fpe<5rion and long ©bferv&tion : yet I think, upon trie 

 whole, that, after ati 3 the refult wiH fee nearly as I have 

 ftated it. 



But, to retujn to the commonalty of Naples. It is 

 obfervable among them, that when you fend a little 

 wanton boy on an errand or give him any thing elfe to 

 do, how diredHy he goes about his bufinefs ; and at 

 the fame time makes that bufinefs a matter of play. 

 This dafs of people difcover a great vivacity of mind, 

 and have univerfally a fhaVp and penetrating eye . Their 

 language is- metaphorical, their wit acute and lively. 

 The #Id Atella lay in the parts about Naples ; and as 

 their favourite Pulicinello frill continues the fame 

 diverlion, fo the whole vulgar clafs ofperfons even now 

 parfeake of that humour. Of which I fhall write t© 

 you more hereafter, 



VI. MICHAEL ANGELA 



MICHAEL Angelo, the battle-paintef, fo called 

 from his principal talent in battle-pieces, muft be reo- 

 kbned among the moil eminent matters of the kalian 

 fchool ; his laffc works were held in the greateft ellima- 

 tion, but particularly his picture of the well, Taqua 

 ucetofa. The circumfence that gave occafion to it is 

 thus related at Rome. There was in his time at that 

 city an ox of enormous dimenfions and bulk. Every 

 one was interefled for the ' prefer vation of -this extra^ 

 ordinary animal. After a certain time, being attacked 

 by feme unknown difeafe by which he was vifibly con- 

 fuming from day to day, medicines were adminiftered ; 

 but without effecT;, At length the refolution was taken 



