Leone femme grecque · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Leone femme grecque
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a Greek woman named Leontium. Boccaccio explains that Leontium was an intellectual scholar and philosopher and became renowned for criticizing and speaking against certain philosophers of her time. Boccaccio believes her fame was hindered by becoming a prostitute.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25878
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_25878_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Leontium; Prostitution; Philosophy