De mulieribus claris
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De mulieribus claris is a 14th-century Latin collection of biographies by Giovanni Boccaccio that portrays famous women from history and mythology, often considered one of the first works of its kind devoted entirely to women.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De mulieribus claris canonical | 3 |
| De claris mulieribus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T945129 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De mulieribus claris Context triple: [Giovanni Boccaccio, notableWork, De mulieribus claris]
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A.
De viris illustribus
De viris illustribus is a late 4th-century biographical work by Jerome that catalogs and briefly describes notable Christian authors and their writings.
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B.
De virginibus
De virginibus is a theological treatise by Ambrose of Milan that extols and instructs on Christian virginity and the virtues of consecrated women.
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C.
De Cultu Feminarum
De Cultu Feminarum is an early Christian treatise by Tertullian that critiques female adornment and discusses modesty and morality in women's dress and behavior.
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D.
Catalogue of Women
Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and myths of heroic women and their descendants.
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E.
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is a seminal 14th-century Italian lyric poetry collection by Petrarch that helped shape the development of Renaissance humanism and the European sonnet tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De mulieribus claris Target entity description: De mulieribus claris is a 14th-century Latin collection of biographies by Giovanni Boccaccio that portrays famous women from history and mythology, often considered one of the first works of its kind devoted entirely to women.
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A.
De viris illustribus
De viris illustribus is a late 4th-century biographical work by Jerome that catalogs and briefly describes notable Christian authors and their writings.
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B.
De virginibus
De virginibus is a theological treatise by Ambrose of Milan that extols and instructs on Christian virginity and the virtues of consecrated women.
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C.
De Cultu Feminarum
De Cultu Feminarum is an early Christian treatise by Tertullian that critiques female adornment and discusses modesty and morality in women's dress and behavior.
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D.
Catalogue of Women
Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and myths of heroic women and their descendants.
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E.
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is a seminal 14th-century Italian lyric poetry collection by Petrarch that helped shape the development of Renaissance humanism and the European sonnet tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin prose work
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biographical collection ⓘ medieval literary work ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | De claris mulieribus ⓘ |
| author | Giovanni Boccaccio ⓘ |
| circulation | widely copied in manuscript in the late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| dateWritten | circa 1361–1375 ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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didactic literature ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later collections of women’s biographies ⓘ |
| hasPart |
biography of Cleopatra
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biography of Dido ⓘ biography of Eve ⓘ biography of Helen of Troy ⓘ biography of Isis ⓘ biography of Judith ⓘ biography of Lucretia ⓘ biography of Medea ⓘ biography of Minerva ⓘ biography of Penelope ⓘ biography of Pope Joan ⓘ biography of Sappho ⓘ biography of Semiramis ⓘ biography of Venus ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christine de Pizan
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De claris mulieribus tradition ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian moral tradition
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classical literature ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | humanism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Italian Renaissance
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linked to:
Renaissance
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| mainSubject |
famous women
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women in history ⓘ women in mythology ⓘ |
| manuscriptTradition | illustrated manuscripts ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | moralizing narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor | first collection of biographies devoted entirely to women in Western literature ⓘ |
| numberOfBiographies | 106 ⓘ |
| placeOfWriting | Florence ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 14th century ⓘ |
| purpose |
exemplary stories of women
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moral instruction ⓘ |
| structure | series of individual biographies ⓘ |
| subjectField |
gender studies
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women’s history ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | On Famous Women ⓘ |
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linked to: De mulieribus claris