d can scarcely believe that
it is nude below, and when it is nude no one would believe without
difficulty that it could ever be so well clad in armour. This statue
rests on the left leg, and with the right foot tramples on Fury, which
is a recumbent figure bound in chains, with the torch beneath it and
arms of various kinds. On the base of this work, which is now in
Madrid, are these words:

CAESARIS VIRTUTE FUROR DOMITUS.

After these statues Leone made a great die for striking medals of his
Majesty, and on the reverse the Giants being slain by Jove with
thunderbolts. For all which works the Emperor gave to Leone a pension
of one hundred and fifty ducats a year on the Mint of Milan, with a
very commodious house in the Contrada de' Moroni, and made him a
Chevalier and of his household, besides giving him many privileges of
nobility for his descendants. And while Leone was with his Majesty in
Brussels, he had his rooms in the palace of the Emperor himself, who
at times would go for recreation to see him at work. Not long
afterwards he made another statue of the Emperor, in marble, and also
those of the Empress and King Philip, and a bust of the same Emperor
for placing on high between two panels in bronze. He made, likewise in
bronze, the head of Queen Maria, that of Ferdinand, at that time King
of the Romans, that of Maximilian his son, now Emperor, and that of
Queen Leonora, with many others, which were placed in the Gallery of
the Palace of Binche by Queen Maria, who had caused them to be made.
But they did not stay there long, because King Henry of France set
fire to the building by way of revenge, leaving written there these
words, "Vela fole Maria";[14] I say by way of revenge, because a few
years before that Queen had done the same to him. However it may have
been, the work of that gallery did not proceed, and those statues are
now partly in the Palace of the Catholic King at Madrid, and partly at
Alicante, a sea-port, from which her Majesty intended to have them
conveyed to Granada, where are the tombs of all the Kings of Spain. On
returning from Spain, Leone brought with him two thousand crowns in
cash, besides many other gifts and favours that were bestowed upon him
by that Court.

[Footnote 14: The story runs that in the year 1533 Queen
Maria attacked and destroyed the Castle of Folembrai, and
that in the following year King Henry of France, out of
revenge, destroyed