id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ftqims6p5vectppgruh3db4hx4 Jo Ann Cavallo Stephen Kolsky.The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy.. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 7. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005. x + 254 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €60. ISBN: 2-503-52190-8 2006 4 .pdf application/pdf 1071 77 56 The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy by Stephen Kolsky Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America The University of Chicago Press and Renaissance Society of America are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, The Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women in The Ghost of Boccaccio originated with Stephen Kolsky's studies of Mario books on Equicola, Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, and the north Italian courts. of female virtue with an openness toward the greater agency of women in the north for Eleonora's daughter, Isabella d'Este, criticized convention and official institutions as artificial constructs stifling female activity, and he provided "examples of In sum, Kolsky's engaging study shows that writings on women that appeared ./cache/work_ftqims6p5vectppgruh3db4hx4.pdf ./txt/work_ftqims6p5vectppgruh3db4hx4.txt