Raphael and Michel Angelo would not have mended them for colours. 2. A great cabinet of ebony, set with histories cast in gold, and set with rich precious stones; it is valued at threescore thousand crowns. 3. A rare picture of Hercules and Anteus. 4. Raphael's own picture. 5. The Last Supper, by Titian. 6. The terrace and garden, with box-knots and fountains of water; all at the very top of the house, and overlooking the street, river, meadows, and St. Peter's. 7. The little back gallery of pictures, where, among others, I was shown the pictures of Martin Luther, Nicolas Machiavel, and Cæsar Borgia; the two last great corruptors of policy and manners. 8. The low cool gallery full of statues and pictures, especially of the Borghesian family. That of Paulus Quintus, in a small mosaic work, is scarce to be discovered from painting: as also the Assumption of our Lady in the same work. There I saw also Titian's own picture, and the rare Crucifix made by Michel Angelo, so to life, that some men have fabulously given out that he drew it after a crucified man."

Of the villa he thus speaks:

"From hence crossing over the fields, I went to Borghesi's villa and garden, which are a little half mile from the town. This is the greatest villa that is about Rome. For here you have store of walks, both open and close, fish-ponds, vast cages for birds, thickets of trees, store of fountains, a park of deer, a world of fruit-trees, statues of all sizes, banquetting-places, grottoes, wetting sports, and a stately palace, adorned with so many rare statues and pictures, that their names make a book in octavo, which I refer you to. As for the palace itself, it is com

passed on both sides by a fair demicircle of statues, which stand before the two doors, like old Penates and Lares. The wall of the house is overcrusted with a world of anticallie, or old marble pieces of antiquity; as that of Curtius spurring into the vorago, that of Europa hurried away by Jupiter become a bull, with a world of such like fables. Entering into the house, I saw divers rooms full of curiosities.

"In the great hall stands the statue of Diana in oriental alabaster, which was once a deity adored by Augustus Cæsar. Here also hang two great pictures : the one representing a cavalcata, when the pope goeth abroad in ceremony; the other a cavalcata, when the great Turk goeth abroad in pomp.

"2. In another room stands the statue of one of the famous gladiators anciently, who fought alone against twenty others, and being wounded to death seems to threaten with his looks all his beholders. It is terribly well made.

66 3. In one of the chambers above is the head in profile of Alexander the Great cut in marble.

"4. In another room below I saw the statue of Seneca bleeding to death. It is of a black stone like jet; than which nothing can be blacker but the crimes of Nero the magistricide, who put this rare man his master to death.

"5. The statue also of Daphne and Apollo in alabaster; Apollo running after Daphne, and she stiffening into a tree, being overtaken ;—her fingers shooting into branches, and her toes into roots, are admirably well done. It must be Bernini's work.

"6. The statue also of Æneas carrying his old father Anchises upon his back out of burning Troy. The young man is brawny and strong; the old man is made lean and weak as also the young man shows a great deal of tender affection towards his father, and the father as much fear in his looks.

7. The statue also of David slinging at Goliath. He frowns so terribly as he slings, that you would swear he intends to fright him with his looks, and then kill him with his sling. These two last statues are also of the hand of Cavalier Bernini.

"8. In another chamber above I saw the great chair which locketh fast any man that sitteth down in it. It is said to be a chair of revenge, or a trap-chair for an enemy; but methinks it would be a fine chair for a restless student, or a gossiping wife.

"I saw here also some toys for young men ; as the clock, which being wound up playeth a tunable dance, and little men and women of iron, painted handsomely, dance in a ring to the tune by virtue of the wheels. The fool's paradise-representing, first, a fine green garden of flowers, then a palace, and, lastly, a neat library—is made also to recreate children."