Such fables as the Fox and the Stork, the Fox and the Crow, and old stories like that of the death of AEschylus, are included in this medley.

The monument of Paul III.
is placed in the choir of S.Peter's.

Giulia Bella was the mistress of Alexander VI., and a sister of the Farnese, who owed his cardinal's hat to her influence.

To represent her as an allegory of Truth upon her brother's tomb might well pass for a grim satire.

The Prudence opposite is said to be a portrait of the Pope's mother, Giovanna Gaetani.