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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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