Forty-six lives / translated from Boccaccio's De claris mulieribus by Henry Parker, lord Morley, and edited by Herbert G. Wright

Author:: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Uniform Title:: De mulieribus claris. English. 1943
Published:: London : Pub. for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1943.
Physical Description:: cv, 200 pages : frontispiece (facsimiles) ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Morley, Henry Parker., baron, 1476-1556 and Wright, Herbert G. (Herbert Gladstone), 1888-

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Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 214

Subject(s):

Women—Biography

Related Titles:

De claris mulieribus

Note:

The text of Morley's translation is that of the Chatsworth manuscript owned by the late Duke of Devonshire. Includes the Latin original printed at Louvain by Igidius van der Heerstraten in 1487, and considered by the present editor to be the text used by Morley.

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