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Title
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La tres belle Yolle fille du roy des etholiens
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Description
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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.
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Image Creator
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Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:17141
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Source Name
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Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
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Image
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mta_17141_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Hercules
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Roman Mythology
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Vengeance
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Iole
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Important Women
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Famous Women