2-649-842 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Flore - Deesse Des Fleurs', 1403, (1939). Flora in French or Flora in Latin is among the agrarian deities of Italy one of the most ancient and most powerful. Its Greek equivalent is the nymph Chloris . 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]