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:De Mulieribus Claris

{{Short description|1361–62 biographies by Giovanni Boccaccio}}

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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 the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature.{{harvp|Boccaccio|2003|p=xi}} 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).

The famous women

File:Woodcut illustration of Cleopatra and Mark Antony - Penn Provenance Project.jpg and Antony, a woodcut from a 1479 version of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris published in Ulm, Germany, which also depicts the suicides of Cleopatra and Antony{{sfnp|Anderson|2003|p=50}}]]

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References

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  • {{citation|last=Anderson |first=Jaynie |title=Tiepolo's Cleopatra |location=Melbourne |publisher=Macmillan |year=2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_zR2mHWPmoC |isbn=9781876832445 |postscript=.}}
  • {{cite book |last=Boccaccio |first=Giovanni |author-link=Giovanni Boccaccio |year=2003 |translator=Virginia Brown |title=Famous Women |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |series=I Tatti Renaissance Library |volume=1 |isbn=0-674-01130-9 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Boitani |first=Piero |year=1976 |title=The Monk's Tale: Dante and Boccaccio |journal=Medium Ævum |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=50–69 |doi=10.2307/43628171 |jstor=43628171 }}
  • {{citation |first=Helen |last=Watanabe-O'Kelly|title=Beauty Or Beast?: The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present |publisher= Oxford University Press |date=2010 |isbn=9780199558230 }}

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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)
  • Boccaccio, De Mulieribus Claris (Bern, 1539)
  • Boccaccio, De Mulieribus Claris (Ulm, 1473)
  • Boccaccio, French translation (Paris, 1405)

=Secondary sources=

  • Schleich, G. ed., Die mittelenglische Umdichtung von Boccaccio De claris mulieribus, nebst der latinischen Vorlage, Palaestra (Leipzig, 1924)
  • Wright, H.G., ed., Translated from Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus, Early English Text Society, Original series w/Latin (London, 1943)
  • Guarino, G. A., Boccaccio, Concerning Famous Women (New Brunswick, N.J., 1963)
  • Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris with Italian translation (Milan, 1967 and 1970)
  • Branca, V., ed., Tutte le opere di Giovani Boccaccio, volume 10 (1967)
  • Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris, Studi sul Boccaccio (Milan, 1963)
  • Müller, Ricarda, Ein Frauenbuch des frühen Humanismus. Untersuchungen zu Boccaccios De mulieribus claris (Stuttgart, 1992), {{ISBN|978-3-515-06028-8}}
  • Kolsky, S. , Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women, (2005)
  • Franklin, M., Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society (2006)
  • Filosa, E., Tre Studi sul De mulieribus claris (2012)

External links

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  • [http://www.heliotropia.org/02-02/marafioti.shtml The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131050701/http://www.heliotropia.org/02-02/marafioti.shtml |date=2008-01-31 }}
  • [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-141645099.html The ghost of Boccaccio: writings on famous women in Renaissance Italy]
  • [http://www.heliotropia.org/01-01/armstrong.pdf Its publishing development history by Guyda Armstrong of Brown University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808140253/http://www.heliotropia.org/01-01/armstrong.pdf |date=2018-08-08 }}

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