Illustration preceeding Third Decades

Initial S

Canto XVI. Circle 7 (Round 3) / The Violent Against Nature

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)

Illustration XXXIX

Ch. 29. On the danger of possessing clothes

Letter R

Letter 120 to Hedibia - Question 2: What is the meaning of Matthew 26:29?

Saint Ursula

Canto XI. Circle 6 / The Heretics; The Tomb of Anastasius; Virgil Discusses the Divisions of the Infernal City

Canto XIX. The Fourth Cornice / The Slothful; Dante's Dream of the Siren; Ascent to the Fifth Cornice - The Avaricious; Pope Adrian V

Canto XXIX. The Earthly Paradise; The Banks of Lethe; The Heavenly Pageant

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