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Chapter CLXXV: Section LXVIII: Fourth side. Anger. A woman tearing her dress open at

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her breast. Inscription here undecipherable; but in the Renaissance Copy it IS "IRA CRUDELIS EST IN ME."

Giotto represents this vice under the same symbol; but it is the weakest of all the figures in the Arena Chapel. The "Wrath" of Spenser rides upon a lion, brandishing a firebrand, his garments stained with blood. Rage, or Furor, occurs subordinately in other places. It appears to me very strange that neither Giotto nor Spenser should have given any representation of the _restrained_ Anger, which is infinitely the most terrible; both of them make him violent.

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Stones of Venice [introductions]Chapter CLXXV: Section LXVIII: Fourth side. Anger. A woman tearing her dress open at

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