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De casibus virorum illustrium
On the Fates of Famous Men
Illuminated recto from Parisian edition (1467)
Author(s)Giovanni Boccaccio
LanguageLatin
Date1355–1374
ProvenanceCertaldo
GenreDe viris illustribus

De casibus virorum illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men) is a work of 56 biographies in Latin prose composed by the Florentine poet Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo in the form of moral stories of the falls of famous people, similar to his work of 106 biographies De Mulieribus Claris.

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De casibus virorum illustrium

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De casibus virorum illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men) is a work of 56 biographies in Latin prose composed by the Florentine poet Giovanni Boccaccio...

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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

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Alp Arslan

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Miniatures of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium"s 226 and 232. French Manuscripts in Bibliothèque Nationale de France. S. Karakaya ve V. Baydar...

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De Mulieribus Claris

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Boccaccio also compiled a collection of biographies of famous men, De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men). 1. Eve, the first woman in the...

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De viris illustribus

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Petrarch, penned a De viris illustribus, as a collection of 36 short biographies. Boccaccio, inspired by him, wrote De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("On the Fates...

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The Fall of Princes

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based on Giovanni Boccaccio's work De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, which Lydgate knew in a French translation by Laurent de Premierfait, entitled Des Cas des...

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Romanos IV Diogenes

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Miniatures of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium"s 226 and 232. French Manuscripts in Bibliothèque Nationale de France. S. Karakaya ve V. Baydar...

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Fortuna

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devil and a ministering angel, subservient to God. Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("The Fortunes of Famous Men"), used by John Lydgate to compose...

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Four continents

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Laurent de Premierfait's expanded translation of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (1409), quoted in Patricia M. Gathercole, "Laurent de Premierfait:...

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John Lydgate

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which is also derived, though not directly, from Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium. The Man of Law's Tale, with its rhetorical elaboration of apostrophe...

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Domestic tragedy

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matter. These plays were in particular contrast to De casibus tragedy like De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio The Ancient Greek theorist...

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Brunhilda of Austrasia

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Sigebert's brother Guntram, had founded the new bishopric at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, separating the Maurienne Valley and the neighboring Susa Valley...

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The Mirror for Magistrates

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Lydgate's work was in turn inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("Concerning the Falls of Illustrious Men") and the other significant...

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Battle of Manzikert

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and diverse host included 500 Frankish and Norman mercenaries under Roussel de Bailleul, some Turkic (Uz and Pecheneg) and Bulgarian mercenaries, infantry...

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Imaginary Conversations

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Renaissance, it served as the model for Giovanni Boccaccio, in whose De casibus virorum illustrium (The Downfall of the Famous), members of the 1st century Roman...

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William III of Sicily

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Barber, Malcolm, ed. (2003). The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte. Vol. 1. Translated by Ailes, Marianne. The Boydell Press...

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Cleopatra

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reaction to the negative depiction of Cleopatra in De Mulieribus Claris and De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, Latin works by the 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni...

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Byzantine Empire under the Doukas dynasty

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(25 May 2007), Anna Dalassena, Mother of Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118), De Imperatoribus Romanis (An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers) Kazhdan, Alexander...

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Colard Mansion

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Moralisé with woodcuts, and a French translation of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, the first book to be illustrated with engravings, some of which...

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Rota Fortunae

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or meme for Tacitus, who mentions its rhetorical overuse in the Dialogus de oratoribus. In the second century AD, astronomer and astrologer Vettius Valens...

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Italian literature

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of women in his De mulieribus claris, and the first to tell the story of the great unfortunates in his De casibus virorum illustrium. He continued and...

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Laurent de Premierfait

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Cicero De amicitia (1416) De senectute (1405) Giovanni Boccaccio De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (1400 and again in 1409) De mulieribus claris (1405) Decameron...

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Byzantine Anatolia

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to stabilize Anatolia would end in disaster. One of the leaders, Roussel de Bailleul, a Norman, led a group of his fellow mercenaries away east to Melitene...

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1490s in poetry

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Princes, 36,000-line poem translated c. 1431–1438 from the De casibus illustrium virorum of Boccaccio (see also Lydgate's Proverbs 1510), posthumously...

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