La femme adelphe nomme probe · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La femme adelphe nomme probe
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Othrys; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Proba holding a stick in her hand as she points to the world. This is to represent her teaching history to the world. Proba is renowned for her intellect and intensive knowledge of literature, including works from Virgil. Proba had taken lines from the Aeneid, Bucolics, and the Georgics and transformed them into a cento focusing on the Old and New Testaments. Proba was said to have known the Scriptures by memory, which was something not even many men were able to do.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18104
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_18104_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Adelphus; Old Testament; New Testament; Important Women; Famous Women; Literature; Poetry; Cento; Virgil; Homer; Proba