y, innumerable--other works which have been executed
by other masters, who have gone to live there and have achieved
magnificent things. Jacopo also built the fabric of the loggia in the
Piazza di S. Marco, in the Corinthian Order, which is at the foot of
the Campanile of the said S. Marco, with a very rich ornamentation of
columns, and four niches, in which are four figures the size of life
and in bronze, of supreme beauty. And that work formed, as it were, a
base of great beauty to the said campanile, which at the foot has a
breadth, on one of the sides, of thirty-five feet, which is about the
extent of Sansovino's ornamentation; and a height from the ground to
the cornice, where are the windows of the bells, of one hundred and
sixty feet. From the level of that cornice to the other above it,
where there is the corridor, is twenty-five feet, and the other dado
above is twenty-eight feet and a half high; and from that level of the
corridor to the pyramid, spire, or pinnacle, whatever it may be
called, is sixty feet. At the summit of that pinnacle the little
square, upon which stands the Angel, is six feet high, and the said
Angel, which revolves, is ten feet high; insomuch that the whole
height comes to be two hundred and ninety-two feet. He also designed
and executed for the Scuola, or rather, Confraternity and Company of
the Misericordia, the fabric of that place, an immense building which
cost one hundred and fifty thousand crowns; and he rebuilt the Church
of S. Francesco della Vigna, where the Frati de' Zoccoli have their
seat, a vast work and of much importance.

[Illustration: LOGGETTA

(_After =Jacopo Sansovino=. Venice: Piazza di S. Marco_)

_Anderson_]

Nor for all this, the while that he has been giving his attention to
so many buildings, has he ever ceased from executing every day for his
own delight great and beautiful works of sculpture, in marble and in
bronze; and over the holy-water font of the Friars of the Ca Grande
there is a statue executed in marble by his hand, representing a S.
John the Baptist, very beautiful and much extolled. At Padua, in the
Chapel of the Santo, there is a large scene in marble by the same
hand, with very beautiful figures in half-relief, of a miracle of S.
Anthony of Padua; which scene is much esteemed in that place. For the
entrance of the stairs of the Palace of S. Marco he is even now
executing in marble, in the form of two most beautiful giants, each of
seven bracc