Cy apres sensuit de triare de lucien vitellien femme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de triare de lucien vitellien femme
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Terracina
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Triaria wearing armor and holding an axe above her head. She is depicted wearing a dress to show that it is a woman. There are other soldiers standing with Triaria as they kill the people lying on the ground. Triaria is renowned for her military skills and devotion to her husband, Lucius Vitellius. She is depicted wearing a helmet and holding an axe in this image to demonstrate her fighting capabilities. Boccaccio explains that Triaria followed her husband into an enemy city and she fought violently and killed many citizens in order to magnify her husband’s glory.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18569
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_18569_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Lucius Vitellius; War; Devotion; Triaria