ned trunk. On the left of this is
a smaller statue, representing Peace, and on the right another
signifying Military Virtue; and these are seated, and in aspect all
sad and sorrowing. Of the other two, which are on high, one is
Providence and the other Fame; and between them, on the same level, is
a most beautiful Nativity of Christ in bronze, in low-relief. At the
summit of the whole work are two figures of marble, which support that
lord's escutcheon of balls. For this work seven thousand and eight
hundred crowns were paid, according to the agreement made in Rome by
the most illustrious Cardinal Morone and Signor Agabrio Scierbellone.

The same master has made for Signor Giovan Battista Castaldo a statue
likewise in bronze, which is to be placed in I know not what
monastery, with some ornaments. For the above-named Catholic King he
has executed a Christ in marble, more than three braccia high, with
the Cross and with other Mysteries of the Passion, which is much
extolled. Finally, he has in hand the statue of Signor Alfonso
Davalos, the Marchese del Vasto of famous memory, which was entrusted
to him by the Marchese di Pescara, his son; four braccia high, and
likely to prove an excellent figure when cast, by reason of the
diligence that he is devoting to its execution, and the good fortune
that Leone has always had in his castings.

Leone, in order to display the greatness of his mind, the beautiful
genius that he has received from Nature, and the favour of Fortune,
has built at great expense and with most beautiful architecture a
house in the Contrada de' Moroni, so full of fantastic inventions,
that there is perhaps no other like it in all Milan. In the
distribution of the facade there are upon pilasters six captives each
of six braccia and all of pietra viva, and between these, in certain
niches, Fates in imitation of the antique, with little terminal
figures, windows, and cornices all different from the common use and
very graceful; and all the parts below correspond with beautiful order
to those above, and the frieze-ornaments are all of various
instruments of the arts of design. From the principal door one enters
by a passage into a courtyard, in the centre of which, upon four
columns, is the horse with the statue of Marcus Aurelius, cast in
gesso from the original which is in the Campidoglio. By means of that
statue he has intended that his house should be dedicated to Marcus
Aurelius; and as for the captives,