Boccaccio's Women ;


a handcoured book of woodcuts from 1473

 

1. Pyramus and Thisbe.

2. Ariadne Spinning.

3. Almalthea

4. Hercules

5. Ulysses and Circe

6. Anthony and Cleopatra

7. Sappho the Poetess.


all images reproduced from the facsimile Boccaccio's Buch von den hochgeruemten frauen published by the Holbein Verlag in Munich in 1924.

 


The Decameron of Boccaccio
 
illustrated by J.Findlay 1822 published by James Griffin London  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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