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.
- ISBN10 0674011309
- ISBN13 9780674011304
- Publish Date 30 May 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English