, his nephew, who is employed in carrying it to completion.

Monsignor Luigi Lippomani, Bishop of Verona, having resolved to carry
to completion the campanile of his church, which had been begun a
hundred years before, caused a design for this to be made by Michele,
who did it very beautifully, taking into consideration the preserving
of the old part and the expense that the Bishop was able to incur. But
a certain Messer Domenico Porzio, a Roman, and his vicar, a person
with little knowledge of building, although otherwise a worthy man,
allowed himself to be imposed upon by one who also knew little about
it, and gave him the charge of carrying on that fabric. Whereupon that
person built it of unprepared stone from the mountains, and made the
stairs in the thickness of the walls, doing all this in such a manner,
that everyone who was even slightly conversant with architecture
foretold that which afterwards happened--namely, that the structure
would not remain standing. And, among others, the very reverend Fra
Marco de' Medici of Verona, who, in addition to his other more serious
studies, has always delighted in architecture, as he still does,
predicted what would happen to such a building; but he was answered
thus: "Fra Marco counts for much in his own profession of letters,
philosophy, and theology, wherein he is public lecturer, but in
architecture he does not fish so deeply as to command belief."
Finally, that campanile, having risen to the level where the bells
were to be, opened out in four parts in such a manner, that, after
having spent many thousands of crowns in building it, they had to give
three hundred crowns to the builders to throw it to the ground, lest
it should fall by itself, as it would have done in a few days, and
destroy everything all around. And it is only right that this should
happen to those who desert good and eminent masters, and mix
themselves up with bunglers. The above-named Monsignor Luigi having
afterwards been chosen Bishop of Bergamo, Monsignor Agostino Lippomani
was made Bishop of Verona in his place, and he commissioned Michele to
reconstruct almost anew the model of that campanile, and to set to
work. And after him, according to the same model, Monsignor Girolamo
Trivisani, a friar of S. Dominic, who succeeded the last-named
Lippomani in the bishopric, has caused that work to be continued,
which is now progressing passing slowly. The model is very beautiful,
and the stairs are being