Giovanni Boccaccio provided a digest of what was known of Circe during the Middle Ages in his De claris mulieribus ( Famous Women, 1361-1362 ).

Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy ( at left ) and her death ( at right ), from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhowel | Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johann Zainer at Ulm ca.

In 1360, Boccaccio began work on De mulieribus claris, a book offering biographies of one hundred and six famous women, that he completed in 1374.

Of his later works the moralistic biographies gathered as De casibus virorum illustrium ( 1355 – 74 ) and De mulieribus claris ( 1361 – 1375 ) were most significant.

Christine's main source for information was Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris ( On Famous Women ), possibly in the French version, Des Cleres et Nobles Femmes.

De mulieribus claris.

A Renaissance illustration of the killing of Polyxena in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris

During the Renaissance, Boccaccio, a 14th century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris ( Latin for On Famous Women ).

* Vittorio Zaccaria's translation of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, second edition ( Milan ) 1970, biography number 106

* Virginia Brown's translation of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, Harvard University Press, 2001 ; ISBN 0-674-01130-9

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De mulieribus claris ( English: 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, first published in 1374.

Penthesilea, illustration from the manuscript De mulieribus claris in conservation at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

* Boccaccio, De preclaris mulieribus ( Strassburg, 1475 )

* Boccaccio, De preclaris mulieribus ( Louvain, 1487 )

* Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris ( Bern, 1539 )

* Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris ( Ulm, 1473 )

ed., Die mittelenglisch Umdichtung von Boccaccio De claris mulieribus, nebst der latinischen Vorlage, Palaestra ( Leipzig, 1924 )

* Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris with Italian translation ( Milan, 1967 and 1970 )

* Zaccaria, V., ed., De mulieribus claris, Studi sul Boccaccio ( Milan, 1963 )

* The Genealogy of Women: Studies in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris

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Isenbrandt is mentioned in the book De Brugensibus eruditionis fama claris libri duo of the priest Antonius Sanderus, published in Amsterdam in 1624.

Boccaccio's collection of female biographies inspired characters in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies, Alvaro de Luna's De las virtuosas y claras mujeres, Thomas Elyot's Defence of Good Women, Alonso of Cartagena's De las mujeres ilustres, Giovanni Sabbadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de la clare donne, Iacopo Filippo Forest's De plurimis claris selectisque mulierbus, Jean Lemaire's Couronne margaritique, and various works by Edmund Spenser.

Records show that John De Mowbray ( 29 November 1310-4 October 1361 ), the 3rd Baron Mowbray of Axholme, would be the most likely candidate for the husband of the lady.

* Trattatello in laude di Dante ( 1357, title revised to De origine vita studiis et moribus viri clarissimi Dantis Aligerii florentini poetae illustris et de operibus compositis ab eodem )

" Opening rounds of argument were embodied in John of Legnano's defense of the election, De fletu ecclesiæ, written and incrementally revised between 1378 and 1380, which Urban caused to be distributed in multiple copies, and in the numerous rebuttals that soon appeared.

In 1555 he published a revised edition of De Corporis.

In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius ' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius.

The opening sections of the ' Principia ' contain, in revised and extended form, nearly all of the content of Newton's 1684 tract ' De motu ...' ( see article De motu corporum in gyrum which summarises the topics and indicates where they reappear in the ' Principia ').

* Hereward, together with De Gestis Herewardi Saxonis ; researched and compiled in the 12th century by monastery historians, revised and rewritten in modern English by Trevor A. Bevis, ( 1982 ), Pub.

De Quincey edited and revised his works for the Hogg edition ; the 1856 second edition of the Confessions was prepared for inclusion in Selections Grave and Gay ....

To date, thirteen books have been published in English, including his magnum opus, De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee ( 1935-6 ), which was revised and expanded in English as, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought ( 1953-8 ).

When New Line realized that they had sent Fincher the wrong draft, the President of Production, Michael De Luca, met with Fincher and noted that there was internal pressure to retain the revised version ; De Luca stated that if Fincher promised to produce the movie, they would be able to stay with the head-in-a-box ending.

A second and revised edition was published after another visit to Germany in January 1834, in the course of which Hayward met Tieck, Chamisso, De La Motte Fouqué, Varnhagen von Ense and Madame Goethe.

In addition to several school editions of portions of Cicero, Thucydides, Xenophon and Plutarch, he published an expurgated text of Aristophanes with a useful onomasticon ( re-issued separately, 1902 ) and larger editions of Cicero's De officiis ( revised ed., 1898 ) and of the Octavius of Minucius Felix ( 1853 ).

A revised edition appeared in 1643 with a slightly different title: De constitutione tragoediae.

Two versions of the revised 10-dinar banknote were issued, one with the central bank's name rendered with initial-capitals, which were printed by De La Rue of the U. K. and the other with the central bank's name in all capital letters were printed by Oberthur Technologies of France.

( 1927 ), and Le vin est tiré ( 1943 ); a play La Place De L ' Etoile, ( 1928 ; revised 1944 ) and a film script, L ' Etoile de mer ( 1928 ), which was directed by Man Ray that same year.

( Later, De La Rue sent altered plates of both typographed stamps to the Confederacy with revised denominations, intended for 2-cent Calhoun and 10-cent Davis issues, but neither stamp was put into production.

De Valera rejected the revised proposal on 4 July and made no counter proposal.

The initial report of the Boundary Commission for England dated October 1947 and published in December 1947 recommended that Leicester retain three seats, including a revised Leicester South constituency consisting of the wards of Aylestone, De Montfort, Knighton, North Braunstone and Spinney Hill, giving an electorate of 67, 574 as of the review date of 15 October 1946.

* Gabriella di Vergy, an opera seria by Gaetano Donizetti ( 1826, revised 1838 ), and an opera by Mercadante ( 1828 ), based on the tragedy Gabrielle de Vergy by Dormont De Belloy ( 1777 )

" De Quincey undoubtedly spoiled his masterpiece by revising it ... anyone who compares the two will prefer the unflagging vigour and tension of the original version to the tired prosiness of much of the revised one.

*( edited and revised :) Charles De Geer, Genera et species insectorum, e generosissimi auctoris scriptis extraxit, digessit, quoad portem reddidit, et terminologiam insectorum Linneanam addidit ( 1783 )

His researches were at that time directed towards the Byzantine period of the Middle Ages, and to this period were devoted the two theses which he composed for his doctorate in letters, De byzantino hippodromo et circensibus factionibus ( revised in French for the Revue des deux mondes, under the title of Le monde byzantin ; le sport et l ' hippodrome, 1871 ), and L ' Empire grec au Xe siècle, Constantin Porphyrognete ( 1870 ).