De casibus virorum illustrium

On the Fates of Famous Men

Author

Giovanni Boccaccio

Language

Neo-Latin

Year

1373

Country

Italy

Genre

Biography / Memoir / Reportage

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De casibus virorum illustrium is a work of 56 biographies in Latin prose composed by the Florentine poet Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo in the form of moral stories of the falls of famous people, similar to his work of 106 biographies De Mulieribus Claris.