Lippina by Filippo Lippi told in Latin

A Boccaccio-esque love that the Decameron's storyteller would have loved to tell so much...
Because Lippina, the blonde virgin depicted in all her beauty, is no other than Lucrezia Buti, a beautiful nun from Prato portrayed and seduced by the Carmelite friar and painter Filippo Lippi.
Giorgio Vasari in his Lives tells about Filippo Lippi as a "rascal" already in his youth.
Yet the love story had a happy ending thanks to the intercession of Pope Pius II who, by dissolving the vows, legitimized their free love.