Illustration VIII

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

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)

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

Letter I

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

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

Battle scene

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)

Triumph of Fame (fol. 60v)

The amphitheater in the island of Venus (fol. y iiii recto)

One of the sides of the pedestal of the bronze horse, with a relief of two-faced youths and nymphs dancing (fol. b v verso)

Book VI.27. Volscians surrender themselves prisoners {Primae Decadis Liber Septimus p. LXV verso}