ay when the Chapter was held, to his great credit and honour.

Having returned with the above-named Maestro Zaccheria from Budrione to
Florence, he made in his own Servite Convent, likewise of clay, and
placed in two niches of the chapter-house, two figures larger than life,
Moses and S. Paul, which brought him much praise. Being then sent to
Arezzo by Maestro Dionisio, the General of the Servites at that time,
who was afterwards made a Cardinal by Pope Paul III, and who felt
himself much indebted to Angelo, the General at Arezzo, who had brought
him up and taught him the appreciation of letters, Fra Giovanni Agnolo
executed for that General of Arezzo a beautiful tomb of grey sandstone
in S. Piero in that city, with many carvings and some statues, and upon
a sarcophagus the above-named General Angelo taken from life, and two
nude little boys in the round, who are weeping and extinguishing the
torches of human life, with other ornaments, which render that work very
beautiful. It was not yet completely finished, when, being summoned to
Florence by the proveditors for the festive preparations that Duke
Alessandro was then causing to be made for the visit to that city of the
Emperor Charles V, who was returning victorious from Tunis, the Frate
was forced to depart. Having arrived in Florence, he made on the Ponte a
S. Trinita, upon a great base, a figure of eight braccia, representing
the River Arno lying down, which from its attitude appeared to be
rejoicing with the Rhine, the Danube, the Bagradas, and the Ebro,
statues executed by others, over the coming of his Majesty; which Arno
was a very good and beautiful figure. On the Canto de' Carnesecchi the
same master made a figure, twelve braccia high, of Jason, Leader of the
Argonauts, but this, being of immoderate size, and the time short, did
not prove to have the perfection of the first; nor, indeed, did the
figure of August Gladness that he made on the Canto alla Cuculia. But,
everyone remembering the shortness of the time in which he executed
those works, they won much honour and fame for him both from the
craftsmen and from all others.

Having then finished the work at Arezzo, and hearing that Girolamo Genga
had a work to execute in marble at Urbino, the Frate went to seek him
out; but, not having come to any agreement, he took the road to Rome,
and, after staying there but a short time, went on to Naples, in the
hope that he might have to make the tomb of Jacopo Sanna