g Henry, the elder Lorenzo, Tournon, the younger
Lorenzo, the younger Bourbon, and two sons of King Francis. In the third
the same Pope is making Cardinal di Monte his Legate at the Council of
Trent; and there are innumerable portraits. In the last, which is
between two windows, the same Pontiff is creating many Cardinals in
preparation for the Council, among whom there are four who became Popes
in succession after him--Julius III, Marcello Cervini, Paul IV, and Pius
IV. To put it briefly, this little hall is very richly adorned with all
that is required in such a place.

In the first chamber next to the little hall, which is dedicated to
Dress, and likewise richly wrought in stucco and gold, there is in the
centre a Sacrifice, with three nude figures, among which is an armed
figure of Alexander the Great, who is casting some garments of skin upon
the fire; and in many other scenes that are in the same place, one sees
how men discovered the way to make garments from plants and other wild
products; but it would take too long to seek to describe the whole in
full. From this chamber one enters into a second, dedicated to Sleep,
for which, when Taddeo had to paint it, he received the inventions given
below from the Commendatore Annibale Caro, at the commission of the
Cardinal; and, to the end that the whole may be the better understood,
we shall write here the advice of Caro in his own words, which are
these--

"The subjects that the Cardinal has commanded me to give you for the
pictures in the Palace of Caprarola, it is not enough for them to be
explained by word of mouth, because, besides the invention, we must
look to the disposition of the figures, the attitudes, the colours,
and a number of other considerations, all in accordance with the
descriptions that I find of the things that appear to me to be
suitable; wherefore I shall put down on paper all that occurs to me in
the matter, as briefly and as distinctly as I shall be able. And first
with regard to the chamber with the flat vaulting--for of any other,
up to the present, he has not given me the charge--it appears to me
that since it is destined to contain the bed for the person of his
most illustrious lordship, there must be executed there things in
keeping with the place and out of the common both in the invention and
in the workmanship. Now, to declare my conception first in general, I
would have a Night painted there, because, besides that it would be
appropr