De Mulieribus Claris
De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium
(On the Fates of Famous Men).
The famous women
- 1. Eve, the first woman in the Bible
- 2. Semiramis, queen of the Assyrians
- 3. Opis, wife of Saturn
- 4. Juno, goddess of the Kingdoms
- 5. Ceres, goddess of the harvest and queen of Sicily
- 6. Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy
- 7. Venus, queen of Cyprus
- 8. Isis, queen and goddess of Egypt
- 9. Europa, queen of Crete
- 10. Libya, queen of Libya
- 11 and 12. Marpesia and Lampedo, queens of the Amazons
- 13. Thisbe, a Babylonian maiden
- 14. Hypermnestra, queen of the Argives and priestess of Juno
- 15. Niobe, queen of Thebes
- 16. Hypsipyle, queen of Lemnos
- 17. Medea, queen of Colchis
- 18. Arachne of Colophon
- 19 and 20. Antiope, queens of the Amazons
- 21. Erythraea or Heriphile, a Sibyl
- 22. Medusa, daughter of Phorcus
- 23. Iole, daughter of the king of the Aetolians
- 24. Deianira, wife of Hercules
- 25. Jocasta, queen of Thebes
- 26. Amaltheia or Deiphebe, a Sibyl
- 27. Nicostrata, or Carmenta, daughter of King Ionius
- 28. Procris, wife of Cephalus
- 29. Argia, wife of Polynices and daughter of King Adrastus
- 30. Manto, daughter of Tiresias
- 31. The wives of the Minyans
- 32. Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons
- 33. Polyxena, daughter of King Priam
- 34. Hecuba, queen of the Trojans
- 35. Cassandra, daughter of King Priam of Troy
- 36. Clytemnestra, queen of Mycenae
- 37. Helen of Troy, whose abduction by Paris began the Trojan War
- 38. Circe, daughter of the Sun
- 39. Camilla, queen of the Volscians
- 40. Penelope, wife of Ulysses
- 41. Lavinia, queen of Laurentum
- 42. Dido, or Elissa, queen of Carthage
- 43. Nicaula, queen of Ethiopia
- 44. Pamphile, daughter of Platea
- 45. Rhea Ilia, a Vestal Virgin
- 46. Tarquinius Priscus
- 47. Sappho, woman of Lesbos and poet
- 48. Lucretia, wife of Collatinus
- 49. Tamyris, queen of Scythia
- 50. Leaena, a courtesan
- 51. Athaliah, queen of Jerusalem
- 52. Cloelia, a Roman maiden
- 53. Hippo, a Greek woman
- 54. Megullia Dotata
- 55. Veturia, a Roman matron
- 56. Thamyris, daughter of Micon
- 57. A conflation of Artemisia II and Artemisia I, queens of Caria
- 58. Verginia, virgin and daughter of Virginius
- 59. Eirene, daughter of Cratinus
- 60. Leontium
- 61. Olympias, queen of Macedonia
- 62. Claudia, a Vestal Virgin
- 63. Virginia, wife of Lucius Volumnius
- 64. Flora, goddess of flowers and wife of Zephyrus
- 65. A young Roman woman
- 66. Marcia, daughter of Varro
- 67. Sulpicia, wife of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus
- 68. Harmonia, daughter of Gelon, son of Hiero II of Syracuse
- 69. Busa of Canosa di Puglia
- 70. Sophonisba, queen of Numidia
- 71. Theoxena, daughter of Prince Herodicus
- 72. Berenice, queen of Cappadocia
- 73. The Wife of Orgiagon the Galatian
- 74. Tertia Aemilia, wife of the elder Africanus
- 75. Dripetrua, queen of Laodice
- 76. Sempronia, daughter of Gracchus
- 77. Claudia Quinta, a Roman woman
- 78. Hypsicratea, Queen of Pontus
- 79. Sempronia, a Roman Woman
- 80. The Wives of the Cimbrians
- 81. Julia, daughter of the dictator Julius Caesar
- 82. Portia, daughter of Cato Uticensis
- 83. Curia, wife of Quintus Lucretius
- 84. Hortensia, daughter of Quintus Hortensius
- 85. Sulpicia, wife of Cruscellio
- 86. Cornificia, a poet
- 87. Mariamme, queen of Judaea
- 88. Cleopatra, queen of Egypt
- 89. Antonia, daughter of Antony
- 90. Agrippina, wife of Germanicus
- 91. Paulina, a Roman woman
- 92. Agrippina, mother of the Emperor Nero
- 93. Epicharis, a freedwoman
- 94. Pompeia Paulina, wife of Seneca
- 95. Poppaea Sabina, wife of Nero
- 96. Triaria, wife of Lucius Vitellius
- 97. Proba, wife of Adelphus
- 98. Faustina Augusta
- 99. Symiamira, woman of Emesa
- 100. Zenobia, queen of Palmyra
- 101. Joan, an Englishwoman and Pope
- 102. Irene, Empress of Constantinople
- 103. Gualdrada, a Florentine maiden
- 104. Constance, Empress of Rome and queen of Sicily
- 105. Camiola, a Sienese widow
- 106. Joanna, queen of Jerusalem and Sicily
References
Citations
- ^ Royal 16 G V fol. 3v
- ^ Boccaccio (2003), p. xi
- ^ Anderson (2003), p. 50.
Bibliography
- Anderson, Jaynie (2003), Tiepolo's Cleopatra, Melbourne: Macmillan, ISBN 9781876832445.
- ISBN 0-674-01130-9.
- Boitani, Piero (1976). "The Monk's Tale: Dante and Boccaccio". JSTOR 43628171.
- Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen (2010), Beauty Or Beast?: The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199558230
Further reading
Primary sources
- Boccaccio, Poeet Ende Philosophe, Bescrivende van den Doorluchtighen, Glorioesten ende Edelsten Vrouwen (Antwerp, 1525)
- Boccaccio, Tractado de John Bocacio, de las Claras, Excellentes y Mas Famosas y Senaladas Damas (Zaragoza, 1494)
- Boccaccio, De la Louenge et Vertu des Nobles et Cleres Dames (Paris, 1493)
- Boccaccio, De Preclaris Mulieribus (Strassburg, 1475)
- Boccaccio, De Preclaris Mulieribus (Louvain, 1487)
- Boccaccio, De Mulieribus Claris (Bern, 1539)
- Boccaccio, De Mulieribus Claris (Ulm, 1473)
- Boccaccio, French translation (Paris, 1405)
Secondary sources
- Schleich, G. ed., Die mittelenglische Umdichtung von Boccaccio De claris mulieribus, nebst der latinischen Vorlage, Palaestra (Leipzig, 1924)
- Wright, H.G., ed., Translated from Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus, Early English Text Society, Original series w/Latin (London, 1943)
- Guarino, G. A., Boccaccio, Concerning Famous Women (New Brunswick, N.J., 1963)
- Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris with Italian translation (Milan, 1967 and 1970)
- Branca, V., ed., Tutte le opere di Giovani Boccaccio, volume 10 (1967)[ISBN missing]
- Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris, Studi sul Boccaccio (Milan, 1963)
- Kolsky, S. , Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Famous Women, (2005)
- Franklin, M., Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society (2006)
- Filosa, E., Tre Studi sul De mulieribus claris (2012)
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