esented with the hands raised to
heaven in contempt, because if she could she would use her power
against God. Make her face covered with a goodly mark; show her as
wounded in the eye by a palm-branch, and wounded in the ear by laurel
and myrtle, to signify that victory and truth offend her. Draw many
thunderbolts proceeding from her as a symbol of her evil-speaking.
Make her lean and shrivelled up, because she is continual dissolution.
Make her heart gnawed by a swelling serpent. Make her a quiver full of
tongues for arrows, because she often offends with these. Make her a
leopard's skin, because the leopard kills the lion through envy and by
deceit. Place a vase in her hand full of flowers, and let it be full
also of scorpions, toads and other reptiles. Let her ride Death,
because Envy, which is undying, never wearies of sovereignty. {134}
Make her a bridle loaded with divers arms, because her weapons are all
deadly. As soon as virtue is born it begets envy which attacks it; and
sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue
unaccompanied by envy.

[Sidenote: Fame]

87.

Fame alone rises towards heaven, because God looks with favour on
virtuous things; infamy must be represented upside down, because its
works are contrary to God and move towards hell. Fame should be
depicted covered with tongues instead of with feathers and in the form
of a bird.

[Sidenote: The Expressive Picture]

88.

A picture or a representation of human figures should be done in such a
way that the spectator can easily recognize the purpose that is in
their minds by their attitudes. If you have to represent a man of high
character, let his gestures be such as harmonize with fair words;
likewise, if you have to represent a man of low character, let his
gestures be fierce, let him thrust his arms towards the listener, and
let his head and chest be thrust forward in front of his feet,
following the hands of the speaker. It is thus with a dumb man, who
seeing two speakers, although he is deprived of hearing, nevertheless,
owing to the attitudes and gestures of the speakers,

understands the subject of their argument. I once saw at Florence a
man who had become deaf by an accident, who, if you spoke loud to him,
did not understand you, but if you spoke gently, without making any
noise, he understood you merely by the movement of the lips. Now you
can say, Does not one who talks loudly move his lips like one who