La tres belle Yolle fille du roy des etholiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La tres belle Yolle fille du roy des etholiens
Subject: Hercules; Roman Mythology; Vengeance; Iole; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Aetolia
Description: This illuminated image depicts a portrait of a woman named Iole holding a scepter in her hands. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Iole due to her ingenious plan to humiliate her husband, Hercules, after he murdered her father. Hercules had murdered her father after he rejected Hercules’ request to marry Iole. When Iole married Hercules, she made Hercules dress as a woman and showed him how to spin wool to humiliate him. He willingly did this as he was in love with Iole.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17141
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); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17141_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Hercules; Roman Mythology; Vengeance; Iole; Important Women; Famous Women