nite grace and beauty. And near the
Torre di Nona Antonio directed and finished the building of the house of
the Centelli, which is small, but very convenient.

No long time passed before he went to Gradoli, a place in the dominions
of the very reverend Cardinal Farnese, where he caused a most beautiful
and commodious palace to be erected for that Cardinal. On that journey
he did a work of great utility in restoring the fortress of Capo di
Monte, which he surrounded with low and well-shaped walls; and at the
same time he made the design of the fortress of Caprarola. And the very
reverend Monsignor Farnese, finding himself served by Antonio in all
these works in a manner so satisfactory, was constrained to wish him
well, and, coming to love him more and more, he showed him favour in his
every enterprise whenever he was able. After this, Cardinal Alborense,
wishing to leave a memorial of himself in the church of his nation,
caused a chapel of marble, with a tomb for himself, to be erected and
brought to completion by Antonio in S. Jacopo degli Spagnuoli; which
chapel, as has been related, was all painted in the spaces between the
pilasters by Pellegrino da Modena, and on the altar stood a most
beautiful S. James of marble executed by Jacopo Sansovino. This is a
work of architecture that is held to be truly worthy of the highest
praise, since the marble ceiling is divided very beautifully into
octagonal compartments. Nor was it long before M. Bartolommeo Ferratino,
for his own convenience and for the benefit of his friends, and also in
order to leave an honourable and enduring memorial of himself,
commissioned Antonio to build a palace on the Piazza d' Amelia, which is
a beautiful and most imposing work; whereby Antonio acquired no little
fame and profit. During this time Antonio di Monte, Cardinal of Santa
Prassedia, was in Rome, and he desired that the same architect should
build for him the palace that he afterwards occupied, looking out upon
the Agone, where there is the statue of Maestro Pasquino; and in the
centre, which looks over the Piazza, he wished to erect a tower. This
was planned and brought to completion for him by Antonio with a most
beautiful composition of pilasters and windows from the first floor to
the third--a good and graceful design; and it was adorned both within
and without by Francesco dell' Indaco with figures and scenes in
terretta. And Antonio having meanwhile become the devoted servant of the