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Title
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De Cloelia: virgen romana
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Description
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This engraving depicts Cloelia, a young Roman woman, riding a horse through a deep river with many women looking at her. Boccaccio explains that Cloelia was given to a foreign king as a hostage, and when she escaped, she took many other hostages with her to get back to Rome. While escaping, she came across a river that was too treacherous to pass. She found a horse, and despite never having ridden one, she got herself and the other women across safely by means of this horse. This image depicts her taking the other women across the river one by one as there is only one other female on the horse with Cloelia. We know that this figure on the horse is Cloelia as her name is engraved above her head.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:16674
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Source Name
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De Las Mujeres Ilustres [On Famous Women]
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Image
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mta_16674_OBJ.png
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Subject
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Famous Women
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Cloelia
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Hostages
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Important Women