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Rh 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. And this shall be the end of the Life of the painter Taddeo Zucchero.

the best and most industrious artists were labouring, by the light of Giotto and his followers, to give the world