Ancient women’s fate as moral warning in Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris

Boccaccio’s book about famous women is a very peculiar one among his Latin works. He elaborated themes borrowed from Greek and Roman mythology or history to elucidate moral and didactic issues. This paper analyses the development of Boccaccio’s moral attitude, which is documented by manuscripts representing different stages of Boccaccio’s work on the book