Scenes from the life of the Trojan prophetess Cassandra: at left, she prophesies Troy’s doom,
Scenes from the life of the Trojan prophetess Cassandra: at left, she prophesies Troy’s doom, but is ignored; at right, she is murdered. Woodcut illustration from Heinrich Steinhöwel’s German translation of Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris (On Illustrious Women), printed in 1474. Now in the University of Pennsylvania Library. -- source link
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