ason some make
him stretched out on the ground, and others in the lap of his mother,
with the feet joined together. But, for the sake of harmony with the
other figures, I would make him standing, supported in some way, or
rather, seated, like that of the most illustrious Cardinal
Sant'Agnolo, which is likewise winged and holds a horn of plenty. He
shall have about him persons offering to him, as was the custom,
first-fruits of lentils and other vegetables, and also of peaches, as
mentioned above. Others used to make for this same God a figure
without a face, with a little cap on the head, and about him a wolf's
skin, all covered with eyes and ears. Take which of these two you
please.

"In the last spandrel, between the facade at the head and that on the
left, it will be well to place Angerona, the Goddess of Secrecy, which
figure, coming within the same door of entrance, will admonish those
who come out of the chamber to keep secret all that they have seen and
heard, as is the duty of the servants of noblemen. The figure is that
of a woman placed upon an altar, with the mouth bound and sealed. I
know not with what vestments she used to be depicted, but I would
envelop her in a long gown covering her whole person, and would
represent her as shrugging her shoulders. Around her there must be
painted some priests, by whom sacrifices used to be offered to her
before the gate in the Curia, to the end that it might be unlawful for
any person to reveal to the prejudice of the Republic any matter that
might be discussed there.

"The space within the spandrels being filled up, it now only remains
to say that around all this work it seems to me that there should be a
frieze to encircle it on every side, and in this I would make either
grotesques or small scenes with little figures. The matter of these I
would have in harmony with the subjects already given above, each in
accord with that nearest to it; and if you paint little scenes, it
would please me to have them representing the actions that men and
also animals do at the hour that we have fixed there. Now, beginning
at the head, I would paint in the frieze of that facade, as things
appropriate to the Dawn, artisans, workmen, and persons of various
kinds who, having risen, are returning to the labours of their
pursuits--as smiths to the forge, men of letters to their studies,
huntsmen to the open country, and muleteers to the road, and above
all would I like to have the poor