{"id":89543,"date":"2026-03-10T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.librairieclavreuil.com\/boccaccio-giovanni-de-mulieribus-claris\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:27:51","slug":"boccaccio-giovanni-de-mulieribus-claris","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.librairieclavreuil.com\/en\/boccaccio-giovanni-de-mulieribus-claris\/","title":{"rendered":"BOCCACCIO Giovanni De mulieribus claris."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><i>Bacchi della Lega, pp.22-23. ; Essling 1505 ; Sander 1088; Dusio, Cristina &#8220;De mulieribus Claris del volgarizzamento di Antonio di San Lupidio&#8221; in Dal Testo all&#8217;Opera, 2017, pp.13-26.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">First Italian edition of the first work devoted exclusively to famous women. Illustrated with 105 beautiful woodcuts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Compiled by Boccaccio around 1361\u20131362, this collection of portraits is the first to be devoted to remarkable women: historical, biblical and mythological figures, from Eve to Joan of Jerusalem, from Cleopatra to Pope Joan. Boccaccio depicts illustrious women, certainly, but not necessarily all of them virtuous. In his preface, he presents this collection as the counterpart to <i>De viris illustribus<\/i>, Petrarch\u2019s collection of biographies of great men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Circulating in the form of manuscripts\u2014in Latin, Italian and French\u2014this collection of portraits of women was a very popular work at the time. Christine de Pisan herself drew inspiration from it in 1405 for her anthology of talented and virtuous women, <i>The Book of the City of Ladies<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This first printed translation into Italian is the work of Vincenzo Bagli, whose biography remains poorly documented. Bagli was undoubtedly a humanist from the circle of the wealthy Baglioni family of Perugia; indeed, the work is dedicated to Lucrezia Baglioni, daughter of Ridolfo del Baglioni, Lord of Perugia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Printed in round type, this fine Venetian edition is illustrated with a large title vignette (113 x 95 mm) depicting the triumph of famous women, with Lucretia at the head of a chariot drawn by two griffins, and 104 woodcuts (60 x 73 mm) of individual female portraits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">One observes not only the repetition of certain woodcuts (for example, a nude woman holding an apple is used to represent Eve and then, interchangeably, Venus), but also a further concern for economy: some woodcuts have been hollowed out to allow the insertion of interchangeable heads onto different bodies, or vice versa. It is surprising to encounter such techniques in a work of this category, which is otherwise of such fine quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&#8220;Boccace est le premier \u00e0 consacrer, avec son <i>De mulieribus claris<\/i>, un recueil biographique aux femmes. Ce choix est d\u2019autant plus significatif que P\u00e9trarque venait de transf\u00e9rer au domaine historique, avec son <i>De viris illustribus<\/i>, le mod\u00e8le du <i>De viris <\/i>de saint J\u00e9r\u00f4me. Pour P\u00e9trarque, les hommes protagonistes de l\u2019histoire romaine sont des exemples, et m\u00e9diter sur leur vie doit conduire le lecteur \u00e0 imiter leur vertu. L\u2019histoire dans sa forme biographique (puisque le <i>De viris<\/i> est essentiellement une r\u00e9duction de Tite-Live sous forme de biographies) a une valeur \u00e9ducative. Au contraire, en choisissant pour son <i>De mulieribus claris<\/i> des femmes qui ne sont pas toutes des mod\u00e8les de vertu, mais qu\u2019il juge remarquables et exceptionnelles, et par l\u00e0 m\u00e9morables, Boccace transforme profond\u00e9ment le mod\u00e8le du <i>De viris illustribus<\/i> en faisant pr\u00e9valoir, au moins en partie, les finalit\u00e9s historiographiques et narratives sur celles exemplaires. Son \u00e9criture biographique subit l\u2019influence du <i>D\u00e9cam\u00e9ron<\/i> o\u00f9 le genre du r\u00e9cit bref d\u00e9passe la logique de l\u2019exemplum en pr\u00e9sentant un fait remarquable dans son ambigu\u00eft\u00e9 morale, offrant ainsi au lecteur la possibilit\u00e9 de juger par lui-m\u00eame. Il en r\u00e9sulte une ambivalence qui n\u2019est pas sans rappeler celle des <i>Cent nouvelles <\/i>: le <i>De mulieribus claris<\/i>, \u0153uvre de d\u00e9fense de la femme, contient de nombreux topoi du discours misogyne et antif\u00e9ministe. Nous y trouvons \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de femmes fortes, entreprenantes, vertueuses ou courageuses, des femmes l\u00e2ches, soumises aux d\u00e9sirs sensuels ou manipulatrices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">(Bartuschat, Johannes. \u00ab Un panth\u00e9on de femmes exemplaires. Giuseppe Betussi, Boccace et les femmes illustres au xvie si\u00e8cle \u00bb. In : Panth\u00e9ons de la Renaissance, \u00c9lisabeth Crouzet-Pavan et al., Publications de l\u2019\u00c9cole fran\u00e7aise de Rome, 2021).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Provenance : Ing. Roberto Almagia (1884-1962), Geographer and lecturer at the University of Rome from 1915 to 1959 (bookplate).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">A few rare foxing spots and stains; trimmed a little short at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">4to (202 x 144 mm) of 154 leaves (A<sup>6<\/sup>, B<sup>8<\/sup>-T<sup>8<\/sup>, V<sup>4<\/sup>). 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