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Title
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[Sappho Playing the Lyre]
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Description
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This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Sappho from the Greek island of Lesbos. She is illustrated playing a lyre with a solemn expression on her face. Sappho is renowned for being a skilled poetess. Boccaccio explains that her verses were often melancholy, due to being broken hearted by a man who did not share a mutual feeling of love for Sappho.
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Image Creator
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Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:18012
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Source Name
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Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
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Image
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mta_18012_OBJ.png
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Subject
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Famous Women
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Poetry
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Poetess
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Literature
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Sappho
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Important Women