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Title
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[Leontium Standing with a Man in a Brothel]
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Description
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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.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:12011
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Source Name
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De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
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Image
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mta_12011_OBJ.png
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Subject
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Leontium
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Brothels
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Philosophy
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Important Women