angular on the outer side, of the Corinthian Order and very
beautiful, and similar to an ancient door that he saw, so he used to
say, in some place at Rome. It is true, indeed, that this work, after
having been left unfinished by Michele, I know not for what reason,
was given, either from avarice or from lack of judgment, to certain
others to be finished, who spoiled it, to the infinite vexation of
Michele, who in his lifetime saw it ruined before his very eyes,
without being able to prevent it; wherefore he used to complain at
times to his friends, but only on this account, that he had not
thousands of ducats wherewith to buy it from the avaricious hands of a
woman who, by spending less than she was able, was shamefully spoiling
it.

A work of Michele's was the design of the round Temple of the Madonna
di Campagna, near Verona, which was very beautiful, although the
parsimony, weakness, and little judgment of the Wardens of that
building have since disfigured it in many parts; and even worse would
they have done, if Bernardino Brugnuoli, a kinsman of Michele, had not
had charge of it and made a complete model, after which the building
of that temple, as well as of many others, is now being carried
forward. For the Friars of S. Maria in Organo, or rather, the Monks of
Monte Oliveto in Verona, he made a design of the Corinthian Order,
which was most beautiful, for the facade of their church. This
facade, after being carried to a certain height by Paolo San Michele,
was left not long since in that condition, on account of many expenses
that were incurred by those monks in other matters, but even more by
reason of the death of him who had begun it, Don Cipriano of Verona, a
man of saintly life and of much authority in that Order, of which he
was twice General. At S. Giorgio in Verona, a convent of the Regular
Priests of S. Giorgio in Alega, the same Michele directed the building
of the cupola of that church, which was a very beautiful work, and
succeeded against the expectations of many who did not think that the
structure would ever remain standing, on account of the weakness of
its supports; but these were then so strengthened by Michele, that
there is no longer anything to fear. In the same convent he made the
design and laid the foundations of a very beautiful campanile of hewn
stone, partly tufa and partly pietra viva, which was carried well
forward by him, and is now being continued by the above-mentioned
Bernardino