The March of Folly (37 page)

4. Julius II, by Raphael. Detail from The Mass of Bolsena, a fresco in one of the stanze by Raphael in the Vatican. The two figures immediately to the right of the Pope’s robes portray Cardinal Raffaele Riario and the Swiss Cardinal Matthäus Schinner
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5. Leo X, by Raphael
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6. Clement VII, by Sebastiano del Piombo
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7. The Battle of Pavia, 1525, Brussels tapestry
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8. The traffic in indulgences, woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger
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9. Lutheran satire on papal reform, woodcut in Ratschlag von den Kirchen, 1538
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1. The House of Commons in the reign of George III, by Karl Anton Hickel, 1793, showing the younger William Pitt addressing the House
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2. “I know I can save this country and that I alone can” William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, by Richard Brompton, 1772
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3. “George, be a King!” George III, from the studio of Allait Ramsay, c. 1767
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4. “He passes for the cleverest fellow in England” Charles Townshend, British School, painter unknown
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5. His mistress took England’s mind off America. Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, by Pompeo Baioni, 1762
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6. “A great empire and little minds go ill together.” Edmund Burke, from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds
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