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Title
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Von Tullia
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Description
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This engraving is unique as it was not an actual story included in Boccaccio’s original book. The engraver and compiler of this edition appear to have included this image and story as it relates to the following description about the Roman woman Lucretia. This image depicts Tullia, the husband of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and daughter of Servius Tullius. Tullia had helped her husband overthrow her father off the throne as the king of Rome in order to place her husband on the throne. Lucius Tarquinius Superbus had Servius Tullius assassinated, and his body was thrown into the streets where Tullia then ran his body over with a chariot. This image depicts this event, as Tullia is depicted riding in a horse drawn chariot as it crushes her father’s body underneath. Tullia’s name is engraved beside her and Servius’s name is also engraved beside him to identify them both.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:25901
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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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