Cy apres sensuit de leonte femme greque · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de leonte femme greque
Subject: Philosophers; Important Women; Famous Women; Prostitution; Leontium
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a Greek woman named Leontium. Boccaccio explains that Leontium was an intellectual scholar and philosopher and became renowned for criticizing and speaking against certain philosophers of her time. Leontium is depicted standing in the centre of the image with books sitting on a podium beside her. These books are reflective of her intellectual life. There is also a man holding Leontium as he stands behind her. This is depicted due to her becoming a prostitute later in her life. Boccaccio believes her fame was hindered by becoming a prostitute.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19989
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_19989_OBJ.jpg