After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch’s humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection o…
After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch’s humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio(1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection o…
