Canto XXIX. The Ninth Sphere: The Primum Mobile; Beatrice Recounts Time from Creation to the Revolt of the Angels

Saint Maxentia Tridentina

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Letter 120 to Hedibia - Question 6: How was it that, if there was a guard of soldiers at the sepulchre, Peter and John were allowed to go in freely? (Matthew 27:66 and John 20:1-8)

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

Trophy of Roman arms, with a winged genius' head

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)

Architectural frame, with an emblematic circular bas-relief, representing two half-length figures of winged genii holding an apple between them (Medium tenuere beati.) (Fol. h vii verso)

Ch. 3. On the election of the sisters and the administrarion of monastery property

Canto VI. The Second Sphere: Mercury / The Seekers of Honor; Justinian

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

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Illustration LV