Famous Women

Famous Women
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0674011309
ISBN-13 : 9780674011304
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Download or read book Famous Women written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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