hurch of S. Vittore, and many other edifices. He has
also sent designs over all Italy and abroad, wherever he has not been
able to be in person, of many edifices, palaces, and temples, of which
I shall say no more; this much being enough to make him known as a
talented and most excellent architect.

I will not omit--seeing that he is one of our Italians, although I do
not know any particulars of his works--that in France, so I am
informed, a most excellent architect, and particularly in the work of
fortification, is Rocco Guerrini of Marradi, who in the recent wars of
that kingdom, to his great profit and honour, has executed many
ingenious and laudable works.

And so in this last part, in order not to defraud any man of the
proper credit of his talent, I have discoursed of some sculptors and
architects now living, of whom hitherto I had not had a convenient
occasion to speak.

DON GIULIO CLOVIO

OF DON GIULIO CLOVIO

MINIATURIST

There has never been, nor perhaps will there ever be for many
centuries, a more rare or more excellent miniaturist, or we would
rather say painter of little things, than Don Giulio Clovio, in that
he has surpassed by a great measure all others who have ever been
engaged in that kind of painting. This master was born in the province
of Sclavonia, or rather, Croatia, at a place called Grisone, in the
diocese of Madrucci, although his elders, of the family of the Clovi,
had come from Macedonia; and the name given to him at baptism was
Giorgio Giulio. As a child he gave his attention to letters; and then,
by a natural instinct, to design. And having come to the age of
eighteen, being desirous to make proficience, he came to Italy and
placed himself in the service of Cardinal Marino Grimani, with whom
for a period of three years he applied himself in such a manner to
drawing, that he achieved a much better result than perhaps up to that
time had been expected of him; as was seen in some designs of medals
and their reverses that he made for that lord, drawn with the pen most
minutely, with extreme and almost incredible diligence. Whereupon,
having seen that he was more assisted by nature in little things than
in great, he resolved, and wisely, that he would give his attention to
miniature, since his works in that field were full of grace and
beautiful to a marvel; being urged to this, also, by many friends, and
in particular by Giulio Romano, a painter of bright renown, who was