MINIATURIST, Italian
(active 1430s in Florence)

Illustration to Boccaccio's Decameron

1430
Manuscript
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

The picture shows an illustration to one of Boccaccio's tales in the Decameron. A monk, having designs on a married woman, gives the husband a prolonged penance (top) while he goes to bed with the wife.




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