Cy apres sensuit dune jeune fille rommanie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit dune jeune fille rommanie
Subject: Famous Women; Filial Devotion; Important Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This image depicts the story of a young Roman woman who saved her mother from starving to death. Boccaccio explains that this young woman’s mother had been sentenced to death, and when she was locked away to die of starvation, her daughter saved her with her own breast milk. The young woman is depicted sitting down with her breast exposed as she provides milk to her mother. The young woman’s belly is large as she had just given birth, which is why she is able to produce the milk. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on this unknown young woman due to her filial devotion.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19995
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_19995_OBJ.jpg