there was found at the Baths of Antoninus a mass of
marble seven braccia in every direction, in which there had been
carved by the ancients a Hercules standing upon a mound, who was
holding the Bull by the horns, with another figure assisting him, and
around that mound various figures of Shepherds, Nymphs, and different
animals--a work of truly extraordinary beauty, showing figures so
perfect in one single block without any added pieces, which was judged
to have been intended for a fountain. Michelagnolo advised that it
should be conveyed into the second court, and there restored so as to
make it spout water in the original manner; all which advice was
approved, and the work is still being restored at the present day
with great diligence, by order of the Farnese family, for that
purpose. At that time, also, Michelagnolo made a design for the
building of a bridge across the River Tiber in a straight line with
the Farnese Palace, to the end that it might be possible to go from
that palace to another palace and gardens that they possessed in the
Trastevere, and also to see at one glance in a straight line from the
principal door which faces the Campo di Fiore, the court, the
fountain, the Strada Giulia, the bridge, and the beauties of the other
garden, even to the other door which opened on the Strada di
Trastevere--a rare work, worthy of that Pontiff and of the judgment,
design, and art of Michelagnolo.

In the year 1547 died Sebastiano Viniziano, the Friar of the Piombo;
and, Pope Paul proposing that the ancient statues of his Palace should
be restored, Michelagnolo willingly favoured the Milanese sculptor
Guglielmo della Porta, a young man of promise, who had been
recommended by the above-named Fra Sebastiano to Michelagnolo, who,
liking his work, presented him to Pope Paul for the restoration of
those statues. And the matter went so far forward that Michelagnolo
obtained for him the office of the Piombo, and he then set to work on
restoring the statues, some of which are to be seen in that Palace at
the present day. But Guglielmo, forgetting the benefits that he had
received from Michelagnolo, afterwards became one of his opponents.

In the year 1549 there took place the death of Pope Paul III;
whereupon, after the election of Pope Julius III, Cardinal Farnese
gave orders for a grand tomb to be made for his kinsman Pope Paul by
the hand of Fra Guglielmo, who arranged to erect it in S. Pietro,
below the first arch of