Famous women

Giovanni Boccaccio

Original title: Forty-six lives

earliest edition we have, 1992 Harvard University Press, 2003 282 pages

I Tatti Renaissance library

"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 medieval attitudes toward...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

Xi fang ming nü edition · 2004 · Zhongguo yan shi chu ban she · 221 pages
Famous women edition · 2003 · Harvard University Press · 282 pages
Famous women edition · 2001 · Harvard University Press · 530 pages
Des cleres et nobles femmes edition · 1993 · Diffusion Les Belles Lettres
Text and concordance of The Zaragoza 1494 edition of Boccaccio's De las ilustres mujeres en romance edition · 1992 · Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.