Letter A

Canto XVI. The Third Cornice / The Wrathful; Marco Lombardo

Illustration XXXVI

Book XXXIX.17. Bacchanalians punished {Quarte Decadis Liber Nonus p. CCXLI verso}

Letter 32 to Marcella - Jerome writes that he is busy collating Aquila's Greek version of the Old Testament with the Hebrew, inquires after her mother, and forwards two letters

Initial I

Matilda of Conossa

Book XXIX.14. Publius Cornelius receives the goddess, the Idaean Mother, from all the matrons at Ostia and delivers her to Rome {Tertiae Decadis Liber Nonus p. CLXX verso}

Book XXXVII.46. Damocritus, the Aetolian general, kills himself {Quarte Decadis Liber Septimus p. CCXXVI verso}

Book X.11. Province of Etruria falls {Primae Decadis Liber Decimus p. LXXXIIII}; Same woodcut used for Book XXXI.23. Philip of Macedon seizes Chalcis {Quarte Decadis Liber Primus p. CLXXXVI}

Initial O

Book XXI.28-29. Hannibal plans to convey elephants across the river {Tertiae Decadis Liber Primus p. XCVII}

Cornificia, Poetess