h errors, which are not committed
save from faulty information, from a too ready credulity, or from having
opinions differing from others with some show of reason, are worthy to
be excused, seeing that Aristotle, Pliny, and many others have been
guilty of the like.

Enea also designed to the common satisfaction and benefit of all mankind
fifty costumes of different nations, such as were worn by men and women,
peasants and citizens, in Italy, in France, in Spain, in Portugal, in
England, in Flanders, and in other parts of the world; which was an
ingenious work, both fanciful and beautiful. He executed, also, a
genealogical tree of all the Emperors, which was a thing of great
beauty. And finally, after much toil and travailing, he now lives in
repose under the shadow of Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara, for whom he has
made a genealogical tree of all the Marquises and Dukes of the House of
Este. For all these works and many others that he has executed, as he
still continues to do, I have thought it right to make this honourable
record of him among so many other men of the arts.

Many others have occupied themselves with copper-plate engraving, who,
although they have not attained to such perfection, have none the less
benefited the world with their labours, by bringing many scenes and
other works of excellent masters into the light of day, and by thus
giving the means of seeing the various inventions and manners of the
painters to those who are not able to go to the places where the
principal works are, and conveying to the ultramontanes a knowledge of
many things that they did not know. And although many plates have been
badly executed through the avarice of the printers, eager more for gain
than for honour, yet in certain others, besides those that have been
mentioned, there may be seen something of the good; as in the large
design of the Last Judgment of Michelagnolo Buonarroti on the front wall
of the Papal Chapel, engraved by Giorgio Mantovano, and in the
engravings by Giovan Battista de' Cavalieri of the Crucifixion of S.
Peter and the Conversion of S. Paul painted in the Pauline Chapel at
Rome. This Giovan Battista has also executed copper-plate engravings,
besides other designs, of the Meditation of S. John the Baptist, of the
Deposition from the Cross that Daniello Ricciarelli of Volterra painted
in a chapel in the Trinita at Rome, of a Madonna with many Angels, and
of a vast number of other works. Moreover, many thi