Cy apres sensuit histoire de circes qui sut une tres renomee femme et sut fille du soloi · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de circes qui sut une tres renomee femme et sut fille du soloi
Subject: Ulysses; Magic; Important Women; Famous Women; Transformation; Greek Mythology; Roman Mythology; Circe
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Mount Circeo; Italy; Aetheum
Description: Circe is sitting in the centre of the image wearing an orange dress and a large headpiece. She was known for her magic and skills with herbs and incantations. The warrior Ulysses is depicted sitting beside Circe, with his companions standing behind him. There are birds illustrated beside Circe. Boccaccio explains that these animals are in fact companions of Ulysses, and that Circe was known to transform those who land on her shores into animals.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19924
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_19924_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Ulysses; Magic; Important Women; Famous Women; Transformation; Greek Mythology; Roman Mythology; Circe