De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for Concerning Famous Women) is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362.
It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature. At the same time as he was writing On Famous Women, Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies of famous men,De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men).
Boccaccio, Giovanni (2003). Famous Women. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol. 1. Translated by Virginia Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN0-674-01130-9.
Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen (2010), Beauty Or Beast?: The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present, Oxford University Press, ISBN9780199558230
Further reading
Primary sources
Boccaccio, Poeet Ende Philosophe, Bescrivende van den Doorluchtighen, Glorioesten ende Edelsten Vrouwen (Antwerp, 1525)
Boccaccio, Tractado de John Bocacio, de las Claras, Excellentes y Mas Famosas y Senaladas Damas (Zaragoza, 1494)
Boccaccio, De la Louenge et Vertu des Nobles et Cleres Dames (Paris, 1493)
Boccaccio, De Preclaris Mulieribus (Strassburg, 1475)
Boccaccio, De Preclaris Mulieribus (Louvain, 1487)
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