he sank gradually and died on the 2nd of November in
the year 1570; and although in his old age he had run the whole course
of nature, yet his death was a grief to all Venice. He left behind him
his son Francesco, born at Rome in the year 1521, a man learned both
in the law and in the humanities, from whom Jacopo saw three
grandchildren born; a male child called, like his grandfather, Jacopo,
and two female, one called Fiorenza, who died, to his infinite grief
and sorrow, and the other Aurora. His body was borne with much honour
to his chapel in S. Gimignano, where there was erected to his memory
by his son the marble statue made by Jacopo himself while he was
alive, with the epitaph given below in memory of his great worth:

JACOBO SANSOVINO FLORENTINO QUI ROMAE JULIO II, LEONI X, CLEMENTI
VII, PONT. MAX., MAXIME GRATUS, VENETIIS ARCHITECTURAE
SCULPTURAEQUE INTERMORTUUM DECUS PRIMUS EXCITAVIT, QUIQUE A SENATU
OB EXIMIAM VIRTUTEM LIBERALITER HONESTATUS, SUMMO CIVITATIS
MOERORE DECESSIT, FRANCISCUS F. HOC MON. P. VIXIT ANN. XCIII. OB.
V. CAL. DEC. MDLXX.

His obsequies were likewise celebrated publicly at the Frari by the
Florentine colony, with no slight pomp, and the oration was delivered
by Messer Camillo Buonpigli, an excellent man.

LEONE LIONI OF AREZZO

OF LEONE LIONI OF AREZZO, AND OTHER SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS

Since that which has been said above, here and there, of the Chevalier
Leone, a sculptor of Arezzo, has been said incidentally, it cannot but
be well to speak here in due order of his works, which are truly
worthy to be celebrated and to pass into the memory of mankind. This
Leone, then, having applied himself in the beginning to the
goldsmith's art, and having made in his youth many beautiful works,
and in particular portraits from life in dies of steel for medals,
became in a few years so excellent, that he came to the knowledge of
many great men and Princes, and particularly of the Emperor Charles V,
by whom, having recognized his talents, he was set to works of greater
importance than medals. Thus, not long after he became known to his
Majesty, he made a statue of that Emperor in bronze, larger than life
and in the round, which he then furnished with a very delicate suit of
armour formed of two very thin shells, which can be put on and taken
off with ease, and all wrought with such grace, that whoever sees the
statue when covered does not notice it an