The inscription is drawn from Petrarch, Trionfo della Fama II, 104:
Poi vide la magnamima reina: Con una treccia avvolta e l'altra sparsa Corse alla babilonica rapina.

C.f. Xanto and Petrarch, Allison Holdcroft, University of Melbourne, 1988, in which the work of followers of Xanto da Avelli is discussed.

Our thanks to Timothy Wilson and J.V.G. Mallet for their assistance iin the cataloguing of this lot.