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Title
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Von Saphos der poeta
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Description
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This engraving depicts Sappho, the famous poetess from Lesbos, sitting in the foreground while playing the lyre. We know that this is Sappho as her name is engraved beside her head. There are other stringed instruments and sheet music surrounding her. Sappho was in love with a man (depicted on the right-hand side of the engraving) who did not share the mutual feelings. Boccaccio explains that this is the reason as to why her poems and music verses were so somber.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:18033
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Source Name
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Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
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Image
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