XX/3 Virgil remembers the Mantuan landscape of his early years and this provides a pastoral interlude, albeit darkened by the story of the daughter of Tiresias, Manto, the sorceress and founder of Mantua. The landscape is a fragment of a painting by that city's other great son, Andrea Mantegna. It is framed by quasi-alchemical and Cabbalistic signs. The text and central image also appear as page 151 of the revised edition of A Humument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.