-
Title
-
Cy sensuit histoire de cloelis romaine
-
Description
-
This illumination depicts Cloelia, a young Roman woman, riding a horse through a deep river. Boccaccio explains that Cloelia was given to a foreign king as a hostage, and when she escaped, she took many other hostages with her back to Rome. While escaping, she came across a river that was too treacherous to pass. She found a horse, and despite never having ridden one, she got herself and the other women across safely by means of this horse.
-
Image Creator
-
Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
-
Identifier
-
mta:19960
-
Source Name
-
Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
-
Image
-
mta_19960_OBJ.jpg