 Plutarch listed heroic and artistic women in his "Moralia".In the medieval period, Boccaccio used mythic and biblical women as moral exemplars in "De mulieribus claris" (On Famous Women) (1361–1375), directly inspiring Christine de Pisan to write "The Book of the City of Ladies" (1405).Women writers themselves have long been interested in tracing a "woman's tradition" in writing.