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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...
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  • Tractatus de mulieribus claris in bello ("Treatise on Women Distinguished in Wars"; Greek: Γυναῖκες ἐν πολεμικοῖς συνεταὶ καὶ ἀνδρεῖαι, "Women wise and...
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    Giovanni Boccaccio (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    works, the moralistic biographies gathered as De casibus virorum illustrium (1355–74) and De mulieribus claris (1361–1375) were the most significant. Other...
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  • be the author of the anonymous surviving Greek treatise Tractatus de mulieribus claris in bello, which gives brief biographical accounts of the lives of...
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    medieval and Renaissance art, often as illustrations to Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris. Primaticcio painted it in the Chateau of Fontainebleau (1541–47)...
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    Giovanni Boccaccio, a 14th-century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris (Latin for On Famous Women). Some of the paintings he credits to...
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    p. 45 Here Boccaccio mistakenly believes that Joanna died. De mulieribus claris, CVI. DE IOHANNA, IERUSALEM ET SYCILIE REGINA. "Joanna". Chestofbooks...
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    falls of famous people, similar to his work of 106 biographies De Mulieribus Claris. De casibus is an encyclopedia of historical biography and a part of...
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    the two. Artemisia received a full and friendly biography in the De mulieribus claris ("On Famous Women"), a collection of biographies of historical and...
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    impressed with her "good sense and intelligence". She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    named after her; it was called also "Queen". She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    during the war between Eteocles and Polynices. She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    Pope Joan (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    tell the story in German. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of Adam of Usk (1404) gives her a name, Agnes...
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    Iaia (redirect from Lala de Cizique)
    alive during the time of Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC). In De Mulieribus Claris, his book of women's biographies, Boccaccio refers to her as "Marcia"...
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    biographies in Western literature that was devoted to famous women. The De Mulieribus Claris was published in Latin and dedicated to Andrea Acciaioli, the Countess...
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    15th century AD), authored by Laurent de Premierfait. Woodcut illustrations of Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris published at Ulm in 1479 and Augsburg...
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    or over the ocean without wetting her feet. Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris includes a segment on Camilla. She is not often a subject in art...
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    features on the University of Alabama's seal. She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    committed suicide, either by hanging or by a sword. She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    An image of her was paraded in a carriage. She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    the funeral of Oedipus, her father-in-law. She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    discussed in Boccaccio's De Mulieribus Claris ("On Famous Women"), as well as The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan. In 1691, French tragedian...
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  • anonymous collection of Greek stories known in Latin as Tractatus de mulieribus claris in dello. She is the first Celtic woman mentioned by name in classical...
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    Women (Chaucer) De Mulieribus Claris (Boccaccio) Le Livre de la mutation de fortune (Pisan, 1403 AD) Brian Anslay, translated the Le Livre de la cité des...
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    56 biographies. Boccaccio also wrote a feminine complement to it, De mulieribus claris ("On Famous Women"), containing 106 biographies. Leonardo Bruni published...
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    free his siblings from their father's stomach. She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    love", the other two being Byblis and Myrrha. She is included in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    character) sequence of novels by Anthony Burgess. She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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    Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias. They are mentioned later in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris. Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia xxxv.35.59, 40.147. Chadwick...
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  • siblings were Antiphates, Bias and Pronoe. Manto is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women...
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