ave the form of a labyrinth, all surrounded by box-hedges two braccia
and a half in height, so even and grown with such beautiful order that
they have the appearance of a painting done with the brush; in the
centre of which labyrinth, at the desire of the Duke, Tribolo, as will
be described below, made a very beautiful fountain of marble. At the
principal entrance, where there is the first-mentioned lawn with the
two fish-ponds and the avenue covered with mulberry-trees, Tribolo
wished that the avenue should be so extended that it might stretch for
a distance of more than a mile, covered and shaped in like manner, and
might reach as far as the River Arno, and that the waters which ran
away from all the fountains, flowing gently in pleasant channels at
the sides of the avenue, and filled with various kinds of fishes and
crayfish, might accompany it down to that river.

As for the palace--to describe what has still to be done as well as
that which has been finished--he wished to make a loggia in front of
it, which, passing by an open courtyard, was to have on the side
where the stables are another palace as large as the old one, with the
same proportion of apartments, loggie, private garden, and the rest;
which addition would have made it a vast palace, with a most beautiful
facade. After passing the court from which one enters into the large
garden of the labyrinth, at the main entrance, where there is a vast
lawn, after climbing the steps that lead to that labyrinth, there came
a level space thirty braccia square, on which there was to be--and has
since been made--a very large fountain of white marble, which was to
spout upwards above ornaments fourteen braccia in height, while from
the mouth of a statue at the highest point was to issue a jet of water
rising to the height of six braccia. At either end of the lawn was to
be a loggia, one opposite to the other, each thirty braccia in length
and fifteen in breadth; and in the middle of each loggia was to be
placed a marble table twelve braccia in length, and on the outside a
basin of eight braccia, which was to receive the water from a vase
held by two figures. In the middle of the above-mentioned labyrinth
Tribolo had thought to achieve the most decorative effect with water
by means of jets and a very beautiful seat round the fountain, the
marble basin of which was to be, even as it was afterwards made, much
smaller than that of the large principal fountain; and at the su