Women of Florence
Title:
Women of Florence
Author:
Del Lungo, Isidoro, 1841-1927.
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Publication Information:
London : Chatto and Windvs, 1907.
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 299 pages : color frontispiece, plates (1 color) portraits ; 22 cm
General Note:
Half-title: Women of Florence; being a study of their influence on Florentine history during and prior to the cinquecento.
Translation of Del Lungo's "La donna fiorentina del buon-tempo antico", Firenze, 1906.
"This work ... grew out of a number of detached speeches, first delivered as mere academic orations, and afterwards expanded into lectures."--p. xii.
Language:
English
Contents:
Preface.--Introductory.--Rise of the commune of Florence.--From Dante to Boccaccio.--Beatrice in the life and poetry of the thirteenth century.--The renaissance and the last years of freedom.--A matron of the cinquecento. A letter of Alessandra Mancinghi Strozzi.--Index.
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