dith that Michelagnolo painted in the Chapel, the portrait of Duke
Cosimo de' Medici as a young man, in full armour, after the drawing by
Bandinelli, and likewise the portrait of Bandinelli himself; and then
the Contest of Cupid and Apollo in the presence of all the Gods. And if
Enea had been maintained and rewarded for his labours by Bandinelli, he
would have engraved many other beautiful plates for him. Afterwards,
Francesco, a protege of the Salviati, and an excellent painter, being in
Florence, and assisted by the liberality of Duke Cosimo, commissioned
Enea to engrave the large plate of the Conversion of S. Paul, full of
horses and soldiers, which was held to be very beautiful, and gave Enea
a great name. The same Enea then executed the portrait of Signor
Giovanni de' Medici, father of Duke Cosimo, with an ornament full of
figures. He engraved, also, the portrait of the Emperor Charles V, with
an ornament covered with appropriate Victories and trophies, for which
he was rewarded by His Majesty and praised by all; and on another plate,
very well engraved, he represented the victory that the Emperor gained
on the Elbe. For Doni he executed some heads from nature in the manner
of medallions, with beautiful ornaments: King Henry of France, Cardinal
Bembo, Messer Lodovico Ariosto, the Florentine Gello, Messer Lodovico
Domenichi, Signora Laura Terracina, Messer Cipriano Morosino, and Doni
himself. He also engraved for Don Giulio Clovio, a most excellent
illuminator, a plate of a S. George on horseback who is slaying the
Dragon, in which, although it was, one might say, one of the first works
that he engraved, he acquitted himself very well.

Afterwards, being a man of lofty genius, and desiring to pass on to
greater and more honourable undertakings, Enea applied himself to the
study of antiquities, and in particular of ancient medals, of which he
has published several books in engraving, wherein are the true effigies
of many Emperors and their wives, with every kind of inscription and
reverse that could bring all who delight in them to a clear
understanding of their stories; for which he has rightly won great
praise, as he still does. And those who have found fault with him for
his books of medals have been in the wrong, for whoever shall consider
the labours that he has performed, and how useful and beautiful these
are, must perforce excuse him, even though he may have erred in a few
matters of little importance; and suc