An edition of Boccaccio's heroines (2006)

Boccaccio's heroines

power & virtue in Renaissance society

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An edition of Boccaccio's heroines (2006)

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power & virtue in Renaissance society

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Ashgate
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Subjects

Women, Women in literature, Biography, History, Boccaccio, giovanni, 1313-1375, Women, biography, Women, history, renaissance, 1450-1600

People

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

Times

Renaissance, 1450-1600

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Boccaccio's heroines: power & virtue in Renaissance society
2006, Ashgate
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Table of Contents

Text and its critics
Lauds and libraries
Art of virtue
Authorial intent
Dedication: the nature of virtue
Preface: a book for men about women
Bad example
Overstepping the boundaries
Action/reaction
Dangerous minds and bodies
Calculated anomalies
Famous women in Renaissance Tuscany
Boccaccio's heroines
Woman's place
Daring but decorous
Famous women and famous women
Eleonora d'Aragona d'Este
Isabella d'Este and Mantegna.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Burlington
Series
Women and gender in the early modern world
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
851/.1
Library of Congress
PQ4274.D6 F73 2006, PQ4274.D6F73 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3398390M
ISBN 10
0754653641
LCCN
2005011772
OCLC/WorldCat
59818344
Goodreads
1103702

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