Trophy of Roman arms, with a winged genius' head

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

Canto XXI. Ascent to the Seventh Sphere: Saturn – The Contemplative; The Celestial Ladder; Peter Damiano

Book IX.24. Roman army met by a deserter from Sora who informs them how to take the city {Primae Decadis Liber Nonus p. LXXIX}

Letter L

Canto XX. The Sixth Sphere: Jupiter / The Just and Temperate Rulers; The Eagle Praises the Righteous Rulers; Trajan and Ripheus; Predestination

Book XXIX.14. Publius Cornelius receives the goddess, the Idaean Mother, from all the matrons at Ostia and delivers her to Rome {Tertiae Decadis Liber Nonus p. CLXX verso}

Saint Constantia (fol. CXXXV v)

Initial A

Letter N

Ginevra Gambara (fol. CL r)

The Town of Genoa in Liguria

Illustration XLVII