ands, while among the last of them,
who held the most honourable place, was set Memory, mother of the Muses,
adorned with rich black draperies, and holding in the hand a little
black dog, signifying the marvellous memory which that animal is said to
have, and with the head-dress fantastically composed of the most
different things, denoting the so many and so different things that the
memory is able to retain.

FIFTH CAR, OF JOVE.

The great father of mankind and of the Gods, Jove, the son of Saturn,
had the fifth car, ornate and rich in pomp beyond all the others; for,
besides the five fables that were seen painted there, as with the
others, it was rendered rich and marvellous beyond belief by three
statues that served as most imposing partitions to those fables. By one
of these was seen represented the image, such as it is believed to have
been, of the young Epaphus, the son of Io and Jove, and by the second
that of the lovely Helen, who was born from Leda at one birth with
Castor and Pollux; even as by the last was represented that of the
grandfather of the sage Ulysses, called Arcesius. For the first of the
fables already mentioned was seen Jove transformed into a Bull,
conveying the trusting Europa to Crete, even as for the second was seen
his perilous rape as he flew to Heaven in the form of an Eagle with the
Trojan Ganymede, and for the third his other transformation into fire
when he wished to lie with the beautiful AEgina, daughter of Asopus. For
the fourth was seen the same Jove, changed into a rain of gold, falling
into the lap of his beloved Danae; and in the fifth and last he was seen
delivering his father Saturn, who, as has been told above, was
unworthily held prisoner by the Titans. In such and so adorned a car,
then, and upon a most beautiful throne composed of various animals and
of many gilded Victories, with a little mantle woven of divers animals
and plants, the above-named great father Jove was seen seated in
infinite majesty, with a garland of leaves similar to those of the
common olive, and in the right hand a Victory crowned with a band of
white wool, and in the left hand a royal sceptre, at the head of which
was shown poised the imperial Eagle. At the foot of the throne, to
render it more imposing and pompous, was seen on one side Niobe, with
her children, dying by the shafts of Apollo and Diana, and on the other
side seven men in combat, who were seen to have in their midst a boy
with the h