Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 05 (of 10)

part is illuminated by its rays, some with greater brightness and some

with less; and the miracles that result are also greater or less according to differences of air and place. Constantly, in truth, do we see a particular country producing a particular kind of intellect fitted for a particular kind of work, for which others are not fitted, nor can they ever attain, whatever labour...