On Famous Women

Author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Original Work

Concerning Famous Women

Translator

Guido A. Guarino

Editor

Guido A. Guarino

Language

English

Year

2011

Publisher

Italica Press

Country

United States

Pages

310

ISBN

9781599102665

0000

BOCCACCIO’S On Famous Women (De claris mulieribus) is the first collection of women’s biographies ever written. It contains 106 lives of mythical, religious and historical women. Boccaccio composed it at Certaldo in 1361/62 and revised it in various stages to the end of his life in 1375. Guido A. Guarino’s translationis based onthe edition of Mathias Apiarius, printed in Bern in 1539. This new edition includes the original woodcut illustrations of the 1539 Apiarius edition, a new bibliography and bibliographical essay. First English translation. 2nd revised edition. Introduction, new bibliography. 14 illustrations.— Google Books