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DEATH AND CHARACTER OF FERDINAND. 389 the royal chapel of the metropolitan church was chapter completed, thej were both transported thither. A — magnificent mausoleum of white marble was erected over them, bj their grandson Charles the Fifth. It was executed in a style worthy of the age. The sides were adorned with figures of angels and saints, richly sculptured in bas-relief. On the top reposed the effigies of the ilhistrious pair, whose titles and merits were commemorated in the follow- ing brief, and not very felicitous inscription. " Mahometic^ sect^ prostratores, et hxretic^ pervicaci^ EXTINCTORES, FeRNANDUS ArAGONUM, ET HeLISABETA CaS- TELLiE, VIR ET UXOR UNANIMES, CatHOLICI APPELLATI, marmoreo clauduntur hoc tumulo. " '^^ King Ferdinand's personal appearance has been his person, elsewhere noticed. " He was of the middle size," ter. says a contemporary, who knew him well. " His complexion was fresh ; his eyes bright and animat- ed ; his nose and mouth small and finely formed, and his teeth white ; his forehead lofty and serene ; with flowing hair of a bright chestnut color. His manners were courteous, and his countenance sel- dom clouded by any thing like spleen or melan- tiguedad de Granada, lib. 3, cap. cimens of his excellence in Toledo 7. and other parts of Spain. (Mem. 42 Pedraza, Antiguedad de Gra- de la Acad, de Hist., torn. vi. nada, lib. 3, cap. 7. — " Assai bel- p. 577. ) Laborde's magnificent lo per Spagna ; " says Navagiero, work contains an engraving of the who, as an Italian, had a right to monuments of the Catholic sove- be fastidious. (Viaggio, fol. 23.) reigns and Philip and Joanna ;" qui The artist, however, was not a rappelent la renaissance des arts en Spaniard ; at least common tradi- Italic, et sont, a. la fois d'une belle tion assigns the work to Philip of execution et d'une conception no- Burgundy, an eminent sculptor of ble." Laborde, Voyage Pitto- the period, who has left many spe- resque, torn. ii. p. 25.