CHAPTER V

Page 34. — i. maîtresse poutre, main heam.

2. tranche-lard, cook*s knife^ used to eut thin slices of bacon or pork.

3. de ce bitume si cher aux peintres de Pécole de Carayage, with that bitumen {dull vamisfi) so dear to the artists of the school of Caravaggio. The latter was a celebrated painter who lived in Caravaggio, near Bergamo (i 569-1609).

4. PEspagnolet ou Salvator Rosa. V Espagnolet is a nickname to Ribera, the famous Spanish painter (i 588-1656). He was a pupil of Caravaggio. Salvator Rosa, Italian painter (161 5-1 673). Both often painted bloody scènes with horrible realism.

5. Vitellius, the ninth Roman emperor (69 B.C.), characterized by corpulency, gluttony, cruelty and debauchery.