Dragon, setting his teeth and knitting his brows, truly
seems to have descended from Heaven in order to effect the vengeance of
God against the pride of Lucifer, and it is indeed a marvellous work. He
had a more modern grasp of the nude than the masters before his day, and
he dissected many bodies in order to study their anatomy. He was the
first to demonstrate the method of searching out the muscles, in order
that they might have their due form and place in his figures, and he
engraved on copper a battle of nude figures all girt round with a chain;
and after this one he made other engravings, with much better
workmanship than had been shown by the other masters who had lived
before him.

For these reasons, then, he became famous among craftsmen, and after the
death of Pope Sixtus IV he was summoned by his successor, Pope Innocent,
to Rome, where he made a tomb of metal for the said Innocent, wherein he
portrayed him from nature, seated in the attitude of giving the
Benediction; and this was placed in S. Pietro. That of the said Pope
Sixtus, which was finished at very great cost, was placed in the chapel
that is called by the name of that Pontiff. It stands quite by itself,
with very rich adornments, and on it there lies an excellent figure of
the Pope; and the tomb of Innocent stands in S. Pietro, beside the
chapel that contains the Lance of Christ. It is said that the same man
designed the Palace of the Belvedere for the said Pope Innocent,
although, since he had little experience of building, it was erected by
others. Finally, after becoming rich, these two brothers died almost at
the same time in 1498, and were buried by their relatives in S. Pietro
in Vincula; and in memory of them, beside the middle door, on the left
as one enters into the church, there were placed two medallions of
marble with their portraits and with the following epitaph:

ANTONIUS PULLARIUS PATRIA FLORENTINUS, PICTOR INSIGNIS, QUI
DUORUM PONTIF. XISTI ET INNOCENTII AEREA MONIMENTA MIRO OPIFIC.
EXPRESSIT, RE FAMIL. COMPOSITA EX TEST. HIC SE CUM PETRO FRATRE
CONDI VOLUIT. VIX. AN. LXXII. OBIIT ANNO SAL. MIID.

The same man made a very beautiful battle of nude figures in low-relief
and of metal, which went to Spain; of this every craftsman in Florence
has a plaster cast. And after his death there were found the design and
model that he had made at the command of Lodovico Sforza for the
equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza, Duke of