and plain; and the chlamys, which is blue, has a red lining with
a fringe of gold all round, and it is fastened at the throat, leaving
the front quite open, and falling behind with beautiful grace. This
young man, who stands in a niche of mixed green and grey marble, with
blue buskins embroidered with gold, is looking with indescribable
fierceness at Hannibal, who faces him on the opposite page of the book.
This figure of Hannibal is that of a man about thirty-six years of age;
he is frowning, with two furrows in his brow expressive of impatience
and anger, and he, too, is looking fixedly at Scipio. On his head he has
a yellow helmet, with a green and yellow dragon for crest and a serpent
for chaplet. He is standing on his left foot and raising his right arm,
with which he holds the shaft of an ancient javelin, or rather, of a
little partisan. His cuirass is blue, his sword-belt partly blue and
partly yellow, his sleeves of changing blue and red, and his buskins
yellow. His chlamys, of changing red and yellow, is fastened on the
right shoulder and lined with green; and, holding his left hand on his
sword, he is standing in a niche of varicoloured marbles, yellow, white,
and changing. On another page is Pope Nicholas V, portrayed from the
life, with a mantle of changing purple and red and all embroidered with
gold. He is without a beard and in full profile, and he is looking
towards the beginning of the book, which is opposite to him; and he is
pointing to it with his right hand, as though in a marvel. The niche is
green, white, and red. Then in the border there are certain little
half-length figures in an ornament composed of ovals and circles, and
other things of that kind, together with an infinite number of little
birds and children, so well wrought that nothing more could be desired.
Close to this, in like manner, are Hanno the Carthaginian, Hasdrubal,
Laelius, Massinissa, C. Salinator, Nero, Sempronius, M. Marcellus, Q.
Fabius, the other Scipio, and Vibius. At the end of the book there is
seen a Mars in an antique chariot drawn by two reddish horses. On his
head he has a helmet of red and gold, with two little wings; on his left
arm he has an antique shield, which he holds before him, and in his
right hand a naked sword. He is standing on his left foot only, holding
the other in the air. He has a cuirass in the antique manner, all red
and gold, as are his hose and his buskins. His chlamys is blue without,
and within