ly made frontal, for it was
then very little the custom to imitate the good manner of antique work,
as this door does. Cosimo de' Medici also built, with the advice and
design of Michelozzo, the Palace of Cafaggiuolo in Mugello, giving it
the form of a fortress with ditches round it; and he laid out farms,
roads, gardens, fountains with groves round them, fowling-places, and
other appurtenances of a villa, all very splendid; and at a distance of
two miles from the said palace, in a place called the Bosco a' Frati,
with the advice of Michelozzo, he carried out the building of a convent
for the Frati de' Zoccoli of the Order of S. Francis, which is something
very beautiful. At Trebbio, likewise, he made many other improvements
which are still to be seen; and at a distance of two miles from
Florence, also, he built the palatial Villa of Careggi, which was very
rich and magnificent; and thither Michelozzo brought the water for the
fountain that is seen there at the present day. For Giovanni, son of
Cosimo de' Medici, the same master built another magnificent and noble
palace at Fiesole, sinking the foundations for the lower part in the
brow of the hill, at great expense but not without great advantage, for
in that lower part he made vaults, cellars, stables, vat-stores, and
many other beautiful and commodious offices; and above, besides the
chambers, halls, and other ordinary rooms, he made some for books and
certain others for music. In short, Michelozzo showed in this building
how great was his skill in architecture, for, besides what has been
mentioned, it was constructed in such a manner that, although it stands
on that hill, it has never moved a hair's breadth. This palace finished,
he built above it, almost on the summit of the hill, the Church and
Convent of the Friars of S. Girolamo, at the expense of the same man.
The same Michelozzo made the design and model which Cosimo sent to
Jerusalem for the hospice that he caused to be erected there, for the
pilgrims who visit the Sepulchre of Christ. He also sent the design for
six windows in the facade of S. Pietro in Rome, which were made there
afterwards with the arms of Cosimo de' Medici; but three of them were
removed in our own day and replaced by Pope Paul III with others bearing
the arms of the house of Farnese. After this, hearing that there was a
lack of water at S. Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, to the very great
discomfort of the people who go there every year on A