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

Scene in the Temple of Venus. A procession of seven virgins approaching the Altar of Love. At the altar stand the high priestess, Poliphilus and Polia. (Fol. n viiii recto)

Battista Malatesta (fol. CXXXX r)

Letter I

Letter R

Sennacherib and the Assyrian army at Jerusalem

Book XXIV.37-9. Lucius Pinarius leads Enna against Carthigians with many inhabitants put to sword {Tertiae Decadis Liber Quartus p. CXXVIII}; Same woodcut used for Book XXXIII.28-9. Brachylas murdered, leads to other massacres {Quarte Decadis Liber Quartus p. CC verso}

Poliphilus looking through the bower while his mistress Polia is approaching at a distance (fol. i iii verso)

Book XL.2 Sufferings of the people of Sinope {Quarte Decadis Liber Decimus p. CCXLVIII}

Illustration I

Trophy consisting of a tunic, with a genius' head, and above it a pair of wings, supporting a laurel-wreath

Initial I

Book VII.23. Lucius Cornelius Scipio leads the younger citizens and Quaestors with standards to war {Primae Decadis Liber Septimus p. LXII}