Probe femme de adelphus · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Probe femme de adelphus
Subject: Poetry; Literature; Cento; Virgil; Homer; New Testament; Old Testament; Proba
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Othrys; Ancient Rome
Description: This illustration depicts a woman named Proba leaning over a podium as she reads a book. Proba is renowned for her intellect and intensive knowledge of literature, including works from Virgil. Proba had taken lines from the "Aeneid", "Bucolics", and the "Georgics" and transformed them into a cento focusing on the Old and New Testaments. There are many books depicted in this image, which are most likely representative of the works of Virgil, Homer and other famous authors of which she composed her cento from.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17114
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; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_17114_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Poetry; Literature; Cento; Virgil; Homer; New Testament; Old Testament; Proba