Von Busa camusina von napels · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Busa camusina von napels
Subject: Famous Women; Hospitality; Hannibal; War; Busa; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Apulia; Italy; Cannae; Canusium
Description: This engraving depicts a woman named Busa on the right side of the image looking at the group of people in front of her. We know that this figure is Busa as the creator engraved her name above her head. 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:18048
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg; 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_18048_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Hospitality; Hannibal; War; Busa; Important Women