# De casibus virorum illustrium compiles Latin falls of famous men, first phase mid-century and revised into the 1370s

Date: 1360

## The fact

Britannica records De casibus virorum illustrium. The humanism file independently treats Boccaccio’s Latin example-literature.

It is one event.

## Context

Falls-of-princes literature is a knowledge path for moral-political example. Dedicated in the tradition toward Mainardo Cavalcanti.

[Giovanni Boccaccio](/people/giovanni-boccaccio)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Britannica lists De casibus among mature Latin works. First redaction commonly mid-1350s–60s; revisions continue. Later French Premierfait translations are evidence, not 1360 type. One encyclopedia of falls, one Fact.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica — Giovanni Boccaccio and Britannica — humanism, 14th century independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Giovanni Boccaccio (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

De casibus is a knowledge-access path of high confidence on the work, medium on exact first-issue year.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Giovanni Boccaccio.

They are not a public rating.

Giovanni Boccaccio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not split nine books into nine Facts. Later print is not 1360. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Giovanni Boccaccio.

## People

- Giovanni Boccaccio: https://factrail.ai/people/giovanni-boccaccio

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/humanism/The-14th-century
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Boccaccio

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/boc-de-casibus