Canto XVI. The Fifth Sphere: Mars / The Warriors of God; Cacciaguida on Vaingloary of Noble Lineagoe and Illustrious Families of Florence

Illustration XLV

Illustration from Robert Valturi, De re Milatari. Verona, Johannes de Verona, 1472

Initial I

Letter Q

Book XXXIX.25. Complaint that Philip laid ambush to Thessalonian ambassadors {Quarte Decadis Liber Nonus p. CCXLIIII}

Canto XVIII. Circle 8: Malboge / The Fraudulent and Seducers, Scourged by Demons; Flatters and Parasites, Immersed in Filth

Book XXV.31. Archimedes slain by a Roman soldier in Syracuse and given an honorable funeral by Marculus {Tertiae Decadis Liber Quintus p. CXXXVI verso}

Initial V

Clare of Montefalco

Illustration LXI

Book XL. Prodigy: Pestilence in the Roman country {Quarte Decadis Liber Decimus p. CCL}

Continuation of the Ceremony in the Temple of Venus (fol. o i verso)