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Title
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Cy sensuit de une romanie jeune fille
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Description
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This image depicts the story of a young Roman woman who saved her mother from starving to death. Boccaccio explains that this young woman’s mother had been sentenced to death, and when she was locked away to die of starvation, her daughter saved her with her own breast milk. The young woman is depicted sitting down with her breast exposed as she provides milk to her mother. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on this unknown young woman due to her filial devotion.
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Image Creator
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Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:20050
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Source Name
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Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
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Image
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mta_20050_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Famous Women
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Filial Devotion
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Important Women