Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la tres belle nicostrate ou carmente fille du roy yone · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la tres belle nicostrate ou carmente fille du roy yone
Subject: Evander; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Latin Language; Carmenta; Nicostrata
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Pallanteum; Arcadia; Ancient Greece; Italy; Palatine
Description: This image depicts Nicostrata, a woman who was a famous prophetess during her time, holding a scroll of parchment. She is illustrated sitting down on the right side of the image as a group of people are listening to her speak. She is teaching them a new language. Nicostrata had gone with her son Evander to Italy and he founded the city of Pallantium. Once Nicostrata realized that the inhabitants of this city were not well educated or literate, she decided to give them their own language with their own letters and symbols. This was the Latin language. Nicostrata taught the new letters and language to the people of Pallantium, which is what the illustration depicts.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18439
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_18439_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Evander; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Latin Language; Carmenta; Nicostrata

Media: mta_18439_OBJ.jpg