All the utensils in this magic dwelling were of silver--even to the very vilest.

The air of the banquet-hall was cooled with punkahs; _ire mantici coperti, che facevano continoamemte vento_, are the words of Corio; and on a column in the center stood a living naked gilded boy, who poured forth water from an urn.

The description of the feast takes up three pages of the history of Corio, where we find a minute list of the dishes--wild boars and deer and peacocks, roasted whole; peeled oranges, gilt and sugared; gilt rolls; rosewater for washing; and the tales of Perseus, Atalanta, Hercules, etc., I wrought in pastry--_tutte in vivande_.

We are also told how masques of Hercules, Jason, and Phaedra alternated with the story of Susannah and the Elders, played by Florentine actors, and with the Mysteries of _San Giovan Battista decapitato_ and _quel Giudeo che rosfi il corpo di Cristo_.

The servants were arrayed in silk, and the seneschal changed his dress of richest stuffs and jewels four times in the course of the banquet.
Nymphs and centaurs, singers and buffoons, drank choice wine from golden goblets.