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b ook Reviews On Famous Women: the Middle English translation of b occaccio’s d e m subireilu c siral , Edited from London, b ritish Library, MS Additional 10304. Edited by Janet Cowen. Middle English texts, 52. Heidelberg: Univer - sitätsverlag Winter , 2015. Pp. lii + 131; 2 illustrations. EUR 66 / $83. London, b ritish Library, MS Additional 10304, dating to the mid-fifteenth century, is the only surviving copy of an English verse translation of Giovanni b occaccio’s prose work De mulieribus claris. It is one of only two known premodern English translations of this Latin work, and as such it is an important witness to early humanist interest in b occaccio, as well as a (broadly) Chaucerian tradition of writing about women. Selections of this translation had previously been edited by Julius Zupitza in 1892, and a full edition prepared by Gustav Schleich was published in 1924. Cowen’s new edition is thus welcome and will make readily available a fascinating moment in the English reception of b occaccio, greatly facilitating the closer study of this English Famous Women. t he edition comprises: a fifty-one page Introduction; the text of the translation, followed by a critical apparatus;
JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology – University of Illinois Press
Published: Apr 14, 2018
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