The Renaissance was a golden era.

Be you blithe and bonny Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.

But Heav'n's great view is one, that that the Whole. That counterworks each folly and caprice;

This is the only mention of swastikas, and it's as if Nersesian is making up the rules as he goes along — all too possible with a cipherlike narrator whose memory is shot.