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

Saint Clare of Assisi

Canto IV. Circle 1: Limbo / The Virtuous Pagans (Homer and the Poets) and the Unbaptized Children

Leaf from St Jerome's Commentary on the Book of Psalms ('Liber de expositione psalmorum')

Initial O

Queen Theodolinda of Lombardy

Illustration LII

Letter A

The Poet Angela Nogarola (fol. CXXXXIX r)

Illustration from Robert Valturi, De re Militari. Verona, Johannes de Verona, 1472

Saint Bridget of Sweden

Canto XVII. The Fifth Sphere: Mars; Cacciaguida Prophesies Dante's Exile from Florence

Book III.48. Virginius kills his daughter, Virginia, to preserve her honor {Primae Decadis Liber Tertius p. XXVIII verso}