spaces, divided by the door. Opposite to that, where
there are the three windows that look out over the Piazza, there were
four spaces, but not wider than about three braccia each. In the
end-wall that is on the right hand as one enters, wherein are two
windows that likewise look out on the Piazza, but in another direction,
there were three similar spaces, each about three braccia wide; and in
the end-wall that is on the left hand, opposite to the other, what with
the marble door that leads into the chapel, and a window with a grating
of bronze, there remained only one space large enough to contain a work
of importance. On the wall of the chapel, then--within an ornament of
Corinthian columns that support an architrave, which has below it a
recess, wherein hang two very rich festoons, and two pendants of various
fruits, counterfeited very well, while upon it sits a naked little boy
who is holding the Ducal arms, namely, those of the Houses of Medici and
Toledo--he painted two scenes; on the right hand Camillus, who is
commanding that the schoolmaster shall be given up to the vengeance of
his young scholars, and on the other the same Camillus, while the army
is in combat and fire is burning the stockades and tents of the camp, is
routing the Gauls. And beside that, where the same range of pilasters
continues, he painted a figure of Opportunity, large as life, who has
seized Fortune by the locks, and some devices of his Excellency, with
many ornaments executed with marvellous grace. On the main wall, where
there are two great spaces divided by the principal door, he painted two
large and very beautiful scenes. In the first are the Gauls, who,
weighing the gold of the tribute, add to it a sword, to the end that the
weight may be the greater, and Camillus, full of rage, delivers
himself from the tribute by force of arms; which scene is very
beautiful, and crowded with figures, landscapes, antiquities, and vases
counterfeited very well and in various manners in imitation of gold and
silver. In the other scene, beside the first, is Camillus in the
triumphal chariot, drawn by four horses; and on high is Fame, who is
crowning him. Before the chariot are priests very richly apparelled,
with the statue of the Goddess Juno, and holding vases in their hands,
and with some trophies and spoils of great beauty. About the chariot are
innumerable prisoners in various attitudes, and behind it the soldiers
of the army in their armour, amon