Illustration IV

Letter D

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

Canto XVIII. The Fourth Cornice / The Slothful; Abbot of San Zeno

Tower of Babel, Illustration from Bergomensis, Jacob Philipp. Supplementum Chronicarum. Venice, Rizus, October 8, 1491

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}

Canto XXI. The Fifth Cornice / The Avaricious; the Poet Statius

Initial E

Triumph of Time (fol. 101v)

Saint Agatha

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

Book XXV.31. Archimedes slain by a Roman soldier in Syracuse and given an honorable funeral by Marculus {Tertiae Decadis Liber Quintus p. CXXXVI verso}

Book XXII.17. Romans see oxen breathing out fire and realize their horns are on fire {Tertiae Decadis Liber Secundus p. CV}