Cy apres sensuit de leonne fole femme du pays de grece · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de leonne fole femme du pays de grece
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Prostitution; Conspiracies; Torture; Leaena
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts the prostitute Leaena being violently tortured for information regarding a conspiracy. There is a man on the right side of the image pulling on Leaena’s hair, and a man on the left side pulling on her arm. Boccaccio explains that she is being tortured for being involved in a conspiracy to overthrow a tyrant.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19980
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_19980_OBJ.jpg