Royal 16 G V f. 73v Irene, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c. 1440. British Library. De mulieribus claris (Famous Women or On Famous Women or Of Famous Women) is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) published in 1374. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature. [https://bjws.blogspot.nl/2016/04/women-artists-from-1400s-illuminated.html]