hand, and other lords around; and with these words:
PAULUS III P.M. HORATIUM FARNESIUM NEPOTEM, SUMMAE SPEI
ADOLESCENTEM, PRAEFECTUM URBIS CREAT, ANNO SAL. 1549.
And in this scene are portraits of the Cardinal of Paris, Viseo, Morone,
Badia, Trento, Sfondrato, and Ardinghelli. In the other scene, beside
the last-named, the same Pope is giving the General's baton to Pier
Luigi and his sons, who were not yet Cardinals; with portraits of the
Pope, Pier Luigi Farnese, the Camarlingo, Duke Ottavio, Orazio, the
Cardinal of Capua, Simonetta, Jacobaccio, San Jacopo, Ferrara, Signor
Ranuccio Farnese as a young man, Giovio, Molza, Marcello Cervini, who
afterwards became Pope, the Marquis of Marignano, Signor Giovan Battista
Castaldo, Signor Alessandro Vitelli, and Signor Giovan Battista
Savelli.
Coming now to the little hall which is beside the hall just described,
and which is above the Hall of Spring, in the vaulting, which is adorned
with a vast and rich decoration in stucco and gold, in the recess in the
centre, there is the Coronation of Pope Paul III, with four spaces that
form a cruciform inscription, with these words:
PAULUS III FARNESIUS, PONTIFEX MAXIMUS, DEO ET HOMINIBUS
APPROBANTIBUS, SACRA TIARA SOLEMNI RITU CORONATUR, ANNO SALUTIS
1534, III NON. NOVEMB.
Then follow four scenes above the cornice--namely, one over every wall.
In the first the Pope is blessing the galleys at Civita Vecchia, when
about to send them to Tunis in Barbary in the year 1535. In the next the
same Pope is excommunicating the King of England in the year 1537; with
the proper inscription. In the third is a fleet of galleys which the
Emperor and the Venetians fitted out against the Turk, with the
authority and assistance of the Pontiff, in the year 1538. In the
fourth, Perugia having rebelled against the Church, the people of that
city go to seek pardon in the year 1540. On the walls of the same little
hall are four large scenes, one to each wall, with windows and doors
between. In the first large scene the Emperor Charles V, having returned
victorious from Tunis, is kissing the feet of Pope Paul, of the Farnese
family, in Rome, in the year 1535. In the next, which is above the door
on the left hand, is the story of the peace that Pope Paul III brought
about at Busseto between the Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France,
in the year 1538; in which scene are these portraits--the elder Bourbon,
King Francis, Kin
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