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h, corresponding in size, in proportion, and in every other respect to the entrance already described, there will be little labour, I believe, in making known to the intelligent reader; save only that the arch which formed the facade there, facing towards S. Maria del Fiore, had been constructed, as a part less important, without statues and with somewhat less magnificence, and in their stead there had been placed over that arch a very large inscription, which said: VIRTUS RARA TIBI, STIRPS ILLUSTRISSIMA, QUONDAM CLARUM TUSCORUM DETULIT IMPERIUM; QUOD COSMUS FORTI PRAEFUNCTUS MUNERE MARTIS PROTULIT ET JUSTA CUM DITIONE REGIT: NUNC EADEM MAJOR DIVINA E GENTE JOANNAM ALLICIT IN REGNUM CONCILIATQUE TORO. QUAE SI CRESCET ITEM VENTURA IN PROLE NEPOTES, AUREA GENS TUSCIS EXORIETUR AGRIS. In the two pilasters that were at the beginning of the passage, or vestibule, as we have called it (over which pilasters rose the arch of the exit, upon which was the statue of the illustrious bridegroom), were seen two niches, in one of which was placed the statue of the most gentle Giuliano, Duke of Nemours, the younger brother of Leo and Gonfalonier of Holy Church, who had likewise in the little picture that was above him the portrait of the magnanimous Cardinal Ippolito, his son, and, in the picture that stretched towards the exit, the scene of the Capitoline Theatre, dedicated to him by the Roman people in the year 1513, with an inscription to make this known, which said: JULIANUS MEDICES EXIMIAE VIRTUTIS ET PROBITATIS ERGO SUMMIS A POP. ROM. HONORIBUS DECORATUR, RENOVATA SPECIE ANTIQUAE DIGNITATIS AC LAETITIAE. In the other niche, corresponding to the first statue, and, like it, standing and in armour, was seen the statue of Lorenzo the Younger, Duke of Urbino, with a sword in the hand; and in the little picture above him he had the portrait of his father Piero, and in the other picture the scene when the general's baton was given to him with such happy augury by his native Florence, likewise with an inscription to explain it, which said: LAURENTIUS MED. JUNIOR MAXIMA INVICTAE VIRTUTIS INDOLE, SUMMUM IN RE MILITARI IMPERIUM MAXIMO SUORUM CIVIUM AMORE ET SPE ADIPISCITUR. OF THE CANTO ALLA PAGLIA. At the corner which from the straw that is constantly sold there is called the Canto alla Paglia, there was made another arch of great beauty and not less rich and
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