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Cornificia Writing
- Date
- about 1450–1475, illumination added about 1515–1520
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold, and ink
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- dd50755f-d6a5-42d9-a300-d25941b6e505
From the Getty Museum record
Seen through an open window framed by alternating stone roundels in semi-precious stones of serpentine and porphyry, the poetess Cornificia composes new verses at her desk. Writing during the period of the Roman emperor Augustus, Cornificia is described by the author of *Concerning Famous and Noble Women*, Boccaccio, as having rejected the distaff (a tool used to spin thread), a tool commonly associated with women, in favor of the pen.
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