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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 notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature... See more
De Mulieribus Claris
If you're looking for a moral, Boccaccio is rarely your best bet
In my own diagrams, I’ve marked the beginning of the Renaissance as 1370, but Chris argued it goes back to the 1110s. Maybe the way to think of it is that there were “proto Renaissance figures” emerging for up to 2 centuries before.
... See moreDante Alighieri (1265-1321): Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, best known for his Divine Comedy, which is consid
