. What pictures to see in America. i-io C 3o -^ 73 ?= 3 o a ^s. -3 3 .3 -J a,- o NEW YORK CITY 129 also a picture of a prominent man in , born in Milan in 1500, was firsttrained for the law, then he went into thechurch and became one of the workers inthe cause of the Jesuits. He was governorof Rome for a time and was sent as a legateto Venice from 1554 to 1556, when Titianprobably painted this portrait. An amus-ing story is told of Archinto while he wasgovernor, showing his Solomon-like question arose as to which of two men,a German and a Spaniard, was the fatherof a cer


. What pictures to see in America. i-io C 3o -^ 73 ?= 3 o a ^s. -3 3 .3 -J a,- o NEW YORK CITY 129 also a picture of a prominent man in , born in Milan in 1500, was firsttrained for the law, then he went into thechurch and became one of the workers inthe cause of the Jesuits. He was governorof Rome for a time and was sent as a legateto Venice from 1554 to 1556, when Titianprobably painted this portrait. An amus-ing story is told of Archinto while he wasgovernor, showing his Solomon-like question arose as to which of two men,a German and a Spaniard, was the fatherof a certain child. The governor sent for somewine and food and told the child to eat. Thishe did, but refused to drink anything but told the German that the boy wasno child of his, for had he German blood in hisveins he would never drink water when hecould get wine. Some of the greatest and most far-reachingclimaxes in the history of the world happenedduring the life of Titian, the centenarian ar-tist. The printing press and America lead thediscoverie


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