Chapel of the
Nunziata and opposite to it, the same man made a large chandelier of
bronze, five braccia in height, as well as the marble holy-water font at
the entrance of the church, and a S. John in the centre, which is a very
beautiful work. Above the counter where the friars sell the candles,
moreover, he made a half-length Madonna of marble with the Child in her
arms, in half-relief, of the size of life and very devout; and a similar
work in the Office of the Wardens of Works of S. Maria del Fiore.

Pagno also wrought some figures in S. Miniato al Tedesco in company with
his master Donato, while a youth; and he made a tomb of marble in the
Church of S. Martino in Lucca, opposite to the Chapel of the Sacrament,
for Messer Piero di Nocera, who is portrayed there from nature. Filarete
relates in the twenty-fifth book of his work that Francesco Sforza,
fourth Duke of Milan, presented a very beautiful palace in Milan to the
Magnificent Cosimo de' Medici, and that Cosimo, in order to show the
Duke how pleased he was with such a gift, not only adorned it richly
with marbles and with carved wood-work, but also enlarged it under the
direction of Michelozzo, making it eighty-seven braccia and a half,
whereas it had previously been only eighty-four braccia. Besides this,
he had many pictures painted there, particularly the stories of the life
of the Emperor Trajan in a loggia, wherein, among certain decorations,
he caused Francesco Sforza himself to be portrayed, with the Lady
Bianca, his consort, Duchess of Milan, and also their children, with
many other noblemen and great persons, and likewise the portraits of
eight Emperors; and to these portraits Michelozzo added that of Cosimo,
made by his own hand. Throughout all the apartments he placed the arms
of Cosimo in diverse fashions, with his emblem of the Falcon and
Diamond. The said pictures were all by the hand of Vincenzio di Zoppa, a
painter of no small repute at that time and in that country.

It is recorded that the money that Cosimo spent in the restoration of
this palace was paid by Pigello Portinari, a citizen of Florence, who
then directed the bank and the accounts of Cosimo in Milan and lived in
the said palace. There are some works in marble and bronze by the hand
of Michelozzo in Genoa, and many others in other places, which are all
known by the manner; but what we have already said about him must
suffice. He died at the age of sixty-eight, and he was buried in h