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Illustration XXXIV

Canto XXX. The Ascent to the Tenth Sphere: The Empyrean; The River of Light

Water-work in the garden of the island of Venus

Book III.12. Trial of Caeso {Primae Decadis Liber Tertius p. XXVII verso}; Same woodcut used for XXXV.16. Conference between Antiochus's minister and ambassadors from Rome {Quarte Decadis Liber Sextus p. CCXV}

A huge pyramidic temple, of white Parian marble, with 1410 steps, dedicated to the Sun (fol. b i verso)

Illustration VIII

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Queen Cesarea Parfarum

Book XXIII.33. An alliance is formed between Philip, King of Macedonia, and Hannibal {Tertiae Decadis Liber Tertius p. CXVIII verso}

The first two reliefs on the fourth car (Festival of Bacchus) - Jupiter appearing before Semele as the god of thunder; her child, the new-born Bacchus, put in a bath. (Fol. l verso)

Cain Killing Abel

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