f whom we have before spoken in
relation to other matters, has collected into a large book, innumerable
drawings of distinguished painters and sculptors, ancient as well as
modern, and among these are two drawings on two leaves opposite to each
other, one of which is by Donato, and the other by Michael Angelo
Buonarroti. On these he has with much judgment inscribed the two Greek
mottos which follow; on the drawing of Donato, "[Greek: E Donatos
Bonarrotixei]," and on that of Michael Angelo, "[Greek: E Bonarrotos
Donatixei]," which in Latin ran thus: _Aut Donatus Bonarrotom exprimit et
refert, aut Bonarrotus Donatum_; and in our language they mean, 'Either
the spirit of Donato worked in Buonarroti, or that of Buonarroti first
acted in Donato.'"

SOFONISBA ANGUISCIOLA'S EARLY DISTINCTION.

This noble lady of Cremona (born about 1530), was one of six sisters,
all amiable, and much distinguished in arts and letters. She displayed a
taste for drawing at a very early age, and soon became the best pupil in
the school of Antonio Campi. One of her early sketches, of a boy caught
with his hand in the claw of a lobster, with a little girl laughing at
his plight, was in possession of Vasari, and by him esteemed worthy of a
place in a volume which he had filled with drawings by the most famous
masters of that great age. Portraiture was her chief study; and Vasari
commends a picture which he saw at her father's house, of three of the
sisters, and an ancient housekeeper of the family playing at chess, as a
work "painted with so much skill and care, that the figures wanted only
voice to appear alive." He also praises a portrait which she painted of
herself, and presented to Pope Julius III., who died in 1555, which
shows that she must have attracted the notice of princes while yet in
her girlhood. At Milan, whither she accompanied her father, she painted
the portrait of the Duke of Sessa, the Viceroy, who rewarded her with
four pieces of brocade and various rich gifts.

SOFONISBA'S VISIT TO SPAIN.

Her name having become famous in Italy, in 1559, the King of Spain
ordered the Duke of Alba, who was then at Rome, to invite her to the
court of Madrid. She arrived there in the same year, and was received
with great distinction, and lodged in the palace. Her first work was the
portrait of the king, who was so much pleased with the performance that
he rewarded her with a diamond worth 1500 ducats, and settled upon her a
pe