[M.186L]                                                              [M.186]	Ducal palace. S of C.	186
                                                                      
                                                                      		5  Gula sine ordine sum.  More sharply cut, but face
                                                                      		quite regular, and hardly distorted by the gnawing: Chicken
                                                                      		by the same.
                                                                      		6.  Superbia  (pre asselolo)  A Knight like the other
                                                                      		but the long ears more developed;  the face firm and features
                                                                      		deep cut;  not unlike Colleone's statue;  More effective
                                                                      		than the old one, and far less truly expressive of pride.
                                                                      		7.  Ira crudelis est in me.  This is a fine figure (in the
                                                                      		way that a modern Sir Charles Bell study is fine) at least
                                                                      		in the distorted countenance and wildly scattered hair, but
                                                                      		the drapery utterly vile and the hands tearing it open, stiff
                                                                      		and nerveless.
                                                                      		8.  Avaricia impletor:  quite tame - no skinny neck nor
                                                                      		hungry stare.  Two boys on the other - the eye ball is
                                                                      		smooth in all these figures, except accidia, which is drilled
                                                                      	The Thirty First.  This is a cheap restoration or copy of the Arion
                                                                      		one on the other side.  It is especially vile;  its figures large, brutal
                                                                      		and stupid - utterly blundering and joyless;  The inferiority of feeling
                                                                      		is perhaps most seen in the bears paws;  and the clumsy set of
                                                                      		the Knight's foot in the stirrup, None of the animals are to be
                                                                      		made out if one had not seen the other column before, and the
                                                                      		attempt at the grotesque is a more  total failure  than I have
                                                                      		yet met with.  Common modern stone masonry is not worse.
                                                                      		Vid M. 2 p 89.

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