Cy sensuit histoire de enguborade florentine vierge · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de enguborade florentine vierge
Period: 1400-1450;
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 red dress speaking with the man in a red and brown cloak. Emperor Otho is presumably the man sitting on the throne 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: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25596
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_25596_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Engeldruda; Emperor Otho IV; Important Women; Famous Women