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 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
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