Cy sensuit histoire de Sempronie graccie fille de tite · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de Sempronie graccie fille de tite
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Gracchi; Sempronia; Important Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Sempronia in the centre of the image wearing a blue dress. Sempronia was the daughter of the famous Tiberius Gracchus. Boccaccio explains that after her brothers were murdered, Sempronia was brought to trial by a tribune of plebeians. This image depicts that trial. The person on the left side of the image told her to let herself be kissed by a man named Equitius (who is standing behind Sempronia) and accept him as a member of the Sempronian family, however, Sempronia rejects this to protect her family’s honour and nobility.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20074
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_20074_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Gracchi; Sempronia; Important Women