Here is a very fine palace belonging to the Bevi-l'acqua family, besides the Casa Verzi, as famous for its elegant Doric architecture, as the charming mistress of it for her Attic wit.
St. Zeno is the church which struck me most: the eternal and all-seeing eye placed over the door; Fortune's wheel too, composed of six figures curiously disposed, and not unlike our man alphabet, two mounting, two sitting, and two tumbling, over against it: on the outside of the wheel this distich,
En ego Fortuna moderor mortalibus usum,
Elevo, depono, bona cunctis vel mala dono[J]—
this other on the inside of the wheel, less plainly to be read:
Induo nudatos, denudo veste paratos,
In me confidit, si quis derisus abibit[K].
FOOTNOTES:
Here I Madam Fortune my favours bestow,
Some good and some ill to the high and the low.
The naked I clothe, and the pompous I strip;
If in me you confide, I may give you the slip.