e with all his Court. Then,
after many other works that he executed for the said Cardinal, he was
invited by the Genoese with much honour into the service of that
Republic, for which the first work that he did was to restore and
fortify the port and the mole; nay rather, to make it almost entirely
different from what it was before. For, reaching out over a good space
into the sea, he caused to be constructed a great and most beautiful
port, which lies in a semicircle, very ornate with rustic columns and
with niches about them, at the extremities of which semicircle there
meet two little bastions, which defend that great port. On the piazza,
then, above the mole and at the back of the great port, towards the
city, he made a very large portico of the Doric Order, which
accommodates the Guard, and over it, comprising all the space that it
covers and likewise the two bastions and the gate, there is left a
platform arranged for the operations of artillery, which commands the
mole in the manner of a cavalier and defends the port both within and
without. And besides this, which is finished, arrangements are being
made for the enlargement of the city after his design, and his model
has already been approved by the Signoria; and all with much praise
for Galeazzo, who in these and other works has shown himself to be a
most ingenious architect. The same Galeazzo has executed the new
street of Genoa, with so many palaces built in the modern manner after
his designs, that many declare that in no other city of Italy is there
to be found a street more magnificent and grand than that one, nor one
more full of the richest palaces, all built by those Signori with the
persuasion and directions of Galeazzo, to whom all confess that they
owe a very great obligation, in that he has been the inventor and
executor of works which render their city, with regard to edifices,
incomparably more grand and magnificent than it was before. The same
master has built other streets without Genoa, and among others that
which starts from Ponte Decimo on the way to Lombardy. He has restored
the walls of the city towards the sea, and the fabric of the Duomo,
making therein the tribune and the cupola; and he has built, also,
many private edifices, such as the country palace of Messer Luca
Giustiniano, that of Signor Ottaviano Grimaldi, the Palaces of two
Doges, one for Signor Battista Grimaldi, and many others of which
there is no need to speak.

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