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| How Poliphilo saw the four triumphal chariots, accompanied by a great multitude of young men and maidens. | 53. |
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| How the Nymph, having surrendered herself to Poliphilo, shows him the young men and maidens who loved at the same time, and in like manner were loved by the Gods: then she made him see the poets singing their immortal poems. | 63. |
| How after the damsel had declared to Poliphilo the mystery of the triumphs, and the sweet loves of the Gods, she admonished him to go further: which he did not refuse: and there he saw several young Nymphs passing the time all along a stream with their faithful lovers: then as he resigned himself to the exhortation of the Prioress The "Prioress" refers to a high-ranking female figure in the temple of Venus, the Nymph extinguished her torch at length: and how by the exhortation of the Prioress, the Nymph extinguished her torch in a very great ceremony, making herself known to Poliphilo, and declaring that she was his Polia: and of the sacrifices that were made there. | 64. |
| How Polia persuaded Poliphilo to go see several epitaphs and tombs, from which he returned all terrified. | 66. |
| How Poliphilo persuaded Polia to go to the ruined temple to see the ancient epitaphs, where among other things he found in painting the abduction of Proserpine The Roman goddess of the underworld: and how in looking at it he was afraid of a terrifying monster: then the abduction of Proserpine: and how in following the loves of the god of love, who made them enter into his small boat: and sailors did so much for him as long as his voyage lasted. | 79. |
| How the Nymphs wished to do honor to the goddess Cytherea An epithet for Venus, referring to the island of Cythera: whose beauty is here described, together with the form of their bark: and how upon descending several Nymphs came to meet them to do honor to Cupid their master. | 104. |
| How Cupid descended from the boat: and how the Nymphs of the Island came to meet him richly adorned in triumphal finery: the gifts they offered him: how he mounted into his triumphal chariot, to go to the theater, and had Poliphilo and Polia led after him, bound and attached with several others: and therein is described the form of the theater, both from the outside and the inside. | 115. |
| Poliphilo describes in this chapter the great and marvelous craftsmanship of the fountain of Venus, which was in the middle of the amphitheater. And how the curtain by which it was enclosed was broken: whereby he saw in majesty the goddess who consigned Polia to three of her Nymphs, and Poliphilo to three others. Then how they were wounded by Cupid, and sprinkled by his mother with the water of the fountain. At the end, for the arrival of the god Mars, how they took their leave and departed from the amphitheater. | 125. |
| Poliphilo recounts how, for the arrival of the great god Mars, he and Polia, departing from the theater, came to another fountain, where the Nymphs declared to them the customs and insti- |
| -tutions of the sepulcher of Adonis The mortal lover of Venus, at which the goddess Venus came every year to celebrate the year renewed: and other histories: then they requested Polia to tell them her origin: and in what manner she had become enamored. | 129. |
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of the second book.
| Polia declares from what race she is descended, and how the city of Treviso was built by her ancestors: then in what manner Poliphilo became enamored of her. | 133. |
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| Polia recounts how she was struck by the plague: and being in this peril, recommended herself to the goddess Diana, making a vow to spend the rest of her days in her service. And how by fortune Poliphilo found himself at the temple the day she was making her [vow]: and of the sacrifices that were made there. | 135. |
| How Polia recites the great cruelty which she used toward Poliphilo, and how she was ravished and lifted up by a whirlwind, and carried to the place from where she had departed. And how afterward in her return to the places [where they had] come to take her: whereby she awoke and, lying with her [nurse], asked her the cause of her fear: and she gave her counsel as to what she ought to do. | 138. |
| How Polia recites in what manner her nurse by various words threatened her with the gods. And advised her to go before the Prioress of the temple of Venus, to be instructed in what she would have to do. | 140. |
| How Polia, by the good counsel and admonishment of her nurse, changed her opinion, and went to find Poliphilo who lay dead in the temple of Diana, where she had left him: and how he revived in her arms: whereby the Nymphs of Diana who came upon her, and surprised them together, chased them from the Sanctuary original: "Senſuaire". | 143. |
| How after Polia had accused herself before the Prioress of all the difficulties and rudeness she had used toward Poliphilo, and deliberated to be courteous and gracious to him for the rest of her life, [he] came before her: and then he requested that her pleasure should break the discourse of her friend. | 147. |
| How Poliphilo, obeying the command of the Prioress, at the beginning of his | 148. |
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