SECTION LXVIII. _Fourth side_. Anger. A woman tearing her dress open at

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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