Taking him into one of the rooms of a great palace nearby, she showed Guerrino a huge quantity of gold and silver and pearls and precious stones. Unless they were fake, their value amounted to three times that of the rest of the world’s treasure put together. Next, they went into a splendid salon where a sumptuous banquet was being prepared. The Sibyl and the other young women invited him to join them and enjoy the food that, course by course, was brought to them by beautiful maidservants.
After lunch they led him into a garden that seemed a second Eden, laden with fruit of every kind. However, when he looked closely at the fruit he had the sneaking feeling that there was something very wrong, and potentially dangerous: it was the wrong season for many of the varieties to be growing. As t
