Delle famose donne De mulieribus claris

by Giovanni / Albanzani Boccaccio, Angolo, Francesco di Pagolo

$185,000 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Fine, 15th-century Florentine vernacular manuscript – illuminated on its opening page with the ‘white-vine’ motif made famous by Tuscan illuminators of the Quattrocento – of Giovanni Boccaccio’s (1313-75) renowned treatise De mulieribus claris (Famous Women), “the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women” and a work..... More

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