Cy sensuit histoire de cornifice poete · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de cornifice poete
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Poetry; Writing; Literature; Cornificia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Cornificia sitting down as she looks at a book. Cornificia is famous for her poetry and writing abilities. She is said to have written many Heliconian verses which were highly esteemed. Boccaccio explains that she is worthy of praise as poetry and writing was not something women excelled in or pursued during Cornificia’s time.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20150
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20150_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Poetry; Writing; Literature; Cornificia