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Nominally Messalina, serving as a prostitute under the pseudonym of Lisisca (literally, 'Messalina in Lisisica's booth'), deriving from accounts such as this one of Juvenal's:

Then look at those who rival the Gods, and hear what Claudius endured. As soon as his wife perceived that her husband was asleep, this august harlot was shameless enough to prefer a common mat to the imperial couch. Assuming night-cowl, and attended by a single maid, she issued forth; then, having concealed her raven locks under a light-coloured peruque, she took her place in a brothel reeking with long-used coverlets. Entering an empty cell reserved for herself, she there took her stand, under the feigned name of Lycisca, her nipples bare and gilded, and exposed to view the womb that bore thee, O nobly-born Britannicus! Here she graciously received all comers, asking from each his fee; and when at length the keeper dismissed his girls, she remained to the very last before closing her cell, and with passion still raging hot within her went sorrowfully away. Then exhausted by men but unsatisfied, with soiled cheeks, and begrimed with the smoke of lamps, she took back to the imperial pillow all the odours of the stews.
Agostino Carracci  (1557–1602)  wikidata:Q316269
 
Agostino Carracci
Description Italian painter, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death 16 August 1557 Edit this at Wikidata 22 March 1602 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bologna Edit this at Wikidata Parma Edit this at Wikidata
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Rome (1581); Venice (1582); Milan (1583); Cremona (1585); Rome (1594); Bologna (1595); Parma (1597); Bologna (1600); Bologna (1583–1584); Parma (1586–1587); Venice (1588–1589); Bologna (1589–1594); Rome (1597–1600); Parma (1600–1602) Edit this at Wikidata
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Messalina working in a brothel. Etching by Agostino Carracci, late 16th century

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