Vincent, Bramante, Vincentius Foppa, Barnard Zenale; and for prints
to Albert Durer, Hispill Peum, &c. And out of mine owne workes he
may gather that I have endeavoured if not performed these
proportions, done according to these rules; which all the best and
famous painters of our time have likewise observed; who have also
attained to the exquisite proportions of the seven planets. Amongst
whom Mi. Angelo hath merited the chiefest commendation; next him
Raph. Urbine was famous for making of delicate and Venereall bodies;
Leon. Vincent for expressing of solary bodies; Polidore Caldara of
Caravaggio for Martiall bodies; Titianus Vecellino for Lunaryes; and
Gaudentius Ferrato da Valdugia a Milaner for Jovialistes" (55 Bk. i.
p. 117).


Having been compelled to look through the greater part of Lomazzo's
work, inasmuch as not one of the several writers who have referred to
his high opinion of Gaudenzio has given chapter and page, I would
fain allow myself to linger somewhat in the fascinating paths into
which my subject has led me. I should like to call further attention
to this forgotten work as "Englished" by one Richard Haydocke,
"Student in Physik," and dedicated to no less a person than "to the
Right Worshipful Thomas Bodley, Esq.," whose foundation of the
library that bears his name is referred to in the preface. Gladly
would I tell him about Alexander the Great, who, being overmatched by
his enemies in India, "was seen to reake forth from his bodie fier
and light;" and of the father of Theodoricus, who, "by the like
vehement effect, breathed out of his heart, as from a burning
furnace, fierce sparkels; which flying forth, shone, and made a sound
in the aire." I should like to explain to him about the motions of
the seven planets which are the seven governours of the world, and