ther had been, and
that it was finished in the year 1339--that is to say, not only
polished and cleaned, but gilt at the fire. It is thought that the
metal was cast by some Venetian masters very skilful in founding; and
a record of this is in the library of the art of the Calimara,
guardians of the work of S. Giovanni. Whilst the door was being made,
Andrea not only made the altars aforesaid, but many others, and in
particular the model of the church of S. Giovanni at Pistoia, which
was founded in the year 1337. In this same year, on the 25th day of
January, was found the body of St Atto, bishop of that city, in
excavating the foundations of the church. The body had been buried in
that place for 137 years. The architecture of that temple, which is
round, was meritorious for the time. Also by the hand of Andrea is a
marble tomb in the principal church of Pistoia, the body of the
sarcophagus of which is full of small figures, with some larger ones
above. In this tomb rests the body of M. Cino d'Angibolgi, doctor of
laws, and a very famous man of letters in his day, as M. Francesco
Petrarca testifies in the sonnet:

"Piangette donne, e con voi pianga Amore;"

and in the fourth chapter of the _Trionfo d'Amore_, where he says:

"Ecco Cin da Pistoia; Guitton d'Arezzo,
Che di non esser primo per ch' ira aggia."

This marble tomb of Andrea's contains the portrait of M. Cino, who is
represented as teaching a number of his scholars, who are about him,
with such a fine attitude and style that it must have been considered
a marvellous thing in those days, although it would not be valued
now.

Walter, Duke of Athens and tyrant of Florence, also employed Andrea
to enlarge the piazza, and to fortify his palace by barring the
bottom of all the windows on the first floor, where the hall of the
Two Hundred now is, with very strong square iron bars. The same duke
also added, opposite S. Piero Scheraggio, the rough stone walls which
are beside the palace to augment it, and in the thickness of the wall
he made a secret staircase, to mount and descend unperceived. At the
bottom face of the wall he made a great door, which now serves for
the Customs, and over this he set his arms, the whole after the
designs and with the advice of Andrea. Although the arms were defaced
by the magistracy of the twelve, who took pains to obliterate every
memorial of that duke, yet on the square shield there remained the
for