Cy apres sensuit de epitare femme estrangiere · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de epitare femme estrangiere
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts the freedwoman, Epicharis, being tortured for information regarding a conspiracy to kill Emperor Nero. Epicharis is depicted lying on a large rock while three men attack her with clubs. Epicharis heard the details of the conspiracy to assassinate Emperor Nero, and when she put her faith in the wrong person, they told Emperor Nero that she was involved in the plan. They tortured her many times; however, she did not reveal the names of anyone involved in the conspiracy. She ended up killing herself to avoid revealing the details to the emperor.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18525
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_18525_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Freedwomen; Conspiracies; Torture; Emperor Nero; Epicharis