Cy apres sensuit hystoire de cloelis rommanie vierge · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de cloelis rommanie vierge
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hostages; Cloelia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Cloelia, a young Roman woman, riding a horse through a deep river. Boccaccio explains that Cloelia was given to a foreign king as a hostage, and when she escaped, she took many other hostages with her 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.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19982
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_19982_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hostages; Cloelia