ID: 901000923 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000923	Record Type: Literature

	De mulieribus claris (biographies, Boccaccio, 1374)

Note: Collection of 106 biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, first published in 1374. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.

Display Date: published 1374

Names:

	De mulieribus claris (biographies, Boccaccio, 1374) (preferred,Latin-P,D,P)
	De mulieribus claris (biographies, Boccaccio, 1374) (English-P,D,P)
	On Famous Women (biographies, Boccaccio, 1374) (t,English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: History, Biographies> (P)
		............De mulieribus claris (biographies, Boccaccio, 1374) (I)

Related Iconography:

	counterpart is .... De casibus virorum Illustrium
	..........(Literature and Performing Arts, Named written and performed works, Literary works: History, Biographies, De casibus virorum Illustrium (biographies, Boccaccio, 1355–1374)) [901001033]

Other Relationships:

	author is .... Boccaccio, Giovanni (Italian writer, scholar, and draftsman, 1313-1375)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	role/characteristic is .... biographies (literary genre)
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	topic is .... women (female humans)
	.....(people by gender or sex, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Italian (culture or style)
	.....(European regions, European, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	De mulieribus claris (biographies, Boccaccio, 1374)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	On Famous Women (biographies, Boccaccio, 1374)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Mulieribus_Claris#/media/File:Women_playing_music.jpg