afterwards presented by Caraffa to Cardinal di Monte, by whom it is prized as a remarkable thing, which it is. The words painted in the picture, and which are seen by those who look at it in the ordinary manner, are the following:—
HEus tu quid viDes nil ut reoR
Nisi lunam crEscentem et E
Regione pos Itam quae eX
Intervallo. GRadatim utI
Crescit nos Admonet ut iN
Una spe fide eT charitate tV
Simul et ego Illuminat I
Verbo Dei crescAmus doneC
Ab eiusdem Gratia fiaT
Lux in nobis Amplissima quI
ESt aeternus iLLe dator luciS
In quo et a quO mortales omneS
Veram lucem Recipere sI
Sperama in vanUM non sperabiMa
In the same Guardaroba is a beautiful portrait of Sophonisba Anguisciola, by her own hand, and which had been
presented by herself to Pope Julius II. There is also in this collection an exceedingly ancient book, which merits great esteem; it contains the Bucolics, Georgies, and Æneid of Virgil, in characters so old, that many learned men in Rome and elsewhere have judged it to have been written in the time of Caesar Augustus, or but shortly after, wherefore it is no marvel that the Cardinal should hold it in veneration.[1] And this shall be the end of the Life of the painter Taddeo Zucchero.
THE FLORENTINE, MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI, PAINTER,
SCULPTOR, AND ARCHITECT.
[born 1474—died 1563.]
While the best and most industrious artists were labouring, by the light of Giotto and his followers, to give the world
- ↑ This is the renowned Codice Mediceo,now in the Biblioteca Laurenziana. The opinion most common among the learned is that it was written in the fourth century. Towards the middle of the fifth century it was in the possession of the Consul, Tertius Rufus Apronianus Asturius, who has cor rected in red ink certain errors in orthography committed by the copyist.
