De Mulieribus Claris

Also known as: De claris mulieribus; Le donne famose

Author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Language

Neo-Latin

Year

1362

Country

Italy

Genre

Long-Form Journalism (Memoir, Firsthand Account, or Reportage)

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De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus 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. 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.