l Barbigia, Mezzabotte his brother, Cosimo
da Panzano, Matteo his brother, Marco Jacopi, and Pieraccino Bartoli;
and those "going for the Less," Ser Bastiano Sagginati, Ser Raffaello
del Beccaio, Ser Cecchino de' Profumi, Giuliano Bugiardini the painter,
Francesco Granacci the painter, Giovan Francesco Rustici, Feo the
hunchback, his companion Il Talina the musician, Pierino the fifer,
Giovanni the trombone-player, and Il Baia the bombardier. The associates
were Bernardino di Giordano, Il Talano, Il Caiano, Maestro Jacopo del
Bientina and M. Giovan Battista di Cristofano Ottonaio, both heralds of
the Signoria, Buon Pocci, and Domenico Barlacchi. And not many years
passed (so much did they increase in reputation as they held their
feasts and merrymakings), before there were elected to that Company of
the Cazzuola Signor Giuliano de' Medici, Ottangolo Benvenuti, Giovanni
Canigiani, Giovanni Serristori, Giovanni Gaddi, Giovanni Bandini, Luigi
Martelli, Paolo da Romena, and Filippo Pandolfini the hunchback; and
together with these, at one and the same time, as associates, Andrea del
Sarto the painter, Bartolommeo Trombone the musician, Ser Bernardo
Pisanello, Piero the cloth-shearer, Gemma the mercer, and lastly Maestro
Manente da San Giovanni the physician.

[Footnote 12: Mason's trowel.]

[Footnote 13: A sort of curd.]

[Footnote 14: The phrase, "To go for the Great," was
originally applied to those Florentine families that belonged
to the seven chief Guilds. It afterwards came to be used
simply as a mark of superiority.]

The feasts that these men held at various times were innumerable, and I
shall describe only a few of them for the sake of those who do not know
the customs of these Companies, which, as has been related, have now
fallen almost entirely out of fashion. The first given by the Cazzuola,
which was arranged by Giuliano Bugiardini, was held at a place called
the Aia,[15] at S. Maria Nuova, where, as we have already said, the
gates of S. Giovanni were cast in bronze. There, I say, the master of
the Company having commanded that every man should present himself
dressed in whatever costume he pleased, on condition that those who
might resemble one another in their manner of dress by being clothed in
the same fashion, should pay a penalty, at the appointed hour there
appeared the most beautiful, bizarre, and extravagant costumes that
could be imagined. The