Description Boccaccio\'s "On Famous Women" ("De claris mulieribus") is a remarkable work that contains the lives of one hundred and six Women in myth and history, ranging from Eve to Boccaccio\'s contemporary, Queen Giovanna I of Naples.
He dedicated it to Andrea Acciaiuoli, countess of Altavilla in the.
Boccaccio composed it at Certaldo in 1361/62 and revised it in various stages to the end of his life in 1375.
It is the first collection of women\'s biographies ever written.
Description Boccaccio\'s "On Famous Women" ("De claris mulieribus") is a remarkable work that contains the lives of one hundred and six Women in myth and history, ranging from Eve to Boccaccio\'s contemporary, Queen Giovanna I of Naples