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8 168
DUCAL PALACE SERIES OF CAPITALS
yet beautiful in its way, and the finest example I suppose
of this work in Venice.
Doge’s Palace Continued from p 165.
The Tenth Column. (All reference to palace book unless
otherwise indicated)
1. Luxuria sum imensa. A woman with a chair across the
brow most delicately wrought, fig 2 p 30 1 (palace book)
is a bit of it real size: the leaf lobes ogeed. She
grins as she looks in a mirror[narrow] exposing her breasts to the nipple by pulling down dress with right hand.
2. Gala sine - C R C III Q sun URUIIIV: A woman in a
turban with a jewelled cup in rt hand; in left she holds
a (cock’s?) leg, with claw of which she is gnawing the thi
thick part.
3. Superbia - q A Knight with a stupid - serene face -
with a double edged sword, rose armour, and two ears out
of his helmet.
4. A woman tearing open the clothes at her breast q
5. Avaritia. An old woman with a veil over her fore-
head a bag of money in each hand: This is very marvellous
in expression; The threat is all cords with gulphs
between - the tension of anxiety in the wasting of age
and famine - the features hunger bitten - the eyes hollow -
the expression glaring - gloating - andintense - and yet
without the smallest
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