his chapel is built a
subterranean chamber, wherein, after descending to it by a marble
staircase, one sees at the head a sarcophagus of marble with two
children upon it, in which was to be placed--as I believe was done after
his death--the body of Signor Andrea Doria himself. And on an altar
opposite to the sarcophagus, within a most beautiful vase of bronze,
which was made and polished divinely well by him who cast it, whoever he
may have been, is a piece of the wood of that most holy Cross upon which
our Blessed Jesus Christ was crucified; which wood was presented to
Prince Doria by the Duke of Savoy. The walls of that tomb are all
encrusted with marble, and the vaulting wrought in stucco and gold, with
many stories of the noble deeds of Doria; and the pavement is all
divided into compartments with different kinds of variegated stone, to
correspond with the vaulting. Next, on the walls of the cross of the
nave, at the head, are two tombs of marble with two tablets in
half-relief; in one is buried Count Filippino Doria, and in the other
Signor Giannettino of the same family. Against the pilasters at the
beginning of the central nave are two very beautiful pulpits of marble,
and at the sides of the aisles there are distributed along the walls in
a fine order of architecture some chapels with columns and many other
ornaments, which make that church a truly rich and magnificent edifice.

The church finished, the same Prince Doria ordained that work should be
begun on his Palace, and that new additions of buildings should be made
to it, with very beautiful gardens. These were executed under the
direction of the Frate, who, having at the last constructed a fish-pond
in front of that Palace, made a sea monster of marble in full-relief,
which pours water in great abundance into that fish-pond; and after the
likeness of that monster he made for those lords another, which was sent
into Spain to Granvela. He also executed a great Neptune in stucco,
which was placed on a pedestal in the garden of the Prince; and he made
in marble two portraits of the same Prince and two of Charles V, which
were taken by Covos to Spain.

Much the friends of the Frate, while he was living in Genoa, were Messer
Cipriano Pallavicino, who, being a man of great judgment in the matters
of our arts, has always associated readily with the most excellent
craftsmen, and has shown them every favour; the Lord Abbot Negro, Messer
Giovanni da Montepulciano, t