A dream-vision recounts the narrator's spirit leaving the body and witnessing an enormous anthropomorphic image tended by a crowned feminine shadow who shapes little molded figures, bakes them in the creature's mouth, and feeds them to sustain its insatiable appetite. The narrator is herself formed, swallowed, and nourished, then travels through the image's inner lands—mountains, forests, and rivers—to reach the court of a renowned princess whose fame draws supplicants. The work unfolds in three parts, moving from marvels of the visible world to an interrogation of popular opinion and finally to philosophical consolation about fame, virtue, and moral order.