Women of Florence,

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Author / Creator:Del Lungo, Isidoro, 1841-1927.
Imprint:London, Chatto and Windvs, 1907.
Description:xxxvi, 299 p. col. front., plates (1 col.) ports. 22 cm.
Language:English
Italian
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1918732
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Other authors / contributors:Steegmann, Mary G. tr.
Notes: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.
Table of 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.