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Title
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La tres honorable Supplice de Fulvius Flaccus feme
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Description
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This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Sulpicia. Sulpicia is renowned for having been a devoutly chaste woman. Boccaccio explains that Sulpicia was chosen out of one hundred women to consecrate a statue to Venus in the city of Rome. She was chosen for being considered the most chaste out of all the other women.
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Image Creator
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Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:18077
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Source Name
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Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
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Image
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mta_18077_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Fulvius Flaccus
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Important Women
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Famous Women
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Chastity
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Venus
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Goddesses
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Sulpicia