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 ==The Voyage of Italy Page 222==

of Alexander of Parma; of whom I may say, as Sulla said of Cesar, In uno Cesare, multi sunt Marii: in one Alexander of Parma, there are many Hercules. Then mounting up into an appartiment over the former, I saw diverse chambers exquisitly furnished with pictures, and leser statues. In the long gallery there are diverse rare pieces of the hand of Caraccio. In the other rooms many ancient curious things, as an ancient piece of painting found in Adrians Villa and made fifteen hundred years ago; an other ancient picture of Eugenius the IV studying, and S. Bernard standing by him. A rare design of Vassari representing a town in Flanders taken by Alexander Farnese, Michelangelo's true picture. The Ve mur of Michelangelo. The little old picture of our Lady, and S. John Baptist in a small mosaic work. A. Crucifix in Ivory of Michelangelo making. The design, or rather the perfect model of the bridge thrown over the Sceld, by which Alexander Farnese took Antwerp. A great