Famous Women
Title | Famous Women PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674011304 |
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Boccaccio and the Book
Title | Boccaccio and the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Rhiannon Daniels |
Publisher | MHRA |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Book industries and trade |
ISBN | 1906540497 |
As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift from manuscript to early print culture. Focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by one of the most influential authors of the medieval period, Rhiannon Daniels traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio's readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce three of his works: the Teseida, Decameron, and De mulieribus claris.
Life of Dante
Title | Life of Dante PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Alma Books |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2019-07-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 071454616X |
"e;Life of Dante"e; brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist Leonardo Bruni. Their writings, along with the other sources included in this volume, provide a wealth of insight and information into Dante's unique character and life, from his susceptibility to the torments of passionate love, his involvement in politics, scholastic enthusiasms and military experience, to the stories behind the greatest heights of his poetic achievements.Not only are these accounts invaluable for their subject matter, they are also seminal examples of early biographical writing. Also included in this volume is a biography of Boccaccio, perhaps as great an influence on world literature as Dante himself.
De mulieribus claris
Title | De mulieribus claris PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 579 |
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Treasures from the Royal Collection
Title | Treasures from the Royal Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Queen's Gallery (London, England) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Antiquities |
ISBN |
Donated: The Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.
Incunabula in American Libraries a Third Census of 15th Century Books Recorded in North American Collections
Title | Incunabula in American Libraries a Third Census of 15th Century Books Recorded in North American Collections PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Richmond Goff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 798 |
Release | 1973-06-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780527342005 |
De Viris Illustribus
Title | De Viris Illustribus PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Petrarca |
Publisher | Charles River Editors |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 1964 |
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