Cy apres sensuit de la tres noble claudie vestale romanie vierge · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de la tres noble claudie vestale romanie vierge
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Claudia, who was a vestal virgin in Rome. She is depicted grabbing onto a man wearing a red shirt and hitting him. Her father was a noble man who, under the order of the senate, rode through a populous area of Rome on a chariot as he showed off his triumph. A man had run up to Claudia’s father in a rage and was about to attack him, but not before Claudia put herself in front of the man to protect her father. The man in the red shirt is illustrated grabbing on to Claudia’s father and attempting to drag him out of the chariot while Claudia hits the plebeian. Boccaccio explains Claudia is praiseworthy due to her devotion to her father and for her actions of risking her life for him.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19990
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_19990_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Filial Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Claudia; Vestal Virgin

Media: mta_19990_OBJ.jpg