ing in every way similar to the front, excepting
that in place of the statue of Sovereign Prudence, there was seen in a
large oval corresponding to the great pedestal that supported the great
chariot described above, which, with ingenious artifice, after the
passing of the procession, was turned in a moment towards the Piazza;
there was seen, I say, as the principal device of the arch, a celestial
Capricorn with its stars, which was shown holding with the paws a royal
sceptre with an eye at the top, such as it is said that the ancient and
most just Osiris used once to carry, with the ancient motto about it,
saying: NULLUM NUMEN ABEST; as if adding, as the first author said: SI
SIT PRUDENTIA. In the lower part, we have to relate as a
beginning--because that facade was made to represent the actions of
peace, which are perhaps no less necessary to the human race--that in
the niche on the right hand, as with those of the other facade already
described, there was seen placed a statue of a woman, representing
Reward or Remuneration, and called Grace, such as wise Princes are wont
to confer for meritorious works upon men of excellence and worth, even
as on the left hand, in a threatening aspect, with a sword in the hand,
in the figure of Nemesis, was seen Punishment, for the vicious and
criminal; with which figures were comprised the two principal pillars of
Justice, without both which no State ever had stability or firmness, or
was anything but imperfect and maimed. In the two ovals, then, always
corresponding to those of the other facade, and like them also
counterfeited in bronze, in one were seen the fortifications executed
with much forethought in many places by the prudent Duke, and in the
other his marvellous care and diligence in achieving the common peace of
Italy, as has been seen in many of his actions, but particularly at that
moment when by his agency was extinguished the terrible and so dangerous
conflagration fanned with little prudence by one who should rather have
assured the public welfare of the Christian people; which was
represented by various Fetiales, altars, and other suchlike instruments
of peace, and by the words customary in medals placed over them, saying:
PAX AUGUSTA. Over these, and over the two above-described statues of the
niches, similar to those of the other side, were seen on the right hand
Facility and on the left Temperance or Goodness, as we would rather call
her; signifying by the first an