Cy apres sensuit histoire de virginee vierge fille de virgine · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de virginee vierge fille de virgine
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illustration depicts Verginius, a plebeian man, swinging his sword in the air as he about to kill his daughter Verginia, who is sitting in front of him. To protect his daughter’s chastity, Verginius stabbed Verginia as death would be better than her honour being destroyed. The men illustrated behind Verginius are most likely Appius Claudius and Lucius Icilius, as they were present in Boccaccio’s telling of the story.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20043
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20043_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Verginius; Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Roman Legend; Verginia