MINIATURIST, Flemish
(active 1470-1483)

Boccaccio: Des cas des ruynes des nobles hommes et femmes

1470-83
Manuscript (Royal MS 14 E V)
British Library, London

This manuscript contains the French translation of Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum et feminarum" made for the Duke of Berry in 1409. The present miniature from the manuscript shows Petrarch and Boccaccio, masters of the Italian lyric and short story together in a study.