In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci.

(They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.) We reserve our opinion of these sketches.
In another building they showed us a fresco representing some lions and other beasts drawing chariots; and they seemed to project so far from the wall that we took them to be sculptures.

The artist had shrewdly heightened the delusion by painting dust on the creatures' backs, as if it had fallen there naturally and properly.

Smart fellow--if it be smart to deceive strangers.
Elsewhere we saw a huge Roman amphitheatre, with its stone seats still in good preservation.

Modernized, it is now the scene of more peaceful recreations than the exhibition of a party of wild beasts with Christians for dinner.