This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... 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 viDet nil ut reoR Nisi lunam crEscentem et E Regions pot Ham qua eX Intervallo. GRadatim utl Creseil nos Admonet ut iAT Una tpe fide eT charitate tV Simul et ego Iltuminat I Verba Dei eretcAmut doneC Ab eiutdem Gratia fiaT Lux in nobis Amplissima qui ESt alernus iLLe dator luciS In quo et a quO mortalet omneS Veram lucem Recipere tl Speram' in vanUM non eperabiM* 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, Georgics, and JEneid of Virgil, in characters so old, that many learned men in Home and elsewhere have judged it to have been written in the time of Cesar 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 FLORENTINE, MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI, PAINTER, SCULPTOR, AND ARCHITECT. dorn 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 Biblioteea Laurenxiana. 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 corrected in red ink cer'ain errors in orthography...