CHAPTER XV
July 15. Numbered XVI
196. A gentle usher; Authority [husher, vanity] by name. The Faerie Queene I., iv. 13.
[197]. Teres et rotundus. Horace, Sat. II. 7.
Spagnoletto. Josef or Jusepe de Ribera, otherwise Lo Spagnoletto (1588–1656), of Spanish birth, whose chief work was done in Naples. His subjects are generally delineations of scourgings and other scenes of torture. See ante, note to p. [70].
[200]. With marriageable arms. Paradise Lost, V. 217.
To-morrow to fresh fields [woods]. Lycidas, 193.
Mr. Crabbe. George Crabbe (1754–1832).
[202]. Serious in mortality. Macbeth, Act II. Sc. 3.
[203]. Methought she looked at us—So everyone believes that sees a Duchess!—Old Play. Perhaps Hazlitt had in mind the following lines from Middleton’s Women Beware Women, Act I. Sc. 3.
Bian. ‘Did not the duke look up? methought he saw us.
Mother. That’s every one’s conceit that sees a duke.’
Mengs. Anton Rafael Mengs (1728–1779), of Bohemian birth, best known by his fresco paintings.
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[204]. The sense aches at them. Othello, Act IV. Sc. 2.
[205]. John of Bologna. Born at Douai about 1524, died 1608, the greatest Italian sculptor, architect, and worker in bronze, after the death of Michael Angelo.
Professor Mezzofanti. Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti (1771–1848), who was created Cardinal in 1838, and who claimed to be able to express himself in seventy-eight languages.
Giotto. Giotto di Bondone (1266–76—1337), the inspirer of naturalistic painting in Italy.
Ghirlandaio. Domenico Bigordi (1449–1494), generally called Ghirlandaio, the Garland-maker (his father was a goldsmith), one of the greatest artists in his time, and the teacher of Michael Angelo.
[206]. Note. Dr. Gall. John Joseph Gall, the phrenologist (1758–1828). See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, pp. 17 et seq. and 137 et seq.
[207]. By their works [fruits]. S. Matthew vii. 20.