Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la noble camille royne des volquiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la noble camille royne des volquiens
Subject: King Metabus; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Volscians; Camilla
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Latium
Description: This illumination depicts Camilla, the daughter of King Metabus, hunting animals in the forest in order to make clothing out of their fur and skin. Camilla had been raised in the forest by her father after he was exiled from their kingdom. She set aside common womanly duties and devoted herself to hunting and preserving her chastity. Due to her strength and fearlessness, the Volscian people summoned her back to be their queen.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18450
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_18450_OBJ.jpg