any other similar stories could
be told of this man, but, since they have nothing to do with our
history, I will pass them over in silence.

After the death of his first wife in Pisa, Silvio went off to Carrara.
There he remained to execute some works, and took another wife, with
whom, no long time after, he went to Genoa, where, entering the service
of Prince Doria, he made a most beautiful escutcheon of marble over the
door of his palace, and many ornaments in stucco all over that palace,
after the directions given to him by the painter Perino del Vaga. He
made, also, a very beautiful portrait in marble of the Emperor Charles
V. But since it was Silvio's habit never to stay long in one place--for
he was a wayward person--he grew weary of his prosperity in Genoa, and
set out to make his way to France. He departed, therefore, but before
arriving at Monsanese he turned back, and, stopping at Milan, he
executed in the Duomo some scenes and figures and many ornaments, with
much credit for himself. And there, finally, he died at the age of
forty-five. He was a man of fine genius, capricious, very dexterous in
any kind of work, and a person who could execute with great diligence
anything to which he turned his hand. He delighted in composing sonnets
and improvising songs, and in his early youth he gave his attention to
arms. If he had concentrated his mind on sculpture and design, he would
have had no equal; and, even as he surpassed his master Andrea Ferrucci,
so, had he lived, he would have surpassed many others who have enjoyed
the name of excellent masters.

There flourished at the same time as Andrea and Silvio another sculptor
of Fiesole, called Il Cicilia, who was a person of much skill; and a
work by his hand may be seen in the Church of S. Jacopo, in the Campo
Corbolini at Florence--namely, the tomb of the Chevalier Messer Luigi
Tornabuoni, which is much extolled, particularly because he made therein
the escutcheon of that Chevalier, in the form of a horse's head, as if
to show, according to the ancient belief, that the shape of shields was
originally taken from the head of a horse.

About the same time, also, Antonio da Carrara, a very rare sculptor,
made three statues in Palermo for the Duke of Monteleone, a Neapolitan
of the house of Pignatella, and Viceroy of Sicily--namely, three figures
of Our Lady in different attitudes and manners, which were placed over
three altars in the Duomo of Monteleone in Calabria.