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come the savagery of nature, typified by the 

 centaur. But it also shows, allegorically, how 

 the wise statesmanship of Lorenzo (with whose 

 badge, rings interlaced, the gown of Pallas is 

 * seme ') guided the war-loving League, here 

 figured as the centaur, into the ways of Peace. 



