Ci apres sensuit histoire de leonte femme grecque · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ci apres sensuit histoire de leonte femme grecque
Subject: Philosophers; Important Women; Famous Women; Prostitution; Leontium
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a Greek woman named Leontium. Boccaccio explains that Leontium was an intellectual scholar and philosopher and became renowned for criticizing and speaking against certain philosophers of her time. Leontium is depicted standing in the centre of the image with books sitting on a podium beside her. These books are representative of her intellectual life. There is also a man holding Leontium as he stands behind her. This is depicted due to her becoming a prostitute later in her life. Boccaccio believes her fame was hindered by becoming a prostitute.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20045
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_20045_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Philosophers; Important Women; Famous Women; Prostitution; Leontium