Cy sensuit histoire de buse canusine feme apuliene · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de buse canusine feme apuliene
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 on the right side 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, food, clothing and supplied them with arms as illustrated in the image.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20055
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20055_OBJ.jpg