les of Pope Clement
had abated, he was employed by him with much honour and profit to
himself. For the Pope had seen, when the fight for the Castello di S.
Angelo was raging, that two little chapels of marble, which were at the
head of the bridge, had been a source of mischief, in that some
harquebusiers, standing in them, shot down all who exposed themselves at
the walls, and, themselves in safety, inflicted great losses and baulked
the defence; and his Holiness resolved to remove those chapels and to
set up in place of them two marble statues on pedestals. And so, after
the S. Paul of Paolo Romano, of which there has been an account in
another Life, had been set in place, the commission for the other, a S.
Peter, was given to Lorenzetto, who acquitted himself passing well, but
did not surpass the work of Paolo Romano. These two statues were set up,
and are to be seen at the present day at the head of the bridge.

[Illustration: S. PETER

(_After_ Lorenzetto. _Rome: Ponte S. Angelo_)

_Anderson_]

After Pope Clement was dead, Baccio Bandinelli was given the commissions
for the tombs of that Pope and of Leo X, and Lorenzo was entrusted with
the marble masonry that was to be executed for them; whereupon the
latter spent no little time over that work. Finally, at the election of
Paul III as Pontiff, when Lorenzo was in sorry straits and almost worn
out, having nothing but a house which he had built for himself in the
Macello de' Corbi, and being weighed down by his five children and by
other expenses, Fortune changed and began to raise him and to set him
back on a better path; for Pope Paul wishing to have the building of S.
Pietro continued, and neither Baldassarre of Siena nor any of the others
who had been employed in that work being now alive, Antonio da San
Gallo appointed Lorenzo as architect for that structure, wherein the
walls were being built at a fixed price of so much for every four
braccia. Thereupon Lorenzo, without exerting himself, in a few years
became more famous and prosperous than he had been after many years of
endless labour, through having found God, mankind, and Fortune all
propitious at that one moment. And if he had lived longer, he would have
done even more towards wiping out those injuries that a cruel fate had
unjustly brought upon him during his best period of work. But after
reaching the age of forty-seven, he died of fever in the year 1541.

The death of this master caused great grief