De Mulieribus Claris

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De Mulieribus Claris

A miniature depicting a queen with four musicians from a c. 1440 illuminated version of the De Claris Mulieribus held by the British Museum[1]
Author	Giovanni Boccaccio
Original title	De Mulieribus Claris
Language	Latin
Genre	biography
Publication date	1361–62
Publication place	Florence
Media type	Manuscript
Dewey Decimal	920.72
LC Class	PQ4274.D5 E5

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.^[2] 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).