bed above, which is at Castello, and four children that
are in the great fountain of that place; and since then he has made some
heads and ornaments that are about the new fish-pond of Castello, which
is high up there in the midst of various kinds of trees of perpetual
verdure. Recently he has made in the lovely garden of the stables, near
S. Marco, most beautiful ornaments for an isolated fountain, with many
very fine aquatic animals of white and variegated marble; and in Pisa he
once executed under the direction of the above-named Tribolo the tomb of
Corte, a most excellent philosopher and physician, with his statue and
two very beautiful children of marble. In addition to these, he is even
now executing new works for the Duke, of animals and birds in variegated
marble for fountains, works of the greatest difficulty, which make him
well worthy to be in the number of these our Academicians.

[Illustration: BRONZE RELIEF

(_After =Vincenzo Danti=. Florence: Museo Nazionale_)

_Alinari_]

In like manner, a brother of Antonio, called Stoldo di Gino Lorenzi, a
young man thirty years of age, has acquitted himself in such a manner up
to the present in many works of sculpture, that he may now be numbered
with justice among the first of the young men in his profession, and set
in the most honourable place in their midst. At Pisa he has executed in
marble a Madonna receiving the Annunciation from the Angel, which has
made him known as a young man of beautiful judgment and genius; and Luca
Martini caused him to make another very lovely statue in Pisa, which was
presented afterwards by the Lady Duchess Leonora to the Lord Don
Garzia di Toledo, her brother, who has placed it in his garden on the
Chiaia at Naples. The same Stoldo has made, under the direction of
Vasari, in the centre of the facade of the Palace of the Knights of S.
Stephen at Pisa, over the principal door, a very large escutcheon in
marble of the Lord Duke, their Grand Master, between two statues in the
round, Religion and Justice, which are truly most beautiful and highly
extolled by all those who are good judges. The same lord has since
caused him to execute a fountain for his garden of the Pitti, after the
likeness of the beautiful Triumph of Neptune that was seen in the superb
masquerade which his Excellency held for the above-mentioned nuptials of
the most illustrious Lord Prince. And let this suffice for Stoldo
Lorenzi, who is young and is constantly worki