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 This Ebony Cabinet was sent to the Great Duke by the Duke of Bavaria, and its valued at fourscore thousand Crownes: I believe, if it were to be sold, it would not yield forty thousand Crownes; but its handsome, sayth 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 Crownes. An original Venus of Titian, that in the Poggio Imperiale here (of which below) looking but like a good coppy of this. Here are also several Persian Chairs, and other good Originals of prime hands.

In the 4th Cabinet, called Il Tribuno we saw more riches then 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,