Cy apres sensuit virginee femme de lucien volupin · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit virginee femme de lucien volupin
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts the noble Roman woman named Verginia getting cast out of the Patricia Pudicitia temple. Verginia was born into a noble family and married a former consul named Lucius Volupinus. Because her husband became a member of the plebeian class when he was no longer a consul, Verginia was cast out of the temple by noble women. Verginia is famous for having created her own temple for the plebeian women called the Plebeia Pudicitia. Verginia is depicted leaving the temple in a saddened manner. She is being escorted out of the temple by a man in a red garment. The noble women are watching Verginia leave from inside the temple.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19991
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_19991_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Patricia Pudicitia; Plebeia Pudicitia; Temples; Lucius Volupinus; Noble Women; Verginia