Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

On September 28, 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

* Jerome's On Famous Men Chapter 53 is devoted to Tertullian.

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.

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

He wrote three books about painting theory: On Painting ( 画论 ), Introduction of Famous Paintings of Wei and Jin Dynasties ( 魏晋胜流画赞 ) and Painting Yuntai Mountain ( 画云台山记 ).

The story of Pyramus and Thisbe appears in Giovanni Boccaccio's On Famous Women as biography number twelve ( sometimes thirteen ) and in his Decameron, in the fifth story on the seventh day, where a desperate housewife falls in love with her neighbor, and communicates with him through a crack in the wall, attracting his attention by dropping pieces of stone and straw through the crack.

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

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

Ben Jonson's poem On the Famous Voyage ( discussed in Andrew McRae's article, cited below ) provides a mock-epic account of a journey along the excrement-lined ditch during the early seventeenth century.

"" On the Famous Voyage ": Ben Jonson and Civic Space.

On September 12, 1916, Kingsport residents demanded the death of circus elephant Mary ( an Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows Circus ) for her killing of city hotel worker Walter Eldridge, who was hired the day before as an assistant elephant trainer by the circus.

** De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men " — in the field of literature ), to which belongs: De Illustribus Grammaticis (" Lives Of The Grammarians "), De Claris Rhetoribus (" Lives Of The Rhetoricians "), and Lives Of The Poets.

On September 27, 2011, former congressman Alan Grayson wrote an article on The Huffington Post about Chapin's song " What Made America Famous ".

On May 25, 1942, the studio was renamed Famous Studios, and it moved back to New York within eight months.

* A Famous Necklace On the Necklace of Marie Antoinette, by E. Orpen, " Stories about Famous Stones ".

The contemporary writer Giovanni Boccaccio has left us with the following description of Queen Joanna in his On Famous Women: " Joanna, queen of Sicily and Jerusalem, is more renowned than other woman of her time for lineage, power, and character ".

On January 14, 2012, an original Cinerama camera filmed a sequence at the Lasky Demille Barn, the original home to Famous Players Lasky, later to be renamed Paramount Pictures.

Diogenes Laertius, an Epicurean philosopher of the third century, includes the story of Epimenides in his book On the Lives, Opinions, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers, in chapter ten in his section on the Seven Sages of Greece, precursors to the first philosophers.

According to Festus, she changed her name to Gaia Caecilia ( called Gaia Cyrilla in Boccaccio's On Famous Women ) when she arrived at Rome, although some Roman historians also commonly spelled her name Caia Caecilia or Caia Cyrilla.

Monet's Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress ( La femme à la robe verte ), painted in 1866, brought him recognition and was one of many works featuring his future wife, Camille Doncieux ; she was the model for the figures in Women in the Garden of the following year, as well as for On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, pictured here.

On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience.

On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, announced that Robinson was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.

Arthur Schopenhauer has been accused of misogyny for his essay " On Women " ( Über die Weiber ), in which he expressed his opposition to what he called " Teutonico-Christian stupidity " on female affairs.

* On the Ordination of Women: An Advocate's Halakhic Response Mayer E. Rabbinowitz.

* On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition Blu Greenberg, Jewish Publication Society

On the other hand, Carla Hesse, in The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern ( 2001 ), argues that " female participation in the public cultural life of the Old Regime was ... relatively marginal ".

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

In Los Angeles, Smith appeared in theatrical productions of Living On Salvation Street, for which she was paid $ 14 for each performance, Boys and Girls / Men and Women and How the Other Half Loves, and played the recurring role of Luella Waters on the Showtime series Brothers.

A Translation of Condorcet ’ s Essay “ Sur l ’ admission des femmes aux droits de Cité ” ( On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship ).

On Carnival Thursday ( called " Old Women Day " or " The Women's Day "), in commemoration of an 1824 revolt by washer-women, women storm city halls, cut men's ties, and are allowed to kiss any man who passes their way.

On October 29, 2006, Judd appeared at a " Women for Ford " event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety of Democratic candidates, including President Barack Obama in critical swing states.

On June 21, 2009, the National Organization for Women resolved to support both the three-state strategy and any strategy to submit a new ERA to the states for ratification.

The Veil: Women Writers On Its History, Lore, And Politics.

On September 30, the first entirely German-made feature-length dramatic talkie, Das Land ohne Frauen ( Land Without Women ), premiered.

On April 1, 2010 the remaining Showtime multiplex channels, Showtime Beyond, Showtime Extreme, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women ( as well as The Movie Channel, The Movie Channel Xtra and Flix ) began using on-screen logo bugs during all of their programming.

On October 12, 2000, Lauper took part in a television show called Women in Rock, Girls With Guitars.

* Amelia Earhart: On The Future Of Women In Flying ( listen online )

Plutarch in his work De mulierum virtutibus (" On the Virtues of Women ") describes how the tyrant of Cyrene, Nicocrates, was deposed by his wife Aretaphila of Cyrene around the year 50 BC