d to his breast, in the act of recommending himself to the
Madonna there. That image finished, he then went to Rome, and was of
great assistance to Michelagnolo in the work of the above-mentioned tomb
of Julius II.

Meanwhile Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici heard that Cardinal de Tournon
had to take a sculptor to France to serve the King, and he proposed to
him Fra Giovanni Agnolo, who, being much exhorted with good reasons by
Michelagnolo, went with that same Cardinal de Tournon to Paris. Arriving
there, he was introduced to the King, who received him very willingly,
and shortly afterwards assigned to him a good allowance, with the
command that he should execute four large statues. Of these the Frate
had not yet finished the models, when, the King being far away and
occupied in fighting with the English on the borders of his kingdom, he
began to be badly treated by the treasurers, not being able to draw his
allowances and have whatever he desired, according as had been ordained
by the King. At which feeling great disdain--for it appeared to him that
in proportion as these arts and the men of the arts were esteemed by
that magnanimous King, even so they were disprized and put to shame by
his Ministers--he departed, notwithstanding that the treasurers, who
became aware of his displeasure, paid him his overdue allowances down to
the last farthing. It is true that before setting out he gave both the
King and the Cardinal to know by means of letters that he wished to go
away.

Having therefore gone from Paris to Lyons, and from there through
Provence to Genoa, he had not been long there when, in company with some
friends, he went to Venice, Padua, Verona, and Mantua, seeing with great
pleasure buildings, sculptures, and pictures, and at times drawing them;
but above all did the pictures of Giulio Romano in Mantua please him,
some of which he drew with care. Then, having heard at Ferrara and
Bologna that his fellow-friars of the Servite Order were holding a
General Chapter at Budrione, he went there in order to see again many
who were his friends, and in particular the Florentine Maestro
Zaccheria, whom he loved most dearly. At his entreaty Fra Giovanni
Agnolo made in a day and a night two figures in clay of the size of
life, a Faith and a Charity, which, made in the semblance of white
marble, served to adorn a temporary fountain contrived by him with a
great vessel of copper, which continued to spout water during the whole
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