Cy apres sensuit de tierte emilie de scipion premier affrique feme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de tierte emilie de scipion premier affrique feme
Subject: Scipio Africanus; Important Women; Famous Women; Adultery; Infidelity; Tertia Aemilia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Scipio Africanus, a Roman general, committing adultery with a young servant girl on the left side of the image. The woman on the right side of the image is his wife, Tertia Aemilia. She is depicted looking away after discovering her husband and his mistress as they commit adultery. Instead of confronting her husband about the affair, she devises a plan to get rid of the mistress. Tertia Aemilia married the young servant girl off to a freedman. She does this so that no one finds out about the affair so that it does not ruin her reputation. Boccaccio explains that he chose to write on Tertia Aemilia because the way she handled the affair and how she used her cunning was admirable.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18498
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_18498_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Scipio Africanus; Important Women; Famous Women; Adultery; Infidelity; Tertia Aemilia

Media: mta_18498_OBJ.jpg