Certo da cor, ch’ alto deſtin non Scelſe,

Son l’impreſe magnanime neglette;

Ma le bell’ alme alle bell’ opre elette

Sanno gioir nelle fatiche eccelſe;

Nè biaſmo popular, frale catena,

Spirto d’onore, il ſuo cammin raffrena.”

This inscription was added much later, about 1750.

MFA, MMA, Philadelphia, BM, Berlin-Dahlem, Vienna, Bremen, Brussels, Amsterdam, Dresden

[6.]

Ulysses and Polyphemus, after Primaticcio