ice, and held in great price, particularly
his little works and animals of every kind. Tiziano portrayed Bembo
another time (namely, after he became a Cardinal), Fracastoro, and
Cardinal Accolti of Ravenna, which last portrait Duke Cosimo has in
his guardaroba; and our Danese, the sculptor, has in his house at
Venice a portrait by the hand of Tiziano of a gentleman of the Delfini
family. There may be seen portraits by the same hand of M. Niccolo
Zono, of Rossa, wife of the Grand Turk, at the age of sixteen, and of
Cameria, her daughter, with most beautiful dresses and adornments. In
the house of M. Francesco Sonica, an advocate and a gossip of Tiziano,
is a portrait by his hand of that M. Francesco, and in a large picture
Our Lady flying to Egypt, who is seen to have dismounted from the ass
and to have seated herself upon a stone on the road, with S. Joseph
beside her, and a little S. John who is offering to the Infant Christ
some flowers picked by the hand of an Angel from the branches of a
tree that is in the middle of a wood full of animals, where in the
distance the ass stands grazing. That picture, which is full of grace,
the said gentleman has placed at the present day in a palace that he
has built for himself at Padua, near S. Giustina. In the house of a
gentleman of the Pisani family, near S. Marco, there is by the hand of
Tiziano the portrait of a gentlewoman, which is a marvellous thing.
And having made for Monsignor Giovanni della Casa, the Florentine, who
has been illustrious in our times both for nobility of blood and as a
man of letters, a very beautiful portrait of a gentlewoman whom that
lord loved while he was in Venice, Tiziano was rewarded by being
honoured by him with the lovely sonnet that begins--

Ben vegg'io, Tiziano, in forme nuove
L'idolo mio, che i begli occhi apre e gira (with what follows).

Finally, this excellent painter sent to the above-named Catholic King
a Last Supper of Christ with the Apostles, in a picture seven braccia
long, which was a work of extraordinary beauty.

[Illustration: TIZIANO: THE EDUCATION OF CUPID

(_Rome: Borghese Gallery. Canvas_)]

In addition to the works described and many others of less merit
executed by this man, which are omitted for the sake of brevity, he
has in his house, sketched in and begun, the following: the Martyrdom
of S. Laurence, similar to that described above, and destined by him
for sending to the Catholic King; a great canvas w