Claudie quinte femme rommanie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Claudie quinte femme rommanie
Subject: Chastity; Important Women; Famous Women; Ceres; Goddesses; Claudia Quinta
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Claudia Quinta, a Roman matron, standing on land as she pulls a ship towards the shore. Boccaccio explains that after Claudia Quinta was accused by other matrons of not being chaste, she prayed to the goddess Ceres to help prove her virtue. After a ship that contained a statue of Ceres had gotten stuck on a sandbar, Ceres gave Claudia Quinta the power to pull the ship to shore as proof of her chastity. The city of Rome is illustrated in the background of the image.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18086
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_18086_OBJ.jpg