Enguldrade femme florentine · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Enguldrade femme florentine
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Florence; Italy
Description: This image appears in the chapter that treats the Florentine maiden named Engeldruda. Engeldruda is famous for having spoken up against her father to protect her chastity. Boccaccio explains that Emperor Otho IV had gone to Florence for a festival, and when he noticed the beauty of Engeldruda, he asked her father who she was. Engeldruda’s father had offered her up to the emperor as if her chastity meant nothing to him. She spoke against her father for having done this. The emperor was so impressed with Engeldruda, he offered a nobleman named Guido to be her husband. Engeldruda is depicted on the right side of the image wearing a blue cloak speaking to two other women. Emperor Otho is presumably the man in the centre of the image as he is wearing a crown. Engeldruda’s father, then, is most likely the man speaking with Emperor Otho on the left side of the image.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25536
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_25536_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Engeldruda; Important Women; Famous Women; Emperor Otho IV; Chastity