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De mulieribus claris
''De mulieribus claris'' (English: ''On Famous Women'') is a collection of 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.〔Brown, op. cit., p. xi〕 At the same time as he was writing ''On Famous Women'', Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies of famous men, '' De Casibus Virorum Illustrium'' (''On the Fates of Famous Men'').
==Purpose==
Boccaccio claimed to have written the 106 biographies for the posterity of the women who were considered renowned, whether good or bad. He believed that recounting the deeds of certain women who may have been wicked would be offset by the exhortations to virtue by the deeds of good women. He writes in his presentation of this combination of all types of women that hopefully it would encourage virtue and curb vice.〔Brown, op. cit., p. xii〕
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