Buse canusime femme appulienne · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Buse canusime femme appulienne
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Cannae; Apulia; Italy; Canusium
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Busa holding a bowl of food and presenting it so a group of men at her door. 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 at Busa’s door receiving her hospitality.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18079
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_18079_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hospitality; War; Hannibal; Busa