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Title: Corinficie
Subject: Famous Women; Cornificia; Writing; Quills; Heliconian Verses; Epigrams; Poetry; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This image depicts Cornificia, sister of the poet Cornificius, sitting down while writing on parchment with a quill. Boccaccio explains that Cornificia was incredibly skilled at writing Heliconian verses and wrote many epigrams which made her renown. She is praised for putting aside womanly concerns and duties and becoming skilled in an art that so few women were able to do.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:16726
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris
Image: mta_16726_OBJ.jpg