| Show A3T ITALIAN INTERIOR 1436 Let us suppose ourselves to be in Fer rara in 1436 and let us visit the apartment apart-ment of the Marchese At the entrance we find the doorkeeper by name Querlo who will let us pass After going go-Ing up the stone stairs we find a bench in a little room a chessboard and a saddle truck inside of which are all the necessaries for saying mass during a journey In a little closet next door on a straw bed sleeps Matteo whose wages always behind amount to 3f a month His duties consist principally in preparing the lamp far the gaming table of the chevaliers and in watching watch-ing the door for his lord which is near at hand Let us enter The walls are frescoed all over with children playing in front of the fireplace fire-place fixed in the wall are two Iron candlesticks under the chimney hangs the shovel which is more like a spade and the andirons in front stands a seat The bed is composed of boards on trestles and a bench at the foot of it The mattress is stuffed with cotton covered with two sheets of three widths and over this a cover of green serge lined with linen and stamped with lillies and roses The walls are hung with Flemish tapestries almost new and representing greenery with birds Those at the head of the bed have six figures On the floor lies a carpet five brac dos wide with designs of animals and branches of roses In the middle of the room stands a table of cypress wood and a chair covered with some rough cloth around the walls are six benches The room contains besides a painted chest an hourglass a wardrobe ward-robe and on the floor a large brass basin for washing the feet In a little closet openig Into the room are three benches another brass basin and hourglass hour-glass of iron with a bellThe Scottish Review t |
