The rabbits in the works are frolicking in bacchanalian landscapes. John Compton later proposed that the Roman Senate had suppressed these ancient Bacchanalian rites. A large Bacchanalian vase hand-carved by Arthur Harvey of Penzance was also exhibited. Hispala received rewards for helping put a stop to the Bacchanalian Scandal. One of his last lectures was on the bacchanalian songs of Robert Burns. His bacchanalian poem in praise of Tuscan wines is still read in Italy today.