Cy sensuit de une romanie jeune fille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit de une romanie jeune fille
Subject: Famous Women; Filial Devotion; Important Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: 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.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20050
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20050_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Filial Devotion; Important Women