Canto XXIV. Circle 8: Bolgia 7 / The Thieves, Tormented by Serpents

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Canto XIII. The Fourth Sphere: The Sun / The Intellect of the Faith (Theologians and Doctors of the Church); Saint Thomas Acquinas Discourses Upon the Wisdom of Solomon

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Canto XXVII. Circle 8: Bolgia 8 / The Evil Counselors, Each in a Burning Flame

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Ch. 10. On the marvelous life of the holy father that Jerome found as a hermit

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)

Hell: The Grafters in a River of Boiling Pitch (Canto XXII)

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Book XXII.19-20. Battle continues in Spain and Mediterranean Sea (Second campaign of Punic War) {Tertiae Decadis Liber Secundus p. CVI}

Book XXXII.40 Nabis, Tyrant of Lacedaemon, has his wife pillage the women of Argos {Quarte Decadis Liber Secundus p. CXCVII}