Noble Camille le royne des volcans · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Noble Camille le royne des volcans
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Volscians; Rebellion; Camilla; Metabus
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Amasenus River; Latium
Description: This illumination depicts a man named Metabus, king of the Volscians, carrying his child Camilla safely across a river. Metabus had been banished from his land due to a rebellion, and he brought his only child with him to keep her safe. When the Amasenus River had flooded, Boccaccio explains that Metabus tied Camilla to a lance and launched her across the river to get her across safely. This image, however, depicts Metabus carrying her across.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17609
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_17609_OBJ.png