230		186
                                                                      
                                                                      	               DUCAL PALACE  S of C.
                                                                      	5  Gula sine ordine sum.  More sharply cut, but face
                                                                      quite regular, and hardly distorted by the gnawing Chicken
                                                                      by the same.
                                                                      6.  Superbia  (prea sselolo)  A Knight like the other
                                                                      but the ,ong 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 hun
                                                                      gry 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
                                                                      j[y]oyless;  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 deen the other columns
                                                                      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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