[Leontium Standing with a Man in a Brothel] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Leontium Standing with a Man in a Brothel]
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illustration depicts Leontium in an embrace with a man in her brothel chamber. Boccaccio explains that Leontium was an intellectual and scholar and became renowned for criticizing and speaking against certain philosophers of her time and was a philosopher herself. There are books in the background of the illustration to symbolize her intellectual life. Boccaccio believes her fame was hindered by becoming a prostitute.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:12011
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_12011_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Leontium; Brothels; Philosophy; Important Women