works in
painting there are in Italy, so that I may know how many I have already
seen, and how many I still have to see."

"You ask me a question which would take long to answer, M. Francisco,"
said M. Angelo, "wide and difficult to put together, for we know that
there is no prince or private person or nobleman in Italy, or any one of
any pretension, however little curious he may be about painting (to say
nothing of those excellent ones who adore it), who does not take steps to
have some relic of divine painting, or who at least, in so far as he can,
does not order many works to be executed. So that a good portion of the
beauty of our art is spread over many noble cities, castles,
country-seats, palaces and temples, and other private and public
buildings; but as I have not seen them all in an orderly manner, I can
only speak of some which are the principal ones.

"In Siena there is some singular painting in the Municipal Chamber and in
other places; in Florence, my native place, in the Palaces of the Medici,
there is a grotesque by Giovanni da Udine, and so throughout Tuscany. In
Urbino, the Palace of the Duke, who was himself half a painter, has a
great deal of praiseworthy work, and also in his country-seat called
'Imperial,' near Pesaro, erected by his wife, there is some very
magnificent painting. So, too, the Palace of the Duke of Mantua, where
Andrea painted the Triumph of Caius Caesar, is noble; but more so still is
the work of the Stable, painted by Julius, a pupil of Raphael, who now
flourishes in Mantua. In Ferrara we have the painting of Dosso in the
Palace of Castello, and in Padua they also praise the loggia of M. Luis,
and the Fortress of Lenhago. Now in Venice there are admirable works by
Chevalier Titian, a valiant man in painting and in drawing from nature, in
the Library of St. Mark, some in the House of the Germans, and others in
churches and in other good hands; and the whole of that city is a good
painting.

"So in Pisa, in Lucca, in Bologna, in Piacenza, in Parma, where there is
the Parmesano,(189) in Milan, and in Naples. So in Genoa there is the
house of Prince Doria, painted by Master Perino, with great judgment,
especially the Storm of the Vessels of AEneas, in oils, and the ferocity of
Neptune and his sea-horses; and likewise in another room there is a
fresco, Jupiter fighting against the giants in Phlegra, overthrowing them
with thunderbolts; and nearly the whole city is painted inside and