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

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de leonne fole femme qui su 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 holding a knife above her head. Boccaccio explains that she is being tortured for being involved in a conspiracy to overthrow a tyrant.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19958
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19958_OBJ.jpg