Cy sensuit histoire de cloelis romaine · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de cloelis romaine
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hostages; Cloelia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
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)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19960
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19960_OBJ.jpg