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Illustration XVI

A "mighty huge" elephant of black stone, with gold and silver dots. Upon the large back of this prodigious animal is placed an obelisk of verde-antique (fol. b vii verso)

Ornament with nude female half-figure, with wings terminating in foliage (fol. n iiii recto)

Canto III. Ante-Purgatory / The Base of the Cliff; The Late Repentant; The Souls of the Excommunicated; Manfred

Poliphilus and Polia kneeling before the priestess of Venus (D ii)

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Ch. 18. On the order of service between the deacon and nuns

Illustration XXXVII

Book I.34. Lucuomo and Tanaquil set off for Rome; Eagle repositions his hat {Primae Decadis Liber Primus p. VII}

Book I.14. King Tatius slain at Lavinium {Primae Decadis Liber Primus p. III verso}

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