Saint Mary the Egyptian

Ch. 14. On the authority and governance of the abbess

Saint Ursula

Siege Engines, from Robert Valturi, De re Militari. Verona, Johannes de Verona, 1472

Letter A

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)

Canto XXX. The Earthly Paradise; Beatrice; Virgil Vanishes

Book I.24. Ambassadors from Alba arrive with news of war {Primae Decadis Liber Primus p. V verso}

Book III.48. Virginius kills his daughter, Virginia, to preserve her honor {Primae Decadis Liber Tertius p. XXVIII verso}

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)

Book II.12. Caius Mucius sneaks into Etrurian camp and slays the secretary {Primae Decadis Liber Secundus p. XIII}

Initial C

Illustration LXIII