Thamar painting Diana. Boccacio, de mulieribus claris Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées (trad. anonyme), 15-16th century, France (Cognac). Bibliothèque Nationale MS Français 599 fol. 50. 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]