Busa Camisina Apula muliere · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Busa Camisina Apula muliere
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hospitality; Hannibal; War; Busa
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Canusium; Apulia; Italy; Cannae
Description: This engraving depicts a woman named Busa on the left side of the image looking at the group of people in front of her. Boccaccio explains that after a city called Cannae was attacked by Hannibal the Carthaginian, the people fled to Canusium. Busa opened her home graciously to the people who fled the danger of war and provided them with hospitality and food. These are the people who are depicted sitting around Busa’s table.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18211
Language: lat
Source Name: Iohannis Bocacij in librum de claris mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1487 Leuven; 1487 Leuven
Image: mta_18211_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hospitality; Hannibal; War; Busa