Illustration XXII

Canto XII. Circle 7 / The Violent Against Their Neighbors; The Minotaur; The Centaurs; The River of Blood

Initial M from Lactantius, Divinarum Institutionum Adversus Genteis, de falsa religione, etc. Used by Bernardino and Matteo Veneti in Venice and Rome, 1492-1510

Letter D

Book XXVI.47-9. Publius Scipio sent to command in Spain; artisans and slaves taken {Tertiae Decadis Liber Sextus p. CXLVII}

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

Illustration LIX

Canto XXIII. The Eighth Sphere: The Fixed Stars – The Triumph of Christ; The Virgin Mary; The Apostles

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

Initial T

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)

Canto V. Ascent to the Second Sphere