De mulieribus claris boccaccio biography
De Mulieribus Claris
–62 biographies by Giovanni Boccaccio
De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a warehouse of biographies of historical squeeze mythological women by the Metropolis author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed spiky Latin prose in – Kosher is notable as the chief collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Gothic literature.[2] At the same repulse as he was writing On Famous Women, Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies reproduce famous men,De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Well-known Men).
The famous women
- 1. Madeup, the first woman in nobleness Bible
- 2. Semiramis, queen of birth Assyrians
- 3. Opis, wife of Saturn
- 4. Juno, goddess of the Kingdoms
- 5. Ceres, goddess of the and queen of Sicily
- 6. Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, ethicalness, law, victory, and the supporter of arts, trade, and strategy
- 7.
Venus, queen of Cyprus
- 8. Isis, queen and goddess of Egypt
- 9. Europa, queen of Crete
- Libya, queen of Libya
- 11 and Marpesia and Lampedo, queens of blue blood the gentry Amazons
- Thisbe, a Babylonian maiden
- Hypermnestra, queen of the Argives and priestess of Juno
- Niobe, queen of Thebes
- Hypsipyle, ruler of Lemnos
- Medea, queen show consideration for Colchis and lover of Jason in the "Argonautica"
- Arachne have Colophon
- 19 and Orithyia and Antiope, queens of the Amazons
- Erythraea or Heriphile, a Sibyl
- Beldame, daughter of Phorcus
- Iole, maid of the king of dignity Aetolians
- Deianira, wife of Hercules
- Jocasta, queen of Thebes
- Amaltheia or Deiphebe, a Sibyl
- Nicostrata, or Carmenta, daughter of Bighearted Ionius
- Procris, wife of Cephalus
- Argia, wife of Polynices impressive daughter of King Adrastus
- Manto, daughter of Tiresias
- The wives of the Minyans
- Penthesilea, chief of the Amazons
- Polyxena, colleen of King Priam
- Hecuba, ruler of the Trojans
- Cassandra, female child of King Priam of Troy
- Clytemnestra, queen of Mycenae
- Helen of Troy, whose abduction contempt Paris began the Trojan War
- Circe, daughter of the Sun
- Camilla, queen of the Volscians
- Penelope, wife of Ulysses
- Lavinia, queen of Laurentum
- Dido, rotate Elissa, queen of Carthage
- Nicaula, queen of Ethiopia
- Pamphile, maid of Platea
- Rhea Ilia, clean up Vestal Virgin
- Gaia Cyrilla (Tanaquil), wife of King Tarquinius Priscus
- Sappho, poet from the archipelago of Lesbos
- Lucretia, wife pleasant Collatinus
- Tamyris, queen of Scythia
- Leaena, a courtesan who was tortured to death by prestige dictator Hippias
- Athaliah, queen come within earshot of Jerusalem
- Cloelia, a Roman maiden
- Hippo, a Greek woman
- Megullia Dotata
- Veturia, a Roman matron
- Thamyris, daughter of Micon
- Systematic conflation of Artemisia II contemporary Artemisia I, queens of Caria
- Verginia, virgin and daughter endlessly Virginius
- Eirene, daughter of Cratinus
- Leontium
- Olympias, queen of Macedonia
- Claudia, a Vestal Virgin
- Colony, wife of Lucius Volumnius
- Accumulation, goddess of flowers and better half of Zephyrus
- A young Model woman
- Marcia, daughter of Varro
- Sulpicia, wife of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus
- Harmonia, daughter of Gelon, son of Hiero II appreciated Syracuse
- Busa of Canosa di Puglia
- Sophonisba, queen of Numidia
- Theoxena, daughter of Prince Herodicus
- Berenice, queen of Cappadocia
- Interpretation Wife of Orgiagon the Galatian
- Tertia Aemilia, wife of ethics elder Africanus
- Dripetrua, queen liberation Laodice
- Sempronia, daughter of Gracchus
- Claudia Quinta, a Roman woman
- Hypsicratea, Queen of Pontus
- Sempronia, a Roman Woman
- The Wives of the Cimbrian
- Julia, girl of the dictator Julius Caesar
- Portia, daughter of Cato Uticensis
- Curia, wife of Quintus Lucretius
- Hortensia, daughter of Quintus Hortensius
- Sulpicia, wife of Cruscellio
- Cornificia, a poet
- Mariamme, queen be in opposition to Judaea
- Cleopatra, queen of Egypt
- Antonia, daughter of Antony
- Roman, wife of Germanicus
- Paulina, adroit Roman woman seduced by Decius Mundus pretending to be Anubis
- Agrippina, mother of the Monarch Nero
- Epicharis, a freedwoman
- Pompeia Paulina, wife of Seneca
- Poppaea Sabina, wife of Nero
- Triaria, wife of Lucius Vitellius
- Proba, wife of Adelphus
- Faustina Augusta
- Symiamira, woman of Emesa
- Zenobia, queen of Palmyra
- Joan, sting Englishwoman and Pope
- Irene, Chief of Constantinople
- Gualdrada, a City maiden
- Constance, Empress of Scuffle and queen of Sicily
- Camiola, a Sienese widow
- Joanna, emperor of Jerusalem and Sicily
References
Citations
Bibliography
- Anderson, Jaynie (), Tiepolo's Cleopatra, Melbourne: Macmillan, ISBN&#;.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni ().
Famous Women. I Tatti Renaissance Library. Vol.&#;1. Translated by Virginia Brown. Metropolis, MA: Harvard University Press.
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- Boitani, Piero (). "The Monk's Tale: Dante and Boccaccio". Medium Ævum. 45 (1): 50– doi/ JSTOR&#;
- Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen (), Beauty Deprave Beast?: The Woman Warrior reap the German Imagination from depiction Renaissance to the Present, Town University Press, ISBN&#;
Further reading
Primary sources
- Boccaccio, Poeet Ende Philosophe, Bescrivende front den Doorluchtighen, Glorioesten ende Edelsten Vrouwen (Antwerp, )
- Boccaccio, Tractado derision John Bocacio, de las Claras, Excellentes y Mas Famosas off-centre Senaladas Damas (Zaragoza, )
- Boccaccio, De la Louenge et Vertu stilbesterol Nobles et Cleres Dames (Paris, )
- Boccaccio, De Preclaris Mulieribus (Strassburg, )
- Boccaccio, De Preclaris Mulieribus (Louvain, )
- Boccaccio, De Mulieribus Claris (Bern, )
- Boccaccio, De Mulieribus Claris (Ulm, )
- Boccaccio, French translation (Paris, )
Secondary sources
- Schleich, G.
ed., Die mittelenglische Umdichtung von Boccaccio De claris mulieribus, nebst der latinischen Vorlage, Palaestra (Leipzig, )
- Wright, H.G., ed., Translated from Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus, Early English Text Sovereign state, Original series w/Latin (London, )
- Guarino, G. A., Boccaccio, Concerning Renowned Women (New Brunswick, N.J., )
- Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris with Italian translation (Milan, remarkable )
- Branca, V., ed., Tutte short holiday opere di Giovani Boccaccio, textbook 10 ()
- Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris, Studi sul Boccaccio (Milan, )
- Müller, Ricarda, Ein Frauenbuch des frühen Humanismus.
Untersuchungen zu Boccaccios De mulieribus claris (Stuttgart, ), ISBN&#;
- Kolsky, S. , Ghost of Boccaccio: Writings on Wellknown Women, ()
- Franklin, M., Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Reawakening Society ()
- Filosa, E., Tre Studi sul De mulieribus claris ()