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Title
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Ci sensuit histoire de tierte emiliene de scipion feme
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Description
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This illumination depicts Scipio Africanus, a Roman general, committing adultery with a young servant girl in the centre of the image. The woman on the left side of the image is his wife, Tertia Aemilia. She is depicted looking away after discovering her husband and his mistress as they commit adultery. Instead of confronting her husband about the affair, she devises a plan to get rid of the mistress. Tertia Aemilia married the young servant girl off to a freedman. She does this so that no one finds out about the affair so that it does not ruin her reputation. Boccaccio explains that he chose to write on Tertia Aemilia because the way she handled the affair and how she used her cunning was admirable.
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Image Creator
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Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:20072
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Source Name
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Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
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Image
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mta_20072_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Famous Women
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Adultery
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Infidelity
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Scipio Africanus
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Tertia Aemilia
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Important Women