Cy apres sensuit de buse canusine femme apulienne · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de buse canusine femme apulienne
Subject: Hospitality; Important Women; Famous Women; War; Hannibal; Busa
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Canusium; Apulia; Italy; Cannae
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Busa in the centre of the image looking at the group of people in front of her. Boccaccio explains that after a city called Cannae was attacked by Hannibal the Carthaginian, the people fled to Canusium. Busa opened her home graciously to the people who fled the danger of war and provided them with hospitality and food as illustrated in the image.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18493
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
Image: mta_18493_OBJ.jpg