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converse with the great masters thereof in Italy ; where I applied 

 myself to search out the Ruins of those ancient Buildings, which, 

 in despite of Time itself, and violence of Barbarians, are yet re- 

 maining. Having satisfied myself in these, and returning to my 

 native country, I applied my mind more particularly to the 

 study of Architecture." 



At whose expense he passed into foreign parts, or in what 

 year he first did so, there is no record. But it is agreed that he 

 paid two visits to Italy, the first somewhere about the year 

 1600; the second in 1613-14. Of the first visit little or nothing 

 is known ; l but of the second there are definite records in the 

 shape of his sketch-book preserved at Chatsworth, and of his 

 marginal notes on a copy of Palladio which he carried with him 

 from place to place, and which is now in Worcester College, 

 Oxford. 



During his first visit he seems to have achieved such a 

 reputation that Christian IV., King of Denmark and brother of 

 the queen of James I., invited him to enter his service. Here, 

 again, there is no reliable information as to his achievements ; 

 the only evidence indeed is of a negative character and consists 

 of the remark of a Danish gentleman to the effect that " your 

 great architect left nothing to my country but the fame of his 

 presence." 



. On his return to England he seems to have been occupied 

 chiefly in the- devising of masques and plays, among the earliest 

 of which were some given at Christ Church, Oxford, to entertain 

 James I. Oddly enough the comment of the chronicler in this 

 case is that he " undertook to further them much and furnish 

 them with rare devices, but performed very little of that which 

 was expected." 2 That this failure must have been an exceptional 

 case is sufficiently proved by the numerous drawings of scenery 

 by him preserved at Chatsworth. 



Soon after his return to England he was appointed surveyor 

 to the queen (Anne of Denmark), and in the year 1610 surveyor 

 of the works to Henry, Prince of Wales, but there is no record 



1 John Webb, in his "Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored'' (1725), 

 p. 119, says he resided "many years" in Italy, especially at Venice. This 

 refers to his first visit. He was back in England before Twelfth Night, 

 1605, as he designed the "Masque of Blackness," which was produced on 

 that day. (See Peter Cunningham's " Life of Inigo Jones.") 



2 Peter Cunningham's " Life of Inigo Jones," p. 6. 



