Stephen Kolsky. The Ghost of Boccaccio. Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy.(Joining the Conversation: Dialogues by Renaissance Women)(Book review)

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Stephen Kolsky. The Ghost of Boccaccio. Writings on Famous Women in Renaissance Italy. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. Janet Levarie Smarr. Joining the Conversation. Dialogues by Renaissance Women. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005.

Both these works fill important gaps in criticism on early modern Italian and French texts by and about women since they strike a thorough and admirable balance between synthesis and analysis. They help us obtain a solid grip on a rather elusive and hard to define corpus of texts whose underlying formal ...

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