Cy apres sensuit de claudie quinte femme romannie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de claudie quinte femme romannie
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Claudia Quinta, a Roman woman, standing on land as she pulls a ship to shore. Boccaccio explains that after Claudia Quinta was accused by other matrons of not being chaste, she prayed to the goddess Ceres to help prove her virtue. After a ship that contained a statue of Ceres had gotten stuck on a sandbar, Ceres gave Claudia Quinta the power to pull the ship to shore as proof of her chastity. The women who accused Claudia Quinta of being unchaste are standing behind her in the image as they watch her pull the ship to shore. The statue of the goddess is illustrated on the ship.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18502
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_18502_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Virtue; Goddesses; Roman Mythology; Claudia Quinta