Ioannis Boccatii de Certaldo insigne opus De claris mulieribus

...altars, many priests, games, and sacred rites were instituted according to the ancient custom. And (to be silent about the rest) after Samos, she was honored for a long time with celebrated veneration by the Argives, the people of Achaea, and the Carthaginians, and was finally brought from Veii to Rome into the Capitol and into the cell of Jupiter the Best and Greatest, placed there no differently than if joined to her husband, under the title of Juno the Queen by the Romans, masters of the world, and was worshiped for a long time with many ceremonies, even after the god-man appeared on earth.

ON CERES, GODDESS OF CROPS AND QUEEN OF THE SICILIANS. Chapter Five.

A woodcut depicts Ceres standing in a field, holding a stalk of grain. To her left, a man plows the earth with two oxen. To her right, another man harvests grain with a sickle. In the background, there is a rural landscape with trees and a distant town.

Who would not admire and love Ceres, the law-giver?
Who taught us to commit seeds to the fertile earth,
To whom you should rightly offer honeycombs and pour out the mild Bacchus.

Ceres, as it pleases some, was a very ancient queen of the Sicilians, and possessed of such talent that when she had devised the cultivation of fields, she was the first among her people to tame oxen and accustom them to the yoke, and with the invention of the plow and plowshare, she cut the earth through their work and handed seeds to the furrows. When these had grown into an ample crop, she taught men, who were accustomed to acorns and wild fruits, to harvest them with ears, grind them with stones, prepare them with leaven, and turn them into food. For this merit, although she was a mortal woman, they judged her to be the goddess of crops; and they elevated her with divine honors, and believed her to be the daughter of Saturn and Cybele. They say she had an only daughter by her brother Jupiter, Proserpina; and they wish to believe that she was abducted by Orcus, king of the Molossians, during a great storm at sea, and sought for a long time, giving occasion for many fables from this.