(The trumpet shall utter from Heaven a mournful sound. Yawning earth shall show Tartarean Chaos. All Kings shall come before the Tribunal of God. God Himself judging the Evil and the Good together. Then at length He will send the wicked into fire and darkness. But whosoever will keep righteousness shall live again.)
Luigi di Ruggiero (l’Armellino) and Vito di Marco are generally reputed to have devised and executed this design, but no record exists on the subject. The cost of restoration was 2,433 lire 91 c.
The Hellespontine Sibyl.
The inscription beneath the feet of this Sibyl says that she was born on Trojan soil, and was, according to Heraclides, a contemporary of Cyrus. Hence, no doubt, she also has been confused with the Erythraean Sibyl. It is very probable indeed, as we have before hinted, that time, tradition, and the varying expressions of different writers have divided the personality of that one Sibyl into several, according to the various places that she is reported to have visited.[55]
ALINARI PHOTO.]
[DESIGNED BY NEROCCIO DI LANDI
VIII. THE HELLESPONTINE SIBYL (No. 31)
The figure is a graceful one, but suggests somewhat gigantic proportions. Her hair flows over her shoulders, though partially confined by ribbons, and crowned with a jewelled diadem. In her left hand she holds a half-open book. Her robe is loosely confined by a small girdle set with gems.
On her left, a tablet is borne by two columns, seated in front of which are a Wolf and a Lion (the Marzocco), with their hands amicably clasped: an allusion perhaps to the then recent treaty between Siena and Florence.[56] The inscription on the tablet runs thus: