'Leaena - Femme Publique', 1403, (1939). Leaina was a hetaera and the mistress of Aristogeiton the Tyrannicide. The illustration is part of the manuscript De Claris mulieribus, traduction anonyme en francais (Livre des femmes nobles et renommees) by Giovanni Boccaccio, housed in the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. From Verve - Nos. 5-6, July-October 1939. [Verve, France, 1939]
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