Cy apres sensuit hystoire de circes qui sut une renome feme et fille du solei · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de circes qui sut une renome feme et fille du solei
Subject: Magic; Ulysses; Important Women; Famous Women; Greek Mythology; Roman Mythology; Circe
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Mount Circeo; Italy; Aetheum
Description: Circe is sitting in the centre of the image wearing a pink dress and a crown. She was known for her magic and skills with herbs and incantations. There are figures standing beside Circe whose bodies are in the form of a human while their heads are transformed into animals. Boccaccio explains that these animals are the companions of Ulysses, and that Circe was known to transform those who landed on her shores into animals. Ulysses is the only one depicted in his human form.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18449
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_18449_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Magic; Ulysses; Important Women; Famous Women; Greek Mythology; Roman Mythology; Circe