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.