He saw Auroras scattering roses, and a multitude of naked Dianas and Nymphs surprised on the banks of retired streams.

And the great Margaritone died, strangled by so horrible a presentiment of the Renaissance and the Bolognese School.
VI.

MARBODIUS We possess a precious monument of the Penguin literature of the fifteenth century.

It is a narrative of a journey to hell undertaken by the monk Marbodius, of the order of St.Benedict, who professed a fervent admiration for the poet Virgil.

This narrative, written in fairly good Latin, has been published by M.du Clos des Limes.