able to do; and in
that of Clement VII was the Coronation, performed by him in Bologna, of
the great Charles V. But in the last facade, which hit against the acute
angle of the houses of the Carnesecchi, by which the straight line of
that facade of the octagon was no little interrupted, nevertheless there
was made with gracious and pleasing artifice another masterly
inscription, after the likeness of the other, but curving somewhat
outwards, which said:

PONTIFICES SUMMOS MEDICUM DOMUS ALTA LEONEM,
CLEMENTEM DEINCEPS, EDIDIT INDE PIUM.
QUID TOT NUNC REFERAM INSIGNES PIETATE VEL ARMIS
MAGNANIMOSQUE DUCES EGREGIOSQUE VIROS?
GALLORUM INTER QUOS LATE REGINA REFULGET,
HAEC REGIS CONJUNX, HAEC EADEM GENITRIX.

Such, as a whole, was the interior of the theatre described above; but
although it may appear to have been described minutely enough, it is
none the less true that an infinity of other ornaments, pictures,
devices, and a thousand most bizarre and most beautiful fantasies which
were placed throughout the Doric cornices and many spaces according to
opportunity, making a very rich and gracious effect, have been omitted
as not being essential, in order not to weary the perhaps already tired
reader; and anyone who delights in such things may imagine that no part
was left without being finished with supreme mastery, consummate
judgment, and infinite loveliness. And a most pleasing and beautiful
finish was given to the highest range by the many arms that were seen
distributed there in due proportion, which were Medici and Austria for
the illustrious Prince, the bridegroom, and her Highness; Medici and
Toledo for the Duke, his father; Medici and Austria again, recognized by
the three feathers as belonging to his predecessor Alessandro; Medici
and Boulogne in Picardy for Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino; Medici and Savoy
for Duke Giuliano; Medici and Orsini for the double kinship of the Elder
Lorenzo and his son Piero; Medici and the Viper for the above-named
Giovanni, husband of Caterina Sforza; Medici and Salviati for the
glorious Signor Giovanni, his son; France and Medici for her most serene
Highness the Queen; Ferrara and Medici for the Duke, with one of the
sisters of the most excellent bridegroom; and Orsini and Medici for the
other most gentle sister, married to the illustrious Signor Paolo
Giordano, Duke of Bracciano.

It now remains for us to describe the last part of the theatre and the
exit, whic