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Title
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Von Romana der jungen frauen
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Description
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This engraving depicts a story of a young Roman woman who saved her mother from starving to death. Boccaccio explains that this unknown 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 girl and her mother are depicted behind the window of the jail cell as the mother drinks the milk of her daughter’s breast. The word romana is engraved below the jail cell window. The men that are standing guard outside the prison cell seem unconcerned and relaxed. They are unsuspecting of the young woman because they searched her every time she visited her mother and she never seemed to carried food with her. The young woman saved her mother’s life through her breast milk, and Boccaccio explains that he wrote on this unknown young woman due to her filial devotion.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:18044
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Source Name
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Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
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Image
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