animated and lively attitudes, and there could be
seen the above-named Magnificent Lorenzo, portrayed from nature,
graciously receiving Michelagnolo, a boy all full of reverence, into
his garden, and, after an examination, handing him over to some
masters who should teach him.

In the second scene, which came, continuing the same order, to face
towards the lateral door that leads out of the church, was figured
Pope Clement, who, contrary to the expectation of the public, which
thought that his Holiness felt disdain against Michelagnolo on account
of his actions in the siege of Florence, not only assures his safety
and shows himself lovingly disposed towards him, but sets him to work
on the new sacristy and the library of S. Lorenzo, in which places how
divinely well he worked has been already told. In this picture, then,
there was painted by the hand of Federigo Fiammingo, called Del
Padovano, with much dexterity and great sweetness of manner,
Michelagnolo showing to the Pope the ground-plan of that sacristy, and
behind him were borne, partly by little Angels and partly by other
figures, the models of the library and sacristy and of the statues
that are there, finished, at the present day; which was all very well
composed and executed with diligence.

In the third picture, which stood on the first level, like the others
described above, and looked towards the high-altar, was a great Latin
epitaph composed by the most learned M. Pier Vettori, the sense of
which was in the Florentine speech as follows:

"The Academy of Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, with the favour
and assistance of Duke Cosimo de' Medici, their head and the supreme
protector of these arts, admiring the extraordinary genius of
Michelagnolo Buonarroti, and seeking to acknowledge in part the
benefits received from his divine works, has dedicated this memorial,
born from their own hands and from all the affection of their hearts,
to the excellence and genius of the greatest painter, sculptor, and
architect that there has ever been."

The Latin words were these:

COLLEGIUM PICTORUM, STATUARIORUM, ARCHITECTORUM, AUSPICIO OPEQUE
SIBI PROMPTA COSIMI DUCIS AUCTORIS SUORUM COMMODORUM, SUSPICIENS
SINGULAREM VIRTUTEM MICHAELIS ANGELI BONARROTAE, INTELLIGENSQUE
QUANTO SIBI AUXILIO SEMPER FUERINT PRAECLARA IPSIUS OPERA, STUDUIT
SE GRATUM ERGA ILLUM OSTENDERE, SUMMUM OMNIUM QUI UNQUAM FUERINT
P.S.A., IDEOQUE MONUMENTUM HOC SUIS