One Hundred Liberal and Ingenious Games

Apollo: the Lyre, and the Swan.
Bellona: Arms, and the Lion.
Thetis: the Tritons, and the Trumpet.
Proserpina: the Furies, and the Wand.
Mercury: the Caduceus, and the Serpent.
Mars: the Sword, and the Rooster.
Hercules: the Club and the Hydra.
Ceres: the Ear of Grain, and the Crow. original: "Cornice"; in Renaissance symbology, the crow was sometimes associated with Ceres/Demeter as a messenger or a bird of the fields.
Diana: the Stag, and the Arrow.

Aurora: the Steeds, and the Chariot.
Bacchus: the Tiger, and the Timbrel.
Vulcan: the Salamander, and the Anvil.
Pan: the Goat, and the Panpipes.
Flora: the Flowers, and the Bees.
Fortune: the Horn of Plenty and the Dolphin.
Terminus: the Stone, and the Ox. Terminus was the Roman god of boundary markers; the "stone" refers to the terminal markers in fields.
Priapus: the Donkey and the Bean.
Sylvanus: the Cypress, and the Bear.

Once everyone has taken the name of a God or Goddess along with the Animals and instruments dedicated and proper to them, the Game can be easily conducted with this order: if one of them says, for example, "Saturn," it would be necessary for the player named Saturn to respond "Ostrich and Sickle." The ostrich was a Renaissance symbol for Saturn, representing the "all-consuming" nature of Time, as the bird was believed to be able to digest iron. If "Ostrich" were called out, the correct response would be "Sickle and Saturn"; if "Sickle" were called, then "Ostrich and Saturn." Thus, for the Name of the God, one always responds with the animal and the instrument; for the animal, the God and the instrument; and for the instrument, the animal and the God.

When each person has responded suitably to the proposal, so that the thread of this gracious game is not broken, they must then propose either a God, an Animal, or an instrument to another member of the company. In this way, they provoke one another in turn, continuing the revelry original: "trebbeggiare"; a term for festive social interaction or gaming as long as they wish, until the Game is rich and overflowing with forfeits pegni: small personal items like rings or gloves surrendered as penalties for mistakes, to be "redeemed" later by performing a task, and it pleases the players to redeem their own. These are some of the questions that might be asked of the players when they seek to recover their items:

Whether the Loves and the wars recounted of the Gods and Goddesses were real, or merely things invented by the Poets.