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In the Church of S. Giovanni in the same city Donato made a tomb for
Pope Giovanni Coscia, who had been deposed from the Pontificate by the
Council of Constance. This tomb he was commissioned to make by Cosimo
de' Medici, who was very much the friend of the said Coscia. He wrought
therein with his own hand the figure of the dead man in gilded bronze,
together with the marble statues of Hope and Charity that are there; and
his pupil Michelozzo made the figure of Faith. In the same church,
opposite to this work, there is a wooden figure by the hand of Donato of
S. Mary Magdalene in Penitence, very beautiful and excellently wrought,
showing her wasted away by her fastings and abstinence, insomuch that it
displays in all its parts an admirable perfection of anatomical
knowledge. On a column of granite in the Mercato Vecchio there is a
figure of Abundance in hard grey-stone by the hand of Donato, standing
quite by itself, so well wrought that it is consummately praised by
craftsmen and by all good judges of art. The column on which this statue
is placed was formerly in S. Giovanni, where there are the others of
granite supporting the gallery within; it was removed and its place was
taken by a fluted column, on which, in the middle of that temple, there
once stood the statue of Mars which was taken away when the Florentines
were converted to the faith of Jesus Christ. The same man, while still a
youth, made a figure of the Prophet Daniel in marble for the facade of
S. Maria del Fiore, and afterwards one of S. John the Evangelist seated,
four braccia high, and clothed in a simple garment: which figure is much
extolled. On one corner of the same place, on the side that faces
towards the Via del Cocomero, there is an old man between two columns,
more akin to the ancient manner than any other work that there is to be
seen by the hand of Donato, the head revealing the thoughts that length
of years brings to those who are exhausted by time and labour. Within
the said church, likewise, he made the ornament for the organ, which
stands over the door of the old sacristy, with those figures so boldly
sketched, as it has been said, that they appear to the eye to have
actual life and movement. Wherefore it may be said of this man that he
worked as much with his judgment as with his hands, seeing that many
things are wrought which appear beautiful in the rooms where they are
made, and afterwards, on being taken thence and