View of the City of Florence

Illustration XVIII

Trophy bearing a Greek subscription which means Gained by the Spear

Canto VII. The Second Sphere: Mercury / The Seekers of Honor; Ascent to the Third Sphere; Beatrice Discourses

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

Canto XVIII. Ascent to the Sixth Sphere: Jupiter / The Just and Temperate Rulers; The Vision of the Flashing Lights

Letter L

Book XXIV.34-7. Heraclea, wife of Zoippus, who lived abroad in luxury, put to death with her children {Tertiae Decadis Liber Quartus p. CXXVIII}

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)

Illustration XXXII

Illustration XXVIII

Letter N

Book XXVII.37. Prodigy: At Capua a wolf entered the gate and tore the centinel {Tertiae Decadis Liber Septimus p. CLV}