Illustration III

Illustration V

Ch. 16. On the order and work of the abbess

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

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

Saint Mary Magdalene

Canto XXVI. Circle 8: Bolgia 8 / Dante Upraids Florence

Book IX.37. Roman servants at Sutrium tear down the ramparts and fill up the trench {Primae Decadis Liber Nonus p. LXXXI}

Poliphilus and Polia retreating from the bower (fol. i vii recto)

Book IV.44. Postumia is charged and freed from breach of chasitity {Primae Decadis Liber Quartus p. XL}

Book XXVII.57. Bononia colonized {Quarte Decadis Liber Septimus p. CCXXVIII verso}

Canto XVIII. The Earthly Paradise; Lethe; Matilda

Canto XV. The Fifth Sphere: Mars / The Warriors of God; Cacciaguida