ori in S. Croce.

After these things, Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici, wishing to honour the
bodies and relics of the three martyrs, Protus, Hyacinthus, and
Nemesius, had them brought from the Casentino, where they had been held
in little veneration for many years, and caused Lorenzo to make a
sarcophagus of bronze, in the middle of which are two angels in
low-relief who are holding a garland of olive, within which are the
names of those martyrs; and they caused the said relics to be put into
the said sarcophagus, which they placed in the Church of the Monastery
of the Angeli in Florence, with these words below, carved in marble, on
the side of the church of the monks:

CLARISSIMI VIRI COSMAS ET LAURENTIUS FRATRES NEGLECTAS DIU
SANCTORUM RELIQUIAS MARTYRUM RELIGIOSO STUDIO AC FIDELISSIMA
PIETATE SUIS SUMPTIBUS AEREIS LOCULIS CONDENDAS COLENDASQUE
CURARUNT.

And on the outer side, facing the little church in the direction of the
street, below a coat of arms of balls, there are these other words
carved on marble:

HIC CONDITA SUNT CORPORA SANCTORUM CHRISTI MARTYRUM PROTI ET
HYACINTHI ET NEMESII, ANN. DOM. 1428.

And by reason of this work, which succeeded very nobly, there came a
wish to the Wardens of Works of S. Maria del Fiore to have a sarcophagus
and tomb of bronze made to contain the body of S. Zanobi, Bishop of
Florence. This tomb was three braccia and a half in length, and two in
height; and besides adorning it with diverse varied ornaments, he made
therein on the front of the body of the sarcophagus itself a scene with
S. Zanobi restoring to life a child which had been left in his charge by
the mother, and which had died while she was on a pilgrimage. In a
second scene is another child, who has been killed by a wagon, and also
the Saint restoring to life one of the two servants sent to him by S.
Ambrose, who had been left dead on the Alps; and the other is there,
making lamentation in the presence of S. Zanobi, who, seized with
compassion, said: "Go, he doth but sleep; thou wilt find him alive." And
at the back are six little angels, who are holding a garland of
elm-leaves, within which are carved letters in memory and in praise of
that Saint. This work he executed and finished with the utmost ingenuity
and art, insomuch that it received extraordinary praise as something
beautiful.

The while that the works of Lorenzo were every day adding lustre to his