The Strife of Love in a Dream

How Poliphilo saw the four triumphant chariots, accompanied by a great multitude of young men and maidens. 53.
How the damsel showed Poliphilo the young men and the maidens who loved in the olden days, and likewise 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 forward: which he did not refuse: and there he saw several young Nymphs passing the time all along a stream with their faithful friends: then how his guide made herself known to Poliphilo. 64.
How the Nymph conducted Poliphilo to several other places, and made him see the triumph of Vertumnus Roman god of seasons and change and Pomona Goddess of fruit trees and gardens: then led him into a sumptuous temple, which he describes at great length: and how by the exhortation of the Prioress, the Nymph extinguished her torch there with great ceremony, making herself known to Poliphilo, and declaring that she was his Polia, and of the sacrifices that were made there. 66.
How Polia persuaded Poliphilo to go with several antiquities, and tombs that were in her chapel. And how by fortune, roses were scattered, and two Swans from which miraculously grew a Rosebush full of flowers and of which Polia ate. And how after the sacrifice they took their leave, and came to another ruined temple: the custom of which Polia persuades him to go see several epitaphs and tombs which leave him all terrified. 79.
How Polia persuaded Poliphilo to go to the destroyed temple, to see the ancient epitaphs, where among other things he found in painting the ravishment of Proserpina The abduction of Persephone by Hades: and how in looking at it he was afraid of having by similar misfortune lost his beloved: whereby he returned all terrified. Afterward came Venus, and the god of love Cupid, who made them enter into his small boat: and the sailors did so much for him as long as his voyage lasted. 84.
How the Nymphs rowing in the boat of Cupid began to sing, and Polia like Cytherea An epithet for Venus/Aphrodite: whose beauty is here described, together with the form of their boat: and how upon descending several Nymphs came before them to do honor to Cupid their master. 104.
How Cupid descended from the boat: and how the Nymphs of the Island came before him richly attired in triumphal ornaments: the gifts they offered him: upon his triumphant chariot, to go to the theater, and had Poliphilo and Polia led after the goddess who consigned Polia to three of her Nymphs, and Poliphilo of the theater, both of the outside and the inside. 115.
Poliphilo describes in this chapter the great and marvelous artistry of the fountain of Venus, which was in the middle of the amphitheater. And how the curtain with which it was closed was broken: whereby he saw in majesty the goddess who consigned Polia to three of her Nymphs, and Poliphilo and three others. Then how they were sailed 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 institu-

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 in love with her. 133.
Polia recounts how she was struck by the plague: and being in this peril, recommended herself to the goddess Diana, making a vow to use the rest of her days in her service. And how by fortune Poliphilo found himself at the temple the day she was making her prayers, where he declared to her the martyrdom and amorous torment that for her he had suffered and endured, which did not move her, of which she made no account: whereby knowing that in her he found no pity, he left her, from which she swooned with grief and anguish, herself all frightened. 135.
How Polia recites the great cruelty she used toward Poliphilo, and how in fleeing she was ravished and being terrified, and carried in a whirlwind, and carried in a whirlwind, to the place from where she had departed. And how afterward in her sleep there appeared to her two executioners come to take her: whereby she awoke and lying with her referring to her nurse, asked her the cause of her fear and advice on what she should do. 138.
How Polia recites in what manner her nurse by various examples admonished her to avoid the ire and the threats of the gods. And advised her to go toward the Prioress of the temple of Venus, to be instructed in what she would have to do. 140.
How Polia by the good advice and admonishment of her nurse changed her opinion, and went to find Poliphilo who lay dead at the temple of Diana, where she had left him: and how he was found in this place, whereby the Nymphs who came upon her he was resurrected in her arms: whereby the Nymphs of the Prioress declared to her to be courteous and gracious to him for the future, and declared what he had suffered and endured, which did not move her, of which she made no account: whereby knowing that in her he found no pity, he left her, from which she swooned with grief and anguish, herself all frightened. 143.
How after Polia had accused herself before the Prioress of the institutions of the sepulcher of Adonis, at which the goddess Venus came every year to celebrate the year of him richly attired, and the cruelties she had used toward Poliphilo, and declares that she was totally determined to be courteous and gracious to him for the future, the Prioress made him appear before her: and then he requested that her pleasure be to confirm and assure the good will they bore one another. Then how Polia by impatience of love interrupted the discourse of her friend. 147.
How after Poliphilo had finished his speech, Polia in the presence of the Prioress declared to him that she was ardently seized by his love, and totally disposed to please him: for the seal of which she gave him a kiss: and of the words that the Prioress said to them. 148.
How Poliphilo obeying the command of the Prioress, upon the beginning of his institu-