rights of ownership and of the devices of their house that were there;
and they granted him only this, that he should erect an altar of
marble and place upon it the statues mentioned above, and make his
tomb at the foot of it. Afterwards, also, he came to an agreement with
the friars of that convent with regard to the other matters
appertaining to the celebration of Mass. During this time, then,
Baccio was causing the altar and the marble base to be built, in order
to place upon it the above-named statues; and, when he had finished
it, he proposed to lay in that tomb, in which he wished to be laid
himself together with his wife, the bones of his father Michelagnolo,
which, at his death, he had caused to be placed in a vault in the same
church. These bones of his father he chose to lay piously in that tomb
with his own hands; whereupon it happened that either because he felt
sorrow and a shock to his mind in handling his father's bones, or
because he exerted himself too much in transferring those bones with
his own hands and in rearranging the marbles, or from both reasons
together, he was so overcome that he felt ill and had to go home, and,
his malady growing daily worse, in eight days he died, at the age of
seventy-two, having been up to that time robust and vigorous, and
without having ever suffered much illness during the whole of his
life. He was buried with honourable obsequies, and laid beside his
father's bones in the above-mentioned tomb constructed by himself, on
which is this epitaph:--

D. O. M.
BACCIUS BANDINELL. DIVI JACOBI EQUES
SUB HAC SERVATORIS IMAGINE,
A SE EXPRESSA, CUM JACOBA DONIA
UXORE QUIESCIT, AN. S. MDLIX.

He left behind him both sons and daughters, who were the heirs to his
many possessions in lands, houses, and money, which he bequeathed to
them; and to the world he left the works in sculpture described by us,
and designs in great numbers, which are in the possession of his
family, and in our book there are some executed with the pen and with
chalk, than which it is certain that nothing better could be done.

The marble for the giant was left more in dispute than ever, because
Benvenuto was always about the Duke, and wished, in virtue of a little
model that he had made, that the Duke should give it to him. On the
other hand, Ammanati, being a sculptor of marbles and more experienced
in such works than Benvenuto, considered for many reasons that this
work belon