La tres belle et tres noble Nicostrate ou carmete fille du roy yone · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La tres belle et tres noble Nicostrate ou carmete fille du roy yone
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Arcadia; Ancient Greece; Palatine; Pallanteum
Description: This illuminated image depicts a woman named Nicostrata (also called Carmenta) in front of a lectern as she writes in a book with a quill. She is the queen of Arcadia, which is why she is depicted wearing a crown in this illustration. When Nicostrata and her son, Evander, sailed to a new land to which he named Palatine, she discovered that the inhabitants were not well educated or literate. Nicostrata, an incredibly intellectual woman, created a new language with new letters for the people of Palatine which would be known as the Latin language. This image depicts her writing and creating this new language in her book.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17145
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_17145_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Latin Language; Nicostrata; Carmenta