni & Brown, Virginia Pounds
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-347-7
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2001
While largely known for the Decameron (c.1351), Boccaccio exercised a profound influence on British and European literature with his Latin De mulieribus claris. Geoffrey Chaucer inserted a translation of the "Zenobia" chapter into his "Monk's Tale," and Christine de Pizan took Famous Women as a starting point for her City of Women. Inspired by Petrarch's Lives o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
