Women of Florence / by Isidore del Lundo, tr. by Mary C.[!] Steegmann, with preface by Doctor Guido Biagi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Del Lungo, Isidoro, 1841-1927.

Contributor:

Steegmann, Mary G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Florence.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Italy.

Florence (Italy)--History.

Florence (Italy).

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 299 pages : color frontispiece, plates (1 color) portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Chatto and Windus, 1907.

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 year of freedom.

A matron of the cinquecento.

A letter of Alessandra Mancinghi Strozzi.

Index.

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 florentina 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.

OCLC:

185061611