Canto XIX. The Sixth Sphere: Jupiter / The Just and Temperate Rulers; The Celestial Eagle

Initial S

Letter S

Book III.48. Virginius kills his daughter, Virginia, to preserve her honor {Primae Decadis Liber Tertius p. XXVIII verso}

Saint Mary Magdalene

Ch. 27. On the enclosure of the convent

Emblematic device within a medallion frame (fol. p vii recto)

Canto VIII. Ante Purgatory / Nightfall Easter Sunday; The Guardian Angels; The Serpent

Ch. 19. On the purification of the provost and the sisters by the bishop

Saint Fausta (fol. LXXXI r)

Book XXXV.13. King Antiochus' daughter marries Ptolemy, King of Egypt, at Raphia {Quarte Decadis Liber Sextus p. CCXCIIII verso}

Relief of a large vase carried upon the fourth triumphal car (Festival of Bacchus.) Jupiter standing upon an altar; a chorus of seven nymphs - the Heliades, who are in the process of changing into trees - incline themselves before him. (Fol. l iii verso)

Marchioness Maria of Monte Ferra (fol. CXXXXIX v)