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Caliope

from The Mantegna Tarocchi, c. 1465

A muse walking to the left, playing a long straight trumpet, a rocky hillside and a fountain behind her and a gilded disc on the ground at her feet. Calliope is the muse of epic poetry. The second group of ten, lettered D, gives the nine Muses and Apollo; this impression, like Zintilomo, is trimmed to the plate and comes from a different printing than the others.

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