) which the Count of Pitigliano
presented to the Lord Duke Cosimo. Which little figures are these; the
horse of the Campidoglio, those of Monte Cavallo, the Farnese figures
of Hercules, the Antinous and the Apollo of the Belvedere, and the
heads of the Twelve Emperors, with others, all well wrought and very
similar to the originals.

Milan has also had another sculptor, dead this year, called Tommaso
Porta, who worked marble excellently well, and in particular
counterfeited antique heads in marble, which have been sold as
antiques; and masks he made so well that in them no one has equalled
him, of which I have one in marble by his hand, placed on the
chimney-piece of my house at Arezzo, which everyone takes for an
antique. This Tommaso made the heads of the Twelve Emperors in marble,
the size of life, which were the rarest things. These Pope Julius III
took, making him a present of an office of a hundred crowns a year in
the Segnatura; and he kept the heads I know not how many months in his
chamber, as choice things. But by the agency (so it is believed) of
the above-named Fra Guglielmo and others who were jealous of him, such
measures were taken against him, that, with no regard for the dignity
of the gift bestowed upon him by that Pontiff, they were sent back to
his house; where they were afterwards bought from him on better terms
by merchants, and then sent to Spain. Not one of our imitators of
antiques was superior to this Tommaso, of whom it has seemed to me
right that record should be made, and the rather as he has passed to a
better life, leaving name and fame for his ability.

Many works, likewise, have been executed in Rome by one Leonardo, a
Milanese, who has made recently two statues of marble, S. Peter and S.
Paul, for the Chapel of Cardinal Giovanni Riccio da Montepulciano,
which are much extolled and held to be good and beautiful figures. And
the sculptors Jacopo and Tommaso Casignuola have made in the Chapel of
the Caraffi, in the Church of the Minerva, the tomb of Pope Paul IV,
and, besides other ornaments, a statue formed of pieces which
represents that Pope, with a mantle of veined brocatello marble, and
the trimming and other things of veined marbles of various colours,
which render it marvellous. And so we see added to the other
industries of our modern intellects this new one, and that sculptors
proceed with colours in their sculpture to imitate painting. Which
tomb has been executed by means of t