Cy apres sensuit de luctere femme de collatin · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de luctere femme de collatin
Subject: Sextus; Collatinus; Important Women; Famous Women; Rape; Chastity; Lucretia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Lucretia stabbing herself with a knife. There are people depicted on the right side of the image watching Lucretia carry out this act. Boccaccio explains that a relative of Lucretia’s husband (Collatinus) had raped her during the night. This man’s name was Sextus, and he had been welcomed into Lucretia and Collatinus’ home as a guest before he committed this crime. Lucretia told her husband, her father (Tricipitinus) and a relative named Brutus what Sextus had done to her. These are presumably the men illustrated on the right. After she told them what Sextus had done to her, she killed herself in shame of what happened.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19978
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_19978_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Sextus; Collatinus; Important Women; Famous Women; Rape; Chastity; Lucretia

Media: mta_19978_OBJ.jpg