Famous Women

Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated by Virginia Brown

    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 women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown's acclaimed translation, commissioned for The I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
  • Cover: Famous Women
  • A photo of the author

Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.