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Dream of Polia: Cupid Punishes Two Women

NARRATIVE D1r · p.393
Dream of Polia: Cupid Punishes Two Women
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Two women punished by Cupid in a woodland setting. Figures tied to trees with beasts approaching.

In the Narrative

Polia's vision of Cupid's vengeance. The paired punishment scenes serve as exempla warning against resistance to love.

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