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The Voyage of Italy.
Part I.

are not seen at once, but come up into sight one after another, as the Man turns them.

This Ebony Cabinet was sent to the Great Duke by the Duke of Bavaria, and it's valued at four-score thousand Crowns: I believe, if it were to be sold, it would not yield forty thousand Crowns; but it's handsome, saith Seneca, for those that receive courtesies, to value them high. Here are also some Pictures of great value, as the Adam and Eve of the hand of Alberto Dureo, an Original Piece, valued at 1500 Crowns. An original Venus of Titian, that in the Poggio Imperiale here (of which below) looking but like a good copy of this. Here are also several Persian Chairs, and other good Originals of prime Hands.

The 4th. Cabinet.

In the 4th Cabinet, called Il Tribuno we saw more riches than in all the others. This Tribuno is a great Room built round with a Cupola, whose Vault is painted with a deep sanguin Red, set full with the shells of Mother of Pearl. The Walls of this Room are hung with green Silk, and loaden with excellent Pictures of the prime Masters of the World, Titian, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Vinci, Hans Holbain, Vandike and others. The S. John Baptist is of Raphael's hand; as is also that of Leo the X with two Cardinals, Julio Medici, and Cardinal Rossi behind him. The picture of Southwel, Privy Counsellor to Henry the VIII. is of the hand of rare Hans Holbain. The Picture of our Lady with our Saviour in her Arms, is of the hand of Andrea del Sarto. The Picture of Cardinal Bentivoglio sitting in a Chair, is of the hand of Vandike. There is alsoa rare