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Article: The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2008
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The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy. By STEPHEN KOLSKY. (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 7) Turnhout: Brepols. 2005. xiv+254 pp. 60 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-503-52190-9.
It is a curious feature of the Renaissance fortuna of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris that it seems to have enjoyed only limited success in Italy (four sixteenth-century editions in Italian and none printed in Latin), while stimulating a healthy number of continuations and imitations in both Latin and the vernacular. As Kolsky points out in his introduction, there have been only sporadic studies of some of these Renaissance texts on women, which in any case ...