Une jeune femme romanie qui donna la mamelle a sa mere · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Une jeune femme romanie qui donna la mamelle a sa mere
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Filial Devotion
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts a young Roman woman behind the window of a jail cell giving her mother her own breast milk. Boccaccio explains that an elderly woman had been sentenced to starve to death, and her daughter saved her by feeding her with her breast milk. There is a guard in front of the jail cell window looking at the two women. The guard told the triumvirs of the young woman’s filial devotion to save her mother and was so impressed that they freed the mother.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18075
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_18075_OBJ.jpg