apet below is Music, with various musical instruments
about her.

There follows in due order Venus, who has clasped Love to her bosom,
and is kissing him; and she, also, has her Sign above her. In the oval
that she has beneath her is the story of Youth; that is, in the centre
a young man seated, with books, instruments for measuring, and other
things appertaining to design, and in addition maps of the world and
cosmographical globes and spheres; and behind him is a loggia, in
which are young men who are merrily passing the time away with
singing, dancing, and playing, and also a banquet of young people all
given over to enjoyment. On one side this oval is supported by
Self-knowledge, who has about her compasses, armillary spheres,
quadrants, and books, and is gazing at herself in a mirror; and, on
the other side, by Fraud, a hideous old hag, lean and toothless, who
is mocking at Self-knowledge, and in the act of covering her face with
a smooth and beautiful mask. Below the oval is Temperance, with a
horse's bridle in her hand, and beneath her, on the parapet, is
Rhetoric, who is in a line with the other similar figures.

Next to these comes Mars in armour, with many trophies about him, and
with the Sign of the Lion above him. In his oval, which is below him,
is Virility, represented by a full-grown man, standing between Memory
and Will, who are holding before him a basin of gold containing a pair
of wings, and are pointing out to him the path of deliverance in the
direction of a mountain; and this oval is supported by Innocence, who
is a maiden with a lamb at her side, and by Hilarity, who, all smiling
and merry, reveals herself as what she really is. Beneath the oval,
between the windows, is Prudence, who is making herself beautiful
before a mirror; and she has below her, on the parapet, a figure of
Philosophy.

Next there follows Jove, with his thunderbolt and his bird, the Eagle,
and with his Sign above him. In the oval is Old Age, who is
represented by an old man clothed as a priest and kneeling before an
altar, upon which he is placing the basin of gold with the two wings;
and this oval is supported by Compassion, who is covering some naked
little boys, and by Religion, enveloped in sacerdotal vestments. Below
these is a Fortitude in armour, who, planting one of her legs in a
spirited attitude on a fragment of a column, is placing some balls in
the mouth of a lion; and beneath her, on the parapet, she has a figu