ngs taken from
Michelagnolo have been engraved by others at the commission of Antonio
Lanferri, who has employed printers for the same purpose. These have
published books of all the kinds of fishes, and also the Phaethon, the
Tityus, the Ganymede, the Archers, the Bacchanalia, the Dream, the
Pieta, and the Crucifix, all done by Michelagnolo for the Marchioness of
Pescara; and, in addition, the four Prophets of the Chapel and other
scenes and drawings have been engraved and published, but executed so
badly, that I think it well to be silent as to the names of those
engravers and printers.

But I must not be silent about the above-mentioned Antonio Lanferri and
Tommaso Barlacchi, for they, as well as others, have employed many young
men to engrave plates after original drawings by the hands of a vast
number of masters, insomuch that it is better to say nothing of these
works, lest it should become wearisome. And in this manner have been
published, among other plates, grotesques, ancient temples, cornices,
bases, capitals, and many other suchlike things, with all their
measurements.

Seeing everything reduced to a miserable manner, and moved by
compassion, Sebastiano Serlio, an architect of Bologna, has engraved on
wood and copper two books of architecture, in which, among other things,
are thirty doors of the Rustic Order, and twenty in a more delicate
style; which book is dedicated to King Henry of France. Antonio
L'Abacco, likewise, has published plates in a beautiful manner of all
the notable antiquities of Rome, with their measurements, executed with
great mastery and with very subtle engraving by ... Perugino. Nor has
less been accomplished in this field by the architect Jacopo Barozzo of
Vignola, who in a book of copper-plate engravings has shown with simple
rules how to enlarge or to diminish in due proportion every part of the
five Orders of Architecture, a work most useful in that art, for which
we are much indebted to him; even as we are to Giovanni Cugini[16] of
Paris for his engravings and writings on architecture.

In Rome, besides the masters named above, Niccolo Beatricio[17] of
Lorraine has given so much attention to engraving with the burin, that
he has executed many plates worthy of praise; such as two pieces of
sarcophagi with battles of horsemen, engraved on copper, and other
plates full of various animals very well executed, and a scene showing
the Widow's Daughter being restored to life by Jesus C