In the resplendent story of Rome are Scipio Africanus, a military genius, and the conqueror of Hannibal; Cornelius Sulla, the great general, sagacious politician, accomplished scholar, “one of the most remarkable figures of all time;” Julius Cæsar, equally preëminent in statecraft, war and letters; Marc Antony, brave and generous; Lepidus, not the least of the second great triumvirate; Augustus, than whom a more consummate ruler and prudent statesman never lived; Tiberius, a writer of Greek odes and an orator at nine years of age; in battle he repeatedly worsted the Parthians, Cantabrians, Dalmatians, Pannonians and Illyrians; Domitian, conspicuous for his piety, who enforced the laws against adultery and other gross forms of immorality; Titus, bewailed at his death as “the love and light of the human race;” Hadrian, just, liberal, valorous and energetic; Nerva, humane and progressive; Trajan, indomitable and heroic; Alexander Severus, a virtuous prince, a student of Christianity, and the friend of Paulus and Ulpian; Sallust, distinguished in Latin literature for power and animation; Livy, the man of beautiful genius; the graceful Catullus; exquisite Horace and facile Ovid. Among the Germanic peoples, Eugene of Savoy, a memory cherished by Austria, who lived but for glory, and raised the Hapsburg arms to a prestige unequaled before or since; Wallenstein, bold, imperious and of versatile ability in civil and military affairs. In Italy, the Abbes Ruccellai and Frangipanni, pious and charitable; Reni Guido, who painted the marvellous “Crucifixion of St. Peter’s,” and the “Aurora.” In art, he expressed a most refined and fervent spiritualism.