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Title
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Cy apres sensuit de dido autrement appellee elisse laquelle sut royne de cartage
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Description
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Dido, the founder and queen of Carthage, is illustrated on top of the city’s walls in the top centre of the image stabbing herself with a knife. After her husband, Acerbas, had been killed by her brother, she fled to Africa and founded Carthage and vowed to remain chaste in honour of her husband. When a foreign king asked for Dido’s hand in marriage and threatened to sack the city if she denied, she stabbed herself to protect her chastity.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:18453
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Source Name
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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]
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Image
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mta_18453_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Elissa
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Acerbas
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Important Women
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Famous Women
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Chastity
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Dido